Search Results for author: Ian Stewart

Found 16 papers, 5 papers with code

Whose wife is it anyway? Assessing bias against same-gender relationships in machine translation

no code implementations10 Jan 2024 Ian Stewart, Rada Mihalcea

Machine translation often suffers from biased data and algorithms that can lead to unacceptable errors in system output.

Machine Translation

Homeostasis in Gene Regulatory Networks

no code implementations12 Sep 2023 Fernando Antoneli, Martin Golubitsky, Jiaxin Jin, Ian Stewart

In this paper, we use the framework of infinitesimal homeostasis to study general design principles for the occurrence of homeostasis in gene regulatory networks.

SCITUNE: Aligning Large Language Models with Scientific Multimodal Instructions

1 code implementation3 Jul 2023 Sameera Horawalavithana, Sai Munikoti, Ian Stewart, Henry Kvinge

Instruction finetuning is a popular paradigm to align large language models (LLM) with human intent.

Democratizing Machine Learning for Interdisciplinary Scholars: Report on Organizing the NLP+CSS Online Tutorial Series

no code implementations29 Nov 2022 Ian Stewart, Katherine Keith

Many scientific fields -- including biology, health, education, and the social sciences -- use machine learning (ML) to help them analyze data at an unprecedented scale.

FIBER: Fill-in-the-Blanks as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang, Ian Stewart, Oana Ignat, Nan Liu, Jonathan C. Stroud, Rada Mihalcea

We propose fill-in-the-blanks as a video understanding evaluation framework and introduce FIBER -- a novel dataset consisting of 28, 000 videos and descriptions in support of this evaluation framework.

Language Modelling Multiple-choice +4

Tuiteamos o pongamos un tuit? Investigating the Social Constraints of Loanword Integration in Spanish Social Media

no code implementations SCiL 2021 Ian Stewart, Diyi Yang, Jacob Eisenstein

In social media, we find that speaker background and expectations of formality explain loanword and native word integration, such that authors who use more Spanish and who write to a wider audience tend to use integrated verb forms more often.

Characterizing Collective Attention via Descriptor Context: A Case Study of Public Discussions of Crisis Events

1 code implementation19 Sep 2019 Ian Stewart, Diyi Yang, Jacob Eisenstein

But according to rationalist models of natural language communication, the collective salience of each entity will be expressed not only in how often it is mentioned, but in the form that those mentions take.

Si O No, Que Penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media

no code implementations NAACL 2018 Ian Stewart, Yuval Pinter, Jacob Eisenstein

We also find that Catalan is used more often in referendum-related discourse than in other contexts, contrary to prior findings on language variation.

Sí o no, què penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media

1 code implementation13 Apr 2018 Ian Stewart, Yuval Pinter, Jacob Eisenstein

We also find that Catalan is used more often in referendum-related discourse than in other contexts, contrary to prior findings on language variation.

#anorexia, #anarexia, #anarexyia: Characterizing Online Community Practices with Orthographic Variation

no code implementations4 Dec 2017 Ian Stewart, Stevie Chancellor, Munmun De Choudhury, Jacob Eisenstein

We also demonstrate the utility of orthographic variation as a new lens to study sociolinguistic change in online communities, particularly when the change results from an exogenous force such as a content ban.

Making "fetch" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline

1 code implementation1 Sep 2017 Ian Stewart, Jacob Eisenstein

In an online community, new words come and go: today's "haha" may be replaced by tomorrow's "lol."

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