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Bridging Dictionary: AI-Generated Dictionary of Partisan Language Use Open
Words often carry different meanings for people from diverse backgrounds.\nToday's era of social polarization demands that we choose words carefully to\nprevent miscommunication, especially in political communication and journalism.\nTo ad…
Parents' online school reviews reflect several racial and socioeconomic disparities in K-12 education Open
The files included on this page contain a description of the datasets that were used for this project, along with information about how access can be requested. They also contain the code repositories used to collect, prepare, and analyze …
AudienceView: AI-Assisted Interpretation of Audience Feedback in Journalism Open
Understanding and making use of audience feedback is important but difficult for journalists, who now face an impractically large volume of audience comments online. We introduce AudienceView, an online tool to help journalists categorize …
FeedbackMap: A Tool for Making Sense of Open-ended Survey Responses Open
Analyzing open-ended survey responses is a crucial yet challenging task for social scientists, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions, as they often face the trade-off between obtaining rich data and the burden of reading a…
FeedbackMap: a tool for making sense of open-ended survey responses Open
Analyzing open-ended survey responses is a crucial yet challenging task for social scientists, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions, as they often face the trade-off between obtaining rich data and the burden of reading a…
All a-board: sharing educational data science research with school districts Open
Educational data scientists often conduct research with the hopes of translating findings into lasting change through policy, civil society, or other channels. However, the bridge from research to practice can be fraught with sociopolitica…
Redrawing attendance boundaries to promote racial and ethnic diversity in elementary schools Open
Most US school districts draw "attendance boundaries" to define catchment areas that assign students to schools near their homes, often recapitulating neighborhood demographic segregation in schools. Focusing on elementary schools, we ask:…
CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models Open
As political attitudes have diverged ideologically in the United States, political speech has diverged lingusitically. The ever-widening polarization between the US political parties is accelerated by an erosion of mutual understanding bet…
Engaging Politically Diverse Audiences on Social Media Open
We study how political polarization is reflected in the social media posts used by media outlets to promote their content online. In particular, we track the Twitter posts of several media outlets over the course of more than three years (…
Annotating the Tweebank Corpus on Named Entity Recognition and Building NLP Models for Social Media Analysis Open
Social media data such as Twitter messages ("tweets") pose a particular challenge to NLP systems because of their short, noisy, and colloquial nature. Tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER) and syntactic parsing require highly domain…
Topic Detection and Tracking with Time-Aware Document Embeddings Open
The time at which a message is communicated is a vital piece of metadata in many real-world natural language processing tasks such as Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). TDT systems aim to cluster a corpus of news articles by event, and in…
Engaging Politically Diverse Audiences on Social Media Open
We study how political polarization is reflected in the social media posts used by media outlets to promote their content online. In particular, we track the Twitter posts of several media outlets over the course of more than three years (…
Topic-time Heatmaps for Human-in-the-loop Topic Detection and Tracking Open
The essential task of Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) is to organize a collection of news media into clusters of stories that pertain to the same real-world event. To apply TDT models to practical applications such as search engines and…
Parents’ Online School Reviews Reflect Several Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in K–12 Education Open
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments of quality made by other parents, which are increasingly becoming available through written reviews on school ratings websites. To identify relationships between review cont…
RadioTalk: A Large-Scale Corpus of Talk Radio Transcripts Open
We introduce RadioTalk, a corpus of speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2018 and March of 2019. The corpus is intended for use by researchers in the fields of natural la…