Category: Linguistic Variation

Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English

April 11, 2019

Dunn, J. (2019). “Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification.” In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (NAACL 19). Association for Computational Linguistics. 42-53. Abstract. This paper evaluates global-scale dialect identification for 14 national varieties of English as a means for studying syntactic variation. The paper … More Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English

Profile-Based Authorship Analysis

October 4, 2018

Dunn, J; Argamon, S; Rasooli, A.; & Kumar, G. (2016) “Profile-Based Authorship Analysis.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 31(4): 689-710. Abstract. This article presents a profile-based authorship analysis method which first categorizes texts according to social and conceptual characteristics of their author (e.g. Sex and Political Ideology) and then combines these profiles for two authorship … More Profile-Based Authorship Analysis

Finding Variants for Construction-Based Dialectometry

October 4, 2018

Dunn, J. (2018). “Finding Variants for Construction-Based Dialectometry: A Corpus-Based Approach to Regional CxGs.” Cognitive Linguistics, 29(2): 275-311. Abstract. This paper develops a construction-based dialectometry capable of identifying previously unknown constructions and measuring the degree to which a given construction is subject to regional variation. The central idea is to learn a grammar of constructions … More Finding Variants for Construction-Based Dialectometry