FOS: Updated title and abstract for Eisenstein talk

[Suzanne Evans Wagner]

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Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Title: Sociolinguistic Structure Induction

Language interacts with social structures ranging from local social
networks to large-scale social categories. Computational modeling of
language's social dimension offers two potential benefits. First, with the
rise of text data sources that include rich social metadata, there is the
potential to build a new generation of computational linguistic
methodologies for social scientific analysis. I will describe two such
efforts: (1) modeling local signed social networks in relation to formality
of address; (2) inducing large-scale pathways of sociocultural influence
from the spread of new linguistic styles in social media. Methodologically,
these projects employ probabilistic factor-graph models, which provide a
unified framework for treating social and linguistic data. Second,
contemporary language technology is bedeviled by sociolinguistic variation,
which complicates efforts to search, mine, and translate text. I will
present our recent work on leveraging social network community detection to
make document classification more robust to sociolinguistic variation,
building on recent progress on task-specific word embeddings.

BIO: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jeisenst/bio.html

Jan 29th, 2016
10 am at South Kedzie 104
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