My Academic Works

Herein you will find:

Publications

  • Whalen, J., Pexman, P., Gill, A.J. & Nowson, S. (2012). Nonliteral Language Use in Personal Blogs. Behaviour & Information Technology.
  • Iacobelli, F., Gill, A., Nowson, S. & Oberlander, J. (2011). Large Scale Personality Classification of Bloggers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6975 LNCS (PART 2):568-577.
  • Nowson, S. (2009). Scary Movies Good, Scary Flights Bad: Topic Driven Feature Selection for Classification of Sentiment. In Proceedings of the 1st International CIKM Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement (TSA09). Hong Kong, China. PDF
  • Iacobelli, F., Gill, A.J., Nowson, S. & Oberlander, J. (2009) Even Blogs in the Wild: Large Scale Personality Classification. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Whalen, J., Pexman, P., Gill, A.J. & Nowson, S. (2009). The Use of Nonliteral Language Forms in Personal Blog Texts. Language & Social Interaction Session of The 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Chicago, IL
  • Gill, A.J., Nowson, S. & Oberlander, J. (2009). What Are They Blogging About? Personality, Topic and Motivation in Blogs. In Proceedings of The Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. San Jose, CA. PDF
  • Whalen, J., Pexman, P., Gill, A.J. & Nowson, S. (2009). A Comparison of Irony Use in Two Computer-Mediated Contexts. Banff Annual Seminar In Cognitive Science (BASICS 2009). Banff, Canada.
  • Nowson, S. & Dale, R. (2007). Charting Democracy Across Parsers. In Proceedings of Australiasian Language Technology Workshop 2007. Melbourne, Australia. PDF
  • Gill, A.J., Nowson, S., & Oberlander, J. [2007]. Personality and language structure in on-line and off-line communication. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Glasgow, UK, July 2007.
  • Nowson, S., & Oberlander, J. (2007). Identifying more bloggers: Towards large scale personality classification of personal weblogs. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. Boulder, Colorado. PDF
  • Nowson, S., & Oberlander, J. (2006). Differentiating document type and author personality from linguistic features. Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, Vol 9, (2), 84--88. PDF
  • Oberlander, J. & Nowson, S. (2006). Whose thumb is it anyway? Classifying author personality from weblog text. In Proceedings of CoLing/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia. PDF
  • Nowson, S. (2006). The Language of Weblogs: A study of genre and individual differences. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis. University of Edinburgh. PDF
  • Nowson, S. & Oberlander J. (2006). The Identity of Bloggers: Openness and gender in personal weblogs. Presented at AAAI Spring Symposium, Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs, Stanford University. PDF
  • Nowson, S., Oberlander, J., & Gill, A.J. (2005). Weblogs, Genres and Individual Differences. In Proceedings of The 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy. PDF
  • Nowson, S. (2001). Being John Motson: Towards a computation model of football commentary. Unpublished Masters Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. PDF

Talks

  • Industry Session - The Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2010). Melbourne, Australia. December 2010.
  • The Secret Language of Blogs: It's not WHAT you did, it's HOW you blogged it. Psychology Department, University of Texas, Austin. April 2007.
  • The Language of Weblogs: A study of genre and individual differences. A joint HAIL/SALS-SIG Seminar, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia. October 2006.

Program Committees