@InProceedings{stewart-pinter-eisenstein:2018:N18-2,
  author    = {Stewart, Ian  and  Pinter, Yuval  and  Eisenstein, Jacob},
  title     = {Si O No, Que Penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {New Orleans, Louisiana},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {136--141},
  abstract  = {Political identity is often manifested in language variation, but the relationship between the two is still relatively unexplored from a quantitative perspective. This study examines the use of Catalan, a language local to the semi-autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain, on Twitter in discourse related to the 2017 independence referendum. We corroborate prior findings that pro-independence tweets are more likely to include the local language than anti-independence tweets. We also find that Catalan is used more often in referendum-related discourse than in other contexts, contrary to prior findings on language variation. This suggests a strong role for the Catalan language in the expression of Catalonian political identity.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-2022}
}