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+title: ValuesML
+subheadline: Unravelling Expressed Values in the Media for Informed Policy Making
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+**Source**: <i>This use-case was summarized by Richard Eckart de Castilho based on information provided on the ValuesML website and the annotation guides published by the project..</i>
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+The [ValuesML project][1], part of a JRC initiative, aims to enhance policymakers' understanding of citizens' values in relation to policy issues. 
+By using machine learning to analyze values expressed in news media and political manifestos, the project connects these values to policies, events, and political contexts. 
+In collaboration with the JRC’s Text Mining & Analytics Competence Centre, ValuesML leverages data from the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) and political manifestos to create a gold-standard dataset for training advanced values detection algorithms.
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+A key aspect of the project involves annotating documents with personal values and their attainment levels using the INCEpTION annotation tool. 
+This process has resulted in over 2,500 annotated documents across nine languages, involving around 70 scholars. 
+The annotated corpus will help train algorithms to better understand how values influence public opinion and policy.
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+Detailed informtation on the annotation schema and the INCEpTION configuration can be found in the [annotation guidelines][2].
+To shortly summarize, the most important functionalities of INCEpTION used in the project were:
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+1. **Team-based Annotation**: Annotators could annotate texts by highlighting spans, selecting from predefined values, and specifying attainment levels. Key bindings were used to improve annotation efficiency.
+2. **Workload management**: As annotators marked a completely annotated document as finished, project managers could track the progress of the project.
+3. **Curation**: Curators could merge and resolve annotations from different annotators, ensuring consistent and high-quality data. The system provided clear visual markers (color-coded) for agreement or discrepancies between annotators.
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+##### References
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+* Reitis-Münstermann, T., Schulze Brock, P., Scharfbillig, M., Stefanovitch, N., and De Longueville, B., 
+  Values in News and Political Manifestos: Annotation Guidelines, 
+  Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2024, 
+  doi:10.2760/7398, [JRC137286](https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC137286).
+  [[PDF](https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC137286/JRC137286_01.pdf)]
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+[1]: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/projects-activities/valuesml-unravelling-expressed-values-media-informed-policy-making_en
+[2]: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC137286