Challenges and Opportunities in Information Manipulation Detection: An Examination of Wartime Russian Media

no code implementations • 24 May 2022 • Chan Young Park, Julia Mendelsohn, Anjalie Field, Yulia Tsvetkov

NLP research on public opinion manipulation campaigns has primarily focused on detecting overt strategies such as fake news and disinformation.

Detecting Community Sensitive Norm Violations in Online Conversations

1 code implementation • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Chan Young Park, Julia Mendelsohn, Karthik Radhakrishnan, Kinjal Jain, Tushar Kanakagiri, David Jurgens, Yulia Tsvetkov

Online platforms and communities establish their own norms that govern what behavior is acceptable within the community.

Modeling Framing in Immigration Discourse on Social Media

1 code implementation • NAACL 2021 • Julia Mendelsohn, Ceren Budak, David Jurgens

The framing of political issues can influence policy and public opinion.

A Framework for the Computational Linguistic Analysis of Dehumanization

no code implementations • 6 Mar 2020 • Julia Mendelsohn, Yulia Tsvetkov, Dan Jurafsky

Dehumanization is a pernicious psychological process that often leads to extreme intergroup bias, hate speech, and violence aimed at targeted social groups.

Abusive Language

Using Sentiment Induction to Understand Variation in Gendered Online Communities

1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Li Lucy, Julia Mendelsohn

We analyze gendered communities defined in three different ways: text, users, and sentiment.

text similarity

Iris: A Conversational Agent for Complex Tasks

no code implementations • 17 Jul 2017 • Ethan Fast, Binbin Chen, Julia Mendelsohn, Jonathan Bassen, Michael Bernstein

Today's conversational agents are restricted to simple standalone commands.