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The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities

arXiv 1806.05838 ↗First posted 15 Jun 2018cs.CL cs.SIcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

We investigate the birth and diffusion of lexical innovations in a large dataset of online social communities. We build on sociolinguistic theories and focus on the relation between the spread of a novel term and the social role of the individuals who use it, uncovering characteristics of innovators and adopters. Finally, we perform a prediction task that allows us to anticipate whether an innovation will successfully spread within a community.

Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 15 Jun 2018.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 3; 2022: 1; 2023: 0; 2024: 4; 2025: 0; 2026: 1.

9 papers.

  1. 2021Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERTcited by 20
  2. 2024ValueScope: Unveiling Implicit Norms and Values via Return Potential Model of Social Interactionscited by 12
  3. 2021The structure of online social networks modulates the rate of lexical changecited by 8
  4. 2021Modeling Users and Online Communities for Abuse Detection: A Position on Ethics and Explainabilitycited by 4
  5. 2022Tracing Semantic Variation in Slangcited by 3
  6. 2024Inducing lexicons of in-group language with socio-temporal contextcited by 2
  7. 2024Word reuse and combination support efficient communication of emerging conceptscited by 2
  8. 2024Detecting Turkish Synonyms Used in Different Time Periodscited by 0
  9. 2026From Utterances to Networks: Modelling Slang Adoption and Diffusion Across Subredditscited by 0