Search Results for author: Derek Ruths

Found 16 papers, 2 papers with code

Legends: Folklore on Reddit

no code implementations1 Jul 2020 Caitrin Armstrong, Derek Ruths

In this paper we introduce Reddit legends, a collection of venerated old posts that have become famous on Reddit.

Assessing Partisan Traits of News Text Attributions

no code implementations25 Jan 2019 Logan Martel, Edward Newell, Drew Margolin, Derek Ruths

On the topic of journalistic integrity, the current state of accurate, impartial news reporting has garnered much debate in context to the 2016 US Presidential Election.

A Hierarchical Neural Attention-based Text Classifier

1 code implementation EMNLP 2018 Koustuv Sinha, Yue Dong, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Derek Ruths

Deep neural networks have been displaying superior performance over traditional supervised classifiers in text classification.

General Classification text-classification +1

A Web of Hate: Tackling Hateful Speech in Online Social Spaces

no code implementations28 Sep 2017 Haji Mohammad Saleem, Kelly P Dillon, Susan Benesch, Derek Ruths

Online social platforms are beset with hateful speech - content that expresses hatred for a person or group of people.

Vectors for Counterspeech on Twitter

no code implementations WS 2017 Lucas Wright, Derek Ruths, Kelly P Dillon, Haji Mohammad Saleem, Susan Benesch

A study of conversations on Twitter found that some arguments between strangers led to favorable change in discourse and even in attitudes.

Annotating Characters in Literary Corpora: A Scheme, the CHARLES Tool, and an Annotated Novel

no code implementations LREC 2016 Hardik Vala, Stefan Dimitrov, David Jurgens, Andrew Piper, Derek Ruths

To address the latter problem, this work presents three contributions: (1) a comprehensive scheme for manually resolving mentions to characters in texts.

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