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Good Friends, Bad News - Affect and Virality in Twitter
cs.SI
The link between affect, defined as the capacity for sentimental arousal on the part of a message, and virality, defined as the probability that it be sent along, is of significant theoretical and practical importance, e.g. for viral marketing. A quantitative study of emailing of articles from the NY Times finds a stro...
computer science
38,110
Aging in language dynamics
cs.CL
Human languages evolve continuously, and a puzzling problem is how to reconcile the apparent robustness of most of the deep linguistic structures we use with the evidence that they undergo possibly slow, yet ceaseless, changes. Is the state in which we observe languages today closer to what would be a dynamical attract...
computer science
38,111
Infinity in computable probability
math.LO
Here we show, contrary to the classical supposition, that a process for generating symbols according to some probability distribution need not, with any likelihood, produce a given finite text in any finite time, even if it is guaranteed to produce the text in infinite time. The result extends to target-free text gener...
computer science
38,112
Enhancing Twitter Data Analysis with Simple Semantic Filtering: Example in Tracking Influenza-Like Illnesses
cs.SI
Systems that exploit publicly available user generated content such as Twitter messages have been successful in tracking seasonal influenza. We developed a novel filtering method for Influenza-Like-Illnesses (ILI)-related messages using 587 million messages from Twitter micro-blogs. We first filtered messages based on ...
computer science
38,113
Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media
cs.CL
Computer-mediated communication is driving fundamental changes in the nature of written language. We investigate these changes by statistical analysis of a dataset comprising 107 million Twitter messages (authored by 2.7 million unique user accounts). Using a latent vector autoregressive model to aggregate across thous...
computer science
38,114
Hidden Trends in 90 Years of Harvard Business Review
cs.CL
In this paper, we demonstrate and discuss results of our mining the abstracts of the publications in Harvard Business Review between 1922 and 2012. Techniques for computing n-grams, collocations, basic sentiment analysis, and named-entity recognition were employed to uncover trends hidden in the abstracts. We present f...
computer science
38,115
Some Chances and Challenges in Applying Language Technologies to Historical Studies in Chinese
cs.CL
We report applications of language technology to analyzing historical documents in the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thoughts and Literature (DSMCTL). We studied two historical issues with the reported techniques: the conceptualization of "huaren" (Chinese people) and the attempt to institute constitutional ...
computer science
38,116
Identifying Duplicate and Contradictory Information in Wikipedia
cs.IR
Our study identifies sentences in Wikipedia articles that are either identical or highly similar by applying techniques for near-duplicate detection of web pages. This is accomplished with a MapReduce implementation of minhash to identify clusters of sentences with high Jaccard similarity. We show that these clusters c...
computer science
38,117
POS Tagging and its Applications for Mathematics
cs.DL
Content analysis of scientific publications is a nontrivial task, but a useful and important one for scientific information services. In the Gutenberg era it was a domain of human experts; in the digital age many machine-based methods, e.g., graph analysis tools and machine-learning techniques, have been developed for ...
computer science
38,118
A Clustering Analysis of Tweet Length and its Relation to Sentiment
cs.CL
Sentiment analysis of Twitter data is performed. The researcher has made the following contributions via this paper: (1) an innovative method for deriving sentiment score dictionaries using an existing sentiment dictionary as seed words is explored, and (2) an analysis of clustered tweet sentiment scores based on tweet...
computer science
38,119
Human language reveals a universal positivity bias
cs.CL
Using human evaluation of 100,000 words spread across 24 corpora in 10 languages diverse in origin and culture, we present evidence of a deep imprint of human sociality in language, observing that (1) the words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias; (2) the estimated emotional content of words i...
computer science
38,120
A Bengali HMM Based Speech Synthesis System
cs.SD
The paper presents the capability of an HMM-based TTS system to produce Bengali speech. In this synthesis method, trajectories of speech parameters are generated from the trained Hidden Markov Models. A final speech waveform is synthesized from those speech parameters. In our experiments, spectral properties were repre...
