@inproceedings{chan-fyshe-2018-social,
    title = "Social and Emotional Correlates of Capitalization on {T}witter",
    author = "Chan, Sophia  and
      Fyshe, Alona",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People{'}s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans, Louisiana, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-1102",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-1102",
    pages = "10--15",
    abstract = "Social media text is replete with unusual capitalization patterns. We posit that capitalizing a token like THIS performs two expressive functions: it marks a person socially, and marks certain parts of an utterance as more salient than others. Focusing on gender and sentiment, we illustrate using a corpus of tweets that capitalization appears in more negative than positive contexts, and is used more by females compared to males. Yet we find that both genders use capitalization in a similar way when expressing sentiment.",
}