Beyond Eviction Prediction: Leveraging Local Spatiotemporal Public Records to Inform Action

no code implementations • 27 Jan 2024 • Tasfia Mashiat, Alex DiChristofano, Patrick J. Fowler, Sanmay Das

We show that the risk scores are, in fact, useful, enabling a theoretical team of caseworkers to reach more eviction-prone properties in the same amount of time, compared to outreach policies that are either neighborhood-based or focus on buildings with a recent history of evictions.

Global Performance Disparities Between English-Language Accents in Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations • 1 Aug 2022 • Alex DiChristofano, Henry Shuster, Shefali Chandra, Neal Patwari

In this paper, we expand the discussion beyond bias as a function of the individual national origin of the speaker to look for bias as a function of the geopolitical orientation of their nation of origin.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1