The Grievance Dictionary: Understanding Threatening Language Use

Autor: Bennett Kleinberg, Paul Gill, Isabelle van der Vegt, Maximilian Mozes
Přispěvatelé: Department of Methodology and Statistics
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
FOS: Computer and information sciences
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Writing
MODELS
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Violence
Threat assessment
050105 experimental psychology
Article
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Grievances
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
General Psychology
Psycholinguistic dictionary
Language
Word list
Psycholinguistics
Computer Science - Computation and Language
05 social sciences
LIWC
16. Peace & justice
Linguistics
Grievance
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Psychology (miscellaneous)
RISK-ASSESSMENT
Psychology
Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Zdroj: Behavior Research Methods
Behavior Research Methods, 53. Springer Nature
Behavior Research Methods, 53(5), 2105-2119. Springer
ISSN: 1554-351X
Popis: This paper introduces the Grievance Dictionary, a psycholinguistic dictionary which can be used to automatically understand language use in the context of grievance-fuelled violence threat assessment. We describe the development the dictionary, which was informed by suggestions from experienced threat assessment practitioners. These suggestions and subsequent human and computational word list generation resulted in a dictionary of 20,502 words annotated by 2,318 participants. The dictionary was validated by applying it to texts written by violent and non-violent individuals, showing strong evidence for a difference between populations in several dictionary categories. Further classification tasks showed promising performance, but future improvements are still needed. Finally, we provide instructions and suggestions for the use of the Grievance Dictionary by security professionals and (violence) researchers.
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Databáze: OpenAIRE
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