Features: Conceptual Documentation

In contrast with the Features: Technical Documentation page, this page aims to provide a resource for conceptually understanding the features: what are they, what are they meant to measure, and how is our operationalization connected to concepts from social science?

Utterance- (Chat) Level Features

• Named Entity Recognition
• Time Difference
• Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) and Other Lexicons
• Certainty
• Information Exchange
• Proportion of First Person Pronouns
• Message Length
• Message Quantity
• Word Type-Token Ratio
• Dale-Chall Score
• Sentiment (RoBERTa)
• Positivity Z-Score
• Textblob Polarity
• Textblob Subjectivity
• Content Word Accommodation
• Function Word Accommodation
• Mimicry (BERT)
• Moving Mimicry
• Forward Flow
• Hedge
• Question (Naive)
• Conversational Repair
• Politeness Strategies
• Politeness/Receptiveness Markers
• Online Discussion Tags

Conversation-Level Features

• Gini Coefficient
• Turn Taking Index
• Team Burstiness
• Discursive Diversity
• Information Diversity