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Mapping Lexical Dialect Variation in British English Using Twitter

There is a growing trend in regional dialectology to analyse large corpora of social media data, but it is unclear if the results of these studies can be generalized to language as a whole. To assess the generalizability of Twitter dialect maps, this paper presents the first systematic comparison of...

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Autores principales: Grieve, Jack, Montgomery, Chris, Nini, Andrea, Murakami, Akira, Guo, Diansheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7861259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33733100
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frai.2019.00011
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Montgomery, Chris
Nini, Andrea
Murakami, Akira
Guo, Diansheng
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description There is a growing trend in regional dialectology to analyse large corpora of social media data, but it is unclear if the results of these studies can be generalized to language as a whole. To assess the generalizability of Twitter dialect maps, this paper presents the first systematic comparison of regional lexical variation in Twitter corpora and traditional survey data. We compare the regional patterns found in 139 lexical dialect maps based on a 1.8 billion word corpus of geolocated UK Twitter data and the BBC Voices dialect survey. A spatial analysis of these 139 map pairs finds a broad alignment between these two data sources, offering evidence that both approaches to data collection allow for the same basic underlying regional patterns to be identified. We argue that these results license the use of Twitter corpora for general inquiries into regional lexical variation and change.
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spelling pubmed-78612592021-03-16 Mapping Lexical Dialect Variation in British English Using Twitter Grieve, Jack Montgomery, Chris Nini, Andrea Murakami, Akira Guo, Diansheng Front Artif Intell Artificial Intelligence There is a growing trend in regional dialectology to analyse large corpora of social media data, but it is unclear if the results of these studies can be generalized to language as a whole. To assess the generalizability of Twitter dialect maps, this paper presents the first systematic comparison of regional lexical variation in Twitter corpora and traditional survey data. We compare the regional patterns found in 139 lexical dialect maps based on a 1.8 billion word corpus of geolocated UK Twitter data and the BBC Voices dialect survey. A spatial analysis of these 139 map pairs finds a broad alignment between these two data sources, offering evidence that both approaches to data collection allow for the same basic underlying regional patterns to be identified. We argue that these results license the use of Twitter corpora for general inquiries into regional lexical variation and change. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7861259/ /pubmed/33733100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frai.2019.00011 Text en Copyright © 2019 Grieve, Montgomery, Nini, Murakami and Guo. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Mapping Lexical Dialect Variation in British English Using Twitter
title Mapping Lexical Dialect Variation in British English Using Twitter
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title_short Mapping Lexical Dialect Variation in British English Using Twitter
title_sort mapping lexical dialect variation in british english using twitter
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7861259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33733100
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frai.2019.00011
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