Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts

1 code implementation • IJCNLP 2019 • Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler, Alvin Grissom II, Brendan O'Connor, Mohit Iyyer

Sports broadcasters inject drama into play-by-play commentary by building team and player narratives through subjective analyses and anecdotes.

Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time

no code implementations • 19 Apr 2019 • Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor

Search applications often display shortened sentences which must contain certain query terms and must fit within the space constraints of a user interface.

Sentence Sentence Compression

Human acceptability judgements for extractive sentence compression

no code implementations • 1 Feb 2019 • Abram Handler, Brian Dillon, Brendan O'Connor

Recent approaches to English-language sentence compression rely on parallel corpora consisting of sentence-compression pairs.

Sentence Sentence Compression

Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives

no code implementations • 6 Aug 2017 • Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor

News archives are an invaluable primary source for placing current events in historical context.

Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction

no code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Katherine A. Keith, Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham, Cara Magliozzi, Joshua McDuffie, Brendan O'Connor

We propose a new, socially-impactful task for natural language processing: from a news corpus, extract names of persons who have been killed by police.

Event Extraction regression

Visualizing textual models with in-text and word-as-pixel highlighting

no code implementations • 20 Jun 2016 • Abram Handler, Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor

We explore two techniques which use color to make sense of statistical text models.