Search Results for author: Alexander Robertson

Found 6 papers, 2 papers with code

Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji

no code implementations12 May 2021 Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater

Research in sociology and linguistics shows that people use language not only to express their own identity but to understand the identity of others.

Sociology

Identity Signals in Emoji Do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter

no code implementations7 May 2021 Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater

Prior work has shown that Twitter users use skin-toned emoji as an act of self-representation to express their racial/ethnic identity.

The Language of Dialogue Is Complex

no code implementations5 Jun 2019 Alexander Robertson, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia

Integrative Complexity (IC) is a psychometric that measures the ability of a person to recognize multiple perspectives and connect them, thus identifying paths for conflict resolution.

Evaluating historical text normalization systems: How well do they generalize?

no code implementations NAACL 2018 Alexander Robertson, Sharon Goldwater

We highlight several issues in the evaluation of historical text normalization systems that make it hard to tell how well these systems would actually work in practice---i. e., for new datasets or languages; in comparison to more na\"ive systems; or as a preprocessing step for downstream NLP tools.

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