Construction and Annotation of a Russian-Language News Corpus for Automated Detection of Political Manipulation
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This paper addresses the challenge of developing specialized corpus resources for the automated analysis of political manipulation in Russian-language media discourse. Although semantic text analysis and computational discourse analysis have advanced substantially in recent years, most existing corpora and annotation schemes are designed for English-language data and do not adequately capture the linguistic and discursive characteristics of Russian-language news media. The objective of this study is to construct a specialized corpus of Russian-language news texts and to develop an annotation scheme tailored to the automated analysis of political manipulation, with explicit consideration of the linguistic and discursive features of the Russian-language media environment. The study introduces a corpus of sentence-level fragments extracted from Russian-language news texts published between 2010 and 2019, together with an annotation scheme for manipulative techniques. The scheme is based on an adaptation of established international classifications of manipulative strategies and is reduced to a limited set of interpretable techniques relevant to Russian-language news discourse. The proposed framework covers emotional, argumentative, and contextual forms of manipulative influence. The resulting corpus and annotation scheme provide an empirical foundation for the development and evaluation of automated methods for analyzing political manipulation in Russian-language news media and may also support further research in media and political discourse.
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