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cs.HC2017★ 4 cited
Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
News archives are an invaluable primary source for placing current events in historical context. But current search engine tools do a poor job at uncovering broad themes and narrat…
cs.CL2017
Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction
Katherine A. Keith, Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham +3
We propose a new, socially-impactful task for natural language processing: from a news corpus, extract names of persons who have been killed by police. We present a newly collected…
cs.CY2017★ 51 cited
Racial Disparity in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Social Media African-American English
Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
We highlight an important frontier in algorithmic fairness: disparity in the quality of natural language processing algorithms when applied to language from authors of different so…