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Definitely Maybe: Hedges And Boosters in the HCI Literature
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In: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03342756 ; 2021 (2021)
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Introduction: Hedges and boosters are terms respectively used to decrease and increase the strength of statements. They are therefore essential lexical tools in scientific communication, in particular in fields conducting human-subjects experiments such as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).Objectives: We present an analysis of the use of hedges and boosters in the proceedings of the main HCI conference, namely CHI, between 2010 and 2018 to better understand how CHI authors report empirical findings.Methods: We only considered papers reporting a user study and focused our analysis on the sentences in the abstract that describe empirical results. We used a program to detect boosters and hedges and manually adjusted their classifications.Results: We found that CHI studies reporting inferential statistics are more likely to boost than they hedge. Conclusion: Our work intends to raise awareness within the HCI community of the importance of hedging and boosting when reporting research results. Further, our results establish a baseline of the current use of these linguistic devices in HCI, adding to the current body of linguistic research. We finally contribute tools, procedures, and materials to facilitate future analyses of hedges and boosters in scientific communication. Reproducibility: All data and scripts are available on https://osf.io/kefmr/
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[INFO.INFO-HC]Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]; Boosters; Content analysis; Hedges; Literature survey; Scientific communication
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URL: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03342756
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/mjg7h
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03342756/file/Besancon__Definitely_Maybe__preprint%20%281%29.pdf
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03342756/document
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Use of Hedges ~to Omoimasu to Soften Speech and Its Implications for Japanese Politeness Teaching
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In: Japanese Research on Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 67-79 (2021) (2021)
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DESCRIPTION OF HEDGES ON DISSERTATIONS OF LANGUAGES ; DESCRIÇÃO DOS HEDGES EM DISSERTAÇÕES DE LETRAS
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In: Intercâmbio. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem. ISSN 2237-759X; v. 47 (2021) ; 2237-759X ; 1413-4055 (2021)
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An Adaptation-based Approach to Hedges in the Courtroom Cross-Examination: A Case Study of the Jodi Arias Trial
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In: Cross-Cultural Communication; Vol 16, No 4 (2020): Cross-Cultural Communication; 128-135 ; 1923-6700 ; 1712-8358 (2020)
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Dos interpretaciones de "(yo) creo (que)" y su uso atenuante-intensificador : = Two interpretations of "(yo) creo (que)" and its mitigating-intensifying use
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In: Estudios de lingüística. - Alicante 33 (2019), 211-231
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Use of Hedges in Definitions: Out of Necessity or Theory-Driven?
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In: Lexikos; Vol. 29 (2019) ; 2224-0039 (2019)
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