Aatu Liimatta
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Aatu Liimatta
@aatuliimatta.net
Researcher @ University of Helsinki
Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, digital humanities, register variation
Very happy to have been a part of this collaboration!
Our very collaborative paper (no less than 8 authors!) has finally come out in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities:

“Digital debating cultures: communicative practices on Reddit”
It’s been a long road from the conference panel in 2022 to this…
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Digital debating cultures: communicative practices on Reddit
Abstract . Reddit as a platform for online forum interaction hosts various communities (subreddits), which give rise to specific digital communicative prac
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February 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Aatu Liimatta
Happy New Year from the VARIENG research unit! Here's a list of last year's publications by Variengers – lots of research on variation, contacts and change in English 😊 #corpuslinguistics

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Varieng publications in 2024 | Variation, Contacts and Change in English | University of Helsinki
In 2024, Varieng has been active in research and publications. We have compiled a list of the works published in the last 12 month to highlight the fruits our labour – much of which has been in collab...
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January 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The NLP4DH 2024 paper by Emily Öhman and myself came out recently in the proceedings! A case study comparing "serious" and "relaxed" subreddits on the same topics, combining NLP/sentiment analysis with text length & ideas from register analysis. #OpenAccess 🔓: aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-...
Text Length and the Function of Intentionality: A Case Study of Contrastive Subreddits
Emily Sofi Ohman, Aatu Liimatta. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities. 2024.
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November 22, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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✨ Introducing Emoji Stats for Bluesky ✨

Watch live the most used emojis — all of them or per-language — explore why the dutch love 🍀, the germans ☕️ and so much more.

Tap/click on the emoji to see the latest posts with them.

A lot more things to come!

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Emoji Stats for Bluesky 🦋
Live counters and stats on emoji usage on Bluesky, broken down by language.
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October 4, 2024 at 5:08 PM