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MigrationNarrate: A Dataset for Detection of Migration Narratives in YouTube Videos
arXiv:2608.20984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Narratives are central to how social communication is framed, making their detection critical for understanding and analysing public discourse. Prior
arXiv:2608.20984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Narratives are central to how social communication is framed, making their detection critical for understanding and analysing public discourse. Prior work has explored narrative detection and extraction across diverse domains; however, migration narratives remain significantly understudied, primarily due to the absence of dedicated annotated datasets. Furthermore, public communication has recently shifted towards video-centric platforms, where narratives are conveyed through multimodal signals and consumed at scale. Despite this shift, narratives in videos remain largely unexplored. To bridge these gaps, we introduce MigrationNarrate, the first multimodal dataset for detection of migration narratives in the UK, consisting of 1,115 YouTube video transcripts annotated using a two-level taxonomy of 12 migration super-narratives and 53 narrative labels. This paper details the dataset design, collection, and annotations; together with benchmark results using a combination of pre-trained encoder models and both open- and closed-source Large Language Models. Finally, a thorough error analysis offers insights for future work.
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Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-08-24