Social argument framing recognition

Summary

In social science, there is a widely-accepted list of 15 cross-cutting framing dimensions. To argue a point about a social issue, one must typically use at least one of these frames. The framing dimensions are shown below.

I built a large language model to identify framing dimensions used in news articles and opinion pieces about social issues such as immigration and gay marriage. I programmed the architecture for a transformer model from scratch and trained it on data that I hand-gathered.

Skills gained

Through building this project, I learned how transformer models are designed and how their architectures have been so explosively popular in recent years. I also gained some experience in gathering large amounts of data from the internet using a combination of automated webscraping and manual approaches.