computer science
38,121
Scaling laws and fluctuations in the statistics of word frequencies
cs.CL
In this paper we combine statistical analysis of large text databases and simple stochastic models to explain the appearance of scaling laws in the statistics of word frequencies. Besides the sublinear scaling of the vocabulary size with database size (Heaps' law), here we report a new scaling of the fluctuations aroun...
computer science
38,122
Extracting information from S-curves of language change
cs.CL
It is well accepted that adoption of innovations are described by S-curves (slow start, accelerating period, and slow end). In this paper, we analyze how much information on the dynamics of innovation spreading can be obtained from a quantitative description of S-curves. We focus on the adoption of linguistic innovatio...
computer science
38,123
Human Communication Systems Evolve by Cultural Selection
cs.SI
Human communication systems, such as language, evolve culturally; their components undergo reproduction and variation. However, a role for selection in cultural evolutionary dynamics is less clear. Often neutral evolution (also known as 'drift') models, are used to explain the evolution of human communication systems, ...
computer science
38,124
An analysis of Twitter messages in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
cs.SI
Social media such as Facebook and Twitter have proven to be a useful resource to understand public opinion towards real world events. In this paper, we investigate over 1.5 million Twitter messages (tweets) for the period 9th March 2011 to 31st May 2011 in order to track awareness and anxiety levels in the Tokyo metrop...
computer science
38,125
From Contracts in Structured English to CL Specifications
cs.CL
In this paper we present a framework to analyze conflicts of contracts written in structured English. A contract that has manually been rewritten in a structured English is automatically translated into a formal language using the Grammatical Framework (GF). In particular we use the contract language CL as a target for...
computer science
38,126
User-level sentiment analysis incorporating social networks
cs.CL
We show that information about social relationships can be used to improve user-level sentiment analysis. The main motivation behind our approach is that users that are somehow "connected" may be more likely to hold similar opinions; therefore, relationship information can complement what we can extract about a user's ...
computer science
38,127
Universal Properties of Mythological Networks
cs.CL
As in statistical physics, the concept of universality plays an important, albeit qualitative, role in the field of comparative mythology. Here we apply statistical mechanical tools to analyse the networks underlying three iconic mythological narratives with a view to identifying common and distinguishing quantitative ...
computer science
38,128
On the origin of long-range correlations in texts
cs.CL
The complexity of human interactions with social and natural phenomena is mirrored in the way we describe our experiences through natural language. In order to retain and convey such a high dimensional information, the statistical properties of our linguistic output has to be highly correlated in time. An example are t...
computer science
38,129
The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analyzing mean call durations
cs.CL
Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated. Here the recent finding of patterning consistent with the law of brevity in Formosan macaque vocal ...
computer science
38,130
Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich Manuscript
cs.CL
While the use of statistical physics methods to analyze large corpora has been useful to unveil many patterns in texts, no comprehensive investigation has been performed investigating the properties of statistical measurements across different languages and texts. In this study we propose a framework that aims at deter...
computer science
38,131
Efficient learning strategy of Chinese characters based on network approach
cs.CL
Based on network analysis of hierarchical structural relations among Chinese characters, we develop an efficient learning strategy of Chinese characters. We regard a more efficient learning method if one learns the same number of useful Chinese characters in less effort or time. We construct a node-weighted network of ...
computer science
38,132
Type-theoretical natural language semantics: on the system F for meaning assembly
cs.LO
This paper presents and extends our type theoretical framework for a compositional treatment of natural language semantics with some lexical features like coercions (e.g. of a town into a football club) and copredication (e.g. on a town as a set of people and as a location). The second order typed lambda calculus was s...
computer science
38,133
Types and forgetfulness in categorical linguistics and quantum mechanics
cs.CL
The role of types in categorical models of meaning is investigated. A general scheme for how typed models of meaning may be used to compare sentences, regardless of their grammatical structure is described, and a toy example is used as an illustration. Taking as a starting point the question of whether the evaluation o...
