Barbara Konat

Barbara Konat
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań | UAM · Institute of Psychology

PhD

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June 2016 - present
Polish Academy of Sciences
Position
  • PostDoc Position
Description
  • EthAn - Ethos Analysis Project (led by Katarzyna Budzynska)
January 2015 - July 2016
University of Dundee
Position
  • Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Description
  • Project “Argument Analytics (ArgAn)”, PI: dr Katarzyna Budzynska, funded by Innovate UK. R&D project in cooperation with tech start-up Juralio Ltd (Project lead: Graeme Johnston).
February 2013 - June 2014
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Position
  • Lecturer

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Publications (29)
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Metaphors, arguments and emotional appeals have considerable persuasive power in political discourse, yet they are rarely studied together. To explore the interactions between these interrelated phenomena, we employ three methods of analysis: Metaphor Identification Procedure, Inference Anchoring Theory, and lexicon-based sentiment analysis. Our da...
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People find it difficult to talk about abstract concepts such as their future career plans. The discourse marker “I think” is used to express uncertainty and soften the force of a proposition. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how specific context and bounded topic of conversation influence the use of the discourse marker “I think” in P...
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In this paper, we present a model of pathos, delineate its operationalisation, and demonstrate its utility through an analysis of natural language argumentation. We understand pathos as an interactional persuasive process in which speakers are performing pathos appeals and the audience experiences emotional reactions. We analyse two strategies of s...
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In this article we present extended results obtained on the multidomain dataset of Polish text reviews collected within the Sentimenti project. We present preliminary results of classification models trained and tested on 7,000 texts annotated by over 20,000 individuals using valence, arousal, and eight basic emotions from Plutchik’s model. Additio...
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The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper in short terms, i.e. 150–250 words. Mental health related disorders are a growing problem in Poland, which creates the need for developing accessible, efficient forms of therapy. Promising perspective is the use of chatbots to automate therapy, however therapy chatbots using polish language ha...
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Numerous studies on political discourse claim that metaphors help politicians to construct coherent arguments to convince their voters. Yet, most of them, with a few notable exceptions, do not adhere to any theory of argumentation. In this paper, we integrate Discourse Dynamic Approach to Metaphor with Inference Anchoring Theory to enhance our unde...
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TO DOWNLOAD PAPER, PLEASE CLICK ON THE DOI In the spirit of the pragmatic account of quotation and reporting offered by Macagno and Walton (2017), we outline a systematic pragmatic account of rephrasing. For this purpose, we combine two interrelated methods of inquiry into the variety of uses of rephrase as a persuasive device: (i) the annotation...
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Emotion lexicons are useful in research across various disciplines, but the availability of such resources remains limited for most languages. While existing emotion lexicons typically comprise words, it is a particular meaning of a word (rather than the word itself) that conveys emotion. To mitigate this issue, we present the Emotion Meanings data...
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Presentation for the article: Propagation of emotions, arousal and polarity in WordNet using Heterogeneous Structured Synset Embeddings
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In this paper we present US2016, the largest publicly available set of corpora of annotated dialogical argumentation. The annotation covers argumentative relations, dialogue acts and pragmatic features. The corpora comprise transcriptions of television debates leading up to the 2016 US presidential elections, and reactions to the debates on Reddit....
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In this paper we present a novel method for emotive propagation in a wordnet based on a large emotive seed. We introduce a sense-level emotive lexicon annotated with polarity, arousal and emotions. The data were annotated as a part of a large study involving over 20,000 participants. A total of 30,000 lexical units in Polish WordNet were described...
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In this article, we present a novel multidomain dataset of Polish text reviews. The data were annotated as part of a large study involving over 20,000 participants. A total of 7,000 texts were described with metadata, each text received about 25 annotations concerning polarity, arousal and eight basic emotions, marked on a multilevel scale. We pres...
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Celem niniejszego artykułu jest empiryczne ustalenie różnic leksykalnych w grupach dyskusyjnych reprezentujących odmienne postawy względem aborcji. Chcemy pokazać, w jaki sposób grupy te stosują odmienny opis świata, poprzez wybór odmiennego słownictwa. Materiał został zebrany w grupach dyskusyjnych na portalu społecznościowym Facebook, a analiza z...
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In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to P ≤ 0.005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.
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In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to p ≤ .005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.
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In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to p ≤ .005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.
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Governments around the world are increasingly utilising online platforms and social media to engage with, and ascertain the opinions of, their citizens. Whilst policy makers could potentially benefit from such enormous feedback from society, they first face the challenge of making sense out of the large volumes of data produced. In this article, we...
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Presented at the second European Conference on Argumentation (ECA), 20-23 June 2017, Fribourg.
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Debating technologies, a newly emerging strand of research into computational technologies to support human debating, offer a powerful way of providing naturalistic, dialogue-based interaction with complex information spaces. The full potential of debating technologies for dialogical argument can, however, only be realized once key technical and en...
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The Argument Web is maturing as both a platform built upon a synthesis of many contemporary theories of argumentation in philosophy and also as an ecosystem in which various applications and application components are contributed by different research groups around the world. It already hosts the largest publicly accessible corpora of argumentation...
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Governments are increasingly utilising online platforms in order to engage with, and ascertain the opinions of, their citizens. Whilst policy makers could potentially benefit from such enormous feedback from society, they first face the challenge of making sense out of the large volumes of data produced. This creates a demand for tools and technolo...
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In the paper we aim to describe multimodal communication in career coaching sessions using recorded natural, face-to-face interactions and corpus techniques. We look on how the specific context of communication influences the lexical and gestural behaviour of speakers in the dialogues between a professional career coach and a participant. Main topi...
Thesis
Praca jest analizą, filozoficzną i metodologiczną, dwóch nurtów współczesnego językoznawstwa ogólnego: generatywizmu i kognitywizmu. Jest ona prowadzona w aparacie Idealizacyjnej Teorii Nauki. Przedmiotem analizy są wybrane założenia filozoficzne obu omawianych nurtów, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem prac Noama Chomsky’ego i George’a Lakoffa. Omawia...

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