Quantifying Urban Linguistic Diversity Related to Rainfall and Flood across China with Social Media Data
Jiale Qian,
Yunyan Du,
Fuyuan Liang
et al.
Abstract:Understanding the public’s diverse linguistic expressions about rainfall and flood provides a basis for flood disaster studies and enhances linguistic and cultural awareness. However, existing research tends to overlook linguistic complexity, potentially leading to bias. In this study, we introduce a novel algorithm capturing rainfall and flood-related expressions, considering the relationship between precipitation observations and linguistics expressions. Analyzing 210 million social media microblogs from 201… Show more
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