computer science
38,134
Expressing Ethnicity through Behaviors of a Robot Character
cs.CL
Achieving homophily, or association based on similarity, between a human user and a robot holds a promise of improved perception and task performance. However, no previous studies that address homophily via ethnic similarity with robots exist. In this paper, we discuss the difficulties of evoking ethnic cues in a robot...
computer science
38,135
An Adaptive Methodology for Ubiquitous ASR System
cs.CL
Achieving and maintaining the performance of ubiquitous (Automatic Speech Recognition) ASR system is a real challenge. The main objective of this work is to develop a method that will improve and show the consistency in performance of ubiquitous ASR system for real world noisy environment. An adaptive methodology has b...
computer science
38,136
The placement of the head that minimizes online memory: a complex systems approach
cs.CL
It is well known that the length of a syntactic dependency determines its online memory cost. Thus, the problem of the placement of a head and its dependents (complements or modifiers) that minimizes online memory is equivalent to the problem of the minimum linear arrangement of a star tree. However, how that length is...
computer science
38,137
Why SOV might be initially preferred and then lost or recovered? A theoretical framework
cs.CL
Little is known about why SOV order is initially preferred and then discarded or recovered. Here we present a framework for understanding these and many related word order phenomena: the diversity of dominant orders, the existence of free words orders, the need of alternative word orders and word order reversions and c...
computer science
38,138
Comparing methods for Twitter Sentiment Analysis
cs.CL
This work extends the set of works which deal with the popular problem of sentiment analysis in Twitter. It investigates the most popular document ("tweet") representation methods which feed sentiment evaluation mechanisms. In particular, we study the bag-of-words, n-grams and n-gram graphs approaches and for each of t...
computer science
38,139
A Category Theory of Communication Theory
cs.IT
A theory of how agents can come to understand a language is presented. If understanding a sentence $\alpha$ is to associate an operator with $\alpha$ that transforms the representational state of the agent as intended by the sender, then coming to know a language involves coming to know the operators that correspond to...
computer science
38,140
Mental Lexicon Growth Modelling Reveals the Multiplexity of the English Language
cs.CL
In this work we extend previous analyses of linguistic networks by adopting a multi-layer network framework for modelling the human mental lexicon, i.e. an abstract mental repository where words and concepts are stored together with their linguistic patterns. Across a three-layer linguistic multiplex, we model English ...
computer science
38,141
Mapping Out Narrative Structures and Dynamics Using Networks and Textual Information
cs.CL
Human communication is often executed in the form of a narrative, an account of connected events composed of characters, actions, and settings. A coherent narrative structure is therefore a requisite for a well-formulated narrative -- be it fictional or nonfictional -- for informative and effective communication, openi...
computer science
38,142
Dissecting a Social Botnet: Growth, Content and Influence in Twitter
cs.CY
Social botnets have become an important phenomenon on social media. There are many ways in which social bots can disrupt or influence online discourse, such as, spam hashtags, scam twitter users, and astroturfing. In this paper we considered one specific social botnet in Twitter to understand how it grows over time, ho...
computer science
38,143
What we write about when we write about causality: Features of causal statements across large-scale social discourse
cs.CY
Identifying and communicating relationships between causes and effects is important for understanding our world, but is affected by language structure, cognitive and emotional biases, and the properties of the communication medium. Despite the increasing importance of social media, much remains unknown about causal sta...
computer science
38,144
Towards Real-Time, Country-Level Location Classification of Worldwide Tweets
cs.IR
In contrast to much previous work that has focused on location classification of tweets restricted to a specific country, here we undertake the task in a broader context by classifying global tweets at the country level, which is so far unexplored in a real-time scenario. We analyse the extent to which a tweet's countr...
computer science
38,145
Logics for the Relational Syllogistic
cs.LO
The Aristotelian syllogistic cannot account for the validity of many inferences involving relational facts. In this paper, we investigate the prospects for providing a relational syllogistic. We identify several fragments based on (a) whether negation is permitted on all nouns, including those in the subject of a sente...
computer science
38,146
Swapping Lemmas for Regular and Context-Free Languages
cs.CC
In formal language theory, one of the most fundamental tools, known as pumping lemmas, is extremely useful for regular and context-free languages. However, there are natural properties for which the pumping lemmas are of little use. One of such examples concerns a notion of advice, which depends only on the size of an ...
