Atlanta Computational Social Science Workshop
November 21, 2014 at Georgia Tech
Location: Tech Square Research Building, Ballroom
10:00-11:00
Keynote speaker: Noah A. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Machine learning about people from their language
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Talks (session chair: Tom Clark)
Greg Martin, Emory University
Bias in cable news: Real effects and polarization
Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Tech
Opportunities of social media in personal and societal well-being
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:30
Keynote speaker: Arthur Spirling, Harvard University
It takes a dataset of millions to hold us back: Keynote(s) from the field of text-as-data
2:30-4:00
Talks (session chair: Munmun De Choudhury)
Jinho Choi, Emory University
Building meaning representation for reading comprehension
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Tech
Tracking cultural influence through language change
Tom Clark and Jeff Staton, Emory University
The Court-O-Meter: A Study in interdisciplinarity
4:00-6:00
Posters and reception

Posters

  • Stevie Chancellor, #thighgappp: Hashtag Evolutions in the Pro Eating Disorder Community on Instagram, Georgia Tech
  • Brian Creeden, A Survey of Methods for The Automatic Identification of Legal Concepts in Case Law, Georgia Tech
  • Jose Delgado, Insights into Psychological Wellbeing and Urban Crime Via Social Media, Georgia Tech
  • Ignacio X. Domínguez, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, and David L. Roberts, The Impact of Roles on Decision-making in RPGs, North Carolina State University
  • Ignacio X. Domínguez and David L. Roberts, Asymmetric Virtual Environments: Influencing Performance Through Avatar Colors, North Carolina State University
  • Feyedoon Family, The Effect of Social Cues on Decision Making: Experiment and Mathematical Model, Emory
  • Lewis C. Howe, Non-canonical Gender Agreement in Language Change: Evidence from Social Media, University of Georgia
  • Vinodh Krishnan, Inducing Signed Social Networks through Text and Social Structure, Georgia Tech
  • Minh Nguyen, A #Whitewashed Landscape: Internalized Racism, Linguistic Discrimination, and the Policing of Ethnic Identity on Twitter, University of Georgia
  • Baekkwan Park, The Politics of Naming and Shaming: A Text Analytic Study of Human Rights Reporting, Emory
  • Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Social Role of Linguistic Variation in Online Social Media, Georgia Tech
  • Sanket Sharma, Healthy Eating and Community Engagement: Calorific Levels in Instagram Food Content, Georgia Tech
  • Ana Smith, Twitter Toponym Resolution, Georgia Tech