Abstract
In this work, we revisit the functions of language proposed by linguist Roman Jakobson and we highlight their potential in analyzing online forum conversations. We investigate the relationship between functions and other properties of comments, such as controversiality. We propose and evaluate a semi-supervised framework for predicting the functions of Reddit comments. To accommodate further research, we release a corpus of 165K comments annotated with their functions of language.- Anthology ID:
- D19-5534
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
- Venue:
- WNUT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 259–264
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-5534
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-5534
- Cite (ACL):
- Youmna Ismaeil, Oana Balalau, and Paramita Mirza. 2019. Discovering the Functions of Language in Online Forums. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019), pages 259–264, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Discovering the Functions of Language in Online Forums (Ismaeil et al., WNUT 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/D19-5534.pdf