Language Use Matters: Analysis of the Linguistic Structure of Question Texts Can Characterize Answerability in Quora
Table 1: LIWC analysis for open and answered questions.
['LIWC category', 'Avg. LIWC score for open questions', 'Avg. LIWC score for answered questions']
The way an individual talks or writes, give us clue to his/her linguistic, emotional, and cognitive states. A question asker’s linguistic, emotional, cognitive states are also revealed through the language he/ she uses in the question text. In order to capture such psycholinguistic aspects of the asker, we use Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) LIWC takes a text document as input and outputs a score for the input for each of the LIWC categories such as linguistic (part-of-speech of the words, function words etc.) and psychological categories (social, anger, positive emotion, negative emotion, sadness etc.) based on the writing style and psychometric properties of the document.