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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…
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…
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…
Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
Search applications often display shortened sentences which must contain certain query terms and must fit within the space constraints of a user interface. This work introduces a n…
Human acceptability judgements for extractive sentence compression
Abram Handler, Brian Dillon, Brendan O'Connor
Recent approaches to English-language sentence compression rely on parallel corpora consisting of sentence-compression pairs. However, a sentence may be shortened in many different…