The Journal of Machine Learning Research
A latent variable model for geographic lexical variation
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Communications of the ACM
langid.py: an off-the-shelf language identification tool
ACL '12 Proceedings of the ACL 2012 System Demonstrations
Talking Places: Modelling and Analysing Linguistic Content in Foursquare
SOCIALCOM-PASSAT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust
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Due to increasing globalization, urban societies are becoming more multicultural. The availability of large-scale digital mobility traces e.g. from tweets or checkins provides an opportunity to explore multiculturalism that until recently could only be addressed using survey-based methods. In this paper we examine a basic facet of multiculturalism through the lens of language use across multiple cities in Switzerland. Using data obtained from Foursquare over 330 days, we present a descriptive analysis of linguistic differences and similarities across five urban agglomerations in a multicultural, western European country.