no code implementations • IJCNLP 2019 • Philippa Shoemark, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen, Scott Hale, Barbara McGillivray
Word embeddings are increasingly used for the automatic detection of semantic change; yet, a robust evaluation and systematic comparison of the choices involved has been lacking.
1 code implementation • WS 2018 • Philippa Shoemark, James Kirby, Sharon Goldwater
Sociolinguistics is often concerned with how variants of a linguistic item (e. g., \textit{nothing} vs. \textit{nothin{'}}) are used by different groups or in different situations.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Philippa Shoemark, James Kirby, Sharon Goldwater
Sociolinguistic research suggests that speakers modulate their language style in response to their audience.
no code implementations • EACL 2017 • Philippa Shoemark, Debnil Sur, Luke Shrimpton, Iain Murray, Sharon Goldwater
Political surveys have indicated a relationship between a sense of Scottish identity and voting decisions in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.