Measuring Context Change to Detect Statements Violating the Overton Window
Christian Kahmann, Gerhard Heyer · 2019
The so-called Overton window describes the phenomenon that political discourse takes place in a narrow window of terms that reflect the public consensus of acceptable opinions on some topic. In this paper we present a novel NLP approach to identify statements in a collection of newspaper articles that shift the borders of the Overton window at some period of time, and apply it on German newspaper texts detecting extreme statements about the refugee crisis in Germany.