Communication is made possible by common ground---the unspoken knowledge that people share and presuppose of one another, whether that be online or offline. In his conception of common ground, Clark (1996) distinguishes between personal and communal common ground, and asserts that the latter is graded: the more communi...
Sagar Kumar, L. Prince, Julia Mendelsohn et al.· 0 citations
Hostile rhetoric toward social groups can normalize exclusion and justify mistreatment, as well as contribute to rising polarization and political violence. Efforts to moderate hostile rhetoric in online speech draw on foundational theories in social and moral psychology, and political science. However, these theories...
Patrick Gérard, Julia Mendelsohn, Kristina Lerman· 0 citations
This work introduces TurEngMix, a corpus of 5.5K noisy, naturally occurring social media posts rich in Turkish-English code-mixing, and constructs a new Turkish-English benchmark for code-mixed language identification and named entity recognition, comprising 15K expert-annotated tokens.
Ilayda Dogan, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, Julia Mendelsohn· 0 citations
The Persuasion Index is proposed, a taxonomy of 15 dimensions grounded in persuasion theories from psychology and communication and one transparent implementation using 55 sub-features built from lexicons and rule-based detectors.