@InProceedings{clarke-grieve:2017:ALW1,
  author    = {Clarke, Isobelle  and  Grieve, Dr. Jack},
  title     = {Dimensions of Abusive Language on Twitter},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1--10},
  abstract  = {In this paper, we use a new categorical form of multidimensional register
	analysis to identify the main dimensions of functional linguistic variation in
	a corpus of abusive language, consisting of racist and sexist Tweets. By
	analysing the use of a wide variety of parts-of-speech and grammatical
	constructions, as well as various features related to Twitter and
	computer-mediated communication, we discover three dimensions of linguistic
	variation in this corpus, which we interpret as being related to the degree of
	interactive, antagonistic and attitudinal language exhibited by individual
	Tweets. We then demonstrate that there is a significant functional difference
	between racist and sexist Tweets, with sexists Tweets tending to be more
	interactive and attitudinal than racist Tweets.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3001}
}