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Speaking swiss: languages and venues in foursquare

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Darshan Santani,

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MM '13: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2502081.2502133

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Due to increasing globalization, urban societies are becoming more multicultural. The availability of large-scale digital mobility traces e.g. from tweets or checkins provides an opportunity to explore multiculturalism that until recently could only be addressed using survey-based methods. In this paper we examine a basic facet of multiculturalism through the lens of language use across multiple cities in Switzerland. Using data obtained from Foursquare over 330 days, we present a descriptive analysis of linguistic differences and similarities across five urban agglomerations in a multicultural, western European country.

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MM '13: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia

October 2013

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ISBN:9781450324045

DOI:10.1145/2502081

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Yahoo!, Spain
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University of Trento, Italy
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IDIAP & EPFL, Switzerland
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Yahoo!, USA
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University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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National University of Singapore, Singapore

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