Finding More Needles by Building Bigger Haystacks - Dr. Jacob Eisenstein
Alan Turing Institute via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Sociolinguistics: Big questions, small data
Labov's department store study
Why it worked
Outline
Rare linguistic events on Twitter
Discovering new linguistic variables
Discovering social variables
How does language change?
Language change as a networked cascade
Language change as epidemic
The role of tie strength
Which innovations succeed?
Finding (attempted) innovations
Hate speech on Reddit
A day after the paper came out
What excacly qualifies for hate speech?
Results with and without annotation
Some questions
Taught by
Alan Turing Institute