Social Q&A provides the possibility of looking into how people verbally express their information needs in natural language. In this study, we analyzed linguistic properties of different types of questions on the topic of eating disorders in Yahoo! Answers. Using term frequency analysis, Partof-Speech (POS) analysis, and sentiment analysis, we examined linguistic content, linguistic style, and ...

This study examines a large corpus of online gaming chat and avatar names to explore gender differences in virtual world (VW) language use. In particular, we examine the relevance of socio-­‐linguistic observations of gender in face-­‐to-­‐ face conversation to the contemporary ...

Political and economic risks arise from social phenomena that spread within and across countries. Regime changes, protest movements, and stock market and default shocks can have ramifications across the globe. Quantitative models have made great strides at predicting these events in recent decades but incorporate few explicitly measured cultural variables. However, in recent years cultural evol...

BACKGROUND End-of-life decisions remain a hotly debated issue in many European countries and the acceptance in the general population can act as an important anchor point in these discussions. Previous studies on determinants of the acceptance of end-of-life interventions in the general population have not systematically assessed whether determinants differ between withdrawal of life-prolonging...