Who's (really) the boss? Perception of situational power in written interactions

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran; Owen Rambow; Mona Diab

Who's (really) the boss? Perception of situational power in written interactions

Vinodkumar Prabhakaran
, Owen Rambow
, Mona Diab

Linguistics

Columbia University

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10 Scopus citations

Abstract

We study the perception of situational power in written dialogs in the context of organizational emails and contrast it to the power attributed by organizational hierarchy. We analyze various correlates of the perception of power in the dialog structure and language use by participants in the dialog. We also present an SVM-based machine learning system using dialog structure and lexical features to predict persons with situational power in a given communication thread.

Original language	English
Pages	2259-2274
Number of pages	16
State	Published - 2012
Event	24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2012 - Mumbai, India Duration: Dec 8 2012 → Dec 15 2012

Conference

Conference	24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2012
Country/Territory	India
City	Mumbai
Period	12/8/12 → 12/15/12

Keywords

Computational sociolinguistics
Dialog
Dialog acts
Power analysis
Social networks

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