You Write like You Eat: Stylistic Variation as a Predictor of Social Stratification
Inspired by Labov's seminal work on stylisticvariation as a function of social stratification,we develop and compare neural models thatpredict a person's presumed socio economicstatus, obtained through distant supervision,from their writing style on social media. Thefocus of our work is on identifying the mostimportant stylistic parameters to predict socio economic group. In particular, we show theeffectiveness of morpho syntactic features aspredictors of style, in contrast to lexical fea tures, which are good predictors of topic
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