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I am an associate professor in Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science and the School of Informatics. My disciplinary background is in sociolinguistics. Much of my research focuses on language in computer-mediated communication (CMC), and the effects of CMC on language use. I am especially interested in online multilingualism and its relation to language diversity worldwide, which is already in decline from other causes. I also conduct research and teach in computational linguistics and information retrieval. My main interest in these two fields at present lies in the relationship between formal linguistic theories and probabilistic language modeling. These areas are partly explored in my recent book Analyzing Linguistic Variation: Statistical Models and Methods. My current research explores the relationships among a number of different reduced vector-space models used for information retrieval, genre analysis, text classification, and stylistic analysis.
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