Research on French political news, media discourse, and computational approaches to public language.
FrenchNews-7 is a cross-publisher French news classification benchmark with 87,637 articles from 13 publishers and a public CamemBERT classifier by Amr Sobhy. Accepted to the AACL-IJCNLP 2026 main conference.
Open publication2026
WaC-13 @ EMNLP 2026
Poster presentation · WaC-13 Workshop at EMNLP 2026
A model names the publisher of a French news headline at nearly six times chance, with the topic fixed and every name masked. Most of that signal is typography.
Amr Sobhy
2026
ICNLSP 2026
Oral presentation · Trento, September 2026
ACL Anthology
The first continuous, ecosystem-wide ideology scale for French national news, fusing nine independent evidence families under empirical Bayes shrinkage — with a lexical measure that tells partisan endorsement apart from critical reporting.
Amr Sobhy
2026
ICNLSP 2026
Oral presentation · Trento, September 2026
ACL Anthology
Framing happens twice: once when an outlet decides what to cover, and again when it decides how to word it. This audit measures the two separately across four years of French headlines.
Amr Sobhy
2026
A quantitative framing analysis of 28,592 headlines across 25 French outlets showing that LFI and RN are cast as fundamentally different kinds of political actors — one a behavioral antagonist, the other an institutional competitor.
Amr Sobhy