@InProceedings{shoemark-EtAl:2017:EACLlong,
  author    = {Shoemark, Philippa  and  Sur, Debnil  and  Shrimpton, Luke  and  Murray, Iain  and  Goldwater, Sharon},
  title     = {Aye or naw, whit dae ye hink? Scottish independence and linguistic identity on social media},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1239--1248},
  abstract  = {Political surveys have indicated a relationship between a sense of Scottish
	identity and voting decisions in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.
	Identity is often reflected in language use, suggesting the intuitive
	hypothesis that individuals who support Scottish independence are more likely
	to use distinctively Scottish words than those who oppose it. In the first
	large-scale study of sociolinguistic variation on social media in the UK, we
	identify distinctively Scottish terms in a data-driven way, and find that these
	terms are indeed used at a higher rate by users of pro-independence hashtags
	than by users of anti-independence hashtags.  However, we also find that in
	general people are less likely to use distinctively Scottish words in tweets
	with referendum-related hashtags than in their general Twitter activity. We
	attribute this difference to style shifting relative to audience, aligning with
	previous work showing that Twitter users tend to use fewer local variants when
	addressing a broader audience.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E17-1116}
}