How Users Responded to a Responsive Dictionary

The Thesaurus of Modern Slovene is a responsive dictionary: it is compiled automatically from existing language resources while further developments of the dictionary include user participation. Many of the features introduced by the responsive model are new to the Slovene language community (e.g. data is extracted automatically and includes some errors; nonexperts are involved in dictionary compilation; the resource is never truly finished). With financial support from the Slovene Ministry of culture, a survey was conducted to gauge (potential) user opinions on the new features. The paper presents the results of the survey (n = 671) including statistical analyses of dependencies between the respondents’ opinions and their reported familiarity with the new dictionary, their age, and their professional occupation.

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The IMP historical Slovene language resources

Language Resources and Evaluation ◽

10.1007/s10579-015-9294-7 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 753-775 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Tomaž Erjavec

Keyword(s):

Language Resources ◽

Slovene Language

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Audience size, moderator activity, gender, and content diversity: Exploring user participation and financial commitment on Twitch.tv

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/14614448211069996 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 146144482110699

Author(s):

Grace H Wolff ◽

Cuihua Shen

Keyword(s):

Social Influence ◽

Online Communities ◽

Financial Support ◽

User Participation ◽

Behavioral Data ◽

Live Streaming ◽

Collective Effort ◽

Content Diversity ◽

Streaming Service ◽

Individual Participation

User participation has long been recognized as a cornerstone of thriving online communities. Social live-streaming service (SLSS) communities are built on a subscription-based model and rely on viewers’ participation and financial support. Using the collective effort model and heuristics of social influence, this study examines the influence of streamer and viewer behaviors on viewers’ participation and financial commitment on the SLSS, Twitch.tv. Findings from behavioral data collected over 7 weeks show larger audiences diminish individual participation and financial commitment while moderation may encourage more. Female streamers benefit from increased moderation, earning two to three times more in financial commitment compared to men, who streamed more frequently and for longer durations but attracted much smaller audiences. Viewers’ participation and financial commitment did not differ across streams with more content diversity. Our results demonstrate how group factors influence individual participation and financial commitment in newer subscription-based media.

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Structuring Situational Information

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000225 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 176-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

John F. Rauthmann

Keyword(s):

Statistical Analyses ◽

Current Work ◽

Common Language ◽

Road Map ◽

Taxonomic Approach ◽

Situational Information

Abstract. There is as yet no consensually agreed-upon situational taxonomy. The current work addresses this issue and reviews extant taxonomic approaches by highlighting a “road map” of six research stations that lead to the observed diversity in taxonomies: (1) theoretical and conceptual guidelines, (2) the “type” of situational information studied, (3) the general taxonomic approach taken, (4) the generation of situation pools, (5) the assessment and rating of situational information, and (6) the statistical analyses of situation data. Current situational taxonomies are difficult to integrate because they follow different paths along these six stations. Some suggestions are given on how to spur integrated taxonomies toward a unified psychology of situations that speaks a common language.

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