3 papers
cs.CL2021
On the Impact of Random Seeds on the Fairness of Clinical Classifiers
Silvio Amir, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Byron C. Wallace
Recent work has shown that fine-tuning large networks is surprisingly sensitive to changes in random seed(s). We explore the implications of this phenomenon for model fairness acro…
cs.CL2020
Demographic Representation and Collective Storytelling in the Me Too Twitter Hashtag Activism Movement
Aaron Mueller, Zach Wood-Doughty, Silvio Amir +2
The #MeToo movement on Twitter has drawn attention to the pervasive nature of sexual harassment and violence. While #MeToo has been praised for providing support for self-disclosur…
cs.CL2016
Modelling Context with User Embeddings for Sarcasm Detection in Social Media
Silvio Amir, Byron C. Wallace, Hao Lyu +1
We introduce a deep neural network for automated sarcasm detection. Recent work has emphasized the need for models to capitalize on contextual features, beyond lexical and syntacti…