{"639351":{"#nid":"639351","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Through the looking glass: what NLP can reveal about sociolinguistic variation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoin:\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/adubzafx\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/adubzafx\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EThrough the looking glass: what NLP can reveal about sociolinguistic variation\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPeople adapt their language use in different social contexts to meet communicative needs: a person may use the word \u0026lt;going\u0026gt; with colleagues and \u0026lt;goin\u0026#39;\u0026gt; with their close friends. Sociolinguistics researchers investigate the systematic variation in language use across different contexts to determine the social meaning of variation, such as how people change their word choices for different audiences. While traditional sociolinguistics investigates variation in spoken language, computational sociolinguistics relies on natural language processing and statistical methods to investigate written language in online discussions. This talk will explore how NLP can help isolate sociolinguistic phenomena that would otherwise go understudied in spoken contexts, and more broadly how NLP can help social science research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIan Stewart is a Visiting Research Investigator with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lit.eecs.umich.edu\/\u0022\u003ELIT Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at the University of Michigan. Ian recently defended his thesis in the Human-Centered Computing PhD program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his research proposed computational approaches to understanding sociolinguistic variation on social media. Ian is currently interested in incorporating sociolinguistic insight into NLP models to address different speaker needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ian Stewart will be talking about her work on NLP and sociolinguistic variation"}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-09-21 17:36:42","changed_gmt":"2020-09-21 17:38:44","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-09-25T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-09-25T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-09-25T14:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-09-25 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-09-25 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-09-25 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJiaao Chen\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ejiaaochen@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}