Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanization

no code implementations • 29 Aug 2023 • Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Thomas Talhelm, Garrick Sherman, Angel Fan, Salvatore Giorgi, Liuqing Wei, Lyle H. Ungar

We used natural language processing to analyze a billion words to study cultural differences on Weibo, one of China's largest social media platforms.