QDAP/Texifter Foul Language List
If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGNQZGVLNUQ3SHhxYXU3ZjZsS3J... QDAP/Texifter Foul Language List We are compiling a list of oaths, dirty words, racist and sexual derogatory and other offensive terms to build new language models and software tools. The notable increase in public and private threats communicated via the Internet to Congress and the White House makes it important to do basic research that identifies the precursors of aggressive or violent behavior. Adding your uniquely offensive contribution to the list, with an associated rating from 1-7, with 1 representing a mildly offensive term and 7 representing the most foul term, will advance this work. We are not collecting any data about the people submitting items to this list. The process is anonymous. The research is jointly sponsored by QDAP & Texifter, LLC and directed by Dr. Stuart Shulman, QDAP Director and Texifter President & CEO. http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ http://texifter.com/ Insert your word * Rate the word 1-7 (1 = least & 7 = most offensive) * Powered by Google Docs Report Abuse - Terms of Service - Additional Terms
Dear Dr. Stuart Shulman, This is a very interesting project. Will the results (tokens/phrases plus their counts and ratings) be put in the public domain? Regards, Jerom Janssen On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 13:58, <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> wrote:
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QDAP/Texifter Foul Language List
We are compiling a list of oaths, dirty words, racist and sexual derogatory and other offensive terms to build new language models and software tools. The notable increase in public and private threats communicated via the Internet to Congress and the White House makes it important to do basic research that identifies the precursors of aggressive or violent behavior. Adding your uniquely offensive contribution to the list, with an associated rating from 1-7, with 1 representing a mildly offensive term and 7 representing the most foul term, will advance this work.
We are not collecting any data about the people submitting items to this list. The process is anonymous. The research is jointly sponsored by QDAP & Texifter, LLC and directed by Dr. Stuart Shulman, QDAP Director and Texifter President & CEO.
http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ http://texifter.com/
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Yes, I was wondering this too. It seems unfair to ask for public contribution if this is a private project that only your company will profit from. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jerom Janssen <jfjanssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dr. Stuart Shulman,
This is a very interesting project. Will the results (tokens/phrases plus their counts and ratings) be put in the public domain?
Regards,
Jerom Janssen
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 13:58, <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> wrote:
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QDAP/Texifter Foul Language List
We are compiling a list of oaths, dirty words, racist and sexual
derogatory
and other offensive terms to build new language models and software tools. The notable increase in public and private threats communicated via the Internet to Congress and the White House makes it important to do basic research that identifies the precursors of aggressive or violent behavior. Adding your uniquely offensive contribution to the list, with an associated rating from 1-7, with 1 representing a mildly offensive term and 7 representing the most foul term, will advance this work.
We are not collecting any data about the people submitting items to this list. The process is anonymous. The research is jointly sponsored by QDAP & Texifter, LLC and directed by Dr. Stuart Shulman, QDAP Director and Texifter President & CEO.
http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ http://texifter.com/
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Calls to my mind Rudmin's observations on data mining - this seems to be another approach to threat detection which is subject to the same flaw (too low a number - thankfully - of actual instances of aggression/violence to extrapolate any pattern in the data). http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/rudmin1.html On 11/29/09, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I was wondering this too. It seems unfair to ask for public contribution if this is a private project that only your company will profit from.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jerom Janssen <jfjanssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dr. Stuart Shulman,
This is a very interesting project. Will the results (tokens/phrases plus their counts and ratings) be put in the public domain?
Regards,
Jerom Janssen
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 13:58, <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> wrote:
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QDAP/Texifter Foul Language List
We are compiling a list of oaths, dirty words, racist and sexual
derogatory
and other offensive terms to build new language models and software tools. The notable increase in public and private threats communicated via the Internet to Congress and the White House makes it important to do basic research that identifies the precursors of aggressive or violent behavior. Adding your uniquely offensive contribution to the list, with an associated rating from 1-7, with 1 representing a mildly offensive term and 7 representing the most foul term, will advance this work.
We are not collecting any data about the people submitting items to this list. The process is anonymous. The research is jointly sponsored by QDAP & Texifter, LLC and directed by Dr. Stuart Shulman, QDAP Director and Texifter President & CEO.
http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ http://texifter.com/
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Rate the word 1-7 (1 = least & 7 = most offensive) *
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All great questions and comments. I put my reply to Jerom below and can now make an interim update. My lawyer is reviewing the risk associated with release of the list, which is 250+ items so far. A cautious person naturally avoids unintended harm that might result from use of the list for purposes other than those stated. I can envision sharing the list with established research labs working in this area. I see many indirect benefits accruing to users of software developed in proprietary settings. I also give away powerful software for free over the Web. Both are good models that leverage the Internet to distribute work with innovative tools and data sets easily to many volunteers, users, or content creators. In this case, my new research on threat detection has both basic research (QDAP) and commercial (Texifter) potential and the added chance of making public figures potentially safer in a volatile political climate. I am responding to a direct need expressed through the National Academies of Science recent workshop for the US Secret Service and to other agency personnel from across the federal government. We are looking for ways to design, test and deploy useful tools that make democracy run a little more smoothly when millions of people are participating online. If US health care reform drives significant numbers of people to say awful things, or if the first African American President is just too much for some folks to bear, simple dictionaries of hate and threats may be required to make the landscape of democracy more navigable and civil for those who chose not to go there. In some cases, we are talking about making it easier for law enforcement officials to preempt aggressive or violent behavior. In others, we are looking at modeling the behavior of depraved citizens who use rhetoric for purposes that go beyond worldly comprehension. Finally, no, to all who wondered it, I am not planning to leave academia to become the next George Carlin either. Doggedly yours, ~Stu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [Air-L] QDAP/Texifter Foul Language List To: Jerom Janssen <jfjanssen@gmail.com> Jerom, I am wary of legal repercussions and would probably think it unwise. The language is both awful and valuable as research data. What would you do? ~Stu On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Jessica Richman <jessica.richman@gmail.com>wrote:
Yes, I was wondering this too. It seems unfair to ask for public contribution if this is a private project that only your company will profit from.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jerom Janssen <jfjanssen@gmail.com>wrote:
Dear Dr. Stuart Shulman,
This is a very interesting project. Will the results (tokens/phrases plus their counts and ratings) be put in the public domain?
Regards,
Jerom Janssen
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 13:58, <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> wrote:
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QDAP/Texifter Foul Language List
We are compiling a list of oaths, dirty words, racist and sexual
derogatory
and other offensive terms to build new language models and software tools. The notable increase in public and private threats communicated via the Internet to Congress and the White House makes it important to do basic research that identifies the precursors of aggressive or violent behavior. Adding your uniquely offensive contribution to the list, with an associated rating from 1-7, with 1 representing a mildly offensive term and 7 representing the most foul term, will advance this work.
We are not collecting any data about the people submitting items to this list. The process is anonymous. The research is jointly sponsored by QDAP & Texifter, LLC and directed by Dr. Stuart Shulman, QDAP Director and Texifter President & CEO.
http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ http://texifter.com/
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-- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/
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