Chinese and American Leadership Characteristics: Discovery and Comparison in Multi-party On-Line Dialogues

Recent advances in automated analysis of on-line chat data allow us to draw conclusions about social behavior, such as leadership, in small groups previously possible only through manual methods of observation and analysis. We have applied such methods to comparable English and Chinese language data...

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Main Authors: Taylor, S. M., Ting Liu, Shaikh, S., Strzalkowski, T., Broadwell, A., Stromer-Galley, J., Boz, U., Xiaoai Ren, Jingsi Wu, Feifei Zhang
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric measurements
Chinese leadership
Computational linguistics
Computational modeling
dialogue
Educational institutions
Indexes
Lead
on-line chat
Particle measurements
sociolinguistics
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Summary:Recent advances in automated analysis of on-line chat data allow us to draw conclusions about social behavior, such as leadership, in small groups previously possible only through manual methods of observation and analysis. We have applied such methods to comparable English and Chinese language data, defined a new language use called Tension Focus, and demonstrate its different effects in the data in these two languages.
DOI:10.1109/ICSC.2012.37