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Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation

Collecting tweets and mapping them out
  • Antonio Ruiz Tinoco
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Syntactic Geolectal Variation
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Abstract

Data for linguistic analysis from social media are being used for a variety of reasons. One of the most attractive reasons is the possibility of gathering very large quantities of data in the digital form. However, collecting data from these sources is not always a simple task. In this chapter, a few methods to harvest data from Twitter will be introduced like FireAnt, 140dev Streaming API Framework, and Elastic Stack, as well as visualization tools like QGIS to map geotagged tweets. Finally, some examples of tweet analyses are discussed.

Abstract

Data for linguistic analysis from social media are being used for a variety of reasons. One of the most attractive reasons is the possibility of gathering very large quantities of data in the digital form. However, collecting data from these sources is not always a simple task. In this chapter, a few methods to harvest data from Twitter will be introduced like FireAnt, 140dev Streaming API Framework, and Elastic Stack, as well as visualization tools like QGIS to map geotagged tweets. Finally, some examples of tweet analyses are discussed.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Dialectology
  5. Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
  6. Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
  7. Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
  8. Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
  9. Section II. Current perspectives on variation
  10. Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
  11. Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
  12. Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
  13. Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
  14. Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
  15. Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
  16. Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
  17. Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
  18. Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
  19. Language index 381
  20. Subject index 383
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.34.12tin

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Dialectology
  5. Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
  6. Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
  7. Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
  8. Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
  9. Section II. Current perspectives on variation
  10. Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
  11. Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
  12. Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
  13. Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
  14. Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
  15. Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
  16. Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
  17. Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
  18. Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
  19. Language index 381
  20. Subject index 383
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