computer science
38,147
Fly out-smarts man
cs.CL
Precopulatory courtship is a high-cost, non-well understood animal world mystery. Drosophila's (=D.'s) precopulatory courtship not only shows marked structural similarities with mammalian courtship, but also with human spoken language. This suggests the study of purpose, modalities and in particular of the power of thi...
computer science
38,148
A Pointillism Approach for Natural Language Processing of Social Media
cs.IR
The Chinese language poses challenges for natural language processing based on the unit of a word even for formal uses of the Chinese language, social media only makes word segmentation in Chinese even more difficult. In this document we propose a pointillism approach to natural language processing. Rather than words t...
computer science
38,149
A meta-analysis of state-of-the-art electoral prediction from Twitter data
cs.SI
Electoral prediction from Twitter data is an appealing research topic. It seems relatively straightforward and the prevailing view is overly optimistic. This is problematic because while simple approaches are assumed to be good enough, core problems are not addressed. Thus, this paper aims to (1) provide a balanced and...
computer science
38,150
Two Algorithms for Finding $k$ Shortest Paths of a Weighted Pushdown Automaton
cs.CL
We introduce efficient algorithms for finding the $k$ shortest paths of a weighted pushdown automaton (WPDA), a compact representation of a weighted set of strings with potential applications in parsing and machine translation. Both of our algorithms are derived from the same weighted deductive logic description of the...
computer science
38,151
Stochastic model for the vocabulary growth in natural languages
cs.CL
We propose a stochastic model for the number of different words in a given database which incorporates the dependence on the database size and historical changes. The main feature of our model is the existence of two different classes of words: (i) a finite number of core-words which have higher frequency and do not af...
computer science
38,152
The Clustering of Author's Texts of English Fiction in the Vector Space of Semantic Fields
cs.CL
The clustering of text documents in the vector space of semantic fields and in the semantic space with orthogonal basis has been analysed. It is shown that using the vector space model with the basis of semantic fields is effective in the cluster analysis algorithms of author's texts in English fiction. The analysis of...
computer science
38,153
Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries
cs.CL
By determining which were the most common English words and phrases since the beginning of the 16th century, we obtain a unique large-scale view of the evolution of written text. We find that the most common words and phrases in any given year had a much shorter popularity lifespan in the 16th than they had in the 20th...
computer science
38,154
Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words
cs.CL
We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages and chronological subsets of the data we confirm that two scaling regimes characterize the word frequency distributions, with only the more...
computer science
38,155
Mining the Web for the Voice of the Herd to Track Stock Market Bubbles
cs.CL
We show that power-law analyses of financial commentaries from newspaper web-sites can be used to identify stock market bubbles, supplementing traditional volatility analyses. Using a four-year corpus of 17,713 online, finance-related articles (10M+ words) from the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the BBC, we s...
computer science
38,156
Multifractal analysis of sentence lengths in English literary texts
cs.CL
This paper presents analysis of 30 literary texts written in English by different authors. For each text, there were created time series representing length of sentences in words and analyzed its fractal properties using two methods of multifractal analysis: MFDFA and WTMM. Both methods showed that there are texts whic...
computer science
38,157
Language Without Words: A Pointillist Model for Natural Language Processing
cs.CL
This paper explores two separate questions: Can we perform natural language processing tasks without a lexicon?; and, Should we? Existing natural language processing techniques are either based on words as units or use units such as grams only for basic classification tasks. How close can a machine come to reasoning ab...
computer science
38,158
The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms
cs.CL
Large scale analysis and statistics of socio-technical systems that just a few short years ago would have required the use of consistent economic and human resources can nowadays be conveniently performed by mining the enormous amount of digital data produced by human activities. Although a characterization of several ...
