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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nguyen, Dong
• Doğruöz, A. Seza
• Rosé, Carolyn P.
• de Jong, Franciska

Titel

Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey

Ist Teil von

• Computational linguistics - Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016-09, Vol.42 (3), p.537-593

Ort / Verlag

One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA: MIT Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 this article we present a survey of the emerging field of “computational sociolinguistics” that reflects this increased interest. We aim to provide a comprehensive overview of CL research on sociolinguistic themes, featuring topics such as the relation between language and social identity, language use in social interaction, and multilingual communication. Moreover, we demonstrate the potential for synergy between the research communities involved, by showing how the large-scale data-driven methods that are widely used in CL can complement existing sociolinguistic studies, and how sociolinguistics can inform and challenge the methods and assumptions used in CL studies. We hope to convey the possible benefits of a closer collaboration between the two communities and conclude with a discussion of open challenges.