The Effects of Age, Gender and Region on Non-standard Linguistic Variation in Online Social Networks

no code implementations • 11 Jan 2016 • Claudia Peersman, Walter Daelemans, Reinhild Vandekerckhove, Bram Vandekerckhove, Leona Van Vaerenbergh

We present a corpus-based analysis of the effects of age, gender and region of origin on the production of both "netspeak" or "chatspeak" features and regional speech features in Flemish Dutch posts that were collected from a Belgian online social network platform.

The Netlog Corpus. A Resource for the Study of Flemish Dutch Internet Language

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Mike Kestemont, Claudia Peersman, Benny De Decker, Guy De Pauw, Kim Luyckx, Roser Morante, Frederik Vaassen, Janneke van de Loo, Walter Daelemans

Although in recent years numerous forms of Internet communication ― such as e-mail, blogs, chat rooms and social network environments ― have emerged, balanced corpora of Internet speech with trustworthy meta-information (e. g. age and gender) or linguistic annotations are still limited.

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