@InProceedings{yoder-EtAl:2017:NLPandCSS,
  author    = {Yoder, Michael  and  Rijhwani, Shruti  and  Ros\'{e}, Carolyn  and  Levin, Lori},
  title     = {Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of Arabic Wikipedia Talk Pages},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {73--82},
  abstract  = {Code-switching has been found to have social motivations in addition to
	syntactic constraints.
	In this work, we explore the social effect of code-switching in an online
	community.
	We present a task from the Arabic Wikipedia to capture language choice, in this
	case code-switching between Arabic and other languages, as a predictor of
	social influence in collaborative editing.
	We find that code-switching is positively associated with Wikipedia editor
	success, particularly borrowing technical language on pages with topics less
	directly related to Arabic-speaking regions.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-2911}
}