On learning and representing social meaning in NLP: a sociolinguistic perspective
Dong Nguyen, Laura Rosseel, Jack Grieve
Abstract
The field of NLP has made substantial progress in building meaning representations. However, an important aspect of linguistic meaning, social meaning, has been largely overlooked. We introduce the concept of social meaning to NLP and discuss how insights from sociolinguistics can inform work on representation learning in NLP. We also identify key challenges for this new line of research. How are you doing? How are you doin? How are you doinggg?
Topics & Concepts
Meaning (existential)Perspective (graphical)LinguisticsSociolinguisticsRepresentation (politics)Computer scienceField (mathematics)Artificial intelligenceNatural language processingEpistemologyPhilosophyMathematicsPure mathematicsPolitical scienceLawPoliticsNatural Language Processing TechniquesLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionTopic Modeling