语言、Twitter和学术会议
Language, Twitter and Academic Conferences
摘要：
在学术会议期间使用Twitter是一种参与和连接观众的方式，这种方式本质上是科学合作的多元文化。英语被期望成为沟通和融合不同母语人群的通用语言。然而，很少有研究支持这一假设。在这篇论文中，我们通过分析五年内26个计算机科学会议上学者的推文来分析语言社区的整合程度。我们发现，尽管英语是会议期间最流行的推文语言，但也有相当一部分人用其他语言发推文。此外，仅用英语发推文的人大多在同一个群体（英语单语者）内互动，而说其他语言的人往往与其他语言群体进行更多样化的互动。最后，我们还发现，与其他Twitter用户互动的人显示出更多样化的语言分布，而不互动的人大多用单一语言发布推文。这些结果表明，用户说的语言数量之间的关系，这可能会影响在线社区的互动动态。
英文摘要：
Using Twitter during academic conferences is a way of engaging and connecting an audience inherently multicultural by the nature of scientific collaboration. English is expected to be the lingua franca bridging the communication and integration between native speakers of different mother tongues. However, little research has been done to support this assumption. In this paper we analyzed how integrated language communities are by analyzing the scholars' tweets used in 26 Computer Science conferences over a time span of five years. We found that although English is the most popular language used to tweet during conferences, a significant proportion of people also tweet in other languages. In addition, people who tweet solely in English interact mostly within the same group (English monolinguals), while people who speak other languages tend to show a more diverse interaction with other lingua groups. Finally, we also found that the people who interact with other Twitter users show a more diverse language distribution, while people who do not interact mostly post tweets in a single language. These results suggest a relation between the number of languages a user speaks, which can affect the interaction dynamics of online communities.
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