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2024
Guy Mor-Lan, Levi, Effi , Sheafer, Tamir , and Shenhav, Shaul R. 2024. “Israparltweet: The Israeli Parliamentary And Twitter Resource”. In Proceedings Of The 2024 Joint International Conference On Computational Linguistics, Language Resources And Evaluation (Lrec-Coling 2024), Pp. 9372–9381. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. . Publisher's Version Abstract
We introduce IsraParlTweet, a new linked corpus of Hebrew-language parliamentary discussions from the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) between the years 1992-2023 and Twitter posts made by Members of the Knesset between the years 2008-2023, containing a total of 294.5 million Hebrew tokens. In addition to raw text, the corpus contains comprehensive metadata on speakers and Knesset sessions as well as several linguistic annotations. As a result, IsraParlTweet can be used to conduct a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative analyses and provide valuable insights into political discourse in Israel.
Liron Lavi, Treger, Clareta , Rivlin-Angert, Naama , Sheafer, Tamir , Waismel-Manor, Israel , Shenhav, Shaul , Harsgor, Liran , and Shamir, Michal . 2024. “The Pitkinian Public: Representation In The Eyes Of Citizens”. European Political Science, Pp. 1–21.
Dror K Markus, Levi, Effi , Sheafer, Tamir , and Shenhav, Shaul R. 2024. “Reap The Wild Wind: Detecting Media Storms In Large-Scale News Corpora”. Arxiv Preprint Arxiv:2404.09299.
Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, Mor-Lan, Guy , Oshri, Odelia , and Shenhav, Shaul . 2024. “Talking Representation: How Legislators Re-Establish Responsiveness In Cases Of Representational Deficits”. European Journal Of Political Research, 63, Pp. 950-972. . Publisher's Version
Odelia Oshri, Amsalem, Eran , and Shenhav, Shaul R. 2024. “Voices From The Margins: How National Stories Are Linked With Support For Populist Radical Right Parties”. Plos One, 19, Pp. e0305554.
Guy Mor-Lan and Levi, Effi . 2024. “Exploring Factual Entailment With Nli: A News Media Study”. In Proceedings Of The 13Th Joint Conference On Lexical And Computational Semantics (*Sem 2024), Pages 190–199, Mexico City, Mexico. Association For Computational Linguistics. 10.18653/v1/2024.starsem-1.15. Publisher's Version
2023
Dror K Markus, Mor-Lan, Guy , Sheafer, Tamir , and Shenhav, Shaul R. 2023. “Leveraging Researcher Domain Expertise To Annotate Concepts Within Imbalanced Data”. Communication Methods And Measures, 17, Pp. 250–271.
Yael R Kaplan, Sheafer, Tamir , Waismel-Manor, Israel , and Shenhav, Shaul R. 2023. “People’s Sense Of Political Representation And National Stories: The Case Of Israel”. International Political Science Review, Pp. 01925121231185576.
Gal Ron, Levi, Effi , Oshri, Odelia , and Shenhav, Shaul . 2023. “Factoring Hate Speech: A New Annotation Framework To Study Hate Speech In Social Media”. The 7Th Workshop On Online Abuse And Harms (Woah), Pages 215–220, Toronto, Canada. Association For Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.woah-1.21. Publisher's Version Abstract

In this work we propose a novel annotation scheme which factors hate speech into five separate discursive categories. To evaluate our scheme, we construct a corpus of over 2.9M Twitter posts containing hateful expressions directed at Jews, and annotate a sample dataset of 1,050 tweets. We present a statistical analysis of the annotated dataset as well as discuss annotation examples, and conclude by discussing promising directions for future work.

2022
L. Lehrs, Markus, D.K. , Miodownik, D. , Sheafer, T. , and Shenhav, S. R. . 5/11/2022. “What Happens To Peace When The Process Is Stalled: Competing International Approaches To The Israeli&Ndash;Palestinian Conflict, 1996&Ndash;2021”. Journal Of Global Security Studies, 7, 2. . Publisher's Version
Effi Levi, Mor, Guy , Sheafer, Tamir , and Shenhav, Shaul . 2022. “Detecting Narrative Elements In Informational Text”. In Findings Of The Association For Computational Linguistics: Naacl 2022, Pp. 1755–1765.
Shira Dvir-Gvirsman, Tsuriel, Keren , Sheafer, Tamir , Shenhav, Shaul , Zoizner, Alon , Lavi, Liron , Shamir, Michal , and Waismel-Manor, Israel . 2022. “Mediated Representation In The Age Of Social Media: How Connection With Politicians Contributes To Citizens’ Feelings Of Representation. Evidence From A Longitudinal Study”. Political Communication, 39, Pp. 779–800.
Alon Zoizner, Tsuriel, Keren , Markus, Dror K, Porzycki, Vered , Mor-Lan, Guy , Green, Avishai , Levi, Effi , Tsfati, Yariv , Waismel-Manor, Israel , Sheafer, Tamir , and others, . 2022. “Three In A (Right-Wing) Boat: Media, Politicians, And The Public In The Age Of Digital Communication 1”. In The Elections In Israel, 2019–2021, Pp. 259–282. Routledge.
Effie Levi, Mor-Lan, Guy , Sheafer, Tamir , and Shenhav, Shaul R. . 2022. “Detecting Narrative Elements In Informational Text”. In Findings Of The Association For Computational Linguistics: Naacl 2022. Association For Computational Linguistics. NAACL 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2021
Shaul R Shenhav, Sheafer, Tamir , Zoizner, Alon , van Hoof, Anita , Jan Kleinnijenhuis, , Kaplan, Yael Rivkah , and Hopmann, David Nicolas . 2021. “Story Incentive: The Effect Of National Stories On Voter Turnout”. European Political Science Review, 13, 2, Pp. 249–264.
Alon Zoizner, Shenhav, Shaul R, Fogel-Dror, Yair , and Sheafer, Tamir . 2021. “Strategy News Is Good News: How Journalistic Coverage Of Politics Reduces Affective Polarization”. Political Communication, 38, 5, Pp. 604–623.
Fogel-Dror Y, SR, Shenhav , and T., Sheafer . 2021. “A Weakly Supervised And Deep Learning Method For An Additive Topic Analysis Of Large Corpora”. Computational Communication Research, 3, 1, Pp. 29-59. . Publisher's Version
2020
Effi Levi, Mor, Guy , Shenhav, Shaul , and Sheafer, Tamir . 2020. “Compres: A Dataset For Narrative Structure In News”. Arxiv Preprint Arxiv:2007.04874.
Amsalem E, S, Shenhav , Y, Fogel-Dror , and T, Sheafer . 2020. “Fine-Grained Analysis Of Diversity Levels In The News”. Communication Methods And Measures, 2020, Pp. 1-19. . Publisher's Version
Zoizner A, S, Shenhav , Y, Fogel-Dror , and T, Sheafer . 2020. “Strategy News Is Good News: How Journalistic Coverage Of Politics Reduces Affective Polarization”. Political Communication, 2020, Pp. 1-20. . Publisher's Version