- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2411.19007
Talking to oneself in CMC: a study of self replies in Wikipedia talk pages
- Nov 28, 2024
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Ludovic Tanguy +2 more
Abstract
This study proposes a qualitative analysis of self replies in Wikipedia talk pages, more precisely when the first two messages of a discussion are written by the same user. This specific pattern occurs in more than 10% of threads with two messages or more and can be explained by a number of reasons. After a first examination of the lexical specificities of second messages, we propose a seven categories typology and use it to annotate two reference samples (English and French) of 100 threads each. Finally, we analyse and compare the performance of human annotators (who reach a reasonable global efficiency) and instruction-tuned LLMs (which encounter important difficulties with several categories).
