Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science
Year: 2014

Louis Armstrong (is said to have) said, "I don't need words -it's all in the phrasing". As someone who does natural-language processing for a living, I'm a big fan of words; but lately, my collaborators and I have been studying aspects of phrasing (in the linguistic, rather than musical sense) that go beyond just the selection of one particular word over another. I'll describe some of these projects in this talk. The issues we'll consider include: Does the way in which something is worded in and