On learning and representing social meaning in NLP: a sociolinguistic perspective
Dong Nguyen, Laura Rosseel, Jack Grieve · 2021
The field of NLP has made substantial progress in building meaning representations.However, an important aspect of linguistic meaning, social meaning, has been largely overlooked.We introduce the concept of social meaning to NLP and discuss how insights from sociolinguistics can inform work on representation learning in NLP.We also identify key challenges for this new line of research.