Cross-lingual syntactic variation over age and gender
Anders Johannsen, Dirk Hovy, Anders Søgaard · 2015
Most computational sociolinguistics studies have focused on phonological and lexical variation.We present the first large-scale study of syntactic variation among demographic groups (age and gender) across several languages.We harvest data from online user-review sites and parse it with universal dependencies.We show that several age and gender-specific variations hold across languages, for example that women are more likely to use VP conjunctions.