@inproceedings{c5cfe8362fac43f09061de553c486a14,
title = "Discovering the functions of language in online forums",
abstract = "In this work, we revisit the functions of language proposed by linguist Roman Jakobson and we highlight their potential in analyzing online forum conversations. We investigate the relation between functions and other properties of comments, such as controversiality. We propose and evaluate a semi-supervised framework for predicting the functions of Reddit comments. To accommodate further research, we release a corpus of 165K comments annotated with their functions of language.",
author = "Youmna Ismaeil and Oana Balalau and Paramita Mirza",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Association for Computational Linguistics; 5th Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text, W-NUT@EMNLP 2019 ; Conference date: 04-11-2019",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "W-NUT@EMNLP 2019 - 5th Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text, Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "259--264",
booktitle = "W-NUT@EMNLP 2019 - 5th Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text, Proceedings",
}