Cross-lingual Syntactic Variation over Age and Gender

Anders Trærup Johannsen; Dirk Hovy; Anders Søgaard

Cross-lingual Syntactic Variation over Age and Gender

Anders Trærup Johannsen, Dirk Hovy, Anders Søgaard

Centre for Language Technology

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning : CoNLL
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date	2015
Pages	103-112
ISBN (Print)	978-1-941643-77-8
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Cross-lingual Syntactic Variation over Age and Gender. / Johannsen, Anders Trærup; Hovy, Dirk; Søgaard, Anders.
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: CoNLL. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015. p. 103-112.

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