TextXD

9.00am
NLP Training Part 1
Python Text Analysis, Part 1: Bag-of-Words Representations
How do we convert text into a representation that we can operate on computationally? This requires developing a numerical representation of the text. In this part of the workshop, we study one of the foundational numerical representation of text data: the bag-of-words model. This model relies heavily on word frequencies in order to characterize text corpora. We build bag-of-words models, and their variations (e.g., TF-IDF), and use these representations to perform classification on text. Chou Hall Spieker Forum (6th Floor). Hosted by D-Lab.
Skill Level:The workshop is geared towards those with a basic familiarity with Python, but people without any familiarity with Python should be able to follow along with the conceptual presentation of the materials.
12:00pm
Lunch
1.00pm
NLP Training Part 2
Python Text Analysis, Part 2: Word Embeddings
How can we use neural networks to create meaningful representations of words? The bag-of-words is limited in its ability to characterize text, because it does not utilize word context. In this part, we study word embeddings, which were among the first attempts to use neural networks to develop numerical representations of text that incorporate context. We learn how to use the package gensim to construct and explore word embeddings of text. Chou Hall Spieker Forum (6th Floor). Hosted by D-Lab.
Skill Level: The workshop is geared towards those with a basic familiarity with Python, but people without any familiarity with Python should be able to follow along with the conceptual presentation of the materials.
4:00pm
Check In
Check in begins at Chou Hall Spieker Forum (6th Floor)
4:30pm
Keynote: Emily M. Bender
Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology
5:30pm
Opening Reception

8:30am
Start of the Day
9:00am: Registration and Coffee
9:30: Welcome
9:45am
Session 1
Rising Up and Tamping Down: Social Movements and Political Elites
Talk 1.1: Ishita Gopal, Coverage of Protests on Telegram
Talk 1.2: Yunus Emre Tapan, Investigation of elite opinion on Turkish-American relations
11:00am
Session 2
Scientific Fictions and Scientific Truths
Talk 2.1: Mark Algee-Hewitt, Truth in Fiction: the Discourse of Embedded Scientific Facts in Climate Fiction
Talk 2.2: Shide Dehghani, ExtractFlora: a pipeline for transforming a floristic manual into a database for ecological and evolutionary study
11:45am
Poster Session
Poster session begins and runs through lunch.
Geoffrey Boushey Contextualizing AI Generated Transcription Accuracy for Researchers
Jee Young Bhan Do Student Populations Matter for the Allocation of Additional Funds?: A Deeper Look at California’s Education Funding through LCAP Content
Benjamin Lacar Identifying and evaluating social risk associations with pediatric oncology outcomes using electronic health records and clinical notes
Hongkai Mao Sentiment Shift: Interplay between users and the community on a Chinese Movie-rating Website
Anastasja Abraham Quantifying the Rhetoric of Polarization: A Word Embeddings Approach to the American Ideological Divide
Da Gong Politicians, Media and COVID
12:00pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Session 3
Lightning Talks
Sub-Session: Scripting Culture, Smashing Politics
Lightning 3.1: Jaren Haber, Does Website Text Signal Quality & Fit for Schools of Choice?: Evidence from Online Experiments Lightning 3.2: Pranathi Iyer, Decoding matrimonial advertisements: Individual preferences entrenched in socio cultural biases
Lightning 3.3: Aleksi Sahala, Code-switching in Sumerian Emesal texts: A computational approach
Q/A (15min)
Sub-Session: The Hidden Structures of Science
Lightning 3.4: Xiangyi Meng, Hidden Citations Obscure True Impact in Science
Lightning 3.5: Viktoriia Baibakova, Dataset of BiFeO3 thin film sol-gel synthesis recipes extracted manually and with GPT-3
Lightning 3.6: Karl Swanson, Hypernym Substitution for the Simplification of Biomedical Definitions
Q/A (15min)
2:00pm
Coffee Break
3:00pm
Session 4
Through New Eyes: Advances in Methods
Talk 4.1: Jake Ryland Williams, How To Train Your Own Transformer From Scratch
Talk 4.2: Emily Amspoker, A Gamified Approach to Frame Semantic Role Labeling
Talk 4.3: Peter Leonard, Text & visual cultural heritage collections: evocative possibilities
4:00pm
Collaboration Session
Themed Table Discussion

