A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation
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Citation
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation. Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith, and Eric P. Xing. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010), Cambridge, MA, October 2010.
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Summary
This paper aims to analyze the variation in the usage of words in vernacular wrt geography. In particular, it analyzes lexical variation by both topic and geography. It also separates regions into coherent linguistic communities. Also it can predict with some accuracy the location of the author from raw text.
Data
This work is based on the Twitter dataset which can be found here.
