TY - GEN
T1 - Imperatives in past online discussions
T2 - 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
AU - Xiao, Lu
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Mark Borden for his research assistance. This study is partially supported by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (Discovery) and the National Science Foundation (IIS-1717473).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Experienced members of online communities use discussion to familiarize newcomers with norms. These members use imperatives, a kind of directive speech act, to suggest a course of action. A method for automatically recognizing such imperatives is described here. The recognition performance of the algorithm is compared to that of human readers. In addition, to test and illustrate the technique, the imperatives in a sample of Wikipedia deletion discussions are extracted, analyzed, and discussed. The method may be used not only to understand a community's culture and practices but also to elicit information that is beneficial to the community's newcomers.
AB - Experienced members of online communities use discussion to familiarize newcomers with norms. These members use imperatives, a kind of directive speech act, to suggest a course of action. A method for automatically recognizing such imperatives is described here. The recognition performance of the algorithm is compared to that of human readers. In addition, to test and illustrate the technique, the imperatives in a sample of Wikipedia deletion discussions are extracted, analyzed, and discussed. The method may be used not only to understand a community's culture and practices but also to elicit information that is beneficial to the community's newcomers.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85066914805
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 5299
EP - 5308
BT - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 8 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
ER -