Work

Grounding the Semantics of Part-of-Day Nouns Worldwide using Twitter

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The usage of part-of-day nouns, such as 'night', and their time-specific greetings ('good night'), varies across languages and cultures.We show the possibilities that Twitter offers for studying the semantics of these terms and its variability between countries.We mine a worldwide sample of multilingual tweets with temporal greetings, and study how their frequencies vary in relation with local time.The results provide insights into the semantics of these temporal expressions and the cultural and sociological factors influencing their usage.

DOI: 10.18653/v1/w18-1116

Authors: David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Institution: Universidade da Coruña

Language: English

Topic: Language and Culture

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Funders: European Commission, Xunta de Galicia, H2020 European Research Council

Awards: Fast Natural Language Parsing for Large-Scale NLP, G3768625766, G434337789, G6258374248

OpenAlex ID: W2804938976