Talking to the crowd: What do people react to in online discussions?

This paper addresses the question of how language use affects community reaction to comments in online discussion forums, and the relative importance of the message vs. the messenger. A new comment ranking task is proposed based on community annotated karma in Reddit discussions, which controls for topic and timing of comments. Experimental work with discussion threads from six subreddits shows that the importance of different types of language features varies with the community of interest.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

• Publication date

  2015-07-08

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.18653/v1/D15-1239arXiv 1507.02205
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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