Stance Analysis Dashboard

LLM stance scores for French and Arabic newspapers on the Algerian question, compared across eight models including a fine-tuned Gemma 4 DPO endpoint. Scores run from 1 (strongly pro-colonial) to 5 (strongly anti-colonial).

Sources: Al-Umma (El Ouma), Al-Alam, Al-Saada Coverage: 1933–1955 Gold labels: 638 human-annotated articles

Stance Scale

1	Strongly pro-colonial
2	Administrative normalization
3	Neutral / ambivalent
4	Nationalist reformist
5	Strongly anti-colonial

Newspaper Coverage

Newspaper	Language	Year Start	Year End
Al-Umma (El Ouma)	Arabic	1933	1938
Al-Saada	Arabic	1930	1954
Al-Alam	Arabic	1947	1954
Le Figaro	French	1920	1955
L'Echo d'Alger	French	1934	1950
L'Humanite	French	1920	1944

Scores are means of LLM-assigned stance labels (1–5) for Algeria-relevant articles only. Hover over any data point to see the mean score and its plain-language label. Use the newspaper dropdown on the year chart to switch between sources.

Mean stance by year — per newspaper

Select a newspaper from the dropdown. Each line is one model. Dotted vertical lines mark historical events relevant to that newspaper's period.

Show French newspapers

Score distribution by newspaper

Stacked bars show the share of each stance score. Use the model dropdown to switch between models.

Score distribution by model (all newspapers)

Full-corpus stance distribution collapsed across all newspapers and years, split by model.

Model benchmark — against human gold labels

Evaluated on 638 human-annotated articles. Metrics are computed on Algeria-relevant articles only (human score > 0). Gemma 4 DPO (fine-tuned) Gemma 4 Base

Algeria-relevant articles only (exclude score 0)