Brendan O'Connor

62 papers A* 9A 4Misc 2Journal 31Unranked 14
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
A Semantic Parsing Algorithm to Solve Linear Ordering Problems.
CoRR
Maha Alkhairy, Vincent Homer, Brendan O'Connor
2025 J jnl
Coordinates from Context: Using LLMs to Ground Complex Location References.
CoRR
Tessa Masis, Brendan O'Connor
2023 J jnl
A Monte Carlo Language Model Pipeline for Zero-Shot Sociopolitical Event Extraction.
CoRR
Erica Cai, Brendan O'Connor
2023 — conf
ezCoref: Towards Unifying Annotation Guidelines for Coreference Resolution.
EACL (Findings)
Ankita Gupta, Marzena Karpinska, Wenlong Zhao, Kalpesh Krishna, Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Mohit Iyyer, Brendan O'Connor
2022 J jnl
ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives.
CoRR
Abram Handler, Narges Mahyar, Brendan O'Connor
2022 J jnl
ClioQuery: Interactive Query-oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst.
Abram Handler, Narges Mahyar, Brendan O'Connor
2022 — conf
Cross-Dialect Social Media Dependency Parsing for Social Scientific Entity Attribute Analysis.
W-NUT@COLING
Chloe Eggleston, Brendan O'Connor
2022 J jnl
Paying Attention to the Algorithm Behind the Curtain: Bringing Transparency to YouTube's Demonetization Algorithms.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Arun Dunna, Katherine A. Keith, Ethan Zuckerman, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Brendan O'Connor, Rishab Nithyanand
2021 J jnl
A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval.
CoRR
Qingyao Ai, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft
2021 — conf
Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence.
ACL/IJCNLP (Findings)
Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Brendan O'Connor
2021 J jnl
Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence.
CoRR
Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Brendan O'Connor
2021 J jnl
Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects.
CoRR
Katherine A. Keith, Douglas Rice, Brendan O'Connor
2020 J jnl
Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes.
CoRR
Dhruvil Gala, Mohammad Omar Khursheed, Hannah Lerner, Brendan O'Connor, Mohit Iyyer
2020 A* conf
Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates.
ACL
Katherine A. Keith, David D. Jensen, Brendan O'Connor
2020 J jnl
Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates.
CoRR
Katherine A. Keith, David D. Jensen, Brendan O'Connor
2020 J jnl
Uncertainty over Uncertainty: Investigating the Assumptions, Annotations, and Text Measurements of Economic Policy Uncertainty.
CoRR
Katherine A. Keith, Christoph Teichmann, Brendan O'Connor, Edgar Meij
2019 J jnl
Human acceptability judgements for extractive sentence compression.
CoRR
Abram Handler, Brian Dillon, Brendan O'Connor
2019 — conf
Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts.
EMNLP/IJCNLP (1)
Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler, Alvin Grissom II, Brendan O'Connor, Mohit Iyyer
2019 J jnl
Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts.
CoRR
Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler, Alvin Grissom II, Brendan O'Connor, Mohit Iyyer
2019 — conf
Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time.
EMNLP/IJCNLP (1)
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
2019 J jnl
Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time.
CoRR
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
2018 A conf
A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval.
ECIR
Qingyao Ai, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft
2018 — conf
Evaluating Grammaticality in Seq2seq Models with a Broad Coverage HPSG Grammar: A Case Study on Machine Translation.
BlackboxNLP@EMNLP
Johnny Wei, Khiem Pham, Brendan O'Connor, Brian Dillon
2018 J jnl
Evaluating Syntactic Properties of Seq2seq Output with a Broad Coverage HPSG: A Case Study on Machine Translation.
CoRR
Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Khiem Pham, Brian Dillon, Brendan O'Connor
2018 Misc conf
Exploring Diversification In Non-factoid Question Answering.
ICTIR
Lakshmi Vikraman, W. Bruce Croft, Brendan O'Connor
2018 J jnl
Monte Carlo Syntax Marginals for Exploring and Using Dependency Parses.
CoRR
Katherine A. Keith, Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
2018 A* conf
Uncertainty-aware generative models for inferring document class prevalence.
EMNLP
Katherine A. Keith, Brendan O'Connor
2018 Misc conf
Understanding the Representational Power of Neural Retrieval Models Using NLP Tasks.
ICTIR
Daniel Cohen, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft
2017 — conf
A Dataset and Classifier for Recognizing Social Media English.
NUT@EMNLP
Su Lin Blodgett, Johnny Wei, Brendan O'Connor
2017 A* conf
A Probabilistic Approach for Learning with Label Proportions Applied to the US Presidential Election.
ICDM
Tao Sun, Daniel Sheldon, Brendan O'Connor
2017 A* conf
Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction.
