@InProceedings{chan-fyshe:2018:W18-11,
  author    = {Chan, Sophia  and  Fyshe, Alona},
  title     = {Social and Emotional Correlates of Capitalization on Twitter},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {New Orleans, Louisiana, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {10--15},
  abstract  = {Social media text is replete with unusual capitalization patterns. We posit that capitalizing a token like THIS performs two expressive functions: it marks a person socially, and marks certain parts of an utterance as more salient than others. Focusing on gender and sentiment, we illustrate using a corpus of tweets that capitalization appears in more negative than positive contexts, and is used more by females compared to males. Yet we find that both genders use capitalization in a similar way when expressing sentiment.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-1102}
}