Psychologically Motivated Text Mining

28 Sep 2016  ·  Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein ·

Natural language processing techniques are increasingly applied to identify social trends and predict behavior based on large text collections. Existing methods typically rely on surface lexical and syntactic information. Yet, research in psychology shows that patterns of human conceptualisation, such as metaphorical framing, are reliable predictors of human expectations and decisions. In this paper, we present a method to learn patterns of metaphorical framing from large text collections, using statistical techniques. We apply the method to data in three different languages and evaluate the identified patterns, demonstrating their psychological validity.

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