EMNLP
Katherine A. Keith, Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham, Cara Magliozzi, Joshua McDuffie, Brendan O'Connor
2017 J jnl
Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction.
CoRR
Katherine A. Keith, Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham, Cara Magliozzi, Joshua McDuffie, Brendan O'Connor
2017 A* conf
Learning to Extract Events from Knowledge Base Revisions.
WWW
Alexander Konovalov, Benjamin Strauss, Alan Ritter, Brendan O'Connor
2017 — ed.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, NLP+CSS@ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada, August 3, 2017
NLP+CSS@ACL
Dirk Hovy, Svitlana Volkova, David Bamman, David Jurgens, Brendan O'Connor, Oren Tsur, A. Seza Dogruöz
2017 J jnl
Racial Disparity in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Social Media African-American English.
CoRR
Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
2017 J jnl
Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives.
CoRR
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
2016 — conf
Bag of What? Simple Noun Phrase Extraction for Text Analysis.
NLP+CSS@EMNLP
Abram Handler, Matthew Denny, Hanna M. Wallach, Brendan O'Connor
2016 J jnl
Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English.
CoRR
Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Green, Brendan O'Connor
2016 A conf
Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries.
CIKM
John Foley, Brendan O'Connor, James Allan
2016 — ed.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, NLP+CSS@EMNLP 2016, Austin, TX, USA, November 5, 2016
NLP+CSS@EMNLP
David Bamman, A. Seza Dogruöz, Jacob Eisenstein, Dirk Hovy, David Jurgens, Brendan O'Connor, Alice Oh, Oren Tsur, Svitlana Volkova
2016 J jnl
Visualizing textual models with in-text and word-as-pixel highlighting.
CoRR
Abram Handler, Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
2015 A* conf
Posterior calibration and exploratory analysis for natural language processing models.
EMNLP
Khanh Nguyen, Brendan O'Connor
2015 J jnl
Posterior calibration and exploratory analysis for natural language processing models.
CoRR
Khanh Nguyen, Brendan O'Connor
2014 — conf
CMU: Arc-Factored, Discriminative Semantic Dependency Parsing.
SemEval@COLING
Sam Thomson, Brendan O'Connor, Jeffrey Flanigan, David Bamman, Jesse Dodge, Swabha Swayamdipta, Nathan Schneider, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith
2013 J jnl
"Groupware for Groups": Problem-Driven Design in Deme
CoRR
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran, Andrew Parker
2013 — conf
A Framework for (Under)specifying Dependency Syntax without Overloading Annotators.
LAW@ACL
Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Naomi Saphra, David Bamman, Manaal Faruqui, Noah A. Smith, Chris Dyer, Jason Baldridge
2013 J jnl
A framework for (under)specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators.
CoRR
Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Naomi Saphra, David Bamman, Manaal Faruqui, Noah A. Smith, Chris Dyer, Jason Baldridge
2013 J jnl
ARKref: a rule-based coreference resolution system.
CoRR
Brendan O'Connor, Michael Heilman
2013 J jnl
An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design
CoRR
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran, Jonathan J. Effrat, Andrew Parker, Benjamin Newman, Aaron Tam
2013 J jnl
Displaying Asynchronous Reactions to a Document: Two Goals and a Design
CoRR
Todd Davies, Benjamin Newman, Brendan O'Connor, Aaron Tam, Leo Perry
2013 — conf
Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters.
HLT-NAACL
Olutobi Owoputi, Brendan O'Connor, Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith
2013 J jnl
Learning Frames from Text with an Unsupervised Latent Variable Model.
CoRR
Brendan O'Connor
2013 — conf
Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters.
ACL (1)
David Bamman, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith
2013 — conf
Learning to Extract International Relations from Political Context.
ACL (1)
Brendan O'Connor, Brandon M. Stewart, Noah A. Smith
2012 J jnl
Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media.
First Monday
David Bamman, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith
2012 J jnl
Mapping the geographical diffusion of new words
CoRR
Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
2011 — conf
Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments.
ACL (2)
Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Dipanjan Das, Daniel Mills, Jacob Eisenstein, Michael Heilman, Dani Yogatama, Jeffrey Flanigan, Noah A. Smith
2011 A* conf
Predicting a Scientific Community's Response to an Article.
EMNLP
Dani Yogatama, Michael Heilman, Brendan O'Connor, Chris Dyer, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith
2010 A* conf
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation.
EMNLP
Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
2010 A conf
From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series.
ICWSM
Brendan O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith
2010 A conf
TweetMotif: Exploratory Search and Topic Summarization for Twitter.
ICWSM
Brendan O'Connor, Michel Krieger, David Ahn
2008 A* conf
Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks.
EMNLP
Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng