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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…
MultiCite: Modeling realistic citations requires moving beyond the single-sentence single-label setting
Anne Lauscher, Brandon Ko, Bailey Kuehl +4
Citation context analysis (CCA) is an important task in natural language processing that studies how and why scholars discuss each others' work. Despite decades of study, tradition…
More than Meets the Tie: Examining the Role of Interpersonal Relationships in Social Networks
Minje Choi, Ceren Budak, Daniel M. Romero +1
Topics in conversations depend in part on the type of interpersonal relationship between speakers, such as friendship, kinship, or romance. Identifying these relationships can prov…
Modeling Framing in Immigration Discourse on Social Media
Julia Mendelsohn, Ceren Budak, David Jurgens
The framing of political issues can influence policy and public opinion. Even though the public plays a key role in creating and spreading frames, little is known about how ordinar…
The structure of online social networks modulates the rate of lexical change
Jian Zhu, David Jurgens
New words are regularly introduced to communities, yet not all of these words persist in a community's lexicon. Among the many factors contributing to lexical change, we focus on t…
Detecting Cross-Geographic Biases in Toxicity Modeling on Social Media
Sayan Ghosh, Dylan Baker, David Jurgens +1
Online social media platforms increasingly rely on Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to detect abusive content at scale in order to mitigate the harms it causes to their…
Conversations Gone Alright: Quantifying and Predicting Prosocial Outcomes in Online Conversations
Jiajun Bao, Junjie Wu, Yiming Zhang +2
Online conversations can go in many directions: some turn out poorly due to antisocial behavior, while others turn out positively to the benefit of all. Research on improving onlin…