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Dlatk: Differential language analysis toolkit

  • H. Andrew Schwartz
  • , Salvatore Giorgi
  • , Maarten Sap
  • , Patrick Crutchley
  • , Johannes C. Eichstaedt
  • , Lyle Ungar
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Washington
  • Qntfy

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Abstract

We present Differential Language Analysis Toolkit (DLATK), an open-source python package and command-line tool developed for conducting social-scientific language analyses. While DLATK provides standard NLP pipeline steps such as tokenization or SVM-classification, its novel strengths lie in analyses useful for psychological, health, and social science: (1) incorporation of extra-linguistic structured information, (2) specified levels and units of analysis (e.g. document, user, community), (3) statistical metrics for continuous outcomes, and (4) robust, proven, and accurate pipelines for social-scientific prediction problems. DLATK integrates multiple popular packages (SKLearn, Mallet), enables interactive usage (Jupyter Notebooks), and generally follows object oriented principles to make it easy to tie in additional libraries or storage technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2017 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Subtitle of host publicationSystem Demonstrations, Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages55-60
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626975
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, EMNLP 2017 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: Sep 9 2017Sep 11 2017

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2017 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, EMNLP 2017
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period09/9/1709/11/17

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