Sociolinguistics on Twitter
& network—feature dependencies
Sébastien Lerique, Jacobo Levy-Abitbol, & Márton Karsai
IXXI, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Socio-economic status
Language style
Topics
Network structure
25%
francophone
GMT/GMT+1
Sociolinguistics
Toy model & questions
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Create a task-independent representation of network + features
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What is the dependency between network structure and feature structure
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Can we capture that dependency in a representation
network—feature dependencies
network—feature independence
GCN + Variational auto-encoders = 🎉💖🎉
Socio-economic status
Language style
Topics
Socio-economic status
Language style
Topics
Compressed & combined representation of nodes + network
Kipf & Welling (2016)
How is this useful
a.k.a., questions we can (will be able to) ask
how much can we compress network + features
(down to what dimension)
how well does feature set 1 + network structure predict feature set 2
(and how much does network structure help in predicting)
→ relative importance of network/feature in predicting links or clusters
Socioeconomic status
Language style
No correlation
Full correlation
Our model
Reference model
Sociolinguistics on Twitter & network—feature dependencies
By Sébastien Lerique
