Revealing Contentious Concepts Across Social Groups
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چکیده
A computational model based on concept polarity is proposed to investigate the influence of communications across ‘diacultural groups’. The hypothesis is that there are communities which can be characterized by a network of concepts and the corresponding valuations of those concepts that are agreed upon by the members of the community. We apply an existing research tool, ECO, to generate community specific Valuation Concept Networks (VCN). We then compare VCNs across communities, to attempt to find ‘contentious concepts’, which could subsequently be the focus of further exploration as points of contention between the two communities.
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