1 code implementation • NLPerspectives (LREC) 2022 • Laura Biester, Vanita Sharma, Ashkan Kazemi, Naihao Deng, Steven Wilson, Rada Mihalcea
Recent studies have shown that for subjective annotation tasks, the demographics, lived experiences, and identity of annotators can have a large impact on how items are labeled.
no code implementations • 21 May 2023 • Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Artem Abzaliev, Laura Biester, Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Xinyi Gao, Aylin Gunal, Jacky He, Ashkan Kazemi, Muhammad Khalifa, Namho Koh, Andrew Lee, Siyang Liu, Do June Min, Shinka Mori, Joan Nwatu, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Zekun Wang, Winston Wu, Rada Mihalcea
Not surprisingly, this has, in turn, made many NLP researchers -- especially those at the beginning of their careers -- worry about what NLP research area they should focus on.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2022 • MeiXing Dong, Ruixuan Sun, Laura Biester, Rada Mihalcea
Notably, we find that communities that talked more about social ties normally experienced in-person, such as friends, family, and affiliations, were actually more likely to be impacted.
no code implementations • Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Laura Biester, Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea
Word embedding methods have become the de-facto way to represent words, having been successfully applied to a wide array of natural language processing tasks.
no code implementations • EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020 • Laura Biester, Katie Matton, Janarthanan Rajendran, Emily Mower Provost, Rada Mihalcea
The COVID-19 pandemic, like many of the disease outbreaks that have preceded it, is likely to have a profound effect on mental health.