2 papers
cs.CY2021
DASentimental: Detecting depression, anxiety and stress in texts via emotional recall, cognitive networks and machine learning
Asra Fatima, Li Ying, Thomas Hills +1
Most current affect scales and sentiment analysis on written text focus on quantifying valence (sentiment) -- the most primary dimension of emotion. However, emotions are broader a…
econ.GN2021
The Rising Entropy of English in the Attention Economy
Charlie Pilgrim, Weisi Guo, Thomas T. Hills
We present evidence that the word entropy of American English has been rising steadily since around 1900, contrary to predictions from existing sociolinguistic theories. We also fi…