@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",
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.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Linguistic Characteristics of Censorable Language on SinaWeibo](https://aclanthology.org/W18-4202) (Ng et al., NLP4IF 2018)
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