computer science
38,159
Lambek vs. Lambek: Functorial Vector Space Semantics and String Diagrams for Lambek Calculus
math.LO
The Distributional Compositional Categorical (DisCoCat) model is a mathematical framework that provides compositional semantics for meanings of natural language sentences. It consists of a computational procedure for constructing meanings of sentences, given their grammatical structure in terms of compositional type-lo...
computer science
38,160
Data Mining of the Concept "End of the World" in Twitter Microblogs
cs.SI
This paper describes the analysis of quantitative characteristics of frequent sets and association rules in the posts of Twitter microblogs, related to the discussion of "end of the world", which was allegedly predicted on December 21, 2012 due to the Mayan calendar. Discovered frequent sets and association rules chara...
computer science
38,161
Identifying trends in word frequency dynamics
cs.CL
The word-stock of a language is a complex dynamical system in which words can be created, evolve, and become extinct. Even more dynamic are the short-term fluctuations in word usage by individuals in a population. Building on the recent demonstration that word niche is a strong determinant of future rise or fall in wor...
computer science
38,162
Explaining Zipf's Law via Mental Lexicon
cs.CL
The Zipf's law is the major regularity of statistical linguistics that served as a prototype for rank-frequency relations and scaling laws in natural sciences. Here we show that the Zipf's law -- together with its applicability for a single text and its generalizations to high and low frequencies including hapax legome...
computer science
38,163
Unveiling the relationship between complex networks metrics and word senses
cs.CL
The automatic disambiguation of word senses (i.e., the identification of which of the meanings is used in a given context for a word that has multiple meanings) is essential for such applications as machine translation and information retrieval, and represents a key step for developing the so-called Semantic Web. Human...
computer science
38,164
Word sense disambiguation via high order of learning in complex networks
cs.CL
Complex networks have been employed to model many real systems and as a modeling tool in a myriad of applications. In this paper, we use the framework of complex networks to the problem of supervised classification in the word disambiguation task, which consists in deriving a function from the supervised (or labeled) t...
computer science
38,165
Complex networks analysis of language complexity
cs.CL
Methods from statistical physics, such as those involving complex networks, have been increasingly used in quantitative analysis of linguistic phenomena. In this paper, we represented pieces of text with different levels of simplification in co-occurrence networks and found that topological regularity correlated negati...
computer science
38,166
An Ontology for Modelling and Supporting the Process of Authoring Technical Assessments
cs.IR
In this paper, we present a semantic web approach for modelling the process of creating new technical and regulatory documents related to the Building sector. This industry, among other industries, is currently experiencing a phenomenal growth in its technical and regulatory texts. Therefore, it is urgent and crucial t...
computer science
38,167
Stochastic dynamics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world
cs.CL
We study the time taken by a language learner to correctly identify the meaning of all words in a lexicon under conditions where many plausible meanings can be inferred whenever a word is uttered. We show that the most basic form of cross-situational learning - whereby information from multiple episodes is combined to ...
computer science
38,168
Non-simplifying Graph Rewriting Termination
cs.CL
So far, a very large amount of work in Natural Language Processing (NLP) rely on trees as the core mathematical structure to represent linguistic informations (e.g. in Chomsky's work). However, some linguistic phenomena do not cope properly with trees. In a former paper, we showed the benefit of encoding linguistic str...
computer science
38,169
MATAWS: A Multimodal Approach for Automatic WS Semantic Annotation
cs.SE
Many recent works aim at developing methods and tools for the processing of semantic Web services. In order to be properly tested, these tools must be applied to an appropriate benchmark, taking the form of a collection of semantic WS descriptions. However, all of the existing publicly available collections are limited...
computer science
38,170
Towards an Author-Topic-Term-Model Visualization of 100 Years of German Sociological Society Proceedings
cs.DL
Author co-citation studies employ factor analysis to reduce high-dimensional co-citation matrices to low-dimensional and possibly interpretable factors, but these studies do not use any information from the text bodies of publications. We hypothesise that term frequencies may yield useful information for scientometric ...
computer science
38,171
Random crossings in dependency trees
cs.CL
It has been hypothesized that the rather small number of crossings in real syntactic dependency trees is a side-effect of pressure for dependency length minimization. Here we answer a related important research question: what would be the expected number of crossings if the natural order of a sentence was lost and repl...
