A Case Study of Analysis of Construals in Language on Social Media Surrounding a Crisis Event (2021.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | construal level theory (CLT) uses concreteness as covariate to analyze language around political import events. |
| Approach: | They propose to include psycholinguistic measures of concreteness as covariates in topic models to analyze the language around an event of political import. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model incorporates measures of concreteness as covariates to inform the analysis of language around the 2017 rally. |
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