{"155281":{"#nid":"155281","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag Seminar: Jacob Eisenstein","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJacob Eisenstein\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssistant Professor, School of Interactive Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial Meanings in Social Media\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial interaction is increasingly conducted through online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. While some have focused on the supposed deficiencies of social media with respect to more traditional communication channels, language in social media features the same rich connections with personal and group identity, style, and social context. However, social media\u0027s unique set of linguistic affordances causes social meanings to be expressed in new and perhaps surprising ways. This talk will describe research that builds on large-scale social media corpora using analytic tools from statistical machine learning. I will focus on some of the ways in which social media data allow us to go beyond traditional sociolinguistic methods, but I will also discuss lessons from the sociolinguistics literature for the new generation of \u0022big data\u0022 research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJacob Eisenstein an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He works on machine learning approaches to understanding human language. He is especially interested in social media, discourse, non-verbal communication and unsupervised \u0026nbsp;learning.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESocial Meanings in Social Media\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27659","created_gmt":"2012-09-18 15:46:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:01","author":"Christopher Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-09-20T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-09-20T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-09-20T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-09-20 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-09-20 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-09-20 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"155271":{"id":"155271","type":"image","title":"Jacob Eisenstein","body":null,"created":"1449178859","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:40:59","changed":"1475894789","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:29","alt":"Jacob Eisenstein","file":{"fid":"195268","name":"me_side.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/me_side_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/me_side_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24571,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/me_side_0.jpg?itok=us1zzN3p"}}},"media_ids":["155271"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Egvu@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}