Demographic dialectal variation in social media: A case study of African-American English

SL Blodgett, L Green, B O'Connor - arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08868, 2016 - arxiv.org
Though dialectal language is increasingly abundant on social media, few resources exist for
developing NLP tools to handle such language. We conduct a case study of dialectal …

Credbank: A large-scale social media corpus with associated credibility annotations

T Mitra, E Gilbert - Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
Social media has quickly risen to prominence as a news source, yet lingering doubts remain
about its ability to spread rumor and misinformation. Systematically studying this …

A dependency parser for tweets

L Kong, N Schneider, S Swayamdipta… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - hub.hku.hk
© 2014 Association for Computational Linguistics. We describe a new dependency parser
for English tweets, TWEEBOPARSER. The parser builds on several contributions: new …

Detecting stance in media on global warming

Y Luo, D Card, D Jurafsky - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15149, 2020 - arxiv.org
Citing opinions is a powerful yet understudied strategy in argumentation. For example, an
environmental activist might say," Leading scientists agree that global warming is a serious …

Comparing person-and process-centric strategies for obtaining quality data on amazon mechanical turk

T Mitra, CJ Hutto, E Gilbert - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In the past half-decade, Amazon Mechanical Turk has radically changed the way many
scholars do research. The availability of a massive, distributed, anonymous crowd of …

A parsimonious language model of social media credibility across disparate events

T Mitra, GP Wright, E Gilbert - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Social media has increasingly become central to the way billions of people experience news
and events, often bypassing journalists---the traditional gatekeepers of breaking news …

Designing transparency cues in online news platforms to promote trust: Journalists'& consumers' perspectives

MM Bhuiyan, H Whitley, M Horning, SW Lee… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As news organizations embrace transparency practices on their websites to distinguish
themselves from those spreading misinformation, HCI designers have the opportunity to …

Narrative maps: An algorithmic approach to represent and extract information narratives

BF Keith Norambuena, T Mitra - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Narratives are fundamental to our perception of the world and are pervasive in all activities
that involve the representation of events in time. Yet, modern online information systems do …

Quotus: The structure of political media coverage as revealed by quoting patterns

V Niculae, C Suen, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Given the extremely large pool of events and stories available, media outlets need to focus
on a subset of issues and aspects to convey to their audience. Outlets are often accused of …

Measuring sentence-level and aspect-level (un) certainty in science communications

J Pei, D Jurgens - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14776, 2021 - arxiv.org
Certainty and uncertainty are fundamental to science communication. Hedges have widely
been used as proxies for uncertainty. However, certainty is a complex construct, with authors …