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20152023
most citedHow we do things with words: Analyzing text as social and cultural data

70 citations · 86 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2023

Epicurus at SemEval-2023 Task 4: Improving Prediction of Human Values behind Arguments by Leveraging Their Definitions

Christian Fang, Qixiang Fang, Dong Nguyen

We describe our experiments for SemEval-2023 Task 4 on the identification of human values behind arguments (ValueEval). Because human values are subjective concepts which require p…

cs.CL2023

Measuring the Instability of Fine-Tuning

Yupei Du, Dong Nguyen

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models on downstream tasks with varying random seeds has been shown to be unstable, especially on small datasets. Many previous studies have invest…

cs.CL2022

Same Author or Just Same Topic? Towards Content-Independent Style Representations

Anna Wegmann, Marijn Schraagen, Dong Nguyen

Linguistic style is an integral component of language. Recent advances in the development of style representations have increasingly used training objectives from authorship verifi…

cs.CY2022★ 13 cited

Evaluating the Construct Validity of Text Embeddings with Application to Survey Questions

Qixiang Fang, Dong Nguyen, Daniel L Oberski

Text embedding models from Natural Language Processing can map text data (e.g. words, sentences, documents) to supposedly meaningful numerical representations (a.k.a. text embeddin…

cs.CL2021

Does It Capture STEL? A Modular, Similarity-based Linguistic Style Evaluation Framework

Anna Wegmann, Dong Nguyen

Style is an integral part of natural language. However, evaluation methods for style measures are rare, often task-specific and usually do not control for content. We propose the m…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Assessing the Reliability of Word Embedding Gender Bias Measures

Yupei Du, Qixiang Fang, Dong Nguyen

Various measures have been proposed to quantify human-like social biases in word embeddings. However, bias scores based on these measures can suffer from measurement error. One ind…

cs.CL2019★ 70 cited

How we do things with words: Analyzing text as social and cultural data

Dong Nguyen, Maria Liakata, Simon DeDeo +4

In this article we describe our experiences with computational text analysis. We hope to achieve three primary goals. First, we aim to shed light on thorny issues not always at the…

cs.CL2015★ 2 cited

Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey

Dong Nguyen, A. Seza Doğruöz, Carolyn P. Rosé +1

Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in…