Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American English

no code implementations • VarDial (COLING) 2020 • Alyssa Hwang, William R. Frey, Kathleen McKeown

Researchers in natural language processing have developed large, robust resources for understanding formal Standard American English (SAE), but we lack similar resources for variations of English, such as slang and African American English (AAE).

Clustering Word Embeddings

Multimodal Social Media Analysis for Gang Violence Prevention

no code implementations • 23 Jul 2018 • Philipp Blandfort, Desmond Patton, William R. Frey, Svebor Karaman, Surabhi Bhargava, Fei-Tzin Lee, Siddharth Varia, Chris Kedzie, Michael B. Gaskell, Rossano Schifanella, Kathleen McKeown, Shih-Fu Chang

In this paper we partnered computer scientists with social work researchers, who have domain expertise in gang violence, to analyze how public tweets with images posted by youth who mention gang associations on Twitter can be leveraged to automatically detect psychosocial factors and conditions that could potentially assist social workers and violence outreach workers in prevention and early intervention programs.

General Classification