no code implementations • 12 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.
no code implementations • 7 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.
1 code implementation • 3 May 2021 • Alexander Robertson, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Scott A. Hale
The semantics of emoji has, to date, been considered from a static perspective.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (sdp) 2020 • Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Alexander Robertson, Jasmina Lazic, Theodora Tsouloufi, Louise Donnison, Karen Smyth
We construct a pipeline that automates each of these aspects, and experiment with many human-time vs. system quality trade-offs.
no code implementations • 5 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.
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.