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Studying Multicultural Diversity of Cities and Neighborhoods through Social Media Language Detection

Year: 2021

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Cities are growing as melting pots of people with different culture, religion, and language. In this paper, through multilingual analysis of Twitter contents shared within a city, we analyze the prevalent language in the different neighborhoods of the city and we compare the results with census data, in order to highlight any parallelisms or discrepancies between the two data sources. We show that the officially identified neighborhoods are actually representing significantly different communities and that the use of the social media as a data source helps to detect those weak signals that are not captured from traditional data.

Source: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v10i2.14825

Authors: Michela Arnaboldi, Marco Brambilla, Beatrice Cassottana, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Davide Ripamonti, Simone Vantini, Riccardo Volonterio

Institution: Politecnico di Milano

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2571809489

FWCI: 8.544

Cites: 19

Cited by: 10

Related to: 10