Modeling Sociocultural phenomena in discourse
George Aaron Broadwell, Jennifer Stromer‐Galley, Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh, Sarah Taylor, Ting Liu, Umit Boz, ALANA ELIA, LAURA JIAO, Nick Webb · Natural Language Engineering · 2012
Abstract In this paper, we describe a novel approach to computational modeling and understanding of social and cultural phenomena in multi-party dialogues. We developed a two-tier approach in which we first detect and classify certain sociolinguistic behaviors, including topic control, disagreement, and involvement, that serve as first-order models from which presence the higher level social roles, such as leadership, may be inferred.