Jai Aggarwal

2 accepted papers

2024

Style-Shifting Behaviour of the Manosphere on Reddit

EMNLP 2024main

Hate speech groups (HSGs) may negatively influence online platforms through their distinctive language, which may affect the tone and topics of other spaces if spread beyond the HSGs. We explore the linguistic style of the Manosphere, a misogynistic HSG, on Reddit. We find that Manospheric authors h…

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2023

Investigating Online Community Engagement through Stancetaking

Jai Aggarwal, Brian Diep, Julia Watson, Suzanne Stevenson

EMNLP 2023long findings

Much work has explored lexical and semantic variation in online communities, and drawn connections to community identity and user engagement patterns. Communities also express identity through the sociolinguistic concept of stancetaking. Large-scale computational work on stancetaking has explored co…

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