The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities
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| Publication date | 2018 |
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| Book title | The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics |
| Book subtitle | COLING 2018 : proceedings of the conference : August 20-26, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
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| Event | 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics |
| Pages (from-to) | 1591-1603 |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
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| Abstract | We investigate the birth and diffusion of lexical innovations in a large dataset of online social communities. We build on sociolinguistic theories and focus on the relation between the spread of a novel term and the social role of the individuals who use it, uncovering characteristics of innovators and adopters. Finally, we perform a prediction task that allows us to anticipate whether an innovation will successfully spread within a community. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Related dataset | 20Reddit-Road2Success |
| Published at | http://aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1135 |
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