The problem of spiraling Black incarceration The United States has the world’s highest incarceration rate. This massive incarceration is a product of exponential growth since the 1970s (see Figure 1). By the end of the 1990s, even White European Americans were incarcerated at rates three to four times higher than Europeans. But the wave of massive incarceration fell disproportionately on Black ...

The complex needs of Black Minority Ethnic (BME) Deaf people are often misunderstood and inappropriately catered for. A lack of understanding around cultural differences and language needs, can leave the individual very isolated and marginalised in society. It is important to understand the backgrounds of BME Deaf people, their identity issues, their communication, family and social surrounding...

Social broadcasting networks like Twitter in the U.S. and “Weibo” in China are transforming the way online word-of-mouth is disseminated and consumed in our society. We investigate whether and how Twitter WOM affects movie sales using publicly available Twitter data and common text mining algorithms. We find that more Twitter WOM messages always leads to more movie sales, however, the magnitude...

In this paper, we present the Twitter-normalization system developed by the SINAI group. Our system performs a series of conversions on the text by the use of translation lexicons and a spell checker. We obtain a poor result, only 37.6% of accuracy, and after the analysis of these results our system should be improved in areas such as the treatment of diminutives and superlatives, entities or a...

Can mother tongue speakers of the Nguni and Sotho languages determine each other’s first language (L1) based on their English accent? Contrasting claims have been made in this regard. While Black South African English (BSAE) can be distinguished clearly from Standard South African English (SSAE) on the levels of both production and perception, insufficient evidence exists that such a distinctio...

Twitter has become one of the most used social networks. And, as happens with every popular media, it is prone to misuse. In this context, spam in Twitter has emerged in the last years, becoming an important problem for the users. In the last years, several approaches have appeared that are able to determine whether an user is a spammer or not. However, these blacklisting systems cannot filter ...

I found Lorie Charlesworth's article welcome, perceptive, impressively researched and, insofar as it is a manifesto, worthy of support. Here, I am singling out a small (though significant) part to comment on, largely because I find so little to disagree with in the rest of it. Her argument seems familiar, with good reason. In many ways the socio-legal project's relationship with black-letter la...

Introduction: Social media has become an important element of interaction and found itself a place in every aspect of our lives. This study examined the twitter activities of emergency medicine physicians and residents (EMP&R;) about the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: The study concentrated on Twitter, a major social media network. To identify accounts owned ...

Many of us will always remember the distressing scenes from various incidents during the troubles. I have vivid memories of looking after the victims of the Omagh bomb during my second week as JHO in the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1998. In the weeks following the Omagh bomb I re-read Marie by Gordon Wilson and it brought me to tears again. Gordon will always be remembered for forgiving those wh...

This paper describes a method to expose a set of categories that are representative of the emotions expressed on Twitter inductively from data. The method can be used to expand the range of emotions that automatic classifiers can detect through the identification of fine-grained emotion categories human annotators are capable of detecting in tweets. The inter-annotator reliability statistics fo...