Grounding the Semantics of Part-of-Day Nouns Worldwide using Twitter

David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2018 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media  
The usage of part-of-day nouns, such as 'night', and their time-specific greetings ('good night'), varies across languages and cultures. We show the possibilities that Twitter offers for studying the semantics of these terms and its variability between countries. We mine a worldwide sample of multilingual tweets with temporal greetings, and study how their frequencies vary in relation with local time. The results provide insights into the semantics of these temporal expressions and the cultural and sociological factors influencing their usage.
doi:10.18653/v1/w18-1116 dblp:conf/acl-peoples/VilaresG18 fatcat:v7ohrvuupber5ciumzrr2is7r4