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Mind Your POV: Convergence of Articles and Editors Towards Wikipedia's Neutrality Norm
Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Xiaochuang Han, Jacob Eisenstein
Wikipedia has a strong norm of writing in a 'neutral point of view' (NPOV). Articles that violate this norm are tagged, and editors are encouraged to make corrections. But the impa…
Predicting Semantic Relations using Global Graph Properties
Yuval Pinter, Jacob Eisenstein
Semantic graphs, such as WordNet, are resources which curate natural language on two distinguishable layers. On the local level, individual relations between synsets (semantic buil…
Stylistic Variation in Social Media Part-of-Speech Tagging
Murali Raghu Babu Balusu, Taha Merghani, Jacob Eisenstein
Social media features substantial stylistic variation, raising new challenges for syntactic analysis of online writing. However, this variation is often aligned with author attribu…
Sí o no, què penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media
Ian Stewart, Yuval Pinter, Jacob Eisenstein
Political identity is often manifested in language variation, but the relationship between the two is still relatively unexplored from a quantitative perspective. This study examin…
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…
Detecting Social Influence in Event Cascades by Comparing Discriminative Rankers
Sandeep Soni, Shawn Ling Ramirez, Jacob Eisenstein
The global dynamics of event cascades are often governed by the local dynamics of peer influence. However, detecting social influence from observational data is challenging due to…