Simon Jones
Finding Zelig in text: A measure for normalising linguistic accommodation
Jones, Simon; Cotterill, Rachel; Dewdney, Nigel; Muir, Kate; Joinson, Adam
Authors
Rachel Cotterill
Nigel Dewdney
Kate Muir
Adam Joinson
Abstract
Linguistic accommodation is a recognised indicator of social power and social distance. However, different individuals will vary their language to different degrees, and only a portion of this variance will be due to accommodation. This paper presents the Zelig Quotient, a method of normalising linguistic variation towards a particular individual, using an author’s other communications as a baseline, thence to derive a method for identifying accommodation-induced variation with statistical significance. This work provides a platform for future efforts towards examining the importance of such phenomena in large communications datasets.
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
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Conference Name | Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics |
Start Date | Aug 1, 2014 |
End Date | Aug 1, 2014 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 6, 2019 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 455-465 |
Keywords | Zeling, text, measure, linguistic |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/814074 |
Publisher URL | http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C14-1044 |
Additional Information | Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics |
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