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1、JMLR:WorkshopandConferenceProceedings17(2011)63{712ndWorkshoponApplicationsofPatternAnalysisAutomatingQuantitativeNarrativeAnalysisofNewsDataSaatvigaSudhaharsaatviga.sudhahar@bristol.ac.ukIntelligentSystemsLaboratory,UniversityofBristol,UKRobertoFranzosirfranzo@emory.eduDepartmentof
2、Sociology/PrograminLinguistics,EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,USANelloCristianininello.cristianini@bristol.ac.ukIntelligentSystemsLaboratory,UniversityofBristol,UKEditor:TomDiethe,JoseL.Balcazar,JohnShawe-Taylor,andCristinaT^rnaucaAbstractWepresentaworkingsystemforlargescalequantitati
3、venarrativeanalysis(QNA)ofnewscorpora,whichincludesvariousrecentideasfromtextminingandpatternanalysisinordertosolveaproblemarisingincomputationalsocialsciences.Thetaskisthatofidentifyingthekeyactorsinabodyofnews,andtheactionstheyperform,sothatfurtheranalysiscanbecarriedout.Thisstepi
4、snormallyperformedbyhandandisverylabourintensive.Wethencharacterisetheactorsby:studyingtheirpositionintheoverallnetworkofactorsandactions;studyingthetimeseriesassociatedwithsomeoftheirproperties;generatingscatterplotsdescribingthesubject/objectbiasofeachactor;andinvestigatingthetype
5、sofactionseachactorismostassociatedwith.Thesystemisdemonstratedonasetof100,000articlesaboutcrimeappearedontheNewYorkTimesbetween1987and2007.Asanexample,we ndthatMenweremostcommonlyresponsibleforcrimesagainsttheperson,whileWomenandChildrenweremostoftenvictimsofthosecrimes.Keywords:ne
6、tworkanalysis,computationalsocialscience,storygrammars,semantictriplets,textmining1.IntroductionNewsmediacontenthasbeenwidelyusedinthesocialsciencestostudysocio-historicalevents(e.g.,Franzosi(1987);Earletal.(2004)).Aneventaccordingtosocialscientistsisanactionperformedbyhumanbeingsth
7、atcanbesummedupbyaverboranameofaction(Franzosi(2010)).Linguistically,aneventcanbeexpressedintheformofaseman-tictripletSubject-Verb-Object(SVO)whichconsistsofasubjectasanactor,theactionperformedbythesubjectandtheobjectoftheaction(onnarrative,seeFranzosi(1998)).Thisstructureisreferred
8、toasstorygrammar.Co