computer science
38,172
Tweets Miner for Stock Market Analysis
cs.IR
In this paper, we present a software package for the data mining of Twitter microblogs for the purpose of using them for the stock market analysis. The package is written in R langauge using apropriate R packages. The model of tweets has been considered. We have also compared stock market charts with frequent sets of k...
computer science
38,173
The Capacity of String-Replication Systems
cs.IT
It is known that the majority of the human genome consists of repeated sequences. Furthermore, it is believed that a significant part of the rest of the genome also originated from repeated sequences and has mutated to its current form. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of constructing an exponentially larg...
computer science
38,174
Category theory, logic and formal linguistics: some connections, old and new
math.CT
We seize the opportunity of the publication of selected papers from the \emph{Logic, categories, semantics} workshop in the \emph{Journal of Applied Logic} to survey some current trends in logic, namely intuitionistic and linear type theories, that interweave categorical, geometrical and computational considerations. W...
computer science
38,175
An evaluation of keyword extraction from online communication for the characterisation of social relations
cs.SI
The set of interpersonal relationships on a social network service or a similar online community is usually highly heterogenous. The concept of tie strength captures only one aspect of this heterogeneity. Since the unstructured text content of online communication artefacts is a salient source of information about a so...
computer science
38,176
Ambiguity in language networks
cs.CL
Human language defines the most complex outcomes of evolution. The emergence of such an elaborated form of communication allowed humans to create extremely structured societies and manage symbols at different levels including, among others, semantics. All linguistic levels have to deal with an astronomic combinatorial ...
computer science
38,177
Tripartite Graph Clustering for Dynamic Sentiment Analysis on Social Media
cs.SI
The growing popularity of social media (e.g, Twitter) allows users to easily share information with each other and influence others by expressing their own sentiments on various subjects. In this work, we propose an unsupervised \emph{tri-clustering} framework, which analyzes both user-level and tweet-level sentiments ...
computer science
38,178
Why Are You More Engaged? Predicting Social Engagement from Word Use
cs.SI
We present a study to analyze how word use can predict social engagement behaviors such as replies and retweets in Twitter. We compute psycholinguistic category scores from word usage, and investigate how people with different scores exhibited different reply and retweet behaviors on Twitter. We also found psycholingui...
computer science
38,179
Information Evolution in Social Networks
cs.SI
Social networks readily transmit information, albeit with less than perfect fidelity. We present a large-scale measurement of this imperfect information copying mechanism by examining the dissemination and evolution of thousands of memes, collectively replicated hundreds of millions of times in the online social networ...
computer science
38,180
AntiPlag: Plagiarism Detection on Electronic Submissions of Text Based Assignments
cs.IR
Plagiarism is one of the growing issues in academia and is always a concern in Universities and other academic institutions. The situation is becoming even worse with the availability of ample resources on the web. This paper focuses on creating an effective and fast tool for plagiarism detection for text based electro...
computer science
38,181
Learning Soft Linear Constraints with Application to Citation Field Extraction
cs.CL
Accurately segmenting a citation string into fields for authors, titles, etc. is a challenging task because the output typically obeys various global constraints. Previous work has shown that modeling soft constraints, where the model is encouraged, but not require to obey the constraints, can substantially improve seg...
computer science
38,182
Real-Time Classification of Twitter Trends
cs.IR
Social media users give rise to social trends as they share about common interests, which can be triggered by different reasons. In this work, we explore the types of triggers that spark trends on Twitter, introducing a typology with following four types: 'news', 'ongoing events', 'memes', and 'commemoratives'. While p...
computer science
38,183
Home Location Identification of Twitter Users
cs.SI
We present a new algorithm for inferring the home location of Twitter users at different granularities, including city, state, time zone or geographic region, using the content of users tweets and their tweeting behavior. Unlike existing approaches, our algorithm uses an ensemble of statistical and heuristic classifier...
