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SCITUNE: Aligning Large Language Models with Human-Curated Scientific Multimodal Instructions
Sameera Horawalavithana, Sai Munikoti, Ian Stewart +2
Instruction finetuning is a popular paradigm to align large language models (LLM) with human intent. Despite its popularity, this idea is less explored in improving LLMs to align e…
Democratizing Machine Learning for Interdisciplinary Scholars: Report on Organizing the NLP+CSS Online Tutorial Series
Ian Stewart, Katherine Keith
Many scientific fields -- including biology, health, education, and the social sciences -- use machine learning (ML) to help them analyze data at an unprecedented scale. However, M…
How Well Do You Know Your Audience? Toward Socially-aware Question Generation
Ian Stewart, Rada Mihalcea
When writing, a person may need to anticipate questions from their audience, but different social groups may ask very different types of questions. If someone is writing about a pr…
Room to Grow: Understanding Personal Characteristics Behind Self Improvement Using Social Media
MeiXing Dong, Xueming Xu, Yiwei Zhang +2
Many people aim for change, but not everyone succeeds. While there are a number of social psychology theories that propose motivation-related characteristics of those who persist w…
FIBER: Fill-in-the-Blanks as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework
Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang +5
We propose fill-in-the-blanks as a video understanding evaluation framework and introduce FIBER -- a novel dataset consisting of 28,000 videos and descriptions in support of this e…
Rock, Rap, or Reggaeton?: Assessing Mexican Immigrants' Cultural Assimilation Using Facebook Data
Ian Stewart, René Flores, Tim Riffe +2
The degree to which Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are assimilating culturally has been widely debated. To examine this question, we focus on musical taste, a key symbolic resource…
Sí o no, què penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media
Ian Stewart, Yuval Pinter, Jacob Eisenstein
Political identity is often manifested in language variation, but the relationship between the two is still relatively unexplored from a quantitative perspective. This study examin…
Making "fetch" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline
Ian Stewart, Jacob Eisenstein
In an online community, new words come and go: today's "haha" may be replaced by tomorrow's "lol." Changes in online writing are usually studied as a social process, with innovatio…
#anorexia, #anarexia, #anarexyia: Characterizing Online Community Practices with Orthographic Variation
Ian Stewart, Stevie Chancellor, Munmun De Choudhury +1
Distinctive linguistic practices help communities build solidarity and differentiate themselves from outsiders. In an online community, one such practice is variation in orthograph…
Making "fetch" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline
Ian Stewart, Jacob Eisenstein
In an online community, new words come and go: today's "haha" may be replaced by tomorrow's "lol." Changes in online writing are usually studied as a social process, with innovatio…
Measuring, Predicting and Visualizing Short-Term Change in Word Representation and Usage in VKontakte Social Network
Ian Stewart, Dustin Arendt, Eric Bell +1
Language in social media is extremely dynamic: new words emerge, trend and disappear, while the meaning of existing words can fluctuate over time. Such dynamics are especially nota…