Sociolinguistics for Computational Social Science

Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey

Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language. In thi…

Point-of-Interest Type Prediction using Text and Images

Point-of-interest (POI) type prediction is the task of inferring the type of a place from where a social media post was shared. Inferring a POI's type is useful for studies in computational social science including socio…

Words as Gatekeepers: Measuring Discipline-specific Terms and Meanings in Scholarly Publications

Scholarly text is often laden with jargon, or specialized language that can facilitate efficient in-group communication within fields but hinder understanding for out-groups. In this work, we develop and validate an inte…

Variation is the Norm: Embracing Sociolinguistics in NLP

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), variation is typically seen as noise and "normalised away" before processing, even though it is an integral part of language. Conversely, studying language variation in social contex…

Survey: Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey