Detecting Cross-Cultural Differences Using a Multilingual Topic Model

E.D. Gutiérrez, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Gerard de Melo, Luca Gilardi


Abstract
Understanding cross-cultural differences has important implications for world affairs and many aspects of the life of society. Yet, the majority of text-mining methods to date focus on the analysis of monolingual texts. In contrast, we present a statistical model that simultaneously learns a set of common topics from multilingual, non-parallel data and automatically discovers the differences in perspectives on these topics across linguistic communities. We perform a behavioural evaluation of a subset of the differences identified by our model in English and Spanish to investigate their psychological validity.
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Q16-1004
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Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 4
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2016
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Cambridge, MA
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Lillian Lee, Mark Johnson, Kristina Toutanova
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TACL
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MIT Press
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47–60
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https://aclanthology.org/Q16-1004
DOI:
10.1162/tacl_a_00082
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E.D. Gutiérrez, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Gerard de Melo, and Luca Gilardi. 2016. Detecting Cross-Cultural Differences Using a Multilingual Topic Model. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 4:47–60.
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