Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Time

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dc.contributor.authorWong S
dc.contributor.authorDunn, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-30T20:48:15Z
dc.date.available2022-10-30T20:48:15Z
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.date.updated2022-09-11T23:24:10Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses the degree to which dialect classifiers based on syntactic representations remain stable over space and time. While previous work has shown that the combination of grammar induction and geospatial text classification produces robust dialect models, we do not know what influence both changing grammars and changing populations have on dialect models. This paper constructs a test set for 12 dialects of English that spans three years at monthly intervals with a fixed spatial distribution across 1,120 cities. Syntactic representations are formulated within the usage-based Construction Grammar paradigm (CxG). The decay rate of classification performance for each dialect over time allows us to identify regions undergoing syntactic change. And the distribution of classification accuracy within dialect regions allows us to identify the degree to which the grammar of a dialect is internally heterogeneous. The main contribution of this paper is to show that a rigorous evaluation of dialect classification models can be used to find both variation over space and change over time.en
dc.identifier.citationDunn J, Wong S (2022). Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Time. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/104653
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470404 - Corpus linguisticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470407 - Language documentation and descriptionen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470406 - Historical, comparative and typological linguisticsen
dc.titleStability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Timeen
dc.typeConference Contributions - Publisheden
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentLanguage, Social and Political Sciences
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