Modeling socio-cultural phenomena in discourse

  • Authors:
  • Tomek Strzalkowski;George Aaron Broadwell;Jennifer Stromer-Galley;Samira Shaikh;Sarah Taylor;Nick Webb

  • Affiliations:
  • University at Albany, SUNY and IPI, Polish Academy of Sciences;University at Albany, SUNY;University at Albany, SUNY;University at Albany, SUNY;Lockheed Martin Corporation;University at Albany, SUNY

  • Venue:
  • COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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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 social language uses, including topic control, disagreement, and involvement, that serve as first order models from which presence the higher level social constructs such as leadership, may be inferred.