Predicting the Growth of Morphological Families from Social and Linguistic Factors (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | a burst in token frequency of the word "trump" in social media before the 2016 presidential election is a prime indicator of topical dynamics. |
| Approach: | They propose a task of Morphological Family Expansion Prediction to predict the size of a morphological family by analyzing a reddit corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task predicts the increase in the size of a morphological family on a reddit corpus. |
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