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Measuring Sentence-Level and Aspect-Level (Un)certainty in Science Communications
Jiaxin Pei, David Jurgens
Certainty and uncertainty are fundamental to science communication. Hedges have widely been used as proxies for uncertainty. However, certainty is a complex construct, with authors…
Detecting Community Sensitive Norm Violations in Online Conversations
Chan Young Park, Julia Mendelsohn, Karthik Radhakrishnan +4
Online platforms and communities establish their own norms that govern what behavior is acceptable within the community. Substantial effort in NLP has focused on identifying unacce…
Phone-to-audio alignment without text: A Semi-supervised Approach
Jian Zhu, Cong Zhang, David Jurgens
The task of phone-to-audio alignment has many applications in speech research. Here we introduce two Wav2Vec2-based models for both text-dependent and text-independent phone-to-aud…
An animated picture says at least a thousand words: Selecting Gif-based Replies in Multimodal Dialog
Xingyao Wang, David Jurgens
Online conversations include more than just text. Increasingly, image-based responses such as memes and animated gifs serve as culturally recognized and often humorous responses in…
Using Sociolinguistic Variables to Reveal Changing Attitudes Towards Sexuality and Gender
Sky CH-Wang, David Jurgens
Individuals signal aspects of their identity and beliefs through linguistic choices. Studying these choices in aggregate allows us to examine large-scale attitude shifts within a p…
Idiosyncratic but not Arbitrary: Learning Idiolects in Online Registers Reveals Distinctive yet Consistent Individual Styles
Jian Zhu, David Jurgens
An individual's variation in writing style is often a function of both social and personal attributes. While structured social variation has been extensively studied, e.g., gender…