... their language for a social context amounts to an identifiable variation on language, which we call a lect. Lect is a backformation from words such as dialect (geographically defined lan- guage) ... Linguistics, pages 773–782,Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational Linguistics Extracting Social Power Relationships from Natural Language Philip Bramsen ... natural language process-ing problems are authorship attribution, sentiment analysis, emotion detection, and personality classi-fication: all aim to extract higher-level information from language....