Short-scale shortening of Twitter utterances

Authors

Christian M. Alis National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
May T. Lim National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Conversations reflect the existing norms of a language. Previously, we found that utterance lengths in English fictional conversations in books and movies have shortened over a period of 200 years. In this work, we show that this shortening occurs even for a brief period of 3 years (September 2009-December 2012) using 229 million utterances from Twitter. We argue that shortening of utterances can be explained by the increasing usage of jargon including coined words.

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Issue

2013: Proceedings of the 31st Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP2013-2C-6

Section

Complex Systems

Published

2013-10-23

How to Cite

[1]

CM Alis and MT Lim, Short-scale shortening of Twitter utterances, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 31, SPP2013-2C-6 (2013). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP2013-2C-6.