Words R Us

good explanation of clauses and commas

"Most people implicitly associate positive ideas with "right" and negative ideas with "left"....The meanings of words in English, Dutch, and Spanish are related to the way people type them on the QWERTY keyboard. Words with more right-hand letters are rated as more positive in emotional valence than words with more left-hand letters, consistent with right-handers' tendency to implicitly associate "good" with "right.""

allows you to enter your twitter handle and have your tweets fed through a language analysis program for psychological profile (developed by researchers in psychology at UT Austin and University of Aukland).

"Neural processing that goes into deciphering simple two-word phrases is different from what happens when decoding complete sentences and other more complex linguistic expressions."

very thorough study answering some of the questions we had in class today after reading the short Pennebaker article

"A new study of word frequencies in political blogs finds that equations describing earthquake evolution fit the eruption of topics onto political blogs."

Thanks, Ryan! We're going to read this for homework, since it relates to what we've been doing with computational tools and language.

more uses for computational linguistics

scholarly journal article describes research in more depth about why writing about a recent break-up helps you get over it faster

From the get-go, this hulu commercial contains interesting logical fallacies that keeps the viewer appealed and interested in what is being advertised.

takes your words and creates a 3-D image of the scene you are describing

allows for a mashup of different approaches, using something called a recipe

scroll down to "text analysis tools"