@inproceedings{ivacic-etal-2024-comparing, title = "Comparing News Framing of Migration Crises using Zero-Shot Classification", author = "Iva{\v{c}}i{\v{c}}, Nikola and Purver, Matthew and Lind, Fabienne and Pollak, Senja and Boomgaarden, Hajo and Bajt, Veronika", editor = "Sommerauer, Pia and Caselli, Tommaso and Nissim, Malvina and Remijnse, Levi and Vossen, Piek", booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective @ LREC-COLING 2024", month = may, year = "2024", address = "Torino, Italia", publisher = "ELRA and ICCL", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.rfp-1.3/", pages = "18--27", abstract = "We present an experiment on classifying news frames in a language unseen by the learner, using zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning. We used two pre-trained multilingual Transformer Encoder neural network models and tested with four specific news frames, investigating two approaches to the resulting multi-label task: Binary Relevance (treating each frame independently) and Label Power-set (predicting each possible combination of frames). We train our classifiers on an available annotated multilingual migration news dataset and test on an unseen Slovene language migration news corpus, first evaluating performance and then using the classifiers to analyse how media framed the news during the periods of Syria and Ukraine conflict-related migrations." }