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Syntactic Geolectal Variation: Traditional approaches, current challenges and new tools
Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 34] 2021
► pp. 347–380

Chapter 12
Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation

Collecting tweets and mapping them out

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Data for linguistic analysis from social media are being used for a variety of reasons. One of the most attractive reasons is the possibility of gathering very large quantities of data in the digital form. However, collecting data from these sources is not always a simple task. In this chapter, a few methods to harvest data from Twitter will be introduced like FireAnt, 140dev Streaming API Framework, and Elastic Stack, as well as visualization tools like QGIS to map geotagged tweets. Finally, some examples of tweet analyses are discussed.
Keywords: linguistic variation, data mining, geocorpus, visualization, social media, Twitter
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. FireAnt
  • 3. 140dev Streaming API Framework
  • 4.Elastic Stack
  • 5. QGIS
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 November 2021
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