Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias [PDF]
CSCW 2024, Volume 8, Article 61, 1-26, 2023 What types of governance arrangements makes some self-governed online groups more vulnerable to disinformation campaigns? To answer this question, we present a qualitative comparative analysis of the Croatian and Serbian Wikipedia editions. We do so because between at least 2011 and 2020, the Croatian language version of Wikipedia was taken over by a ...
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SentiGOLD: A Large Bangla Gold Standard Multi-Domain Sentiment Analysis Dataset and its Evaluation [PDF]
, 2023 This study introduces SentiGOLD, a Bangla multi-domain sentiment analysis dataset. Comprising 70,000 samples, it was created from diverse sources and annotated by a gender-balanced team of linguists. SentiGOLD adheres to established linguistic conventions agreed upon by the Government of Bangladesh and a Bangla linguistics committee. Unlike English and
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Using Artificial French Data to Understand the Emergence of Gender Bias in Transformer Language Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Numerous studies have demonstrated the ability of neural language models to learn various linguistic properties without direct supervision. This work takes an initial step towards exploring the less researched topic of how neural models discover linguistic properties of words, such as gender, as well as the rules governing their usage.
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The brevity law as a scaling law, and a possible origin of Zipf's law for word frequencies [PDF]
Entropy 2020, 22(2), 224, 2019 An important body of quantitative linguistics is constituted by a series of statistical laws about language usage. Despite the importance of these linguistic laws, some of them are poorly formulated, and, more importantly, there is no unified framework that encompasses all them.
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Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks [PDF]
Physical Review E 74 (2006) 036105, 2006 The Naming Game is a model of non-equilibrium dynamics for the self-organized emergence of a linguistic convention or a communication system in a population of agents with pairwise local interactions. We present an extensive study of its dynamics on complex networks, that can be considered as the most natural topological embedding for agents involved ...
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Language change in a multiple group society [PDF]
, 2013 The processes leading to change in languages are manifold. In order to reduce ambiguity in the transmission of information, agreement on a set of conventions for recurring problems is favored. In addition to that, speakers tend to use particular linguistic variants associated with the social groups they identify with.
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It's not always about the money, sometimes it's about sending a message: Evidence of Informational Content in Monetary Policy Announcements [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper introduces a transparent framework to identify the informational content of FOMC announcements. We do so by modelling the expectations of the FOMC and private sector agents using state of the art computational linguistic tools on both FOMC statements and New York Times articles.
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Discovering Global Patterns in Linguistic Networks through Spectral Analysis: A Case Study of the Consonant Inventories [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 Recent research has shown that language and the socio-cognitive phenomena associated with it can be aptly modeled and visualized through networks of linguistic entities. However, most of the existing works on linguistic networks focus only on the local properties of the networks.
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In conversation with Artificial Intelligence: aligning language models with human values [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Large-scale language technologies are increasingly used in various forms of communication with humans across different contexts. One particular use case for these technologies is conversational agents, which output natural language text in response to prompts and queries. This mode of engagement raises a number of social and ethical questions.
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Winning on the Merits: The Joint Effects of Content and Style on Debate Outcomes [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Debate and deliberation play essential roles in politics and government, but most models presume that debates are won mainly via superior style or agenda control. Ideally, however, debates would be won on the merits, as a function of which side has the stronger arguments.
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