4 papers
Detecting and Reducing Bias in a High Stakes Domain
Ruiqi Zhong, Yanda Chen, Desmond Patton +2
Gang-involved youth in cities such as Chicago sometimes post on social media to express their aggression towards rival gangs and previous research has demonstrated that a deep lear…
An Overview of Computational Approaches for Interpretation Analysis
Philipp Blandfort, Jörn Hees, Desmond U. Patton
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But how exactly can we characterize such discrepancies in interpretation? For example, are there any specific features of an i…
Detecting Gang-Involved Escalation on Social Media Using Context
Serina Chang, Ruiqi Zhong, Ethan Adams +6
Gang-involved youth in cities such as Chicago have increasingly turned to social media to post about their experiences and intents online. In some situations, when they experience…
Multimodal Social Media Analysis for Gang Violence Prevention
Philipp Blandfort, Desmond Patton, William R. Frey +9
Gang violence is a severe issue in major cities across the U.S. and recent studies [Patton et al. 2017] have found evidence of social media communications that can be linked to suc…