TY - GEN
T1 - Pragmatic Alignment on Social Support Type in Health Forum Conversations
AU - Wang, Yafei
AU - Yen, John
AU - Reitter, David T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was made possible by a collaboration agreement between Penn State and the American Cancer Society. The authors would like to thank Kenneth Portier and Greta E. Greer for preparing the CSN dataset. Also, the authors would like to thank Prakhar Biyani for providing the source code of sentence classifier as well as Prasenjit Mitra and Yang Xu for their helpful discussions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Linguistic alignment, such as lexical and syntactic alignment, is a universal phenomenon influencing dialogue participants in online conversations. While adaptation can occur at lexical, syntactic and pragmatic levels, relationships between alignments at multiple levels are neither theoretically nor empirically well understood. In this study, we find that community members show pragmatic alignment on social support type, distinguishing emotional and informational support, both of which provide benefits to members. We also find that lexical alignment is correlated with emotional support. This finding can contribute to our understanding of the linguistic signature of different types of support as well as the theory of Interactive Alignment in dialogue.
AB - Linguistic alignment, such as lexical and syntactic alignment, is a universal phenomenon influencing dialogue participants in online conversations. While adaptation can occur at lexical, syntactic and pragmatic levels, relationships between alignments at multiple levels are neither theoretically nor empirically well understood. In this study, we find that community members show pragmatic alignment on social support type, distinguishing emotional and informational support, both of which provide benefits to members. We also find that lexical alignment is correlated with emotional support. This finding can contribute to our understanding of the linguistic signature of different types of support as well as the theory of Interactive Alignment in dialogue.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016582569
T3 - 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2015 at the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings
SP - 9
EP - 18
BT - 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2015 at the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
A2 - O'Donnell, Tim
A2 - van Schijndel, Marten
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2015 at the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015
Y2 - 4 June 2015
ER -