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Identity Signals in Emoji Do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Prior work has shown that Twitter users use skin-toned emoji as an act of self-representation to express their racial/ethnic identity. We test whether this signal of identity can i…
Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Research in sociology and linguistics shows that people use language not only to express their own identity but to understand the identity of others. Recent work established a conn…
Scaling Systematic Literature Reviews with Machine Learning Pipelines
Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Alexander Robertson, Jasmina Lazic +3
Systematic reviews, which entail the extraction of data from large numbers of scientific documents, are an ideal avenue for the application of machine learning. They are vital to m…
Evaluating historical text normalization systems: How well do they generalize?
Alexander Robertson, Sharon Goldwater
We highlight several issues in the evaluation of historical text normalization systems that make it hard to tell how well these systems would actually work in practice---i.e., for…