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Quantifying the Causal Effects of Conversational Tendencies
Understanding what leads to effective conversations can aid the design of better computer-mediated communication platforms.
Balancing Objectives in Counseling Conversations: Advancing Forwards or Looking Backwards
This unsupervised method allows us to characterize counselor behaviors in a large dataset of crisis counseling conversations, where we show that known counseling strategies intuitively align with this axis.
ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations
This paper describes the design and functionality of ConvoKit, an open-source toolkit for analyzing conversations and the social interactions embedded within.
Finding Your Voice: The Linguistic Development of Mental Health Counselors
We use our framework to conduct a large longitudinal study of mental health counseling conversations, tracking over 3, 400 counselors across their tenure.
Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure
One of the main challenges online social systems face is the prevalence of antisocial behavior, such as harassment and personal attacks.
Asking Too Much? The Rhetorical Role of Questions in Political Discourse
Questions play a prominent role in social interactions, performing rhetorical functions that go beyond that of simple informational exchange.
Community Identity and User Engagement in a Multi-Community Landscape
To this end we introduce a quantitative, language-based typology reflecting two key aspects of a community's identity: how distinctive, and how temporally dynamic it is.
Loyalty in Online Communities
In this paper we operationalize loyalty as a user-community relation: users loyal to a community consistently prefer it over all others; loyal communities retain their loyal users over time.
Conversational flow in Oxford-style debates
Public debates are a common platform for presenting and juxtaposing diverging views on important issues.
QUOTUS: The Structure of Political Media Coverage as Revealed by Quoting Patterns
By encoding bias patterns in a low-rank space we provide an analysis of the structure of political media coverage.
