1 code implementation • 11 May 2024 • Ramit Debnath, Pengyu Zhang, Tianzhu Qin, R. Michael Alvarez, Shaun D. Fitzgerald
As the conversation around using geoengineering to combat climate change intensifies, it is imperative to engage the public and deeply understand their perspectives on geoengineering research, development, and potential deployment.
no code implementations • 7 May 2024 • Cong Cao, Ramit Debnath, R. Michael Alvarez
Policymakers frequently analyze air quality and climate change in isolation, disregarding their interactions.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2024 • R. Michael Alvarez, Jacob Morrier
This paper presents a new approach to evaluating the quality of answers in political question-and-answer sessions.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2023 • Rafal Kocielnik, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Vivian Zhang, Roy Jiang, R. Michael Alvarez, Anima Anandkumar
We thus enable seamless open-ended social bias testing of PLMs by domain experts through an automatic large-scale generation of diverse test sentences for any combination of social categories and attributes.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2022 • Rafal Kocielnik, Sara Kangaslahti, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Meena Hari, R. Michael Alvarez, Anima Anandkumar
Finally, we find that not all transfer scenarios yield a positive gain, which seems related to the PLMs initial performance on the target-domain task.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2022 • Sreemanti Dey, R. Michael Alvarez
Analysis of candidate choice in the 2020 Presidential Election is one area in which this issue presents itself: in order to test the many theories explaining the outcome of the election, it is necessary to use data such as the 2020 Cooperative Election Study Common Content, with hundreds of highly correlated features.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2021 • Maya Srikanth, Anqi Liu, Nicholas Adams-Cohen, Jian Cao, R. Michael Alvarez, Anima Anandkumar
However, collecting social media data using a static set of keywords fails to satisfy the growing need to monitor dynamic conversations and to study fast-changing topics.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2020 • Yuancheng Xu, Athanasse Zafirov, R. Michael Alvarez, Dan Kojis, Min Tan, Christina M. Ramirez
This paper proposes FREEtree, a tree-based method for high dimensional longitudinal data with correlated features.
2 code implementations • 13 Nov 2019 • Anqi Liu, Maya Srikanth, Nicholas Adams-Cohen, R. Michael Alvarez, Anima Anandkumar
Online harassment is a significant social problem.