Frozen Binomials on the Web: Word Ordering and Language Conventions in Online Text
Table 7. Paired prediction results.
['predictor', 'r/Conservative', 'r/Libertarian', 'r/politics', 'r/The_Donald', 'r/nba', 'r/nfl', 'r/food']
Paired Predictions. Another measure of predictive power is predicting which of two binomials has higher asymmetry. In this case, we take two binomials with very different asymmetry and try to predict which has higher asymmetry by our measures (we use the top-1000 and bottom-1000 binomials in terms of asymmetry for these tasks). For instance, we may predict that [‘red’, ‘turquoise’] is more asymmetric than [‘red’, ‘blue’] because the differences in lengths is more extreme.