@InProceedings{ng-EtAl:2018:W18-42,
  author    = {Ng, Kei Yin  and  Feldman, Anna  and  Peng, Jing  and  Leberknight, Chris},
  title     = {Linguistic Characteristics of Censorable Language on SinaWeibo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {12--22},
  abstract  = {This paper investigates censorship from a linguistic perspective. We collect a corpus of censored and uncensored posts on a number of topics, build a classifier that predicts censorship decisions independent of discussion topics. Our investigation reveals that the strongest linguistic indicator of censored content of our corpus is its readability.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-4202}
}