@inproceedings{ng-etal-2018-linguistic,
    title = "Linguistic Characteristics of Censorable Language on {S}ina{W}eibo",
    author = "Ng, Kei Yin  and
      Feldman, Anna  and
      Peng, Jing  and
      Leberknight, Chris",
    editor = "Brew, Chris  and
      Feldman, Anna  and
      Leberknight, Chris",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for {I}nternet Freedom",
    month = aug,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-4202",
    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.",
}