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Extracting Social Networks from Language Statistics
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Hutchinson, Sterling; Louwerse, Max – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
Knowledge regarding social information is commonly believed to be derived from sources such as formal relationships and interviews and can be plotted as complex networks. We explored whether social networks can also be extracted through other means by using language statistics. In three computational studies we computed first-order and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Computational Linguistics, Novels, Semantics
Language and Discourse Analysis with Coh-Metrix: Applications from Educational Material to Learning Environments at Scale
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Dowell, Nia M. M.; Graesser, Arthur C.; Cai, Zhiqiang – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
The goal of this article is to preserve and distribute the information presented at the LASI (2014) workshop on Coh-Metrix, a theoretically grounded, computational linguistics facility that analyzes texts on multiple levels of language and discourse. The workshop focused on the utility of Coh-Metrix in discourse theory and educational practice. We…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Workshops, Computational Linguistics, Guidelines
Establishing Goals and Maintaining Coherence in Multiparty Computer-Mediated Communication
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Groen, Martin; Noyes, Jan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Communicating via text-only computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels is associated with a number of issues that would impair users in achieving dialogue coherence and goals. It has been suggested that humans have devised novel adaptive strategies to deal with those issues. However, it could be that humans rely on "classic"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Goal Orientation, Semantics
The ACODEA Framework: Developing Segmentation and Classification Schemes for Fully Automatic Analysis of Online Discussions
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Mu, Jin; Stegmann, Karsten; Mayfield, Elijah; Rose, Carolyn; Fischer, Frank – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2012
Research related to online discussions frequently faces the problem of analyzing huge corpora. Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies may allow automating this analysis. However, the state-of-the-art in machine learning and text mining approaches yields models that do not transfer well between corpora related to different topics. Also,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Classification, Syntax, Coding
Definiteness and the English Existential.
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Ward, Gregory; Birner, Betty – Language, 1995
Presents an account of existential "there"-sentences in which the postverbal negative phrase (NP) is required to represent a "hearer-new" entity. The article identifies five types of formally definite yet hearer-new NPs that may occur in "there"-sentences. The restriction against definite NPs in "there"-sentences results from a mismatch in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Negative Forms (Language)
Effects of Social Power on Language Use Across Speech Communities.
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Kamisli, Sibel; Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Discusses the discourse strategies that status-unequal interlocutors use in expressing disagreement. Reveals semantic formulas as influenced by the role relationships and compares and contrasts the discourse strategies used by native speakers of Turkish and American English for the same speech event in order to obtain a cross-culture perspective.…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis