Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
| | Welcome; Invited Talks, Style and Rhetoric |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:05 | Is It All in the Phrasing? Computational Explorations in How We Say What We Say, and Why It Matters
Lillian Lee |
| 9:35 | Creating and Destroying Party Brands
Justin Grimmer |
| 10:05 | Discussion |
| | (10:30-11:00) Coffee break |
| | Invited Talks, Sociolinguistics and Social Media |
| 11:00 | Sociolinguistics for Computational Social Science
Sali Tagliamonte |
| 11:30 | Location and Language Use in Social Media
Ed Chi |
| 12:00 | Discussion |
| | (12:30-2:00) Lunch break |
| | (2:00-2:30) Unshared task |
| 2:00 | Overview of the 2014 NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics
Noah A. Smith, Claire Cardie, Anne Washington and John Wilkerson |
| | (2:30-3:30) Poster session |
| | Context-based Natural Language Processing for GIS-based Vague Region Visualization
Wei Chen |
| | Extracting Socioeconomic Patterns from the News: Modelling Text and Outlet Importance Jointly
Vasileios Lampos, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Sina Samangooei, Douwe Gelling and Trevor Cohn |
| | Fact Checking: Task definition and dataset construction
Andreas Vlachos and Sebastian Riedel |
| | Finding Eyewitness Tweets During Crises
Fred Morstatter, Nichola Lubold, Heather Pon-Barry, Jürgen Pfeffer and Huan Liu |
| | Inducing Information Structures for Data-driven Text Analysis
Andrew Salway, Samia Touileb and Endre Tvinnereim |
| | Information density, Heaps’ Law, and perception of factiness in news
Miriam Boon |
| | Measuring the Public Accountability of New Modes of Governance
Bruno Wueest, Gerold Schneider and Michael Amsler |
| | Optimizing Features in Active Machine Learning for Complex Qualitative Content Analysis
Jasy Suet Yan Liew, Nancy McCracken, Shichun Zhou and Kevin Crowston |
| | Power of Confidence: How Poll Scores Impact Topic Dynamics in Political Debates
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Ashima Arora and Owen Rambow |
| | Predicting Fine-grained Social Roles with Selectional Preferences
Charley Beller, Craig Harman and Benjamin Van Durme |
| | Predicting Party Affiliations from European Parliament Debates
Bjørn Høyland, Jean-François Godbout, Emanuele Lapponi and Erik Velldal |
| | Temporal Analysis of Language through Neural Language Models
Yoon Kim, Yi-I Chiu, Kentaro Hanaki, Darshan Hegde and Slav Petrov |
| | Using Simple NLP Tools to Trace the Globalization of the Art World
Mohamed AlTantawy, Alix Rule, Owen Rambow, Zhongyu Wang and Rupayan Basu |
| | (3:30-4:00) Coffee break |
| | Invited Talks, Framing and Agenda-Setting |
| 4:00 | Issue Framing as a Generalizable Phenomenon
Amber Boydstun |
| 4:30 | “I Want to Talk About, Again, My Record On Energy ...”: Modeling Agendas and Framing in Political Debates and Other Conversations
Philip Resnik |
| 5:00 | Discussion |
| | (5:30) Closing remarks |