Brendan O'Connor

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence

Automated event extraction in social science applications often requires...
05/27/2021 ∙ by Andrew Halterman, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval

Traditional statistical retrieval models often treat each document as a ...
03/16/2021 ∙ by Qingyao Ai, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes

Popular media reflects and reinforces societal biases through the use of...
10/30/2020 ∙ by Dhruvil Gala, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Uncertainty over Uncertainty: Investigating the Assumptions, Annotations, and Text Measurements of Economic Policy Uncertainty

Methods and applications are inextricably linked in science, and in part...
10/09/2020 ∙ by Katherine A. Keith, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates

Many applications of computational social science aim to infer causal co...
05/01/2020 ∙ by Katherine A. Keith, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts

Sports broadcasters inject drama into play-by-play commentary by buildin...
09/07/2019 ∙ by Jack Merullo, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time

Search applications often display shortened sentences which must contain...
04/19/2019 ∙ by Abram Handler, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Human acceptability judgements for extractive sentence compression

Recent approaches to English-language sentence compression rely on paral...
02/01/2019 ∙ by Abram Handler, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Evaluating Syntactic Properties of Seq2seq Output with a Broad Coverage HPSG: A Case Study on Machine Translation

Sequence to sequence (seq2seq) models are often employed in settings whe...
09/06/2018 ∙ by Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Monte Carlo Syntax Marginals for Exploring and Using Dependency Parses

Dependency parsing research, which has made significant gains in recent ...
04/17/2018 ∙ by Katherine A. Keith, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives

News archives are an invaluable primary source for placing current event...
08/06/2017 ∙ by Abram Handler, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction

We propose a new, socially-impactful task for natural language processin...
07/22/2017 ∙ by Katherine A. Keith, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Racial Disparity in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Social Media African-American English

We highlight an important frontier in algorithmic fairness: disparity in...
06/30/2017 ∙ by Su Lin Blodgett, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English

Though dialectal language is increasingly abundant on social media, few ...
08/31/2016 ∙ by Su Lin Blodgett, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Visualizing textual models with in-text and word-as-pixel highlighting

We explore two techniques which use color to make sense of statistical t...
06/20/2016 ∙ by Abram Handler, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Posterior calibration and exploratory analysis for natural language processing models

Many models in natural language processing define probabilistic distribu...
08/21/2015 ∙ by Khanh Nguyen, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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