8:30am - 9:40am
Start of the Day
9:00am - 9:30am: Registration and Coffee
9:30: Welcome back
9:45pm
Session 5
Reading the Fine Print: Social Determinants of Health
Talk 5.1: Dmytro ‘Dima’ Lituiev, Automatic Extraction of Social Determinants of Health from Medical Notes of Chronic Lower Back Pain Patients
Talk 5.2: Shenghuan Sun, Predicting the cancer therapy regimen from social work notes using natural language processing
10:30am
Coffee Break
11:00am
Session 6
Friends and Enemies: Network Interaction, Group Formation, and Misinformation
Talk 6.1: Monica Lee, Extracting text signals from social media movements with Information Corridors
Talk 6.2: Lara Yang, Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Positions in Network Structure Relate to a Language-Based Model of Group Identification
11:45pm
Poster Session
Poster session begins and runs through lunch.
Michael Ruiz Lifting the Bar: A relationship-orienting intervention motivates teachers to build relationships with hypothetical formerly incarcerated students
Julian Heid Is Populism Contagious? Evidence from Parliamentary Speeches in Germany
Zeyneb Kaya Women in the Workplace: Analyzing Gender Biases in Corporate Email Communications
Vitaly Meursault Can innovations in NLP help us study innovation?
Nikki Garlic Using R to Wrangle and Analyze Unstructured Text in Federal Court Case Dockets
Jay Gupta A Topic Modeling Analysis on Historical US Mental Health Legislation
12:15pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Session 3
Lightning Talks
Sub-Session: Widening the Frame: New Methods and Resources
Lightning 7.1: Laura Nixon, ReThink Media is working on a pipeline to analyze news coverage of the issues we work on, leveraging past work by researchers on quote extraction, news/opinion classification, NER and name-to-gender inference. We’ll discuss what we’ve learned, and the outstanding questions we’re grappling with now.
Lightning 7.2: Lindsay Katz, Digitization of the Australian Hansard (1901-2022): A new, comprehensive database of all proceedings of the Australian Parliamentary Debates
Lightning 7.3: Ayush Pancholy, Sister Help: Data Augmentation for Frame-Semantic Role Labeling
Q/A
Sub-Session:Tweeting Covid-19
Lightning 7.4: Samuel R. Mendez, Performance of reading grade level estimators for public health communication on Twitter
Lightning 7.5: Burak Ozturan, Polarization in elite discourse on the COVID-19 pandemic
Lightning 7.6: Wan Nurul Naszeerah, A Preliminary Social Listening-based Evidence in Using a Language-based Approach to Enhancing Vaccine Confidence in the Underrepresented Malay-speaking Communities in Southeast Asia
Q/A
2:30pm
Coffee Break
3:00pm
Session 8
Money Talks: Finance and Marketing
Talk 8.1: Dominik Jurek, Patent texts for identification in economic and innovation research
Talk 8.2: Vincent Chen, Correcting Recency Bias in Retrospective Judgments Using Diachronic Word Embedding
Talk 8.3: Summer Zhao, The Information Content of Credit Sentiments in Conference Calls
4:00pm
Keynote: David Blei
Beyond Roll Call: Inferring Politics from Text
5:00pm
Closing Reception

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11/30/22 Update: TextXD has been cancelled due to UAW strike at the University of California.

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TextXD Schedule

9.00am

NLP Training Part 1

Python Text Analysis, Part 1: Bag-of-Words Representations

12:00pm

Lunch

1.00pm

NLP Training Part 2

Python Text Analysis, Part 2: Word Embeddings

4:00pm

Check In

4:30pm

Keynote: Emily M. Bender

Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology

5:30pm

Opening Reception

8:30am

Start of the Day

9:45am

Session 1

Rising Up and Tamping Down: Social Movements and Political Elites

11:00am

Session 2

Scientific Fictions and Scientific Truths

11:45am

Poster Session

12:00pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Session 3

Lightning Talks

2:00pm

Coffee Break

3:00pm

Session 4

Through New Eyes: Advances in Methods

4:00pm

Collaboration Session

Themed Table Discussion

8:30am - 9:40am

Start of the Day

9:45pm

Session 5

Reading the Fine Print: Social Determinants of Health

10:30am

Coffee Break

11:00am

Session 6

Friends and Enemies: Network Interaction, Group Formation, and Misinformation

11:45pm

Poster Session

12:15pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Session 3

Lightning Talks

2:30pm

Coffee Break

3:00pm

Session 8

Money Talks: Finance and Marketing

4:00pm

Keynote: David Blei

Beyond Roll Call: Inferring Politics from Text

5:00pm

Closing Reception

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