Development and evaluation of Natural Language Processing methods often requires text annotation. To gauge the difficulty of the task and increase the reliability and quality of annotations, researchers often recruit at least two annotators. The discrepancies in annotations by multiple annotators need to be identified and reconciled. We present a tool that identifies and helps reconciling and v...

We investigate style accommodation in online discussions, in particular its interplay with content agreement and disagreement. Using a new model for measuring style accommodation, we find that speakers coordinate on style more noticeably if they disagree than if they agree, especially if they want to establish rapport and possibly persuade their interlocutors.

Once upon a time I made a list of ten policies which I thought more-or-less everyone in Washington could agree were needed more-or-less everywhere in Latin America. I found a common interpretation of what I had written to be quite extraordinary, indeed largely the contrary of what I was arguing, so rather than try once again to stress the things on which we agree, let me try analyzing the disag...

Large, heterogeneous computer and telecommunication networks with ever changing topology and size are typical environments todays network management (NM) systems struggle to control. Unexpected events occur frequently in these complex networks, and many of the events result in failure situations where the NM system is required to intervene and restabilize the network. By distributing the NM sys...

BACKGROUND Cross-national research suggests that married people have higher levels of well-being than cohabiting people. However, relationship quality has both positive and negative dimensions. Researchers have paid little attention to disagreements within cohabiting and married couples. OBJECTIVE This study aims to improve our understanding of the meaning of cohabitation by examining disagreem...