An intellectual analysis for the social web: recognizing verbal aggression

The paper discusses the issues of automatic identification of verbal aggression in the net-communities discourse. This problem is considered in the context of online communities emerging and new participants recruiting. It is assumed that the value priorities act as a base for grouping and joining the community. The applicability of intellectual analysis and methods of Opinion Mining is reviewed. The structure and functions of psycholinguistic text analyzer PLATIn are described and its feasibility for the differential identification of forms of verbal aggression are shown on some online communities’ texts array. Value priorities of communities were appraised according to the typology of values proposed by S.Schwartz. Some peculiarities of verbal aggression in texts of communities differing in their values are revealed.