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CT: Counterfactual Causal Reasoning for Sentiment Shifts in Social-Media Conversation Trees
S M Rafiuddin, Atriya Sen
Sentiment in social-media threads does not only vary across posts; it shifts as users react to claims, corrections, evidence, and hostility within a branching reply tree. We study…
Algorithmic Censoring in Dynamic Learning Systems
Jennifer Chien, Margaret Roberts, Berk Ustun
Dynamic learning systems subject to selective labeling exhibit censoring, i.e. persistent negative predictions assigned to one or more subgroups of points. In applications like con…
Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond
Amir Feder, Katherine A. Keith, Emaad Manzoor +10
A fundamental goal of scientific research is to learn about causal relationships. However, despite its critical role in the life and social sciences, causality has not had the same…
Censorship of Online Encyclopedias: Implications for NLP Models
Eddie Yang, Margaret E. Roberts
While artificial intelligence provides the backbone for many tools people use around the world, recent work has brought to attention that the algorithms powering AI are not free of…
On Constructing a Knowledge Base of Chinese Criminal Cases
Xiaohan Wu, Benjamin L. Liebman, Rachel E. Stern +2
We are developing a knowledge base over Chinese judicial decision documents to facilitate landscape analyses of Chinese Criminal Cases. We view judicial decision documents as a mix…
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts
Naoki Egami, Christian J. Fong, Justin Grimmer +2
New text as data techniques offer a great promise: the ability to inductively discover measures that are useful for testing social science theories of interest from large collectio…
On the influence of social bots in online protests. Preliminary findings of a Mexican case study
Pablo Suárez-Serrato, Margaret E. Roberts, Clayton A. Davis +1
Social bots can affect online communication among humans. We study this phenomenon by focusing on #YaMeCanse, the most active protest hashtag in the history of Twitter in Mexico. A…