sociolinguistics

LTE: Urban, suburban and rural discourse

6 Comments / natural language processing, sociolinguistics / By / December 4, 2017

After I labeled all the data by topic, I took a quick look at the topic tallies, both overall and by newspaper, keeping in mind the newspapers’ locations. The overall percentages are shown in the graph below: Some of these stats were expected, others surprising. I expected most of the letters to be about politics …

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LTE: Letters to the editor corpus analysis using machine learning

2 Comments / machine learning, natural language processing, sociolinguistics / By / November 29, 2017

See if you can determine whether the author of the following texts is male or female. Text A: When my children were younger, my goal was to get them into the gifted program or even charter schools, because I just wanted a high-quality option. I was thankful that one of my daughters was accepted to …

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