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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
DESCRIPTION:Title: Language and Social Dynamics\nSpeaker: Cristian
	 Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil\nAbstract: More and more of life is now
	 manifested online\, and many of the digital traces that are left by
	 human activity are in natural-language format.  In this talk I will show
	 how exploiting these resources under a computational framework can bring
	 a new understanding of online social dynamics;  I will be discussing
	 three of my efforts in this direction.\nThe first project explores the
	 relation between users and their community\, as revealed by patterns of
	 linguistic change.  I will show that users follow a determined
	 life-cycle with respect to their susceptibility to adopt new community
	 norms\, and how this insight can be harnessed to predict how long a user
	 will stay active in the community.\nThe second project proposes a
	 computational framework for identifying and characterizing politeness\,
	 a central force shaping our communication behavior.  I will show how
	 this framework can be used to study the social aspects of politeness\,
	 revealing new interactions with social status and community
	 membership.\nI will conclude by showing that conversational patterns can
	 be predictive of the future evolution of a dyadic relationship.  In
	 particular\, I will characterize friendships that are unlikely to last
	 and examine temporal patterns that foretell betrayal in the context of
	 the Diplomacy strategy game.\nThis talk includes joint work with Jordan
	 Boyd-Graber\, Dan Jurafsky\, Srijan Kumar\, Jure Leskovec\, Vlad
	 Niculae\, Christopher Potts\, Moritz Sudhof and Robert West.
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2016-08-30
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20160830T160000Z
DTEND:20160830T170000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160829T185729Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
DTSTAMP:20260408T073714Z
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