Short-scale shortening of Twitter utterances

Authors

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

Physics linkfest: Spanning science & technology
23-25 October 2013, University of San Carlos, Cebu City

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.