Despite increasing interest in the automatic detection of media frames in NLP, the problem is typically simplified as single-label classification and adopts a topic-like view on frames, evading modelling the broader document-level narrative. In this work, we revisit a widely used conceptualization of framing from the communication sciences which explicitly captures elements of narratives, including conflict and its resolution, and integrate it with the narrative framing of key entities in the story as heroes, victims or villains. We adapt an effective annotation paradigm that breaks a complex annotation task into a series of simpler binary questions, and present an annotated data set of English news articles, and a case study on the framing of climate change in articles from news outlets across the political spectrum. Finally, we explore automatic multi-label prediction of our frames with supervised and semi-supervised approaches, and present a novel retrieval-based method which is both effective and transparent in its predictions. We conclude with a discussion of opportunities and challenges for future work on document-level models of narrative framing.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My husband is very involved with the kids. He's a good father--he does the hard parts of parenting, happily.

Dear Prudence is Slate's advice column. For this edition, Alicia Montgomery, Slate's vice president of audio, will be filling in as Prudie. My friend Kari and I have been close since we were college roommates (we are now just about 40). Kari has been with her long-distance girlfriend Lora for the last four years, and recently Lora has been talking about moving to Kari and my town in order to better facilitate having a baby. The road for them is going to be long, given the mechanics and their ages, but they have all systems go from their doctors. The problem is that I know Kari is not 100 percent committed to Lora; she says she's not sure she's the one and has built (but not, to my knowledge, deployed) dating profiles on multiple sites and expresses jealousy to me quite often about my adventurous dating life.

We decided to have some fun with ChatGPT, the scary-good chatbot from OpenAI that's been garnering headlines. We fed it a fake letter, cobbled together with common tropes, and asked it to reply in a few different ways. I'm recently engaged and in the throes of planning my early 2024 wedding. My handsome fiancé, the timing, my mother's own hand-me-down ring--it's all felt like a perfect fairytale. Until I heard what my mother-in-law has in store for us.

A new kind of lawyer is coming to court -- one that's powered by artificial intelligence. Next month, a "robot" lawyer, which tells defendants what to say via bluetooth, plans to fight two speeding tickets in court, according to USA Today. This marks the first time AI will be used in court, Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, the startup behind the project, told the outlet. Although the company isn't making any of the details, including the identities of the defendants, public, they told USA Today that one person will argue their case in person while another will do so over Zoom. DoNotPay bills itself as "the home of the world's first robot lawyer," and says its mission is to "level the playing field and make legal information and self-help accessible to everyone," per its website.

Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. Social security, our nation's retirement safety net, is projected to be insolvent as soon as 2035, making employer-sponsored 401(k) plans the primary retirement savings vehicle in the U.S. Nearly half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future because they are employed by a company that doesn't offer a retirement plan. Human Interest is changing that by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings. Our values are the guiding principles we use to build solutions for plan administrators and participants. They reflect our point of view on what's important and what's right: In it for customers, autonomous & accountable, outcomes driven, inclusive collaboration, and decisive.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My nephew Nicolas is 9 and only plays video games. He wakes up around 2:00 pm doesn't brush his teeth or shower and begins playing games.

Jenée Desmond-Harris is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here's an edited transcript of this week's chat. Q. Starcraft slump: My boyfriend is a kind, caring, loving man, and I am mostly satisfied with our relationship. His main hobby is the online game Starcraft, and he spends maybe 10 to 15 hours a week on it, usually a game each evening. The problem is that if he loses a game, it can color his mood for days. There are usually like two to three days a month where he's down in the dumps because of this.

When you were getting ready to be a first-time parent, you might have read one or two pregnancy and baby books and maybe even took a couple of classes to prepare for the arrival of your little bundle of joy. But what happens after the first year of life when that baby turns into an independence-seeking toddler? To help you navigate the terrible twos and beyond, we consulted child psychologists, therapists, authors, and developmental experts to create a reading list of the best books on how to raise toddlers with patience and understanding. Our panel of experts include Sarah S. MacLaughlin, author of What Not to Say: Tools for Talking With Young Children and senior writer at Zero to Three; Dr. Stephanie Lee, a psychologist at the Child Mind Institute; Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore, author of forthcoming book What's My Child Thinking?; Maureen Healy, author of The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Children Calm, Center, and Make Smarter Choices; child psychologist Dr. George Sachs and author of The Mad Sad Happy Book: Emotional Literacy for Preschoolers; child and family psychotherapist Joseph Sacks; child therapist Michelle Paget; psychotherapist Matt Lundquist; Dr. Sarah Roseberry Lytle, director of outreach and education at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; British parenting expert Sarah Ockwell-Smith, author of Gentle Discipline: Using Emotional Connection -- Not Punishment -- to Raise Confident, Capable Kids; and speech-language pathologist Gordy Rogers. As always, each title below was mentioned by at least two of our panelists -- and in the case of one our picks, by nearly half of them.

Better Life Lab is a partnership of Slate and New America. Last summer, while psychological scientist Julia Shaw was visiting San Francisco with three other friends for July Fourth, inspiration struck. They had all been discussing the harassment-related firings at Uber. In some cases, complicity extended beyond the perpetrator to the human resource department: Instead of supporting the employees who came forward about the abuse, it dismissed or ignored them. Other tech companies followed the same old fashioned script: Societally, we tend to disbelieve, blame, or retaliate against victims of sexual harassment and abuse.