Social language processing: A framework for analyzing the communication of terrorists and authoritarian regimes

Hancock, Jeffrey T.; Beaver, David; Chung, Cindy K.; Frazee, Joey; Pennebaker, James W.; Graesser, Art; Cai, Zhiqiang

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“…computational techniques (Chung & Pennebaker, 2014;Hancock et al, 2010). More specifically, innovative advances in computational linguistics include Coh-Metrix (Graesser, McNamara, Louwerse, & Cai, 2004;McNamara, Graesser, McCarthy, & Cai, 2014) and Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (Tausczik & Pennebaker, 2010), both of which provide a new framework for analyzing linguistic patterns and psychological states in political discourse.…”

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“…More specifically, innovative advances in computational linguistics include Coh-Metrix (Graesser, McNamara, Louwerse, & Cai, 2004;McNamara, Graesser, McCarthy, & Cai, 2014) and Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (Tausczik & Pennebaker, 2010), both of which provide a new framework for analyzing linguistic patterns and psychological states in political discourse. Among the many benefits of these tools is their ability to be applied systematically and to provide the capacity to analyze substantial amounts of information spanning many years (Grimmer & Stewart, 2013;Hancock et al, 2010). The current work adopts the Social Language Processing (SLP) approach, which is a research framework that marries social and psychological theory with computational techniques for modeling the relationship between discourse and social dynamics (Hancock et al, 2010).…”

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“…Among the many benefits of these tools is their ability to be applied systematically and to provide the capacity to analyze substantial amounts of information spanning many years (Grimmer & Stewart, 2013;Hancock et al, 2010). The current work adopts the Social Language Processing (SLP) approach, which is a research framework that marries social and psychological theory with computational techniques for modeling the relationship between discourse and social dynamics (Hancock et al, 2010). An interdisciplinary approach that combines these novel methodologies with theoretically grounded psychological frameworks opens a world of possibilities that addresses gaps in the political science and leadership literature.…”

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Computational linguistics analysis of leaders during crises in authoritarian regimes

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Windsor

Graesser

2015

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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Computational linguistics analysis of leaders during crises in authoritarian regimes

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Windsor

Graesser

2015

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“…More recently, researchers have incorporated cognitive approaches in the exploration of political phenomena, namely corpus linguistics and computational techniques (Graesser, McNamara, Louwerse, & Cai, 2004;Baker et al, 2008;Grimmer & Stewart, 2013;Hancock et al, 2010;Masters & 't Hart, 2012;J. Pennebaker & Chung, 2008;J.…”

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The Language of Autocrats: Leaders' Language in Natural Disaster Crises

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Graesser³

2014

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Recent research has shown that natural disasters present political problems for societies, as these events make both citizens and leaders vulnerable. Autocratic leaders use language strategically following natural disasters to maximize their time in office. We introduce a new data set derived from using computational linguistic programs (LIWC and Coh-Metrix) to explore language patterns in the discourse of three prominent political leaders to uncover their strategies for navigating the political and social problems created by natural disasters. Our analysis covers the speeches of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, Commander Fidel Castro, and President Hosni Mubarak. We show that leaders' language reveals their preferences and strategies for accommodating the social, political, and economic shocks created by natural disasters through blaming and credit-claiming language. Our results provide insight into how autocratic leaders' language reflects these three strategies.

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“…However, online anonymity can also have detrimental effects in the society. Examples of this include anonymous hacking [12], and communication by terrorists [13].…”

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Anonymous Broadcast Messages

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Obimbo²

2013

IJACSA

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Abstract-The Dining Cryptographer network (or DC-net) is a privacy preserving communication protocol devised by DavidChaum for anonymous message publication. A very attractive feature of DC-nets is the strength of its security, which is inherent in the protocol and is not dependent on other schemes, like encryption. Unfortunately the DC-net protocol has a level of complexity that causes it to suffer from exceptional communication overhead and implementation difficulty that precludes its use in many real-world use-cases. We have designed and created a DC-net implementation that uses a pure clientserver model, which successfully avoids much of the complexity inherent in the DC-net protocol. We describe the theory of DCnets and our pure client-server implementation, as well as the compromises that were made to reduce the protocol's level of complexity. Discussion centers around the details of our implementation of DC-net.

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Social language processing: A framework for analyzing the communication of terrorists and authoritarian regimes

Cited by 31 publications

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Computational linguistics analysis of leaders during crises in authoritarian regimes

Computational linguistics analysis of leaders during crises in authoritarian regimes

The Language of Autocrats: Leaders' Language in Natural Disaster Crises

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