Abstract
Inspired by Labov’s seminal work on stylisticvariation as a function of social stratification,we develop and compare neural models thatpredict a person’s presumed socio-economicstatus, obtained through distant supervision,from their writing style on social media. Thefocus of our work is on identifying the mostimportant stylistic parameters to predict socio-economic group. In particular, we show theeffectiveness of morpho-syntactic features aspredictors of style, in contrast to lexical fea-tures, which are good predictors of topic- Anthology ID:
- P19-1246
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2583–2593
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P19-1246
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P19-1246
- Cite (ACL):
- Angelo Basile, Albert Gatt, and Malvina Nissim. 2019. You Write like You Eat: Stylistic Variation as a Predictor of Social Stratification. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2583–2593, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- You Write like You Eat: Stylistic Variation as a Predictor of Social Stratification (Basile et al., ACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/P19-1246.pdf