We investigate the interaction of power, gender, and language use in the Enron email
corpus. We present a freely available extension to the Enron corpus, with the gender of …

We study the topic dynamics of interactions in political debates using the 2012 Republican
presidential primary debates as data. We show that the tendency of candidates to shift topics …

Empowering language is important in many real-world contexts, from education to
workplace dynamics to healthcare. Though language technologies are growing more …

Group discussions are a way for individuals to exchange ideas and arguments in order to
reach better decisions than they could on their own. One of the premises of productive …

Where do prescient ideas—those that initially challenge conventional assumptions but later
achieve widespread acceptance—come from? Although their outcomes in the form of …

In this thesis, I investigate whether social power relations are manifested in the language
and structure of social interactions, and if so, in what ways, and whether we can use the …

On the 15th of September, debates took place in the Tweede Kamer (henceforth: parliament)
during which the Dutch politician Sigrid Kaag, at that time still Minister of Foreign Affairs, was …