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A Monte Carlo Language Model Pipeline for Zero-Shot Sociopolitical Event Extraction
Erica Cai, Brendan O'Connor
Current social science efforts automatically populate event databases of "who did what to whom?" tuples, by applying event extraction (EE) to text such as news. The event databases…
Examining Political Rhetoric with Epistemic Stance Detection
Ankita Gupta, Su Lin Blodgett, Justin H Gross +1
Participants in political discourse employ rhetorical strategies -- such as hedging, attributions, or denials -- to display varying degrees of belief commitments to claims proposed…
ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives
Abram Handler, Narges Mahyar, Brendan O'Connor
Historians and archivists often find and analyze the occurrences of query words in newspaper archives, to help answer fundamental questions about society. But much work in text ana…
Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects
Katherine A. Keith, Douglas Rice, Brendan O'Connor
Using observed language to understand interpersonal interactions is important in high-stakes decision making. We propose a causal research design for observational (non-experimenta…
A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval
Qingyao Ai, Brendan O Connor, W. Bruce Croft
Traditional statistical retrieval models often treat each document as a whole. In many cases, however, a document is relevant to a query only because a small part of it contain the…
Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts
Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler +3
Sports broadcasters inject drama into play-by-play commentary by building team and player narratives through subjective analyses and anecdotes. Prior studies based on small dataset…