@inproceedings{yoder-etal-2017-code,
    title = "Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of {A}rabic {W}ikipedia Talk Pages",
    author = "Yoder, Michael  and
      Rijhwani, Shruti  and
      Ros{\'e}, Carolyn  and
      Levin, Lori",
    editor = {Hovy, Dirk  and
      Volkova, Svitlana  and
      Bamman, David  and
      Jurgens, David  and
      O{'}Connor, Brendan  and
      Tsur, Oren  and
      Do{\u{g}}ru{\"o}z, A. Seza},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on {NLP} and Computational Social Science",
    month = aug,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Vancouver, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W17-2911/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-2911",
    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."
}