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07/17/2023
The Resume Paradox: Greater Language Differences, Smaller Pay Gaps
Over the past decade, the gender pay gap has remained steady with women ...
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06/11/2023
A blind spot for large language models: Supradiegetic linguistic information
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT reflect profound changes in th...
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05/20/2023
Park visitation and walkshed demographics in the United States
A large and growing body of research demonstrates the value of local par...
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05/15/2023
An assessment of measuring local levels of homelessness through proxy social media signals
Recent studies suggest social media activity can function as a proxy for...
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05/04/2023
Curating corpora with classifiers: A case study of clean energy sentiment online
Well curated, large-scale corpora of social media posts containing broad...
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08/19/2022
Characterizing narrative time in books through fluctuations in power and danger arcs
While recent studies have focused on quantifying word usage to find the ...
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10/01/2021
Sentiment and structure in word co-occurrence networks on Twitter
We explore the relationship between context and happiness scores in poli...
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09/18/2021
Augmenting semantic lexicons using word embeddings and transfer learning
Sentiment-aware intelligent systems are essential to a wide array of app...
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07/09/2021
Blending search queries with social media data to improve forecasts of economic indicators
The forecasting of political, economic, and public health indicators usi...
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06/18/2021
Say Their Names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd
The murder of George Floyd by police in May 2020 sparked international p...
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06/02/2021
Quantifying language changes surrounding mental health on Twitter
Mental health challenges are thought to afflict around 10 population eac...
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05/25/2021
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global misogynistic community
Evolving out of a gender-neutral framing of an involuntary celibate iden...
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03/10/2021
Interpretable bias mitigation for textual data: Reducing gender bias in patient notes while maintaining classification performance
Medical systems in general, and patient treatment decisions and outcomes...
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08/05/2020
Generalized Word Shift Graphs: A Method for Visualizing and Explaining Pairwise Comparisons Between Texts
A common task in computational text analyses is to quantify how two corp...
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07/25/2020
Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter
In real-time, Twitter strongly imprints world events, popular culture, a...
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06/15/2020
The sociospatial factors of death: Analyzing effects of geospatially-distributed variables in a Bayesian mortality model for Hong Kong
Human mortality is in part a function of multiple socioeconomic factors ...
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03/07/2020
The growing echo chamber of social media: Measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009–2020
Working from a dataset of 118 billion messages running from the start of...
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07/29/2019
Exploring Perceptions of Veganism
This project examined perceptions of the vegan lifestyle using surveys a...
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07/09/2019
Hahahahaha, Duuuuude, Yeeessss!: A two-parameter characterization of stretchable words and the dynamics of mistypings and misspellings
Stretched words like `heellllp' or `heyyyyy' are a regular feature of sp...
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06/27/2019
The shocklet transform: A decomposition method for the identification of local, mechanism-driven dynamics in sociotechnical time series
We introduce an unsupervised pattern recognition algorithm termed the Di...
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07/20/2018
Exposure to urban parks improves affect and reduces negativity on Twitter
Urbanization and the decline of access to nature have coincided with a r...
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05/25/2018
A Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Treatment Experiences and Healthcare Perceptions Across Twitter
Background: Social media has the capacity to afford the healthcare indus...
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03/26/2018
English verb regularization in books and tweets
The English language has evolved dramatically throughout its lifespan, t...
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06/24/2016
The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
Advances in computing power, natural language processing, and digitizati...
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06/22/2016
Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter
Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police offic...
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01/29/2016
Zipf's law is a consequence of coherent language production
The task of text segmentation may be undertaken at many levels in text a...
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12/02/2015
Benchmarking sentiment analysis methods for large-scale texts: A case for using continuum-scored words and word shift graphs
The emergence and global adoption of social media has rendered possible ...
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03/11/2015
Is language evolution grinding to a halt? The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is not
Of basic interest is the quantification of the long term growth of a lan...
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03/07/2015
Identifying missing dictionary entries with frequency-conserving context models
In an effort to better understand meaning from natural language texts, w...
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01/05/2015