All sessions will take place at the Frances C. Arillaga Alumni Center
Friday, October 4th.
800- 900 am Continental Breakfast
915am-1030am Session 1
Discussant: Molly Roberts
1045am-1200 pm Session 2
Discussant: Lily Fesler
1200pm-115pm Lunch
115pm-230pm Session 3
245-400 Session 4
430-600 pm Poster Session + Happy Hour (located on adjacent courtyard)
Posters:
Saturday, October 5th.
800am-900am Continental Breakfast
915am-1030am Session 5
1045am-1200pm Session 6
Discussant: Matt Tyler.
1200pm-100pm: Lunch
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.
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
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
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.
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