Abstract
An individual approach to abortion is based on a perspective which is determined by a combination of personal knowledge and life values. The aim of this paper is to provide empirical analysis of lexical differences between two discussion groups representing opposing views regarding the acceptability of abortion. Our aim to show how lexical choices made by the speakers in the two groups correspond to the divergent worldviews represented in those groups. Material for the study was collected on Facebook and analysed using methods of statistical machine learning with lexical feature sets (i.e. bag-of-words and n-gram). Additional analysis for keywords in both groups was also conducted.
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