Search Results for author: Laura Biester

Found 5 papers, 1 papers with code

Analyzing the Effects of Annotator Gender across NLP Tasks

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.

Natural Language Inference

We Are in This Together: Quantifying Community Subjective Wellbeing and Resilience

no code implementations23 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.

Time Series Time Series Analysis

Building Location Embeddings from Physical Trajectories and Textual Representations

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.

Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums

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.

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