the art of debate in the age of the internet

The Art of Debate in the Age of the Internet: Computational Text Analysis Resources at the RSU

DIGITAL LATVIAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TOOLS IN COMMON RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

Riga, March 5, 2020

Alise Tīfentāle, PhD

Communication Studies Department

Maria Bordy, untitled (assembly hall

of the United Nations), undated.

Edward Steichen, ed., The Family of

Man (New York: Museum of Modern

Art, 1955), 184–85.

The Index of Internet Aggressivenesshttp://barometrs.korpuss.lv/

Authors:

Communication Studies Department, Riga Stradins University (Sergejs Kruks, Anda Rožukalne, Klāvs Sedlenieks, Ruta Siliņa, Ilva Skulte)

Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia, Artificial Intelligence Lab (Ginta Garkāje, Normunds Grūzītis, Valters Rostoks)

Supported by: Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia; Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Partners: Delfi, TVNET, Apollo

Dataset:

~19.80 M comments, ~515.19 M words, ~160,060 articles


900 basic word stock in all forms and spellings

3.5 thousand “aggressive” word forms

Initially over 65 thousand used words

(in comments on portals)

DiscriminationCall for

aggression


21.05.2012.


Most often used words 28.05.-31.10.2011.

1. Kārt – 555 435

2. Uts – 310 806

3. Šaut – 296 917

4. Auns – 269 912

5. Āzis – 216 267

6. Sist – 168 360

7. Ciest – 151 686

8. Karš – 131 191

9. Līķis – 112 213

10.Āksts – 106 58


Some expressions found in comments can be seen as incitement to aggression

Use of aggressive expressions picked from politics or media

Large part of the content consists of reciprocal miscalling, reflections on the comments of other commentators

Aggressive statements trend to deviate quickly from content of the message on which the comments are made

Self-marginalization and denial of the different

Sniffy, disdainful attitude towards ourselves and our nation

Intolerance to the different – nationalism and extreme trends

9

Calling for

public death

penalty

We are a

shitty nation


Saeima (Parliament) Corpus Analysishttp://saeima.korpuss.lv/

Authors:

Ilze Auziņa, Roberts Darģis, Sergejs Kruks, Guna Rābante-Buša, Ilva Skulte

Communication Studies Department, Riga Stradins University

Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Latvia, Artificial Intelligence Lab

Funding:

State research program project EKOSOC-LV Nr. 5.2.5.

Dataset:

Corpus includes all warods that parliament, ministers, and other participants have said (and also

shouted from the hall) since 1993 – more than 13 M words.

http://saeima.korpuss.lv/


The Index of Internet Aggressiveneshttp://barometrs.korpuss.lv/

Thank you! Paldies!

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