From Shakespeare to Twitter: What are Language Styles all about?

Wei Xu


Abstract
As natural language processing research is growing and largely driven by the availability of data, we expanded research from news and small-scale dialog corpora to web and social media. User-generated data and crowdsourcing opened the door for investigating human language of various styles with more statistical power and real-world applications. In this position/survey paper, I will review and discuss seven language styles that I believe to be important and interesting to study: influential work in the past, challenges at the present, and potential impact for the future.
Anthology ID:
W17-4901
Volume:
Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Julian Brooke, Thamar Solorio, Moshe Koppel
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Style-Var
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1–9
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-4901
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-4901
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Wei Xu. 2017. From Shakespeare to Twitter: What are Language Styles all about?. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation, pages 1–9, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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From Shakespeare to Twitter: What are Language Styles all about? (Xu, Style-Var 2017)
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