Doug Beeferman

2 accepted papers

2024

Topic Detection and Tracking with Time-Aware Document Embeddings

Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, Weiquan Mao, Deb Roy

COLING 2024main

The time at which a message is communicated is a vital piece of metadata in many real-world natural language processing tasks such as Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). TDT systems aim to cluster a corpus of news articles by event, and in that context, stories that describe the same event are likel…

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2022

CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models

Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, Brandon Roy, Deb Roy

COLING 2022main

As political attitudes have diverged ideologically in the United States, political speech has diverged lingusitically. The ever-widening polarization between the US political parties is accelerated by an erosion of mutual understanding between them. We aim to make these communities more comprehensib…

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