@inproceedings{del-tredici-fernandez-2018-road,
    title = "The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities",
    author = "Del Tredici, Marco  and
      Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel",
    editor = "Bender, Emily M.  and
      Derczynski, Leon  and
      Isabelle, Pierre",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = aug,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/C18-1135/",
    pages = "1591--1603",
    abstract = "We investigate the birth and diffusion of lexical innovations in a large dataset of online social communities. We build on sociolinguistic theories and focus on the relation between the spread of a novel term and the social role of the individuals who use it, uncovering characteristics of innovators and adopters. Finally, we perform a prediction task that allows us to anticipate whether an innovation will successfully spread within a community."
}