The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities

Marco Del Tredici, Raquel Fernández


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.
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C18-1135
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1591–1603
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Marco Del Tredici and Raquel Fernández. 2018. The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1591–1603, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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