computer science
38,184
Emotion Analysis Platform on Chinese Microblog
cs.CL
Weibo, as the largest social media service in China, has billions of messages generated every day. The huge number of messages contain rich sentimental information. In order to analyze the emotional changes in accordance with time and space, this paper presents an Emotion Analysis Platform (EAP), which explores the emo...
computer science
38,185
The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter
cs.SI
Consider a person trying to spread an important message on a social network. He/she can spend hours trying to craft the message. Does it actually matter? While there has been extensive prior work looking into predicting popularity of social-media content, the effect of wording per se has rarely been studied since it is...
computer science
38,186
Initial Comparison of Linguistic Networks Measures for Parallel Texts
cs.CL
This paper presents preliminary results of Croatian syllable networks analysis. Syllable network is a network in which nodes are syllables and links between them are constructed according to their connections within words. In this paper we analyze networks of syllables generated from texts collected from the Croatian W...
computer science
38,187
Predicting Central Topics in a Blog Corpus from a Networks Perspective
cs.IR
In today's content-centric Internet, blogs are becoming increasingly popular and important from a data analysis perspective. According to Wikipedia, there were over 156 million public blogs on the Internet as of February 2011. Blogs are a reflection of our contemporary society. The contents of different blog posts are ...
computer science
38,188
Comparison of the language networks from literature and blogs
cs.CL
In this paper we present the comparison of the linguistic networks from literature and blog texts. The linguistic networks are constructed from texts as directed and weighted co-occurrence networks of words. Words are nodes and links are established between two nodes if they are directly co-occurring within the sentenc...
computer science
38,189
How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests
cs.CL
Requests are at the core of many social media systems such as question & answer sites and online philanthropy communities. While the success of such requests is critical to the success of the community, the factors that lead community members to satisfy a request are largely unknown. Success of a request depends on fac...
computer science
38,190
Preliminary Report on the Structure of Croatian Linguistic Co-occurrence Networks
cs.CL
In this article, we investigate the structure of Croatian linguistic co-occurrence networks. We examine the change of network structure properties by systematically varying the co-occurrence window sizes, the corpus sizes and removing stopwords. In a co-occurrence window of size $n$ we establish a link between the curr...
computer science
38,191
Speech earthquakes: scaling and universality in human voice
cs.CL
Speech is a distinctive complex feature of human capabilities. In order to understand the physics underlying speech production, in this work we empirically analyse the statistics of large human speech datasets ranging several languages. We first show that during speech the energy is unevenly released and power-law dist...
computer science
38,192
Beyond description. Comment on "Approaching human language with complex networks" by Cong & Liu
cs.CL
Comment on "Approaching human language with complex networks" by Cong & Liu
computer science
38,193
A model of grassroots changes in linguistic systems
cs.CL
Linguistic norms emerge in human communities because people imitate each other. A shared linguistic system provides people with the benefits of shared knowledge and coordinated planning. Once norms are in place, why would they ever change? This question, echoing broad questions in the theory of social dynamics, has par...
computer science
38,194
Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing
cs.CL
Originally inspired by categorical quantum mechanics (Abramsky and Coecke, LiCS'04), the categorical compositional distributional model of natural language meaning of Coecke, Sadrzadeh and Clark provides a conceptually motivated procedure to compute the meaning of a sentence, given its grammatical structure within a La...
computer science
38,195
Rule-and Dictionary-based Solution for Variations in Written Arabic Names in Social Networks, Big Data, Accounting Systems and Large Databases
cs.DB
This paper investigates the problem that some Arabic names can be written in multiple ways. When someone searches for only one form of a name, neither exact nor approximate matching is appropriate for returning the multiple variants of the name. Exact matching requires the user to enter all forms of the name for the se...
computer science
38,196
SciRecSys: A Recommendation System for Scientific Publication by Discovering Keyword Relationships
cs.DL
In this work, we propose a new approach for discovering various relationships among keywords over the scientific publications based on a Markov Chain model. It is an important problem since keywords are the basic elements for representing abstract objects such as documents, user profiles, topics and many things else. O...
