All sessions will take place at the Frances C. Arillaga Alumni Center

Friday, October 4th. 
800- 900 am  Continental Breakfast
915am-1030am Session 1 

• Debunking Debiasing: A Critique of Bias Measurement in NLP. Su Lin Blodgett, Solon Barocas, Hal Daumé III, and Hanna Wallach. 

• Word Embeddings: what works, what doesn't, and how to tell the difference for applied research. Pedro Sosa Rodriguez and Arthur Spirling 

• Using Text Embeddings for Causal Inference. Dhanya Sridhar, Victor Veitch, and David Blei. 

    
  Discussant: Molly Roberts 

1045am-1200 pm Session 2

• The language of contract: Promises and power in union collective bargaining.  Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu.  
• How Saudi Crackdowns Fail to Silence Online Dissent. Alexandra Siegel and Jennifer Pan.
• Automated Bimodal Content Analysis:  Using Twitter Data to Observe the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Alejandro Pineda and Walter Mebane

  Discussant: Lily Fesler 

1200pm-115pm Lunch 

115pm-230pm Session 3

• Situating sentence embedders using nearest neighbor overlap. Lucy H. Lin and Noah A. Smith. 
• Synthesis of Open-ended Survey Responses Using Generative Language Models. Markus Neumann and Burt Monroe
• Automated Text Classification of News Articles: A Practical Guide. Pablo Barbera, Amber Boydstun, Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler, and Ryan McMahon.

  Discussant: Arthur Spirling

245-400 Session 4

• A Bayesian Transition Network Topic Model for Inferring Conceptual Networks. Nick Beauchamp. 
• Information Propagation in Literary Social Networks.   Matthew Sims and David Bamman
• Reasoning about the causal effects of conversational behaviors  Justine Zhang, Sendhil Mullainathan, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

  Discussant: David Mimno

430-600 pm Poster Session + Happy Hour (located on adjacent courtyard)

Posters:

• Urgency and Strategic Defense Communication in Periods of Budget Shortfall. Leah Matchett
• Slanted images: Measuring nonverbal media bias. Levi Boxell
• Transcending Training from Scratch: the Possibilities of Transfer Learning. Emma Rodman. 
• Strategic State Framing in International Institutions: Securitization of Climate Politics at the UN.  Sabrina Arias
• Legitimating Russian Revisionism: Does Moscow’s rhetoric explain variation in the Western response to the Georgia and Ukraine crises?  Abby Fanlo and Steven Morgan
• To-Delete or Not-To-Delete: the Effects of Moderation on Reddit Users' Behavior via Causal Text Matching. Katherine Keith, David Jensen, and Brendan O’Connor.   
• The Structure of Reasoning: Public Opinion and Political Talk. Sarah Shugars
• No Order in the House of Commons? Inferring legislators’ Brexit positions from parliamentary speech. Apoorva Lal, Nic Lyon, Toby Nowacki
• Hooked With Phonetics: The Strategic Use of Style-Shifting in Political Rhetoric. Markus Neumann. 
• In Plain Sight: Media Bias through the Lens of Factual Reporting. Eva Sharma
• A Text-As-Data Approach Using Open-Ended Responses as Manipulation Checks. Jeffrey Ziegler

  Discussants: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil  and Brendan O’Connor


Saturday, October 5th. 

800am-900am Continental Breakfast

915am-1030am Session 5

• Content Analysis of Textbooks via Natural Language Processing: Novel Findings on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Texas US History Textbooks.  Li Lucy, Dora Demszky, Patricia Bromley, Dan Jurafsky. 
• The Nationalization of State Party Platforms, 1918-2016. Dan Hopkins. 

  Discussant: Noah Smith

1045am-1200pm Session 6

•  More than Words: Textual and Nontextual Information in Political Speech. Dean Knox and Chris Lucas
•  Text-Based Ideal Points. Keyon Vafa, Suresh Naidu, David Blei. 

  Discussant: Matt Tyler.

1200pm-100pm: Lunch