An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

M Brandt, CJ Tucker, A Kariryaa, K Rasmussen, C Abel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

MoralStrength: Exploiting a moral lexicon and embedding similarity for moral foundations prediction

O Araque, L Gatti, K Kalimeri - Knowledge-based systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Moral rhetoric plays a fundamental role in how we perceive and interpret the information we
receive, greatly influencing our decision-making process. Especially when it comes to …

Exploring online opinion leadership in the network paradigm: An analysis of influential users on Twitter shaping conversations around anthem protests by prominent …

BC Boatwright - Public Relations Review, 2022 - Elsevier
The current study seeks to extend the network paradigm in public relations research by
exploring the role of online opinion leaders in Twitter conversations around anthem protests …

Moral framing of mental health discourse and its relationship to stigma: a comparison of social media and news

S Mittal, M De Choudhury - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mental health discussions on public forums influence the perceptions of people. Negative
consequences may result from hostile and “othering” portrayals of people with mental …

Enhancing the measurement of social effects by capturing morality

R Rezapour, SH Shah, J Diesner - Proceedings of the tenth …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
We investigate the relationship between basic principles of human morality and the
expression of opinions in user-generated text data. We assume that people's backgrounds …

Development and validation of the Japanese moral foundations dictionary

A Matsuo, K Sasahara, Y Taguchi, M Karasawa - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The Moral Foundations Dictionary (MFD) is a useful tool for applying the conceptual
framework developed in Moral Foundations Theory and quantifying the moral meanings …

Values, ethics, morals? on the use of moral concepts in NLP research

K Vida, J Simon, A Lauscher - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13915, 2023 - arxiv.org
With language technology increasingly affecting individuals' lives, many recent works have
investigated the ethical aspects of NLP. Among other topics, researchers focused on the …

Moral and affective differences in us immigration policy debate on twitter

T Grover, E Bayraktaroglu, G Mark… - … Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2019 - Springer
Understanding ideological conflict has been a topic of interest in CSCW, for example in
Value Sensitive Design research. More specifically, understanding ideological conflict is …

Development and validation of the purity orientation–pollution avoidance scale: A study with Japanese sample

H Kitamura, A Matsuo - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The moral foundations theory (MFT) proposes that there are five moral foundations that work
as the standard to make moral judgments. Among them, the purity foundation is a complex …

Moral rhetoric in discrete choice models: a Natural Language Processing approach

T Szép, S van Cranenburgh, C Chorus - Quality & Quantity, 2024 - Springer
This paper proposes a new method to combine choice-and text data to infer moral
motivations from people's actions. To do this, we rely on moral rhetoric, in other words …