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Katherine Keith

2 accepted papers

2023

Causal Matching with Text Embeddings: A Case Study in Estimating the Causal Effects of Peer Review Policies

ACL 2023findings

A promising approach to estimate the causal effects of peer review policies is to analyze data from publication venues that shift policies from single-blind to double-blind from one year to the next. However, in these settings the content of the manuscript is a confounding variable—each year has a d…

2023

Words as Gatekeepers: Measuring Discipline-specific Terms and Meanings in Scholarly Publications

ACL 2023findings

Scholarly text is often laden with jargon, or specialized language that can facilitate efficient in-group communication within fields but hinder understanding for out-groups. In this work, we develop and validate an interpretable approach for measuring scholarly jargon from text. Expanding the scope…