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%T Making “fetch” happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline
%A Stewart, Ian
%A Eisenstein, Jacob
%Y Riloff, Ellen
%Y Chiang, David
%Y Hockenmaier, Julia
%Y Tsujii, Jun’ichi
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%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Brussels, Belgium
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Markdown (Informal)

[Making “fetch” happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1467) (Stewart & Eisenstein, EMNLP 2018)

• Making “fetch” happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline (Stewart & Eisenstein, EMNLP 2018)

ACL

• Ian Stewart and Jacob Eisenstein. 2018. Making “fetch” happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4360–4370, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.