The Language of Liberty

Oscar Araque*, Lorenzo Gatti, Kyriaki Kalimeri

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Abstract

Quantifying the moral narratives expressed in the user-generated text, news, or public discourses is fundamental for understanding individuals' concerns and viewpoints and preventing violent protests and social polarisation.
The Moral Foundation Theory (MFT) was developed precisely to operationalise morality in a five-dimensional scale system.
Recent developments of the theory urged for the introduction of a new foundation, liberty.
Being only recently added to the theory, there are no available linguistic resources to assess liberty from text corpora.
Given its importance to current social issues such as the vaccination debate, we propose a data-driven approach to derive a liberty lexicon based on aligned documents from online encyclopedias with different worldviews.
Despite the preliminary nature of our study, we show proof of the concept that large encyclopedia corpora can point out differences in the way people with contrasting viewpoints express themselves.
Such differences can be used to derive a novel lexicon, identifying linguistic markers of the liberty foundation.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 14 Apr 2021
Event30th Web Conference, WWW 2021 - Online Event
Duration: 1 Apr 20211 Apr 2021
Conference number: 30

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Conference30th Web Conference, WWW 2021
Abbreviated titleWWW 2021
CityOnline Event
Period1/04/211/04/21

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  • LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty.

    Araque, O., Gatti, L. & Kalimeri, K., 7 Sept 2022, GoodIT 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 154-160 7 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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