Brendan T. O'Connor

Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, USA


According to our database1, Brendan T. O'Connor authored at least 60 papers between 2008 and 2024.

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2024
Latin Treebanks in Review: An Evaluation of Morphological Tagging Across Time.
CoRR, 2024

Where on Earth Do Users Say They Are?: Geo-Entity Linking for Noisy Multilingual User Input.
CoRR, 2024

Harnessing Toulmin's theory for zero-shot argument explication.
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

The State of Relation Extraction Data Quality: Is Bigger Always Better?
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023
A Monte Carlo Language Model Pipeline for Zero-Shot Sociopolitical Event Extraction.
CoRR, 2023

ezCoref: Towards Unifying Annotation Guidelines for Coreference Resolution.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023

Evaluating Zero-Shot Event Structures: Recommendations for Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) Annotations.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2023

2022
ClioQuery: Interactive Query-oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2022

Paying Attention to the Algorithm Behind the Curtain: Bringing Transparency to YouTube's Demonetization Algorithms.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

Examining Political Rhetoric with Epistemic Stance Detection.
CoRR, 2022

Corpus-Guided Contrast Sets for Morphosyntactic Feature Detection in Low-Resource English Varieties.
CoRR, 2022

Cross-Dialect Social Media Dependency Parsing for Social Scientific Entity Attribute Analysis.
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2022

2021
Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects.
CoRR, 2021

Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL/IJCNLP 2021, 2021

2020
Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes.
CoRR, 2020

Uncertainty over Uncertainty: Investigating the Assumptions, Annotations, and Text Measurements of Economic Policy Uncertainty.
CoRR, 2020

Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

2019
Human acceptability judgements for extractive sentence compression.
CoRR, 2019

Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

2018
Evaluating Syntactic Properties of Seq2seq Output with a Broad Coverage HPSG: A Case Study on Machine Translation.
CoRR, 2018

Monte Carlo Syntax Marginals for Exploring and Using Dependency Parses.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Relational Summarization for Corpus Analysis.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Exploring Diversification In Non-factoid Question Answering.
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2018

Understanding the Representational Power of Neural Retrieval Models Using NLP Tasks.
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, 2018

Evaluating Grammaticality in Seq2seq Models with a Broad Coverage HPSG Grammar: A Case Study on Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2018

Uncertainty-aware generative models for inferring document class prevalence.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2018

Exploring Summary-Expanded Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval.
Proceedings of the CIKM 2018 Workshops co-located with 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), 2018

Twitter Universal Dependency Parsing for African-American and Mainstream American English.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017
Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives.
CoRR, 2017

Racial Disparity in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Social Media African-American English.
CoRR, 2017

Learning to Extract Events from Knowledge Base Revisions.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2017

A Probabilistic Approach for Learning with Label Proportions Applied to the US Presidential Election.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2017

Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction.
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017

A Dataset and Classifier for Recognizing Social Media English.
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, 2017

2016
Visualizing textual models with in-text and word-as-pixel highlighting.
CoRR, 2016

Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries.
Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2016

Bag of What? Simple Noun Phrase Extraction for Text Analysis.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, 2016

2015
Posterior calibration and exploratory analysis for natural language processing models.
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015

2014
Statistical Text Analysis for Social Science.
PhD thesis, 2014

CMU: Arc-Factored, Discriminative Semantic Dependency Parsing.
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2014

2013
An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design
CoRR, 2013

Displaying Asynchronous Reactions to a Document: Two Goals and a Design
CoRR, 2013

"Groupware for Groups": Problem-Driven Design in Deme
CoRR, 2013

ARKref: a rule-based coreference resolution system.
CoRR, 2013

Learning Frames from Text with an Unsupervised Latent Variable Model.
CoRR, 2013

Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2013

A Framework for (Under)specifying Dependency Syntax without Overloading Annotators.
Proceedings of the 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop and Interoperability with Discourse, 2013

Learning to Extract International Relations from Political Context.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012
Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media.
First Monday, 2012

Mapping the geographical diffusion of new words
CoRR, 2012

2011
Predicting a Scientific Community's Response to an Article.
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011

Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments.
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference, 19-24 June, 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2011

2010
TweetMotif: Exploratory Search and Topic Summarization for Twitter.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2010

From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2010

A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation.
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2010

2008
Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks.
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2008


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