Individual differences and implicit language: personality, parts-of-speech and pervasiveness

Autor: Oberlander, Jon, Gill, Alastair J.
Přispěvatelé: Forbus, Kenneth, Gentner, Dedre, Regier, Terry
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2004
Zdroj: Oberlander, J & Gill, A J 2004, Individual differences and implicit language: personality, parts-of-speech and pervasiveness . in K Forbus, D Gentner & T Regier (eds), Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1035-1040 .
Popis: Dewaele and Furnham predict that in oral language Extraverts prefer to produce what they term implicit language. They use: more pronouns, adverbs and verbs; and fewer nouns, adjectives and prepositions. However, communication in a computer-mediated environment, such as e-mail, might disrupt these preferences. Also, other personality dimensions, such as Neuroticism, may be related to implicitness. The study exploited an existing corpus of e-mail texts written by native English speakers of known personality. Stratified corpus comparison used n-gram-based techniques from statistical natural language processing, to compare relative frequencies of use of (sequences of) parts-of-speech. Implicitness effects were found, and Neuroticism appeared to have a clearer impact than Extraversion
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