Search Results for author: Umashanthi Pavalanathan

Found 5 papers, 0 papers with code

Interactional Stancetaking in Online Forums

no code implementations CL 2018 Scott F. Kiesling, Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Xiaochuang Han, Jacob Eisenstein

Theories of interactional stancetaking have been put forward as holistic accounts, but until now, these theories have been applied only through detailed qualitative analysis of (portions of) a few individual conversations.

A Multidimensional Lexicon for Interpersonal Stancetaking

no code implementations ACL 2017 Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Scott Kiesling, Jacob Eisenstein

The sociolinguistic construct of stancetaking describes the activities through which discourse participants create and signal relationships to their interlocutors, to the topic of discussion, and to the talk itself.

Word Embeddings

Emoticons vs. Emojis on Twitter: A Causal Inference Approach

no code implementations28 Oct 2015 Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Jacob Eisenstein

Online writing lacks the non-verbal cues present in face-to-face communication, which provide additional contextual information about the utterance, such as the speaker's intention or affective state.

Causal Inference

Confounds and Consequences in Geotagged Twitter Data

no code implementations EMNLP 2015 Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Jacob Eisenstein

Twitter is often used in quantitative studies that identify geographically-preferred topics, writing styles, and entities.

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