Thesis on Weblogs
Scott Nowson has submitted his thesis on The Language of Weblogs: A study of genre and individual differences (University of Edinburgh).
This thesis describes a linguistic investigation of individual differences in online personal diaries, or \scare{blogs.} There is substantial evidence of gender differences in language (Lakoff, 1975), and to a lesser extent linguistic projection of personality (Pennebaker & King, 1999). Recent work has investigated these latter differences in the area of computer-mediated communication (CMC), specifically e-mail (Gill, 2004).
This thesis employs a number of analytic techniques, both top-down (dictionary-based) and bottom-up (data-driven), in order to explore personality and gender differences in the language of blogs. A corpus was constructed by asking authors to submit a month of text and complete a sociobiographic questionnaire. The corpus consists of over 400,000 words and five-factor personality data (Buchanan, 2001) for 71 subjects.
The thesis begins by framing blogs in the context of other genres, both CMC and traditional, in order to show the distinctiveness of the genre. Top-down content analysis techniques are then employed to investigate the relationship between personality and linguistic features. A number of features correlate with each trait, but upon regression, very little variance is explained.
Bottom-up techniques are more successful. The corpus was stratified into high, low and neutral personality groups to identify distinctive collocations for each. Returning to the raw personality scores, it becomes clear that even a small amount of n-gram context helps account for much more variance in personality. A measure of contextuality/formality (Heylighen & Dewaele, 2002) shows that authors considered high in Agreeableness pay more attention to differences between their extra-linguistic context and that of their audience.
Attention then turns to gender, where the same methods are applied to investigate gender differences in language. A number of previous findings are confirmed in the blog corpus. In addition, women are found to write more in their blogs than men. More generally, using the British National Corpus, it is shown that men are more formal, except in the most formal of genres (academic writing) where there is no difference.
The study concludes by confirming that both gender and personality are projected by language in blogs; furthermore, approaches which take the context of language features into account can be used to detect more variation than those which do not.
I've not made it through the whole thing yet, but already found some things that I'd like to do a deeper dive on.
Sir,
Greetings !
Good Work. I am doing M.Phil computer science, the topic is "Application of data mining tecniques in Business Intelligence". Can you please, help me to complete my dissertation work.
Regards,
Arun
Posted by: Arun | August 09, 2007 at 07:30 AM
Sir ,
Greetings!
i am doing my m.phill computer science. Can you help me for my thesis work?
with regards,
S.Bharathidasan
Posted by: Bharathidasan | August 12, 2007 at 04:25 AM
Sir.
I am doing M.Phil. in Computer Science and my interested area is Data Mining. Can U help me in choosing my Topic of Dissertation.
WIth Regards,
Dastagiri.D.
Posted by: Dastagiri.D. | October 10, 2007 at 02:35 AM
i m doing mpil in computerscience my area interest is datamining
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Posted by: saranyashri | November 10, 2007 at 09:12 AM
Sir ,
i am doing my m.phill computer science. Can you help me for my thesis work?
Posted by: rajalakshmi | December 05, 2007 at 06:23 AM
Sir,
I am doing my m.phill computer science. Can you help me for my thesis work?
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Geetha
Posted by: geetha | December 09, 2007 at 11:42 AM
I am doing M.Phill Computer Science. Could you please help me in selecting a good Dissertion?
With thanks
Sujatha
Posted by: Sujatha Rajesh | January 04, 2008 at 12:47 PM
I am doing M.Phil Computer Science , please help me in my Thesis work
With thanks
Reni
Posted by: Reni | January 16, 2008 at 12:50 PM
hello sir/madam
i am doing m.phill comp science.coud u plz help me in selecting a good dissertation.
take care
best regards
namrata
Posted by: Namrata Yadav | February 18, 2008 at 06:27 AM
hi sir/madam
i am doing m.phill computer science .could u plz help me in selecting a good dissertation
with thanx
namrata
Posted by: Namrata Yadav | February 18, 2008 at 06:29 AM
hello sir
iam doing my research(phd) in data mining could u help me for problems releted to bio informatics.
