The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | a longitudinal study of online social networks investigates the birth and spread of lexical innovations. |
| Approach: | They investigate the birth and diffusion of lexical innovations in online communities . they build on sociolinguistic theories and focus on the relationship between the spread of a new term and the social role of the individuals who use it . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method predicts whether an innovation will succeed in a community. |
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