TextXD 2020 Agenda

Program Overview

DayDateFocusLocation
Day 1Thursday, Dec. 10TalksVirtual
Day 2Friday, Dec. 11TalksVirtual
Day 3Saturday, Dec. 12Award Ceremony & Closing RemarksVirtual

This year’s conference will also feature a three-day (48 hour) “Law and Society” Hackathon on December 10-12. Participants will focus on analyzing text datasets from investigative reporting on the subject of police (mis)conduct.

   

Day 1: Thursday, December 10th (Talks)

Session 1: Under-resourced Languages & Literature

(Chair: Niek Veldhuis, Crew: Ciera Martinez)

Time(PT)TopicSpeaker
11:00amWelcome and IntroductionHeather Haveman & Niek Veldhuis
11:30amSession 1: Under-resourced Languages & Literature
Building a portal for exploring social group identities and semantic domains in under-resourced languagesKrister Lindén
Etaoin … Shrdlu … Cmfwyp? In Search of Lexical Networks and Cul-de-Sac WordsMatt Lavin
LitBank: Born-Literary Natural Language ProcessingDavid Bamman
Panel w/ Q&AAll
12:45pmBreak

Session 2: NLP in the Social Sciences

(Chair: Heather Haveman, Crew: Maryam Vareth)

Time(PT)TopicSpeaker
1:00pmSession 2: NLP in the Social Sciences
Beyond Bag-of-Words: Detecting and Using Meaningful Multi-word ExpressionsKen Benoit
Faceted Rasch scaling and multitask deep learning for debiased, explainable, continuous measurement of hate speechChris Kennedy
And the Rest is HistoryLaura Nelson
Panel w/ Q&AAll
2:15pmBreak

Session 3: NLP in Theory and Application

(Chair: Niek Veldhuis, Crew: Ciera Martinez)

Time(PT)TopicSpeaker
2:30pmSession 3: NLP in Theory and Application
Moving Away from One-Size-Fits-All Language RepresentationsRada Mihalcea
Sure, transformers are cool… but have you tried rules?Rachael Tatman
Panel w/ Q&AAll
3:30pmBreak

Lightning Talks Session 1

(Chair: Ciera Martinez, Crew: Maryam Vareth)

Time(PT)TopicSpeaker
3:45pmLightning Talks Session 1
Legal Literacies for Text Data MiningRachael Samberg, Stacy Reardon, and Tim Vollmer
Decentralization of Gendered Language in PortugueseDavid Harrison
Language is a Domain: Use the Bender RuleQuinn Dombrowski
What can rappers teach your kids? Topic modeling of the Russian hip-hop stageAnton Boichenko, Svetlana Zhuchkova
Questions for lightning talks (10 min)
The Characterization of China in two thousand Early Modern English booksZhonghua Wang
comp-syn: Perceptually Grounded Word Embeddings with ColorDouglas Guilbeault
Mining Narratives from Large Text CorporaElliott Ash
Keyword Assisted Topic ModelsShusei Eshima, Kosuke Imai, and Tomoya Sasaki
Questions for lightning talks (10 min)
4:45pmSocial Hour: Lightning Talk Discussion, Networking and MinglingRemo Link

   

Day 2: Friday, December 11th (Talks)

Session 4: Health & Life Sciences

(Chair: Anobel Odisho, Crew: Maryam Vareth)

TimeTopicSpeaker
11:00amWelcome and IntroductionHeather Haveman & Niek Veldhuis
11:10amSession 4: Health & Life Sciences
Leveraging multi-language word embedding to improve document searchesNishitha Kambhaladinne, Jenna Eun
Interpretability in clinical text miningIrena Spasic
Conversation summarization: a neural-symbolic linguistic pipeline architecture for medical reportingSjaak Brinkkemper
Panel w/ Q&AAll
12:30pmBreak

Session 5: Real World NLP

(Chair: Heather Haveman, Crew: Maryam Vareth)

TimeTopicSpeaker
1:00pmSession 5: Real World NLP
Designing Practical NLP SolutionsInes Montani
Creating machine learning predictors from textJulia Silge
Lessons learned building a real-world customer support virtual assistant for troubleshooting technical problemsClaudiu Branzan
Panel w/ Q&AAll
2:15pmBreak

Lightning Talks Session

(Chair: Maryam Vareth, Crew: Ciera Martinez)

TimeTopicSpeaker
2:30pmLightning Talks Session 2
Exploring the ethical and social science considerations of pandemic response effortsBogdana Rakova
MARMOT: A Deep Learning Framework for Constructing Multimodal Representations for Vision-and-Language TasksPatrick Y. Wu
Neural Transfer Learning for Social Science Text AnalysisSandra Wankmüller
Public Editor: Vetting the News TogetherNick Adams
Questions for lightning talks (10 min)
Constructing Discreditable IdentitiesGabriel Varela
Identifying Depressive Subtypes in Clinical Text: A Proof-of-ConceptBenson Kung
The Power of BERT in Understanding Clinical NotesDana Ludwig, M.D.
Questions for lightning talks (10 min)
3:45pmSocial Hour: Lightning Talk Discussion, Networking and MinglingRemo Link

   

Day 3: Saturday, December 12th (Collaboration)

Theme: “Law and Society” Hackathon

TimeTopicSpeaker
10:00amHackathon Presentation (1 hour)
11:00 amClosing RemarksTextXD Program Committee
11:15amAward CeremonyTextXD Program Committee
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Maryam Vareth
UC Berkeley - UCSF