TextXD 2020 Agenda Last updated on
Dec 10, 2020
Program Overview This year’s conference will also feature a three-day (48 hour) “Law and Society” Hackathon
Session 1: Under-resourced Languages & Literature (Chair: Niek Veldhuis, Crew: Ciera Martinez ) Time(PT) Topic Speaker 11:00am Welcome and Introduction Heather Haveman & Niek Veldhuis 11:30am Session 1: Under-resourced Languages & Literature Building a portal for exploring social group identities and semantic domains in under-resourced languages Krister Lindén Etaoin … Shrdlu … Cmfwyp? In Search of Lexical Networks and Cul-de-Sac Words Matt Lavin LitBank: Born-Literary Natural Language Processing David Bamman Panel w/ Q&A All 12:45pm Break
Session 2: NLP in the Social Sciences (Chair: Heather Haveman, Crew: Maryam Vareth ) Time(PT) Topic Speaker 1:00pm Session 2: NLP in the Social Sciences Beyond Bag-of-Words: Detecting and Using Meaningful Multi-word Expressions Ken Benoit Faceted Rasch scaling and multitask deep learning for debiased, explainable, continuous measurement of hate speech Chris Kennedy And the Rest is History Laura Nelson Panel w/ Q&A All 2:15pm Break
Session 3: NLP in Theory and Application (Chair: Niek Veldhuis, Crew: Ciera Martinez ) Time(PT) Topic Speaker 2:30pm Session 3: NLP in Theory and Application Moving Away from One-Size-Fits-All Language Representations Rada Mihalcea Sure, transformers are cool… but have you tried rules? Rachael Tatman Panel w/ Q&A All 3:30pm Break
Lightning Talks Session 1 (Chair: Ciera Martinez, Crew: Maryam Vareth ) Time(PT) Topic Speaker 3:45pm Lightning Talks Session 1 Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining Rachael Samberg, Stacy Reardon, and Tim Vollmer Decentralization of Gendered Language in Portuguese David Harrison Language is a Domain: Use the Bender Rule Quinn Dombrowski What can rappers teach your kids? Topic modeling of the Russian hip-hop stage Anton Boichenko, Svetlana Zhuchkova Questions for lightning talks (10 min) The Characterization of China in two thousand Early Modern English books Zhonghua Wang comp-syn: Perceptually Grounded Word Embeddings with Color Douglas Guilbeault Mining Narratives from Large Text Corpora Elliott Ash Keyword Assisted Topic Models Shusei Eshima, Kosuke Imai, and Tomoya Sasaki Questions for lightning talks (10 min) 4:45pm Social Hour: Lightning Talk Discussion, Networking and Mingling Remo Link
Session 4: Health & Life Sciences (Chair: Anobel Odisho, Crew: Maryam Vareth ) Time Topic Speaker 11:00am Welcome and Introduction Heather Haveman & Niek Veldhuis 11:10am Session 4: Health & Life Sciences Leveraging multi-language word embedding to improve document searches Nishitha Kambhaladinne , Jenna EunInterpretability in clinical text mining Irena Spasic Conversation summarization: a neural-symbolic linguistic pipeline architecture for medical reporting Sjaak Brinkkemper Panel w/ Q&A All 12:30pm Break
Session 5: Real World NLP (Chair: Heather Haveman, Crew: Maryam Vareth ) Time Topic Speaker 1:00pm Session 5: Real World NLP Designing Practical NLP Solutions Ines Montani Creating machine learning predictors from text Julia Silge Lessons learned building a real-world customer support virtual assistant for troubleshooting technical problems Claudiu Branzan Panel w/ Q&A All 2:15pm Break
Lightning Talks Session (Chair: Maryam Vareth, Crew: Ciera Martinez ) Time Topic Speaker 2:30pm Lightning Talks Session 2 Exploring the ethical and social science considerations of pandemic response efforts Bogdana Rakova MARMOT: A Deep Learning Framework for Constructing Multimodal Representations for Vision-and-Language Tasks Patrick Y. Wu Neural Transfer Learning for Social Science Text Analysis Sandra Wankmüller Public Editor: Vetting the News Together Nick Adams Questions for lightning talks (10 min) Constructing Discreditable Identities Gabriel Varela Identifying Depressive Subtypes in Clinical Text: A Proof-of-Concept Benson Kung The Power of BERT in Understanding Clinical Notes Dana Ludwig, M.D. Questions for lightning talks (10 min) 3:45pm Social Hour: Lightning Talk Discussion, Networking and Mingling Remo Link
Time Topic Speaker 10:00am Hackathon Presentation (1 hour) 11:00 am Closing Remarks TextXD Program Committee 11:15am Award Ceremony TextXD Program Committee
