Publications (8)
Human acceptability judgements for extractive sentence compression
Abram Handler, Brian Dillon, Brendan O'Connor
Recent approaches to English-language sentence compression rely on parallel corpora consisting of sentence-compression pairs. However, a sentence may be shortened in many different…
Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction
Katherine A. Keith, Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham +3
We propose a new, socially-impactful task for natural language processing: from a news corpus, extract names of persons who have been killed by police. We present a newly collected…
Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts
Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler +3
Sports broadcasters inject drama into play-by-play commentary by building team and player narratives through subjective analyses and anecdotes. Prior studies based on small dataset…
Visualizing textual models with in-text and word-as-pixel highlighting
Abram Handler, Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
We explore two techniques which use color to make sense of statistical text models. One method uses in-text annotations to illustrate a model's view of particular tokens in particu…
Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
Search applications often display shortened sentences which must contain certain query terms and must fit within the space constraints of a user interface. This work introduces a n…
Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
News archives are an invaluable primary source for placing current events in historical context. But current search engine tools do a poor job at uncovering broad themes and narrat…
TubeCensus: A Transparent, Replicable, and Large-Scale Census of YouTube Channels and their Subscriber Counts Over Time
Chloe Eggleston, Abram Handler, Maria Leonor Pacheco
YouTube is central to contemporary mass media. However, the official YouTube API does not provide access to the full set of creators or creator metadata on the platform. This lack…
ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives
Abram Handler, Narges Mahyar, Brendan O'Connor
Historians and archivists often find and analyze the occurrences of query words in newspaper archives, to help answer fundamental questions about society. But much work in text ana…