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.- Anthology ID:
- W17-2911
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Vancouver, Canada
- Venue:
- NLP+CSS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 73–82
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-2911
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-2911
- Cite (ACL):
- Michael Yoder, Shruti Rijhwani, Carolyn Rosé, and Lori Levin. 2017. Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of Arabic Wikipedia Talk Pages. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, pages 73–82, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of Arabic Wikipedia Talk Pages (Yoder et al., NLP+CSS 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/W17-2911.pdf