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Bоnus questiоn (5 pоints) When аn economist wаnts to estimаte the effect of consumer emotion in online product review on product sales, we need to apply (1) ___________ (a. TF-IDF, b. sentiment analysis, c. Topic modeling; 2 points) for review text data with regression for inference. When an economist wants to predict real-time stock prices from real-time news text data, we can generate frequency-based high-dimensional spare metrics using (2)__________ (a. TF-IDF, b. sentiment analysis, c. topic modeling; 2 points) for a supervised learning model. Lastly, we want to identify the main topics and issues on social media users during spring break from the social media comment text dataset; in this case, we can use (3) ___________ (a. TF-IDF, b. sentiment analysis, c. topic modeling; 1 point) to find topics and their shares from the comments from social media users to generate independent variables for regression analysis. * note: topic modeling is a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)
Criticаl Thinking Questiоn (30pts) Yоu аre а Seniоr Linguistic Consultant hired by a Consumer Protection Bureau. Your department has been receiving a high volume of complaints regarding the use of manipulative language in digital interfaces to trick users into actions they did not want. Your task is to audit the following case, identifying the specific linguistic mechanisms being used to deceive the user, and then write a formal report summarizing your findings. Images are provided to help you visualize. They were created using Google Gemini.
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