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TY - GEN
T1 - Cultural influences on the measurement of personal values through words
AU - Wilson, Steven R.
AU - Mihalcea, Rada
AU - Boyd, Ryan L.
AU - Pennebaker, James W.
PY - 2016/3/21
Y1 - 2016/3/21
N2 - Texts posted on the web by users from diverse cultures provide a nearly endless source of data that researchers can use to study human thoughts and language patterns. However, unless care is taken to avoid it, models may be developed in one cultural setting and deployed in another, leading to unforeseen consequences. We explore the effects of using models built from a corpus of texts from multiple cultures in order to learn about each represented people group separately. To do this, we employ a topic modeling approach to quantify open-ended writing responses describing personal values and everyday behaviors in two distinct cultures. We show that some topics are more prominent in one culture compared to the other, while other topics are mentioned to similar degrees. Furthermore, our results indicate that culture influences how value-behavior relationships are exhibited. While some relationships exist in both cultural groups, in most cases we see that the observed relations are dependent on the cultural background of the data set under examination.
AB - Texts posted on the web by users from diverse cultures provide a nearly endless source of data that researchers can use to study human thoughts and language patterns. However, unless care is taken to avoid it, models may be developed in one cultural setting and deployed in another, leading to unforeseen consequences. We explore the effects of using models built from a corpus of texts from multiple cultures in order to learn about each represented people group separately. To do this, we employ a topic modeling approach to quantify open-ended writing responses describing personal values and everyday behaviors in two distinct cultures. We show that some topics are more prominent in one culture compared to the other, while other topics are mentioned to similar degrees. Furthermore, our results indicate that culture influences how value-behavior relationships are exhibited. While some relationships exist in both cultural groups, in most cases we see that the observed relations are dependent on the cultural background of the data set under examination.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84980018876
T3 - AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
SP - 314
EP - 317
BT - 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium Series - Collected Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposia
PB - AI Access Foundation
T2 - 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium
Y2 - 21 March 2016 through 23 March 2016
ER -