3874276
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10.5281/zenodo.3874276
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user-dhbenelux2020
How digital communication mirrors socio-cultural orientation. A computational sociolinguistic study of regional variation on "Jodel"
Purschke, Christoph
University of Luxembourg
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Computational sociolinguistics
German-speaking area
Social media
Regional variation
Socio-cultural orientation
Representation learning
<p>We study regional variation in social media communications collected from the chat app "Jodel". Using a corpus of 3.8M discussions from the entire German-speaking area, we combine methods from computational linguistics and sociolinguistics to model and interpret different aspects of <em>socio-pragmatic regionality</em> in online writing. The results show strong correspondences with several socio-cultural spatial structures, such as a dialect division of German, student mobility, work commuting, and region-specific discussion topics. Our study contributes to the emerging field of <em>computational sociolinguistics</em>.</p>
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2020-06-03
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