computer science
38,197
Variation of word frequencies in Russian literary texts
cs.CL
We study the variation of word frequencies in Russian literary texts. Our findings indicate that the standard deviation of a word's frequency across texts depends on its average frequency according to a power law with exponent $0.62,$ showing that the rarer words have a relatively larger degree of frequency volatility ...
computer science
38,198
Complexity and universality in the long-range order of words
cs.CL
As is the case of many signals produced by complex systems, language presents a statistical structure that is balanced between order and disorder. Here we review and extend recent results from quantitative characterisations of the degree of order in linguistic sequences that give insights into two relevant aspects of l...
computer science
38,199
All Who Wander: On the Prevalence and Characteristics of Multi-community Engagement
cs.SI
Although analyzing user behavior within individual communities is an active and rich research domain, people usually interact with multiple communities both on- and off-line. How do users act in such multi-community environments? Although there are a host of intriguing aspects to this question, it has received much les...
computer science
38,200
Deep Feelings: A Massive Cross-Lingual Study on the Relation between Emotions and Virality
cs.SI
This article provides a comprehensive investigation on the relations between virality of news articles and the emotions they are found to evoke. Virality, in our view, is a phenomenon with many facets, i.e. under this generic term several different effects of persuasive communication are comprised. By exploiting a high...
computer science
38,201
The Evolution of Sentiment Analysis - A Review of Research Topics, Venues, and Top Cited Papers
cs.CL
Sentiment analysis is one of the fastest growing research areas in computer science, making it challenging to keep track of all the activities in the area. We present a computer-assisted literature review, where we utilize both text mining and qualitative coding, and analyze 6,996 papers from Scopus. We find that the r...
computer science
38,202
You Are What You Eat... Listen to, Watch, and Read
cs.SI
This article describes a data driven method for deriving the relationship between personality and media preferences. A qunatifiable representation of such a relationship can be leveraged for use in recommendation systems and ameliorate the "cold start" problem. Here, the data is comprised of an original collection of 1...
computer science
38,203
Talk it up or play it down? (Un)expected correlations between (de-)emphasis and recurrence of discussion points in consequential U.S. economic policy meetings
cs.SI
In meetings where important decisions get made, what items receive more attention may influence the outcome. We examine how different types of rhetorical (de-)emphasis -- including hedges, superlatives, and contrastive conjunctions -- correlate with what gets revisited later, controlling for item frequency and speaker....
computer science
38,204
The ontogeny of discourse structure mimics the development of literature
cs.CL
Discourse varies with age, education, psychiatric state and historical epoch, but the ontogenetic and cultural dynamics of discourse structure remain to be quantitatively characterized. To this end we investigated word graphs obtained from verbal reports of 200 subjects ages 2-58, and 676 literary texts spanning ~5,000...
computer science
38,205
Automatic Data Deformation Analysis on Evolving Folksonomy Driven Environment
cs.IR
The Folksodriven framework makes it possible for data scientists to define an ontology environment where searching for buried patterns that have some kind of predictive power to build predictive models more effectively. It accomplishes this through an abstractions that isolate parameters of the predictive modeling proc...
computer science
38,206
Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
cs.CL
We propose a mathematical framework for a unification of the distributional theory of meaning in terms of vector space models, and a compositional theory for grammatical types, for which we rely on the algebra of Pregroups, introduced by Lambek. This mathematical framework enables us to compute the meaning of a well-ty...
computer science
38,207
Distinguishing Fact from Fiction: Pattern Recognition in Texts Using Complex Networks
cs.CL
We establish concrete mathematical criteria to distinguish between different kinds of written storytelling, fictional and non-fictional. Specifically, we constructed a semantic network from both novels and news stories, with $N$ independent words as vertices or nodes, and edges or links allotted to words occurring with...
computer science
38,208
Towards Design and Implementation of a Language Technology based Information Processor for PDM Systems
cs.IR
Product Data Management (PDM) aims to provide 'Systems' contributing in industries by electronically maintaining organizational data, improving data repository system, facilitating with easy access to CAD and providing additional information engineering and management modules to access, store, integrate, secure, recove...
computer science