TY - GEN
T1 - Subjectivity, Polarity and the Aspect of Time in the Evolution of Crowd-Sourced Biographies
AU - Romantzis, Constantinos
AU - Karakasidis, Alexandros
AU - Mathioudis, Evangelos
AU - Katakis, Ioannis
AU - Agathangelou, Pantelis
AU - Otterbacher, Jahna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This study examines the use of subjective and sentimentally charged language in crowd-sourced articles by focusing on time and how articles in environments like Wikipedia tend to evolve as edits are made by multiple contributors. More specifically, we measure linguistic subjectivity (the systematic, asymmetrical use of language) using Mean Abstraction Level, an established subjectivity measure, and polarity (the use of positively or negatively sentimentally charged words) through time. For the latest case, we introduce a new measure called Polarity Density. We focus on Wikipedia biographies and their evolution over time and we perform a detailed analysis per gender and per personality category. Our empirical evaluation provides evidence of increased subjectivity in female biographies as per personality category and per gender, while the same also occurs when considering sentimental charge over time.
AB - This study examines the use of subjective and sentimentally charged language in crowd-sourced articles by focusing on time and how articles in environments like Wikipedia tend to evolve as edits are made by multiple contributors. More specifically, we measure linguistic subjectivity (the systematic, asymmetrical use of language) using Mean Abstraction Level, an established subjectivity measure, and polarity (the use of positively or negatively sentimentally charged words) through time. For the latest case, we introduce a new measure called Polarity Density. We focus on Wikipedia biographies and their evolution over time and we perform a detailed analysis per gender and per personality category. Our empirical evaluation provides evidence of increased subjectivity in female biographies as per personality category and per gender, while the same also occurs when considering sentimental charge over time.
KW - Bias
KW - Natural Language Processing
KW - Polarity
KW - Sentiment Analysis
KW - Subjectivity
KW - Wikipedia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197810765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-62362-2_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-62362-2_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85197810765
SN - 9783031623615
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 281
EP - 295
BT - Web Engineering - 24th International Conference, ICWE 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Stefanidis, Kostas
A2 - Systä, Kari
A2 - Matera, Maristella
A2 - Heil, Sebastian
A2 - Kondylakis, Haridimos
A2 - Quintarelli, Elisa
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 24th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2024
Y2 - 17 June 2024 through 20 June 2024
ER -