Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social ...

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ACL 2014
Workshop on Language Technologies
and Computational Social Science
Proceedings of the Workshop
June 26, 2014
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Preface
The ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science was held on
June 26, 2014 in Baltimore, following the 52nd annual meeting of the ACL. The workshop’s goal was
to increase the visibility of computational social science— in which automated techniques are applied
tomassivedatasetstoanswerscientificquestionsaboutsociety—forACLresearchersandtohelpbuild
connectionsbetweenlanguagetechnologistsandsocialscientists.
The workshop included six invited talks from researchers who have successfully brought language
technologies to computational social science research questions: political scientists Amber Boydstun
andJustinGrimmer,socialcomputingexpertEdChi,sociolinguistSaliTagliamonte,andcomputational
linguistsLillianLeeandPhilipResnik.
Out of twenty submissions of short papers, thirteen were selected by the program committee for poster
presentation. Theserepresentanexciting,conversation-provokingrangeofresearchprojects.
The workshop also included a session reporting on a related research competition, the NLP Unshared
TaskinPoliInformatics. Ashortoverviewpaperisincludedintheseproceedings.
This workshop was supported by grants from Google and the U.S. National Science Foudnation (grant
IIS-1433108). Thesefundsenabledtheparticipationoftheinvitedspeakers,fourteengraduatestudents,
andthreemoreseniorresearchers.
We thank the invited speakers, program committee members, authors, and participants for sharing time
andthoughtsonthisincreasinglyimportantresearchtopic.
CristianDanescu-Niculescu-Mizil,JacobEisenstein,KathyMcKeown,andNoahSmith
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Organizers:
CristianDanescu-Niculescu-Mizil,MaxPlanckInstituteSWS
JacobEisenstein,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology
KathleenMcKeown,ColumbiaUniversity
NoahA.Smith,CarnegieMellonUniversity
ProgramCommittee:
JordanBoyd-Graber,UniversityofMaryland
ClaireCardie,CornellUniversity
MunmundeChoudhury,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology
CindyChung,UniversityofTexas
MarkDredze,JohnsHopkinsUniversity
DanJurafsky,StanfordUniversity
MariaLiakata,UniversityofWarwick
BrendanO’Connor,CarnegieMellonUniversity
BoPang,Google
DanielPreo¸tiuc-Pietro,SheffieldUniversity
OwenRambow,ColumbiaUniversity
JaimeTeevan,Microsoft
HannaWallach,UniversityofMassachusetts
InvitedSpeakers:
AmberBoydstun,UniversityofCaliforniaatDavis
EdChi,Google
JustinGrimmer,StanfordUniversity
LillianLee,CornellUniversity
PhilipResnik,UniversityofMaryland
SaliTagliamonte,UniversityofToronto
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Table of Contents
IsItAllinthePhrasing? ComputationalExplorationsinHowWeSayWhatWeSay,andWhyItMatters
LillianLee..............................................................................1
CreatingandDestroyingPartyBrands
JustinGrimmer..........................................................................2
SociolinguisticsforComputationalSocialScience
SaliTagliamonte.........................................................................3
LocationandLanguageUseinSocialMedia
EdChi..................................................................................4
Overviewofthe2014NLPUnsharedTaskinPoliInformatics
NoahA.Smith,ClaireCardie,AnneWashingtonandJohnWilkerson.........................5
Context-basedNaturalLanguageProcessingforGIS-basedVagueRegionVisualization
WeiChen...............................................................................8
ExtractingSocioeconomicPatternsfromtheNews: ModellingTextandOutletImportanceJointly
