Is this word borrowed? An automatic approach to quantifythe likeliness of borrowing in social media
Table 9: Spearman’s correlation between UUR and the ground truth in the different user buckets. Best results are marked in bold.
['Bucket', 'Number of users', '[ITALIC] ρ']
As mentioned earlier, we divide the set of 3982 users into three categories. As we can see, for Low bucket the ρ value is maximum. This points to the fact that the signals of borrowing is strongest from the users who rarely mix languages.