A Decade of Climate Polarization on Brazilian YouTube using Language Models

arXiv:2609.27811 · cs.SI, cs.CL, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-08-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.SI, cs.CL, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-08-18

Updated: 2026-08-18

Terminology

• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Commentary — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Pseudo-labels — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Pseudo-labeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Selection Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Multifaceted polarisation and information reliability in climate change discussions on social media platforms
• Discovering Latent Themes in Social Media Messaging: A Machine-in-the-Loop Approach Integrating LLMs

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