VasileiosLampos,DanielPreo¸tiuc-Pietro,SinaSamangooei,DouweGellingandTrevorCohn . 13
FactChecking: Taskdefinitionanddatasetconstruction
AndreasVlachosandSebastianRiedel....................................................18
FindingEyewitnessTweetsDuringCrises
FredMorstatter,NicholaLubold,HeatherPon-Barry,JürgenPfefferandHuanLiu............23
InducingInformationStructuresforData-drivenTextAnalysis
AndrewSalway,SamiaTouilebandEndreTvinnereim ..................................... 28
Informationdensity,Heaps’Law,andperceptionoffactinessinnews
MiriamBoon...........................................................................33
MeasuringthePublicAccountabilityofNewModesofGovernance
BrunoWueest,GeroldSchneiderandMichaelAmsler......................................38
OptimizingFeaturesinActiveMachineLearningforComplexQualitativeContentAnalysis
JasySuetYanLiew,NancyMcCracken,ShichunZhouandKevinCrowston..................44
PowerofConfidence: HowPollScoresImpactTopicDynamicsinPoliticalDebates
VinodkumarPrabhakaran,AshimaAroraandOwenRambow...............................49
PredictingFine-grainedSocialRoleswithSelectionalPreferences
CharleyBeller,CraigHarmanandBenjaminVanDurme....................................50
PredictingPartyAffiliationsfromEuropeanParliamentDebates
BjørnHøyland,Jean-FrançoisGodbout,EmanueleLapponiandErikVelldal ................. 56
TemporalAnalysisofLanguagethroughNeuralLanguageModels
YoonKim,Yi-IChiu,KentaroHanaki,DarshanHegdeandSlavPetrov......................61
UsingSimpleNLPToolstoTracetheGlobalizationoftheArtWorld
MohamedAlTantawy,AlixRule,OwenRambow,ZhongyuWangandRupayanBasu ......... 66
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IssueFramingasaGeneralizablePhenomenon
AmberBoydstun ....................................................................... 71
“I Want to Talk About, Again, My Record On Energy ...”: Modeling Agendas and Framing in Political
DebatesandOtherConversations
PhilipResnik...........................................................................72
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Workshop Program
Thursday,June26,2014
Welcome;InvitedTalks,StyleandRhetoric
9:00 Welcome
9:05 IsItAllinthePhrasing? ComputationalExplorationsinHowWeSayWhatWeSay,
andWhyItMatters
LillianLee
9:35 CreatingandDestroyingPartyBrands
JustinGrimmer
10:05 Discussion
(10:30-11:00)Coffeebreak
InvitedTalks,SociolinguisticsandSocialMedia
11:00 SociolinguisticsforComputationalSocialScience
SaliTagliamonte
11:30 LocationandLanguageUseinSocialMedia
EdChi
12:00 Discussion
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Thursday,June26,2014(continued)
(12:30-2:00)Lunchbreak
(2:00-2:30)Unsharedtask
2:00 Overviewofthe2014NLPUnsharedTaskinPoliInformatics
NoahA.Smith,ClaireCardie,AnneWashingtonandJohnWilkerson
(2:30-3:30)Postersession
Context-basedNaturalLanguageProcessingforGIS-basedVagueRegionVisualization
WeiChen
ExtractingSocioeconomicPatternsfromtheNews: ModellingTextandOutletImportance
Jointly
Vasileios Lampos, Daniel Preo¸tiuc-Pietro, Sina Samangooei, Douwe Gelling and Trevor
Cohn
FactChecking: Taskdefinitionanddatasetconstruction
AndreasVlachosandSebastianRiedel
FindingEyewitnessTweetsDuringCrises
FredMorstatter,NicholaLubold,HeatherPon-Barry,JürgenPfefferandHuanLiu
InducingInformationStructuresforData-drivenTextAnalysis
AndrewSalway,SamiaTouilebandEndreTvinnereim
Informationdensity,Heaps’Law,andperceptionoffactinessinnews
MiriamBoon
MeasuringthePublicAccountabilityofNewModesofGovernance
BrunoWueest,GeroldSchneiderandMichaelAmsler
OptimizingFeaturesinActiveMachineLearningforComplexQualitativeContentAnaly-
sis
JasySuetYanLiew,NancyMcCracken,ShichunZhouandKevinCrowston
PowerofConfidence: HowPollScoresImpactTopicDynamicsinPoliticalDebates
VinodkumarPrabhakaran,AshimaAroraandOwenRambow
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