Researcher

Lisa Hilte

Research Expertise:My expertise includes: - linguistics - sociolinguistics - computational linguistics - statistics (for the humanities) The types of analyses that I conduct are: - quantitative linguistics - text mining (Python) - statistics (R) - linear regression - generalized linear regression (binary, Poisson) - mixed effects regression - machine learning (classification) My research topics are: - online language use - language on social media - chatspeak / language in instant messaging - youth language - social variation in online language - accommodation (linguistic adaptation to one's conversation partner)

Keywords:SOCIOLINGUISTICS, COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, YOUTH LANGUAGE, SCHOOL SURVEY, QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS, GENERAL LINGUISTICS, ONLINE LANGUAGE, CORPUS LINGUISTICS, Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences)

Disciplines:Media studies, Language studies, Linguistics, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Computational linguistics, Corpus linguistics, Sociolinguistics

Research techniques:The techniques that I use in my quantitative linguistic research are: - text mining in Python - statistics in R (chi-squared test, Fisher's Exact, ...) - linear regression - generalized linear regression (binary, Poisson) - mixed effects regression - machine learning (classification with e.g. Support Vector Machines)

Users of research expertise:People who are interested in: - online language - youth language - social variation in (youth)language - linguistic adaptation to conversation partners, by youths E.g. teachers