Finding Zelig in Text: A Measure for Normalising Linguistic Accommodation

Simon Jones; Rachel Cotterill; Nigel Dewdney; Kate Muir; A Joinson

Finding Zelig in Text: A Measure for Normalising Linguistic Accommodation

Simon Jones, Rachel Cotterill, Nigel Dewdney, Kate Muir, A Joinson

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Abstract

Linguistic accommodation is a recognised indicator of social power and social distance. However, different individuals will vary their language to different degrees, and only a portion of this variance will be due to accommodation. This paper presents the Zelig Quotient, a method of normalising linguistic variation towards a particular individual, using an author’s other communications as a baseline, thence to derive a method for identifying accommodation-induced variation with statistical significance. This work provides a platform for future efforts towards examining the importance of such phenomena in large communications datasets.

Original language	English
Pages	455-465
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Published - 31 Aug 2014
Event	25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Ireland, Dublin, UK United Kingdom Duration: 23 Aug 2014 → 29 Aug 2014

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Conference	25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Country/Territory	UK United Kingdom
City	Dublin
Period	23/08/14 → 29/08/14

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Muir, K. (Creator), Joinson, A. (Related Person), Cotterill, R. (Related Person) & Dewdney, N. (Related Person), Linguistic Data Consortium, 15 Jul 2016
https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2016T16
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