@inproceedings{e1a14fff2054421884736fa9b1c1fb09,
title = "Identifying locus of control in social media language",
abstract = "Individuals express their locus of control, or “control”, in their language when they identify whether or not they are in control of their circumstances. Although control is a core concept underlying rhetorical style, it is not clear whether control is expressed by how or by what authors write. We explore the roles of syntax and semantics in expressing users' sense of control -i.e. being “controlled by” or “in control of” their circumstances- in a corpus of annotated Facebook posts. We present rich insights into these linguistic aspects and find that while the language signaling control is easy to identify, it is more challenging to label it is internally or externally controlled, with lexical features outperforming syntactic features at the task. Our findings could have important implications for studying self-expression in social media.",
author = "Masoud Rouhizadeh and Kokil Jaidka and Laura Smith and \{Andrew Schwartz\}, H. and Anneke Buffone and Ungar, \{Lyle H.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Association for Computational Linguistics; 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018 ; Conference date: 31-10-2018 Through 04-11-2018",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
pages = "1146--1152",
editor = "Ellen Riloff and David Chiang and Julia Hockenmaier and Jun'ichi Tsujii",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018",
}