The rise of social media has brought computational linguistics in ever-closer contact with
bad language: text that defies our expectations about vocabulary, spelling, and syntax. This …

To what extent does our online activity reveal who we are? Recent research has
demonstrated that the digital traces left by individuals as they browse and interact with …

We survey 146 papers analyzing" bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are
often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that …

Medical sciences have long since established an ethics code for experiments, to minimize
the risk of harm to subjects. Natural language processing (NLP) used to involve mostly …

Social media provide access to behavioural data at an unprecedented scale and granularity.
However, using these data to understand phenomena in a broader population is difficult due …

With the development of social networks, a large variety of approaches have been
developed to define users' personalities based on their social activities and language use …

Abstract Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) …

In this paper we focus on the connection between age and language use, exploring age
prediction of Twitter users based on their tweets. We discuss the construction of a fine …

A common characteristic of communication on online social networks is that it happens via
short messages, often using non-standard language variations. These characteristics make …

Psychology research suggests that certain personality traits correlate with linguistic
behavior. This correlation can be effectively modeled with statistical natural language …