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Achmann-Denkler, Michael ; Haim, Mario ; Helmig, Clara ; Fehle, Jakob ; Wolff, Christian

Mobilize, Inform, Interact: Classifying Political Calls-to-Action Types on Instagram

Achmann-Denkler, Michael , Haim, Mario, Helmig, Clara, Fehle, Jakob und Wolff, Christian (2026) Mobilize, Inform, Interact: Classifying Political Calls-to-Action Types on Instagram. In: The 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026), Co-located with LREC 2026 — 11–16 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Veröffentlichungsdatum dieses Volltextes: 20 Mai 2026 07:02
Konferenz- oder Workshop-Beitrag
DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.79453


Zusammenfassung

Calls-to-action (CTAs) are central to digital campaigning, yet computational research has largely focused on binary detection only. We address CTA type classification in German Instagram campaign texts (posts and ephemeral Stories), distinguishing Support, Inform, Interact, and No CTA. With limited annotated data, we benchmark a fine-tuned GBERT model against GPT models using zero-shot, few-shot, ...

Calls-to-action (CTAs) are central to digital campaigning, yet computational research has largely focused on binary detection only. We address CTA type classification in German Instagram campaign texts (posts and ephemeral Stories), distinguishing Support, Inform, Interact, and No CTA. With limited annotated data, we benchmark a fine-tuned GBERT model against GPT models using zero-shot, few-shot, and retrieval-augmented few-shot prompting in a multi-label setup. Both approaches reach similar performance in five-fold cross-validation (macro-F1 ≈ 0.79), with persistent difficulty on the rare Interact category. As a proof of concept, we apply the selected setup to the 2021 federal election corpus and show that parties varied not only in overall CTA use but also in how they balanced appeals across posts versus Stories. The results demonstrate the feasibility of CTA type classification with modest data and position retrieval-augmented prompting as a practical alternative to supervised fine-tuning.



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DokumentenartKonferenz- oder Workshop-Beitrag (Poster)
ISBN978-2-493814-76-0
Buchtitel:The 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026) @ LREC 2026
Verlag:European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Ort der Veröffentlichung:Palma de Mallorca
Seitenbereich:S. 131-138
Datum16 Mai 2026
InstitutionenSprach- und Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff)
Informatik und Data Science > Fachbereich Menschzentrierte Informatik > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff)
Stichwörter / Keywordspolitical communication, calls-to-action, multi-label classification, Instagram Stories, retrieval-augmented prompting, German federal election
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 004 Informatik
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenZum Teil
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-794539
Dokumenten-ID79453

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