Anything you can do to help people determine better the language of tweets, so search is more usable for international users. ;))
I am a bit curious about the mentioned 'costs of publishing in journals and conferences' - don't know about the journals. but none of the conferences I know of in Tech would charge anybody for presenting such kind of results. As long as you are not a boring academic speaker this should be interesting enough for some of the major tech ones. (it makes it easier if you can bring a specific dev or biz angle) Nicole
