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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

How Does TED Talk? A Preliminary Analysis

Tsou, Andrew; Demarest, Bradford; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/73684

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Title
How Does TED Talk? A Preliminary Analysis
Author(s)
  • Tsou, Andrew
  • Demarest, Bradford
  • Sugimoto, Cassidy R.
Issue Date
2015-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • communication studies
  • natural language processing
  • text/data/knowledge mining
Date of Ingest
2015-03-24T16:07:26Z
Abstract
TED Talks is one of the leading science communication initiatives in the digital age. Although previous work has analyzed the demographics of speakers & audience reaction to TED Talks, there is a dearth of research into the actual content of these talks. The transcripts for TED videos were downloaded from the official TED website and analyzed as to word use by different speaker classes (male academics, female academics, male non-academics, and female non-academics). The two subpopulations (males vs. females; academics vs. non-academics) exhibited marked differences in the words that they used during their talks, which may indicate different sentiments, topical preoccupations, and goals for the presentation. Gender was an important variable throughout the study, indicating an issue worthy of further investigation.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2015 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Poster
Language
English
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