*Abstract
This
week, I did research on the differences between the news headlines and its
contents. The aim of this experiment was to find out what kind of similarity or
disparity between them can be observed using the Net-tone analysis.
*Method
For
this research, I picked up five articles about immigration from various media
sources and divided them into three categories “Positive”, ”Neutral” and
“Negative”. In order to make sure that the result is credible enough, I assumed
the attitudes per different sides. Specifically speaking, those groups are the
views from Pro-immigrant groups, from Normal groups, from Anti-immigrant groups
and Corenlp (only for news headlines) which is a software made by Stanford
university scientists to evaluate the texts’ sentimental analysis. Also, I
compared the attitudes of news headlines with that of their contents.
*Results
“Why is EU struggling with migrants and
asylum?”
Side
|
Assumed Attitude to Headline
|
Assumed Attitude to Contents
|
Pro-IMMG
|
Negative
|
Negative (sympathetic)
|
Normal
|
Neutral
|
Negative (sympathetic)
|
Anti-IMMG
|
Negative
|
Negative (worrisome)
|
Corenlp
|
Negative
|
---
|
“Net migration to UK rises to 333,000 - second
highest on record.”
Side
|
Assumed Attitude to Headline
|
Assumed Attitude to Contents
|
Pro-IMMG
|
Positive
|
Neutral or Negative
*This is probably because immigration
issue is linked to the Brexit problem in the article.
|
Normal
|
Neutral or Negative
|
Neutral or Negative
|
Anti-IMMG
|
Negative
|
Negative
|
Corenlp
|
Positive
|
---
|
“EU referendum: Student launches powerful
defence of immigration in heated BBC young voters' debate.”
Side
|
Assumed Attitude to Headline
|
Assumed Attitude to Contents
|
Pro-IMMG
|
Positive
|
Positive
|
Normal
|
Neutral or Positive
|
Neutral
|
Anti-IMMG
|
Negative
|
Negative
(Some of them might feel this report is
biased toward liberal views.)
|
Corenlp
|
Positive
|
---
|
“People are leaving east London because of
immigrants.”
Side
|
Assumed Attitude to Headline
|
Assumed Attitude to Contents
|
Pro-IMMG
|
Neutral or Negative
|
Negative
(The text explains about immigrants’
problems in the document made by BBC.)
|
Normal
|
Neutral or Negative
|
Neutral or Negative
|
Anti-IMMG
|
Negative
|
Negative (worrisome)
|
Corenlp
|
Neutral
|
---
|
“The BBC's focus on immigration was a whole
day of anti-Brexit propaganda.”
Side
|
Assumed Attitude to Headline
|
Assumed Attitude to Contents
|
Pro-IMMG
|
Negative
|
Negative
|
Normal
|
Neutral
|
Neutral
|
Anti-IMMG
|
Positive
|
Positive
|
Corenlp
|
Negative
|
---
|
*Conclusion
All
in all, there were interesting outcomes I could get from this attempt. One of
them would be the remarkable similarity in the results of the attitude of
“Pro-IMMG” and “Corenlp”. In addition, attitude's change between headlines and contents
was also quite noteworthy.
