The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities. Del Tredici, M. & Fernández, R. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1591–1603, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. Area Chair Favourite
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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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