ComputationalExtractionofSocialandInteractionalMeaning.pptVIP

Announcements Reminder that course evaluations need to be done today. HW 4 grades comments will be emailed tonight. Lecture notes will be posted later Outline Positioning: what’s the objective? Feature learning, selection evaluation Partisan positioning -- visualization Social positioning – classification Outline Positioning: what’s the objective? Feature learning, selection evaluation Partisan positioning -- visualization Social positioning – classification Types of Positioning: Authority Institutional roles vs. emerging roles Institutional: assigned by a higher authority CEO, project manager, technical staff, … News anchor, reporter, invited guest, talk show host, … Professor vs. post-doc vs. grad student vs. undergrad student Wikipedia discussions: administrator, registered user, … Emerging: earned within the group Linguistics institute: happy hour organizer Student project: leader, note-taker, … Wikipedia discussions: page expert, mediator, … Managerial vs. expertise vs. social Managerial: running meetings, assigning tasks Expertise: thought leader, topic/skill expert Social: family roles, social class Types of Positioning: Group Association Politics: democrat vs. republican pro-life vs. pro-choice Field politics pro-Chomsky vs. anti-Chomsky generative vs. discriminative modeler Positioning: Roles vs. Relationships Roles: Actively establish one’s identity in the group Characteristic talk Relationships Confirm relative positions (politeness, upspeak/downspeak) Applications Classification/detection of… people in terms of roles power/status relationships successful control or persuasion Visualization Identifying traits of groups Position on a scale (e.g. how far “right”?) In either case, we might want to track changes over time Applications (cont.) Detecting social roles/relationships Provides a mechanism for identifying leaders and group structure Identifying features that indicate that information provides groundwork to help our understanding of