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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Word Epoch Disambiguation: Finding How Words Change Over Time
In this paper we introduce the novel task of “word epoch disambiguation,” defined as the problem of identifying changes in word usage over time. Through experiments run using...
Rada Mihalcea, Vivi Nastase
INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Can conversational word usage be used to predict speaker demographics?
This work surveys the potential for predicting demographic traits of individual speakers (gender, age, education level, ethnicity, and geographic region) using only word usage fea...
Dan Gillick
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Autism online: a comparison of word usage in bloggers with and without autism spectrum disorders
The Internet has become a place of refuge for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In particular, weblogs are a popular option for personal expression via the Interne...
A. Taylor Newton, Adam D. I. Kramer, Daniel N. McI...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Word usage and posting behaviors: modeling blogs with unobtrusive data collection methods
We present a large-scale analysis of the content of weblogs dating back to the release of the Blogger program in 1999. Over one million blogs were analyzed from their conception t...
Adam D. I. Kramer, Kerry Rodden