NLP

“You Sound Just Like Your Father” Commercial Machine Translation Systems Include Stylistic Biases

The main goal of machine translation has been to convey the correct content. Stylistic considerations have been at best secondary. We show that as a consequence, the output of three commercial machine translation systems (Bing, DeepL, Google) make …

Predictive Biases in Natural Language Processing Models: A Conceptual Framework and Overview

An increasing number of natural language processing papers address the effect of bias on predictions, introducing mitigation techniques at different parts of the standard NLP pipeline (data and models). However, these works have been conducted …

Visualizing Regional Language Variation Across Europe on Twitter

Geotagged Twitter data allows us to investigate correlations of geographic language variation, both at an interlingual and intralingual level. Based on data-driven studies of such relationships, this paper investigates regional variation of language …

Helpful or Hierarchical? Predicting the Communicative Strategies of Chat Participants, and their Impact on Success

When interacting with each other, we motivate, advise, inform, show love or power towards our peers. However, the way we interact may also hold some indication on how successful we are, as people often try to help each other to achieve their goals. …

What the [MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models

Recently, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed an impressive progress in many areas, due to the advent of novel, pretrained contextual representation models. In particular, Devlin et al. (2019) proposed a model, called BERT (Bidirectional …

INTEGRATOR

Incorporating Demographic Factors into Natural Language Processing Models

MiMac

Mixed methods for analyzing political parties’ promises to voters during election campaigns

Twitter Healthy Conversations

Devising Metrics for Assessing Echo Chambers, Incivility, and Intolerance on Twitter

A Case for Soft Loss Functions

Recently, Peterson et al. provided evidence of the benefits of using probabilistic soft labels generated from crowd annotations for training a computer vision model, showing that using such labels maximizes performance of the models over unseen data. …

Dense Node Representation for Geolocation

Prior research has shown that geolocation can be substantially improved by including user network information. While effective, it suffers from the curse of dimensionality, since networks are usually represented as sparse adjacency matrices of …