@InProceedings{deltredici-fernndez:2018:C18-1,
  author    = {Del Tredici, Marco  and  Fernández, Raquel},
  title     = {The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1591--1603},
  abstract  = {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.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1135}
}