Speakers list for Spring 2017.
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 8 | Shubhanshu Mishra | Word embeddings algorithms and their applications. |
| Feb 22 | ———- | paper discussion :Sida Wang and Christopher D. Manning: Baselines and Bigrams: Simple, Good Sentiment and Topic Classification; ACL 2012. |
| March 1 | ———- | paper discussion :Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D., & Graepel, T. (2013). Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(15), 5802-5805. |
| March 8 | ———- | Krishna Y. Kamath, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee, and Zhiyuan Cheng. 2013. Spatio-temporal dynamics of online memes: a study of geo-tagged tweets. In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 667-678. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2488388.2488447 |
| March 29 | ——— | Shmueli, G. (2010). “To explain or to predict?” Statistical science 25(3): 289-310. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/shmueli.pdf
“Prediction and explanation in social systems” Jake M. Hofman, Amit Sharma, Duncan J. Watts |
| April 5 | Shadi Rezapour | Rezapour, R., & Diesner, J. (2017, February). Classification and Detection of Micro-Level Impact of Issue-Focused Documentary Films based on Reviews. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1419-1431). ACM. Link |
| April 12 | Kenney Jinlong | Automatic endpoint detection to support the systematic review process. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26003938 |
| April 20 | Shubhanshu Mishra | “Biases and strotypes learned by word embedding”
Papers to read: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6334/183 http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6228-man-is-to-computer-programmer-as-woman-is-to-homemaker-debiasing-word-embeddings http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2783311 https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00148 http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6374-equality-of-opportunity-in-supervised-learning http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39533308
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