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title = "Social and Emotional Correlates of Capitalization on {T}witter",
author = "Chan, Sophia and
Fyshe, Alona",
editor = "Nissim, Malvina and
Patti, Viviana and
Plank, Barbara and
Wagner, Claudia",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People{'}s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media",
month = jun,
year = "2018",
address = "New Orleans, Louisiana, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-1102",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-1102",
pages = "10--15",
abstract = "Social media text is replete with unusual capitalization patterns. We posit that capitalizing a token like THIS performs two expressive functions: it marks a person socially, and marks certain parts of an utterance as more salient than others. Focusing on gender and sentiment, we illustrate using a corpus of tweets that capitalization appears in more negative than positive contexts, and is used more by females compared to males. Yet we find that both genders use capitalization in a similar way when expressing sentiment.",
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%Y Plank, Barbara
%Y Wagner, Claudia
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Markdown (Informal)
[Social and Emotional Correlates of Capitalization on Twitter](https://aclanthology.org/W18-1102) (Chan & Fyshe, PEOPLES 2018)
ACL
- Sophia Chan and Alona Fyshe. 2018. Social and Emotional Correlates of Capitalization on Twitter. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media, pages 10–15, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.