Cross-lingual Syntactic Variation over Age and Gender

TY - GEN

T1 - Cross-lingual Syntactic Variation over Age and Gender

AU - Johannsen, Anders Trærup

AU - Hovy, Dirk

AU - Søgaard, Anders

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Most computational sociolinguistics studies have focused on phonological and lexical variation. We present the first large-scale study of syntactic variation among demographic groups (age and gender) across several languages. We harvest data from online user-review sites and parse it with universal dependencies. We show that several age and gender-specific variations hold across languages, for example that women are more likely to use VP conjunctions.

AB - Most computational sociolinguistics studies have focused on phonological and lexical variation. We present the first large-scale study of syntactic variation among demographic groups (age and gender) across several languages. We harvest data from online user-review sites and parse it with universal dependencies. We show that several age and gender-specific variations hold across languages, for example that women are more likely to use VP conjunctions.

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-941643-77-8

SP - 103

EP - 112

BT - Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

PB - Association for Computational Linguistics

ER -