#ContextMatters: Advantages and Limitations of Using Machine Learning to Support Women in Politics

no code implementations • 30 Sep 2021 • Jacqueline Comer, Sam Work, Kory W Mathewson, Lana Cuthbertson, Kasey Machin

The United Nations identified gender equality as a Sustainable Development Goal in 2015, recognizing the underrepresentation of women in politics as a specific barrier to achieving gender equality.

Women, politics and Twitter: Using machine learning to change the discourse

no code implementations • 25 Nov 2019 • Lana Cuthbertson, Alex Kearney, Riley Dawson, Ashia Zawaduk, Eve Cuthbertson, Ann Gordon-Tighe, Kory W. Mathewson

In this paper, we present ParityBOT: a Twitter bot which counters abusive tweets aimed at women in politics by sending supportive tweets about influential female leaders and facts about women in public life.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Decision Making