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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…
Measuring, Predicting and Visualizing Short-Term Change in Word Representation and Usage in VKontakte Social Network
Ian Stewart, Dustin Arendt, Eric Bell +1
Language in social media is extremely dynamic: new words emerge, trend and disappear, while the meaning of existing words can fluctuate over time. Such dynamics are especially nota…