A Multidimensional Lexicon for Interpersonal Stancetaking
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Title
A Multidimensional Lexicon for Interpersonal Stancetaking
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Creator
Umashanthi Pavalanathan
Jim Fitzpatrick
Scott Kiesling
Jacob Eisenstein
Abstract
The sociolinguistic construct of stancetaking
describes the activities through which
discourse participants create and signal relationships
to their interlocutors, to the
topic of discussion, and to the talk itself.
Stancetaking underlies a wide range
of interactional phenomena, relating to
formality, politeness, affect, and subjectivity.
We present a computational approach
to stancetaking, in which we build
a theoretically-motivated lexicon of stance
markers, and then use multidimensional
analysis to identify a set of underlying
stance dimensions. We validate these
dimensions intrinsically and extrinsically,
showing that they are internally coherent,
match pre-registered hypotheses, and correlate
with social phenomena.
describes the activities through which
discourse participants create and signal relationships
to their interlocutors, to the
topic of discussion, and to the talk itself.
Stancetaking underlies a wide range
of interactional phenomena, relating to
formality, politeness, affect, and subjectivity.
We present a computational approach
to stancetaking, in which we build
a theoretically-motivated lexicon of stance
markers, and then use multidimensional
analysis to identify a set of underlying
stance dimensions. We validate these
dimensions intrinsically and extrinsically,
showing that they are internally coherent,
match pre-registered hypotheses, and correlate
with social phenomena.
volume
1
pages
884-895
Date
2017
Language
EN English
doi
10.18653/v1/P17-1082