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Long-Term Trends in the Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence
Ethan Fast, Eric Horvitz
Analyses of text corpora over time can reveal trends in beliefs, interest, and sentiment about a topic. We focus on views expressed about artificial intelligence (AI) in the New Yo…
Identifying Dogmatism in Social Media: Signals and Models
Ethan Fast, Eric Horvitz
We explore linguistic and behavioral features of dogmatism in social media and construct statistical models that can identify dogmatic comments. Our model is based on a corpus of R…
Shirtless and Dangerous: Quantifying Linguistic Signals of Gender Bias in an Online Fiction Writing Community
Ethan Fast, Tina Vachovsky, Michael S. Bernstein
Imagine a princess asleep in a castle, waiting for her prince to slay the dragon and rescue her. Tales like the famous Sleeping Beauty clearly divide up gender roles. But what abou…
Augur: Mining Human Behaviors from Fiction to Power Interactive Systems
Ethan Fast, William McGrath, Pranav Rajpurkar +1
From smart homes that prepare coffee when we wake, to phones that know not to interrupt us during important conversations, our collective visions of HCI imagine a future in which c…
Empath: Understanding Topic Signals in Large-Scale Text
Ethan Fast, Binbin Chen, Michael Bernstein
Human language is colored by a broad range of topics, but existing text analysis tools only focus on a small number of them. We present Empath, a tool that can generate and validat…