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Networks and Identity Drive Geographic Properties of the Diffusion of Linguistic Innovation
Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, David Jurgens, Daniel M. Romero
Adoption of cultural innovation (e.g., music, beliefs, language) is often geographically correlated, with adopters largely residing within the boundaries of relatively few well-stu…
Measuring Sentence-Level and Aspect-Level (Un)certainty in Science Communications
Jiaxin Pei, David Jurgens
Certainty and uncertainty are fundamental to science communication. Hedges have widely been used as proxies for uncertainty. However, certainty is a complex construct, with authors…
Detecting Community Sensitive Norm Violations in Online Conversations
Chan Young Park, Julia Mendelsohn, Karthik Radhakrishnan +4
Online platforms and communities establish their own norms that govern what behavior is acceptable within the community. Substantial effort in NLP has focused on identifying unacce…
An animated picture says at least a thousand words: Selecting Gif-based Replies in Multimodal Dialog
Xingyao Wang, David Jurgens
Online conversations include more than just text. Increasingly, image-based responses such as memes and animated gifs serve as culturally recognized and often humorous responses in…
Using Sociolinguistic Variables to Reveal Changing Attitudes Towards Sexuality and Gender
Sky CH-Wang, David Jurgens
Individuals signal aspects of their identity and beliefs through linguistic choices. Studying these choices in aggregate allows us to examine large-scale attitude shifts within a p…
Idiosyncratic but not Arbitrary: Learning Idiolects in Online Registers Reveals Distinctive yet Consistent Individual Styles
Jian Zhu, David Jurgens
An individual's variation in writing style is often a function of both social and personal attributes. While structured social variation has been extensively studied, e.g., gender…