Algospeak and Nigerian Digital Discourse: Lexical Resource and Code

This repository contains the lexical resource, corpus, and source code associated with the study: "Navigating the Algorithm: A Computational Sociolinguistic Study of Algospeak and Culturally Embedded Digital Discourse in AI-Mediated Communication" (Etu & Akaerue, 2026). Contents: Lexical Resource (Excel file — 3 sheets): Table S1: Global Algospeak and Community-Coded Language (154 entries) Table S2: Algospeak and Culturally Coded Expressions in African/Nigerian Digital Discourse (363 entries) Table S3: Expanded Algospeak and Culturally Coded Expressions (540 entries) Source Code: Corpus construction and augmentation scripts Sociolinguistic feature extraction Machine-learning classification framework (Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression, SVM, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting) Topic modelling (LDA) and visualisation scripts Associated Journal: Language Sciences (Elsevier) Keywords: algospeak, coded digital discourse, Nigerian Pidgin, sociolinguistics, machine learning, TF–IDF, computational sociolinguistics