Bridging Dictionary: AI-Generated Dictionary of Partisan Language Use
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Author(s)
Jiang, Hang
Beeferman, Doug
Brannon, William
Heyward, Andrew
Roy, Deb
Date Issued
November 11, 2024
Publisher
ACM|Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Citation
Jiang, Hang, Beeferman, Doug, Brannon, William, Heyward, Andrew and Roy, Deb. 2024. "Bridging Dictionary: AI-Generated Dictionary of Partisan Language Use."
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Final published version
Abstract
Words often carry different meanings for people from diverse backgrounds. Today's era of social polarization demands that we choose words carefully to prevent miscommunication, especially in political communication and journalism. To address this issue, we introduce the Bridging Dictionary, an interactive tool designed to illuminate how words are perceived by people with different political views. The Bridging Dictionary includes a static, printable document featuring 796 terms with summaries generated by a large language model. These summaries highlight how the terms are used distinctively by Republicans and Democrats. Additionally, the Bridging Dictionary offers an interactive interface that lets users explore selected words, visualizing their frequency, sentiment, summaries, and examples across political divides. We present a use case for journalists and emphasize the importance of human agency and trust in further enhancing this tool. The deployed version of Bridging Dictionary is available at https://dictionary.ccc-mit.org/.
Description
CSCW Companion ’24, November 9–13, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681820
