A Case Study of Analysis of Construals in Language on Social Media Surrounding a Crisis Event

Lolo Aboufoul, Khyati Mahajan, Tiffany Gallicano, Sara Levens, Samira Shaikh


Abstract
The events that took place at the Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017 caused intense reaction on social media from users across the political spectrum. We present a novel application of psycholinguistics - specifically, construal level theory - to analyze the language on social media around this event of social import through topic models. We find that including psycholinguistic measures of concreteness as covariates in topic models can lead to informed analysis of the language surrounding an event of political import.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-srw.31
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop
Month:
August
Year:
2021
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Online
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Jad Kabbara, Haitao Lin, Amandalynne Paullada, Jannis Vamvas
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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304–309
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-srw.31
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-srw.31
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Lolo Aboufoul, Khyati Mahajan, Tiffany Gallicano, Sara Levens, and Samira Shaikh. 2021. A Case Study of Analysis of Construals in Language on Social Media Surrounding a Crisis Event. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop, pages 304–309, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Case Study of Analysis of Construals in Language on Social Media Surrounding a Crisis Event (Aboufoul et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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