People carry their language with them wherever they go. However, language also impacts where they go: prior research has shown that the cultural geography of language has a major impact on people's decision to move. But what about less momentous movements: do the daily commutes of people interact with their language preferences?
We use a large sample of online communications and apply machine learning methods to reliably estimate the prevalence of different varieties in cities and regions. We combine this data with commuter data to establish patterns on their preferences within and across linguistic areas, and their mutual impact.
Dirk Hovy is associate professor at the Computing Sciences Department at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and director of the Data and Marketing Insights research unit. Before that, he was faculty and postdoc in Copenhagen, got a PhD in NLP from USC, and a masters degree in linguistics from Marburg, Germany. He is interested in the interaction between language, society, and machine learning, or what language can tell us about society, and what computers can tell us about language. He has authored over 90 articles on these topics, including 3 best paper awards. He recently received an ERC Starting Grant for a project on demographic factors and bias in NLP models. Outside of work, Dirk enjoys cooking, running, and leather-crafting. For updated information, see http://www.dirkhovy.com
DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 aims to showcase cutting edge international research on digitally language and communication by both senior and younger researchers from across the world. We wish to present research that explores digital language and communication by drawing on key concepts and topics in socio-cultural linguistics, such as community, context, identity, mediated interaction, multimodality, and linguistic change. We particularly welcome presentations of innovative methods that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
DiLCo (Digital language variation in context) is a 3-year international research network initiated in 2021 at the University of Hamburg. The network brings together researchers from Europe and USA with expertise in computational, interactional, and ethnographic approaches to digital language and linguistics. It aims to provide a platform for the development of interdisciplinary ideas in digital language and communication research, and for early-career capacity building.
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DiLCo (‘Digital language variation in context’) is a 3-year international research network initiated in 2021 at the University of Hamburg. The network brings together researchers from Europe and USA with expertise in computational, interactional, and ethnographic approaches to digital language and linguistics. It aims to provide a platform for the development of interdisciplinary ideas in digital language and communication research, and for early-career capacity building.
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