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#anorexia, #anarexia, #anarexyia: Characterizing Online Community Practices with Orthographic Variation
Ian Stewart, Stevie Chancellor, Munmun De Choudhury +1
Distinctive linguistic practices help communities build solidarity and differentiate themselves from outsiders. In an online community, one such practice is variation in orthograph…
Making "fetch" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline
Ian Stewart, Jacob Eisenstein
In an online community, new words come and go: today's "haha" may be replaced by tomorrow's "lol." Changes in online writing are usually studied as a social process, with innovatio…
Mimicking Word Embeddings using Subword RNNs
Yuval Pinter, Robert Guthrie, Jacob Eisenstein
Word embeddings improve generalization over lexical features by placing each word in a lower-dimensional space, using distributional information obtained from unlabeled data. Howev…