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Abolitionist Networks: Modeling Language Change in Nineteenth-Century Activist Newspapers ...
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Revisiting the Primacy of English in Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer ...
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Abolitionist Networks: Modeling Language Change in Nineteenth-Century Activist Newspapers ...
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The abolitionist movement of the nineteenth-century United States remains among the most significant social and political movements in US history. Abolitionist newspapers played a crucial role in spreading information and shaping public opinion around a range of issues relating to the abolition of slavery. These newspapers also serve as a primary source of information about the movement for scholars today, resulting in powerful new accounts of the movement and its leaders. This paper supplements recent qualitative work on the role of women in abolition's vanguard, as well as the role of the Black press, with a quantitative text modeling approach. Using diachronic word embeddings, we identify which newspapers tended to lead lexical semantic innovations -- the introduction of new usages of specific words -- and which newspapers tended to follow. We then aggregate the evidence across hundreds of changes into a weighted network with the newspapers as nodes; directed edge weights represent the frequency with ... : 23 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables ...
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Computation and Language cs.CL; Computers and Society cs.CY; Digital Libraries cs.DL; FOS Computer and information sciences; Social and Information Networks cs.SI
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URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07538 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2103.07538
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Tuiteamos o pongamos un tuit? Investigating the Social Constraints of Loanword Integration in Spanish Social Media ...
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Tuiteamos o pongamos un tuit? Investigating the Social Constraints of Loanword Integration in Spanish Social Media
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2021)
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Will it Unblend?
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2021)
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Abolitionist Networks: Modeling Language Change in Nineteenth-Century Activist Newspapers ...
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How We Do Things With Words: Analyzing Text as Social and Cultural Data
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In: Front Artif Intell (2020)
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The Referential Reader: A Recurrent Entity Network for Anaphora Resolution ...
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Discovering Sociolinguistic Associations with Structured Sparsity ...
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Making "fetch" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline ...
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Sí o no, què penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media ...
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Mind Your POV: Convergence of Articles and Editors Towards Wikipedia's Neutrality Norm ...
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Making "fetch" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline ...
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#anorexia, #anarexia, #anarexyia: Characterizing Online Community Practices with Orthographic Variation ...
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