NLP and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS)

Svitlana Volkova, David Jurgens, David Bamman, Dirk Hovy and Brendan T. O'Connor

Live Session 1: Nov 20, Live Session 1: Nov 20 (15:00-22:35 UTC)
This workshop focuses on NLP for Social Sciences, interdisciplinary work in CSS, and integrating CSS with current trends in NLP.

Time (PDT) Event Hosts
Nov 20, (15:00-15:15 UTC)

Opening Remarks

David Jurgens
Nov 20, (15:15-16:00 UTC)

Invited Speaker: Dong Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University "When NLP Meets Language Variation"

David Jurgens
Nov 20, (16:00-17:00 UTC)

Posters/papers session 1

Dirk Hovy
Nov 20, (17:00-17:15 UTC)

Break

Dirk Hovy
Nov 20, (17:15-18:00 UTC)

Invited Speaker: Elizabeth E. Bruch, Associate Professor in Sociology and Complex Systems, University of Michigan "How (and Why) Online Dating Experiences Differ across American Cities"

David Bamman
Nov 20, (18:00-19:00 UTC)

Lunch + Birds of a feather

David Bamman
Nov 20, (19:00-19:45 UTC)

Invited Speaker: Jesse Shapiro, Eastman Professor of Political Economy, Brown University "Measuring Group Differences in High-Dimensional Choices: Method and Application to Congressional Speech"

Brendan O'Connor
Nov 20, (19:45-21:00 UTC)

Posters/papers session 2

Brendan O'Connor
Nov 20, (21:00-21:45 UTC)

Invited Speaker: Diyi Yang, Assistant Professor, Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology "Persuasion, Bias, and Choice? Building Socially-aware Language Technologies"

Svitlana Volkova
Nov 20, (21:45-22:30 UTC)

Panel "CSS Research: An Industry Perspective"

Svitlana Volkova
Nov 20, (22:30-22:35 UTC)

Closing Remarks

David Jurgens