TY - GEN
T1 - How emotional support and informational support relate to linguistic alignment
AU - Wang, Yafei
AU - Reitter, David
AU - Yen, John
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a collaborative agreement with American Cancer Society, which made the data of CSN available for this Research. The authors would like to thank K. Portier, G. Greer of the American Cancer Society, current and former members of the Cancer Informatics Initiative at the Pennsylvania State University for useful discussions and comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Linguistic alignment in text-based communication means that people tend to adjust their language use to one another both in terms of word choice and sentence structure. Previous studies about linguistic alignment suggested that these two forms of adaptation are correlated with each other, and that they build up to alignment at a higher representational level, such as pragmatic alignment for support functions. Two types of social support have been identified as important for online health communities (OHCs): emotional and informational support between support seekers and support providers. Do the two lower-level alignment measures (lexical and syntactic) relate to these two types of social support in the same way or, are they different? Our hypothesis was that they are similar, due to their correlation relationship. However, we found that, based on an analysis of a 10-year online forum for cancer survivors, the lower-level alignment measures have distinct relationships to the two higher-level support functions. In this paper, we describe this finding and its implications regarding potential refinement of the Interactive Alignment Model.
AB - Linguistic alignment in text-based communication means that people tend to adjust their language use to one another both in terms of word choice and sentence structure. Previous studies about linguistic alignment suggested that these two forms of adaptation are correlated with each other, and that they build up to alignment at a higher representational level, such as pragmatic alignment for support functions. Two types of social support have been identified as important for online health communities (OHCs): emotional and informational support between support seekers and support providers. Do the two lower-level alignment measures (lexical and syntactic) relate to these two types of social support in the same way or, are they different? Our hypothesis was that they are similar, due to their correlation relationship. However, we found that, based on an analysis of a 10-year online forum for cancer survivors, the lower-level alignment measures have distinct relationships to the two higher-level support functions. In this paper, we describe this finding and its implications regarding potential refinement of the Interactive Alignment Model.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-60240-0_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-60240-0_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85022335464
SN - 9783319602394
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 25
EP - 34
BT - Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling - 10th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Osgood, Nathaniel
A2 - Lee, Dongwon
A2 - Thomson, Robert
A2 - Lin, Yu-Ru
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2017
Y2 - 5 July 2017 through 8 July 2017
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