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Analyzing The Impact Of Cultural Factors On Happiness Levels In Arabic Language Tweets, Parisa Suchdev
Analyzing The Impact Of Cultural Factors On Happiness Levels In Arabic Language Tweets, Parisa Suchdev
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Culture is a fundamental force shaping our view of the world. Filtered through the stories we share on social media, our collective behavior both reflects and amplifies cultural impacts. The present study seeks to describe the effect of cultural factors, such as religion, on happiness scores in Arabic language tweets from January 2010 to June 2023. Our methodology involves using present tools called Hedonometer (https://hedonometer.org/) to study happy and sad events and StoryWrangler (https://storywrangling.org/) to study the usage of keywords related to those events. Our findings reveal a notable pattern of Twitter happiness declining following the start of the Arab …
Quantifying Proverb Dynamics In Books, News Articles, And Tweets, Ethan Davis
Quantifying Proverb Dynamics In Books, News Articles, And Tweets, Ethan Davis
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Proverbs are an essential component of language and culture, and though much attention has been paid to their history and currency, there has been comparatively little quantitative work on the frequency with which they are used, and the dynamics of their use over time. With wider availability of large corpora reflecting many diverse genres of documents, it is now possible to take a wider view of the importance of the proverb. Can a corpus linguistic approach to phraseology support existing histories, and what further insight can be gained from a quantitative approach? This study measures temporal changes in the relevance …
An Exploratory Analysis Of Twitter Keyword-Hashtag Networks And Knowledge Discovery Applications, Ahmed A. Hamed
An Exploratory Analysis Of Twitter Keyword-Hashtag Networks And Knowledge Discovery Applications, Ahmed A. Hamed
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The emergence of social media has impacted the way people think, communicate, behave, learn, and conduct research. In recent years, a large number of studies have analyzed and modeled this social phenomena. Driven by commercial and social interests, social media has become an attractive subject for researchers. Accordingly, new models, algorithms, and applications to address specific domains and solve distinct problems have erupted. In this thesis, we propose a novel network model and a path mining algorithm called HashnetMiner to discover implicit knowledge that is not easily exposed using other network models. Our experiments using HashnetMiner have demonstrated anecdotal evidence …