Many social scientists recognize that quantitative text analysis is a useful research
methodology, but its application is still concentrated in documents written in European …

In 1893, the editor of the New York World, John Speed, wanted to see whether newspa-pers
had changed their approach to reporting the news. He suspected that newspapers were …

Abstract Language is a psychologically rich medium for human expression and
communication. While language usage has been shown to be a window into various …

With language technology increasingly affecting individuals' lives, many recent works have
investigated the ethical aspects of NLP. Among other topics, researchers focused on the …

Dehumanization is frequently cited as a precursor to mass violence, but quantitative support
for this notion is scarce. The present work provides such support by examining the …

Humans use language toward hateful ends, inciting violence and genocide, intimidating and
denigrating others based on their identity. Despite efforts to better address the language of …

Public sentiment toward the COVID-19 vaccine as expressed on social media can interfere
with communication by public health agencies on the importance of getting vaccinated. We …

Since 2010, scholars have made major contributions to cross-cultural research, especially
regarding similarities and differences across world regions and countries in people's values …

The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count Dictionary 2015 (LIWC2015) is a standard text
analysis dictionary that quantifies the linguistic and psychometric properties of English …

The present research examined how value-free and value-driven measures of argument
strength (MAS) can be computationally extracted using a theory-driven approach at scale in …