English

Linguistic Characteristics of Censorable Language on SinaWeibo

Computation and Language 2018-07-11 v1
Authors: Kei Yin Ng , Anna Feldman , Jing Peng , Chris Leberknight
View on arXiv ↗ PDF ↗

Abstract

This paper investigates censorship from a linguistic perspective. We collect a corpus of censored and uncensored posts on a number of topics, build a classifier that predicts censorship decisions independent of discussion topics. Our investigation reveals that the strongest linguistic indicator of censored content of our corpus is its readability.

Keywords

censorship linguistic features sina weibo readability text classification social media

Cite

@article{arxiv.1807.03654,
  title  = {Linguistic Characteristics of Censorable Language on SinaWeibo},
  author = {Kei Yin Ng and Anna Feldman and Jing Peng and Chris Leberknight},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03654},
  year   = {2018}
}

Related papers

View all related →
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Linguistic Fingerprints of Internet Censorship: the Case of SinaWeibo
Kei Yin Ng, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng
2020-01-27
Computers and Society · Computer Science
How We Express Ourselves Freely: Censorship, Self-censorship, and Anti-censorship on a Chinese Social Media
Xiang Chen, Jiamu Xie, Zixin Wang, Bohui Shen +1
2022-11-28
Information Retrieval · Computer Science
Tracking and Quantifying Censorship on a Chinese Microblogging Site
Tao Zhu, David Phipps, Adam Pridgen, Jedidiah R. Crandall +1
2012-11-28
Social and Information Networks · Computer Science
Assessing Post Deletion in Sina Weibo: Multi-modal Classification of Hot Topics
Meisam Navaki Arefi, Rajkumar Pandi, Michael Carl Tschantz, Jedidiah R. Crandall +3
2019-07-04
Social and Information Networks · Computer Science
Look behind the Censorship: Reposting-User Characterization and Muted-Topic Restoration
Yichi Qian, Qiyi Shan, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
2022-07-26
Computation and Language · Computer Science
A Classification System Approach in Predicting Chinese Censorship
Matt Prodani, Tianchu Ze, Yushen Hu
2025-02-07
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Linguistic Characterization of Divisive Topics Online: Case Studies on Contentiousness in Abortion, Climate Change, and Gun Control
Jacob Beel, Tong Xiang, Sandeep Soni, Diyi Yang
2022-04-07
Social and Information Networks · Computer Science
Understanding Patterns of Users Who Repost Censored Posts on Weibo
Yichi Qian, Feng Yuan, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
2021-01-19
Computation and Language · Computer Science
SWSR: A Chinese Dataset and Lexicon for Online Sexism Detection
Aiqi Jiang, Xiaohan Yang, Yang Liu, Arkaitz Zubiaga
2021-08-09
Social and Information Networks · Computer Science
Using Linguistic Features to Estimate Suicide Probability of Chinese Microblog Users
Lei Zhang, Xiaolei Huang, Tianli Liu, Zhenxiang Chen +1
2014-11-05
Social and Information Networks · Computer Science
Toward automatic censorship detection in microblogs
Donn Morrison
2014-02-28
Social and Information Networks · Computer Science
Topical differences between Chinese language Twitter and Sina Weibo
Qian Zhang, Bruno Gonçalves
2016-04-13
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Chinese Offensive Language Detection:Current Status and Future Directions
Yunze Xiao, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani
2024-04-02
Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science
LLM Censorship: A Machine Learning Challenge or a Computer Security Problem?
David Glukhov, Ilia Shumailov, Yarin Gal, Nicolas Papernot +1
2023-07-25
Computation and Language · Computer Science
ToxiCloakCN: Evaluating Robustness of Offensive Language Detection in Chinese with Cloaking Perturbations
Yunze Xiao, Yujia Hu, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, Roy Ka-wei Lee
2024-06-19
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Self-Diagnosis and Self-Debiasing: A Proposal for Reducing Corpus-Based Bias in NLP
Timo Schick, Sahana Udupa, Hinrich Schütze
2021-09-10
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Examining Racial Bias in an Online Abuse Corpus with Structural Topic Modeling
Thomas Davidson, Debasmita Bhattacharya
2020-05-28
Social and Information Networks · Computer Science
Unveiling the Dynamics of Censorship, COVID-19 Regulations, and Protest: An Empirical Study of Chinese Subreddit r/china_irl
Siyi Zhou, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
2025-08-08
Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science
Exploring the Design Space of Longitudinal Censorship Measurement Platforms
Abbas Razaghpanah, Anke Li, Arturo Filastò, Rishab Nithyanand +3
2016-11-01
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Combining Textual Features for the Detection of Hateful and Offensive Language
Sherzod Hakimov, Ralph Ewerth
2021-12-10
Computers and Society · Computer Science
The Velocity of Censorship: High-Fidelity Detection of Microblog Post Deletions
Tao Zhu, David Phipps, Adam Pridgen, Jedidiah R. Crandall +1
2013-07-11
Computers and Society · Computer Science
Automatically Generating a Large, Culture-Specific Blocklist for China
Austin Hounsel, Prateek Mittal, Nick Feamster
2018-07-20
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Gender identity and lexical variation in social media
David Bamman, Jacob Eisenstein, Tyler Schnoebelen
2014-05-13
Computation and Language · Computer Science
Language Use Matters: Analysis of the Linguistic Structure of Question Texts Can Characterize Answerability in Quora
Suman Kalyan Maity, Aman Kharb, Animesh Mukherjee
2017-03-14
Information Retrieval · Computer Science
Vocabulary-based Method for Quantifying Controversy in Social Media
Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Esteban Feuerstein
2020-01-28