Sketching Linguistic Borders: Mobility Analysis on Multilingual Microbloggers

Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Pozi, Yukiko Kawai, Adam Jatowt, Toyokazu Akiyama

Abstract: Twitter has been used for various kinds of sociological studies including also multi-lingual analysis. In this paper we study the phenomenon of multilingualism in Twitter from a novel viewpoint. We advance the existing studies by correlating user mobility and multilingualism. The results we show can be used for explaining the usage of languages based on user location and mobility.