Search Results for author: Sandeep Soni

Found 12 papers, 7 papers with code

Words and Action: Modeling Linguistic Leadership in #BlackLivesMatter Communities

no code implementations3 Dec 2024 Dani Roytburg, Deborah Olorunisola, Sandeep Soni, Lauren Klein

In this project, we describe a method of modeling semantic leadership across a set of communities associated with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which has been informed by qualitative research on the structure of social media and Black Twitter in particular.

Change Detection

Grounding Characters and Places in Narrative Texts

1 code implementation27 May 2023 Sandeep Soni, Amanpreet Sihra, Elizabeth F. Evans, Matthew Wilkens, David Bamman

Tracking characters and locations throughout a story can help improve the understanding of its plot structure.

Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4

1 code implementation28 Apr 2023 Kent K. Chang, Mackenzie Cramer, Sandeep Soni, David Bamman

In this work, we carry out a data archaeology to infer books that are known to ChatGPT and GPT-4 using a name cloze membership inference query.

Memorization

Predicting Long-Term Citations from Short-Term Linguistic Influence

1 code implementation24 Oct 2022 Sandeep Soni, David Bamman, Jacob Eisenstein

A standard measure of the influence of a research paper is the number of times it is cited.

Linguistic Characterization of Divisive Topics Online: Case Studies on Contentiousness in Abortion, Climate Change, and Gun Control

no code implementations30 Aug 2021 Jacob Beel, Tong Xiang, Sandeep Soni, Diyi Yang

As public discourse continues to move and grow online, conversations about divisive topics on social media platforms have also increased.

Abolitionist Networks: Modeling Language Change in Nineteenth-Century Activist Newspapers

1 code implementation12 Mar 2021 Sandeep Soni, Lauren Klein, Jacob Eisenstein

This paper supplements recent qualitative work on the role of women in abolition's vanguard, as well as the role of the Black press, with a quantitative text modeling approach.

Diachronic Word Embeddings Word Embeddings

Racism is a Virus: Anti-Asian Hate and Counterspeech in Social Media during the COVID-19 Crisis

1 code implementation25 May 2020 Bing He, Caleb Ziems, Sandeep Soni, Naren Ramakrishnan, Diyi Yang, Srijan Kumar

The spread of COVID-19 has sparked racism and hate on social media targeted towards Asian communities.

Follow the Leader: Documents on the Leading Edge of Semantic Change Get More Citations

1 code implementation9 Sep 2019 Sandeep Soni, Kristina Lerman, Jacob Eisenstein

However, simply knowing that a word has changed in meaning is insufficient to identify the instances of word usage that convey the historical or the newer meaning.

Diachronic Word Embeddings Word Embeddings

Characterizing Activity on the Deep and Dark Web

no code implementations1 Mar 2019 Nazgol Tavabi, Nathan Bartley, Andrés Abeliuk, Sandeep Soni, Emilio Ferrara, Kristina Lerman

The deep and darkweb (d2web) refers to limited access web sites that require registration, authentication, or more complex encryption protocols to access them.

Detecting Social Influence in Event Cascades by Comparing Discriminative Rankers

1 code implementation16 Feb 2018 Sandeep Soni, Shawn Ling Ramirez, Jacob Eisenstein

However, detecting social influence from observational data is challenging due to confounds like homophily and practical issues like missing data.

The Social Dynamics of Language Change in Online Networks

no code implementations7 Sep 2016 Rahul Goel, Sandeep Soni, Naman Goyal, John Paparrizos, Hanna Wallach, Fernando Diaz, Jacob Eisenstein

Language change is a complex social phenomenon, revealing pathways of communication and sociocultural influence.

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