[Bigbang-dev] Differentiating Communication Styles of Leaders on the Linux Kernel Mailing List

[Sebastian Benthall]

I actually love this damn good idea, Nick. Great find. Let's do something
like this in version 0.3

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Nick Doty <npdoty at ischool.berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> I love this paper on communication styles in the Linux kernel:
> http://www.opensym.org/os2016/proceedings-files/p101-schneider.pdf
>
> Training a classifier to distinguish two particular authors, leaders in
> the Linux development community, based on lexical choices. Use of "sorry",
> "thanks", "actually", "never" and expletives are most discriminating.
>
> It makes me wonder whether this would also be an interesting
> characteristic of one mailing list compared to another, in addition to
> distinguish individual authors. "Where does your open source community fall
> on the Actually-Thanks Spectrum (TM)?"
>
> I'd love to see this as part of BigBang, particularly if that kind of
> lexical analysis or Bayes classification would be useful for lots of
> research questions.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
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