You Shall Know a User by the Company It Keeps: Dynamic Representations for Social Media Users in NLP (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Current approaches to social media modelling ignore the fact that an individual may be part of several communities which are not equally relevant in all communicative situations. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that captures the sociological phenomenon of homophily and combines it with linguistic information to make a prediction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly outperforms existing models on three different tasks and is compared with other models. |
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