Mapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corpora

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dc.contributor.authorDunn, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorAdams, Ben
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-16T23:47:55Z
dc.date.available2019-09-16T23:47:55Z
dc.date.issued2019en
dc.date.updated2019-07-22T23:28:38Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper evaluates large georeferenced corpora, taken from both web-crawled and social media sources, against ground-truth population and language-census datasets. The goal is to determine (i) which dataset best represents population demographics; (ii) in what parts of the world the datasets are most representative of actual populations; and (iii) how to weight the datasets to provide more accurate representations of underlying populations. The paper finds that the two datasets represent very different populations and that they correlate with actual populations with values of r = 0.60 (social media) and r = 0.49 (web-crawled). Further, Twitter data makes better predictions about the inventory of languages used in each country.en
dc.identifier.citationDunn J, Adams B (2019). Mapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corpora. Proceedings of Geocomputation 2019.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17132
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectuser-generated contenten
dc.subjectcrowdsourcingen
dc.subjectlanguageen
dc.subjectdemographicsen
dc.subjectpopulationen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470406 - Historical, comparative and typological linguisticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::20 - Language, Communication and Culture::2004 - Linguistics::200402 - Computational Linguisticsen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1603 - Demography::160399 - Demography not elsewhere classifieden
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1604 - Human Geography::160403 - Social and Cultural Geographyen
dc.titleMapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corporaen
dc.typeConference Contributions - Publisheden
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