Abstract
Code-switching has been found to have social motivations in addition to syntactic constraints. In this work, we explore the social effect of code-switching in an online community. We present a task from the Arabic Wikipedia to capture language choice, in this case code-switching between Arabic and other languages, as a predictor of social influence in collaborative editing. We find that code-switching is positively associated with Wikipedia editor success, particularly borrowing technical language on pages with topics less directly related to Arabic-speaking regions.
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Yoder, M. M., Rijhwani, S., Rosé, C. P., & Levin, L. (2017). Code-switching as a social act: The case of Arabic wikipedia talk pages. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, NLP+CSS 2017 at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017 (pp. 73–82). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-2911
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