TY - GEN
T1 - Revealing contentious concepts across social groups
AU - Lin, Ching Sheng
AU - Akcam, Zumrut
AU - Shaikh, Samira
AU - Small, Sharon Gower
AU - Stahl, Ken
AU - Strzalkowski, Tomek
AU - Webb, Nick
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, a computational model based on concept polarity is proposed to investigate the influence of communications across the 'diacultural groups'. The hypothesis of this work is that there are communities or groups which can be characterized by a network of concepts and the corresponding valuations of those concepts that are agreed upon by the members of the community. We apply an existing research tool, ECO, to generate text representative of each community and create community specific Valuation Concept Networks (VCN). We then compare VCNs across the communities, to attempt to find 'contentious concepts', which could subsequently be the focus of further exploration as points of contention between the two communities. A prototype, CPAM (Changing Positions, Altering Minds), was implemented as a proof of concept for this approach. The experiment was conducted using blog data from pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli communities. A potential application of this method and future work are discussed as well.
AB - In this paper, a computational model based on concept polarity is proposed to investigate the influence of communications across the 'diacultural groups'. The hypothesis of this work is that there are communities or groups which can be characterized by a network of concepts and the corresponding valuations of those concepts that are agreed upon by the members of the community. We apply an existing research tool, ECO, to generate text representative of each community and create community specific Valuation Concept Networks (VCN). We then compare VCNs across the communities, to attempt to find 'contentious concepts', which could subsequently be the focus of further exploration as points of contention between the two communities. A prototype, CPAM (Changing Positions, Altering Minds), was implemented as a proof of concept for this approach. The experiment was conducted using blog data from pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli communities. A potential application of this method and future work are discussed as well.
KW - Bontentious concepts
KW - Diacultural groups
KW - Valuation Concept Networks
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85037355801
T3 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
SP - 2838
EP - 2841
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
A2 - Dogan, Mehmet Ugur
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Hamon, Olivier
T2 - 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012
Y2 - 21 May 2012 through 27 May 2012
ER -