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Title: Jargon and Graph Modularity on Twitter

Abstract

The language of conversation is just as dependent upon word choice as it is on who is taking part. Twitter provides an excellent test-bed in which to conduct experiments not only on language usage but on who is using what language with whom. To this end, we combine large scale graph analytical techniques with known socio-linguistic methods. In this article we leverage both expert curated vocabularies and naive mathematical graph analyses to determine if network behavior on Twitter corroborates with the current understanding of language usage. The results reported indicate that, based on networks constructed from user to user communication and communities identified using the Clauset- Newman greedy modularity algorithm we find that more prolific users of these curated vocabularies are concentrated in distinct network communities.

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Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1237821
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-94196
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2013), June 4-7, 2013, Seattle, Washington, 381-383
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Dowling, Chase P., Corley, Courtney D., Farber, Robert M., and Reynolds, William. Jargon and Graph Modularity on Twitter. United States: N. p., 2013. Web. doi:10.1109/ISI.2013.6578833.
Dowling, Chase P., Corley, Courtney D., Farber, Robert M., & Reynolds, William. Jargon and Graph Modularity on Twitter. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISI.2013.6578833
Dowling, Chase P., Corley, Courtney D., Farber, Robert M., and Reynolds, William. 2013. "Jargon and Graph Modularity on Twitter". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISI.2013.6578833.
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title = {Jargon and Graph Modularity on Twitter},
author = {Dowling, Chase P. and Corley, Courtney D. and Farber, Robert M. and Reynolds, William},
abstractNote = {The language of conversation is just as dependent upon word choice as it is on who is taking part. Twitter provides an excellent test-bed in which to conduct experiments not only on language usage but on who is using what language with whom. To this end, we combine large scale graph analytical techniques with known socio-linguistic methods. In this article we leverage both expert curated vocabularies and naive mathematical graph analyses to determine if network behavior on Twitter corroborates with the current understanding of language usage. The results reported indicate that, based on networks constructed from user to user communication and communities identified using the Clauset- Newman greedy modularity algorithm we find that more prolific users of these curated vocabularies are concentrated in distinct network communities.},
doi = {10.1109/ISI.2013.6578833},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1237821}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
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