with regards chitra
Posted by: chitra | April 17, 2008 at 06:54 AM
sir, i m doing m phill in manajment so sir guide me about my topic and how can i comlete my dessertation o k
Posted by: Goutam pandey | May 13, 2008 at 04:46 AM
SIR, I AM PURSUING MY MPHIL IN COMP.SC. I NEED TO CHOOSE A TOPIC FOR DISSERTATION. MY INTEREST LIES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND I PREFER A TOPIC IN GUI. THIS GUI I WISH TO DO FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS. COULD U PLEASE SUGGEST ON THIS TOPIC OF MY WOULD BE CHOOSEN TOPIC FOR DISSERTATION. PLEASE SUGGEST AND GUIDE ME IN THE TOPIC WHICH I AM GOING TO CHOOSE. I WOULD GIVE THE NAME "MODIFIED GUI'S FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED END USERS"..
THANKS SO MUCH
Posted by: VEENAA | June 13, 2008 at 05:55 AM
SIR, I AM PURSUING MY MPHIL IN COMP.SC. I NEED TO CHOOSE A TOPIC FOR DISSERTATION. MY INTEREST LIES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND I PREFER A TOPIC IN GUI. THIS GUI I WISH TO DO FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS. COULD U PLEASE SUGGEST ON THIS TOPIC OF MY WOULD BE CHOOSEN TOPIC FOR DISSERTATION. PLEASE SUGGEST AND GUIDE ME IN THE TOPIC WHICH I AM GOING TO CHOOSE. I WOULD GIVE THE NAME "MODIFIED GUI'S FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED END USERS"..
THANKS SO MUCH
Posted by: VEENAA | June 13, 2008 at 05:58 AM
SIR, I AM PURSUING MY MPHIL IN COMP.SC. I NEED TO CHOOSE A TOPIC FOR DISSERTATION. MY INTEREST LIES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND I PREFER A TOPIC IN GUI. THIS GUI I WISH TO DO FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS. COULD U PLEASE SUGGEST ON THIS TOPIC OF MY WOULD BE CHOOSEN TOPIC FOR DISSERTATION. PLEASE SUGGEST AND GUIDE ME IN THE TOPIC WHICH I AM GOING TO CHOOSE. I WOULD GIVE THE NAME "MODIFIED GUI'S FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED END USERS"..
THANKS SO MUCH
Posted by: VEENAA | June 13, 2008 at 05:59 AM
sir,
i am doing my M.Phil Computer science. I do not know what topic i need to do for thesis or desertation. please give me information. so that i can be able to do my thesis. please give me reply. which topic i need to select and what software and etc.
thank u sir,
jyothirmayi
Posted by: Jyothirmayi.Mathi | July 05, 2008 at 01:45 AM
SIR,
I am pursuing my M.Phil.in Computer Science.My interest lies in Software Engineering. I am also interested in Data Mining. Could u plz help me in selecting a good dissertation.
With Thanks.
Posted by: SUNITA S | July 12, 2008 at 03:16 AM
i am nithya,i m going to do my m.phil in computerscience.Can i know the recent problems to make research under OOPS?
Posted by: Nithya | July 27, 2008 at 01:30 AM
respected sir,
i want to do ph. d. in computer science
i choose subject : data mining
can u help me to do my synopsis and thesis work?
thank you
Posted by: chetan patel | August 27, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Sir,
Iam doing M.Phil. in computer science.
My subject is data mining. kindly help me in choosing the topic and continue my thesis work
Posted by: C.S.Sumathi | September 01, 2008 at 07:30 AM
Iam doing M.Phil. in computer science.
My subject is data mining. kindly help me in choosing the topic and continue my thesis work
Posted by: Sivashankari | September 11, 2008 at 01:42 AM
sir i am pursuing M.Tech.i want to do thesiss on Data mining.so please suggest some topic for thesis
Posted by: Balwant singh Raghuwanshi | October 04, 2008 at 12:35 AM