@inproceedings{6dcab3ea366d49c39b2597f6e31a3cdc,
title = "Bridging Dictionary: AI-Generated Dictionary of Partisan Language Use",
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/.",
keywords = "civic media, computational journalism, natural language processing, social polarization, text analysis, trust and human agency",
author = "Hang Jiang and Doug Beeferman and William Brannon and Andrew Heyward and Deb Roy",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 Owner/Author.; 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW Companion 2024 ; Conference date: 09-11-2024 Through 13-11-2024",
year = "2024",
month = nov,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1145/3678884.3681820",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "79--82",
editor = "Michael Bernstein and Amy Bruckman and Ujwal Gadiraju and Aaron Halfaker and Xiaojuan Ma and Fabiano Pinatti and Miriam Redi and David Ribes and Saiph Savage and Amy Zhang",
booktitle = "CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
}