Important/Unimportant and Personal/Nonpersonal weights

These dictionaries provide bias weights and confidences about the weights for verbs extracted from NYT World News articles and the ICWSM 2009 Spinn3r Blog Dataset.

The weights for the NYT articles measure the tendency for a verb to appear more frequently in summary texts than in article texts. High positive weights indicate a bias towards summaries, and high negative weights indicate a bias towards articles. The certainty is a p-value representing the statistical significance of the bias.

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The weights for the Spinn3r blogs measure the tendency for a verb to appear more frequently in personal texts than in nonpersonal texts. High positive weights indicate a bias towards personal texts, and high negative weights indicate a bias towards nonpersonal texts. The certainty is a p-value representing the statistical significance of the bias.

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