Uncovering Temporal Framing in the News
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This paper proposes a taxonomy of eight temporal frames for news discourse, presents a multilingual dataset with expert annotations, and evaluates supervised and zero-shot classification for detecting temporal framing.
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# Uncovering Temporal Framing in the News Source: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00294](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00294) [View PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.00294) > Abstract:Temporal language does more than place events on a timeline\. In news discourse, references to the past, present, and future can function as rhetorical devices that shape interpretation and persuasion\. Here, we study temporal framing, defined as the persuasive use of time\-related language to structure meaning rather than to report chronology\. We propose a taxonomy of eight temporal frames grounded in prior work on temporality and framing, and we realize it through expert annotation of a multilingual news corpus\. The resulting dataset includes 458 English and German news articles, with over 2K temporally framed sentences and approximately 3K temporal framing annotations identified from a corpus of more than 20K sentences\. We analyze frame prevalence, co\-occurrence patterns, and lexical cues, and evaluate temporal framing detection using supervised fine\-tuning and zero\-shot classification\. Our experiments show that temporal framing is learnable at the sentence level, with supervised models substantially outperforming zero\-shot approaches\. We publicly release the corpus to support future research on temporal framing:[this https URL](https://mbzuai-nlp.github.io/temporal-framing/)\. ## Submission history From: Tarek Mahmoud \[[view email](https://arxiv.org/show-email/0da9a39c/2606.00294)\] **\[v1\]**Fri, 29 May 2026 19:26:13 UTC \(7,259 KB\)
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