Agnieszka Faleńska and Filip Miletić will teach together a week course at the 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2024). See you in August in Lueven, Belgium!
This course explores the relationship between language and society by drawing on complementary perspectives from sociolinguistics and natural language processing. It discusses variation in language use in connection with (i) speakers’ sociodemographic properties such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status; (ii) speakers’ patterns of interaction; and (iii) the social meaning conveyed through the use of different linguistic variants. In bringing together NLP and sociolinguistics, we aim to establish a comparable level of depth across the disciplines. For students already acquainted with fundamental computational linguistics, the course will provide insights into the richness of language when viewed within a broader social context. For students with a background in sociolinguistics, we will present examples of various computational techniques that can be used to analyze linguistic variation. Students with previous experience in programming will be able to run the practical exercises independently and engage with different types of attested linguistic data.
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