Semantic weighting mechanisms in scalable lexical sociolectometry
Tom Ruette, Dirk Geeraerts, Yves Peirsman, Dirk Speelman · 2014
In sociolectometry, the goal is to analyze language varieties or lects that represent several sources of linguistic variation. As such, sociolectometry can be contrasted with dialectometry (Goebl 2006, Nerbonne & Kretzschmar 2003) and stylometry (Biber 1995), which only focus on a limited set of lects that represents a single source of linguistic