%0 Journal Article %1 noKey %A Mitzlaff, Folke %A Atzmueller, Martin %A Hotho, Andreas %A Stumme, Gerd %D 2014 %I Springer Vienna %J Social Network Analysis and Mining %K 2014 distributional hypothesis myown pragmatic proxy social %N 1 %T The social distributional hypothesis: a pragmatic proxy for homophily in online social networks %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13278-014-0216-2 %V 4 %X Applications of the Social Web are ubiquitous and have become an integral part of everyday life: Users make friends, for example, with the help of online social networks, share thoughts via Twitter, or collaboratively write articles in Wikipedia. All such interactions leave digital traces; thus, users participate in the creation of heterogeneous, distributed, collaborative data collections. In linguistics, the