Can text mining enhance cultural studies? Using web forums in associative group analysis

Yuan Xue; Yilu Zhou; Stuart Umpleby

Can text mining enhance cultural studies? Using web forums in associative group analysis

Yuan Xue, Yilu Zhou, Stuart Umpleby

Division of Engineering, Business & Computing (Berks)

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Abstract

Traditional approaches in measuring cultural difference like AGA and survey are demanding in human efforts and vulnerable to biases in data collection. In this work, we propose that forum data can be a good alternative to AGA data collection and text mining technologies can significantly reduce the human efforts involved in quantifying cultural distance. Experiments and case studies show that the introduction of forum analysis and text mining into the areas of cross cultural studies is promising.

Original language	English (US)
State	Published - 2010
Event	20th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2010 - St. Louis, MO, United States Duration: Dec 11 2010 → Dec 12 2010

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Other	20th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	St. Louis, MO
Period	12/11/10 → 12/12/10

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Information Systems

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