[Colloquium] Thursday 11/29 | Lillian Lee at the Computational Social Science Workshop

[Nora Nickels via Colloquium]

THE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTSLILLIAN LEEPROFESSOR OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND OF INFORMATION SCIENCECORNELL UNIVERSITY



The Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>at the University
of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week’s talk:


INFLUENCE: WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE? ANALYZING PHRASING EFFECTS IN MOVIES,
TWITTER, AND CHANGEMYVIEW
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/lillian_lee>


Summary: This talk will focus on the effect of phrasing, emphasizing
aspects that go beyond just the selection of one particular word over
another. The issues we’ll consider include: Does the way in which something
is worded in and of itself have an effect on whether it is remembered or
attracts attention, beyond its content or context? Can we characterize how
different sides in a debate frame their arguments, in a way that goes
beyond specific lexical choice (e.g., “pro-choice” vs. “pro-life”)? The
settings we’ll explore range from memorable movie quotes, to posts that do
or do not catch on in Twitter, to arguments that persuade in the
ChangeMyView subreddit.

Joint work with Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Vlad
Niculae, Bo Pang, and Chenhao Tan.


THURSDAY, 11/29/201811:00AM-12:20PMKENT 120


A light lunch will be provided by Papa John’s.



Lillian Lee is a professor of computer science and of information science
at Cornell University, and co-editor-in-chief of the Transactions of the
ACL (TACL). Her research interests include natural language processing and
computational social science. She is a Fellow of the Association for the
Advancement for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL), the recipient of one of three inaugural
awards for the Test of Time (2002-2012) Paper on Computational Linguistics,
and best paper awards at NAACL 2004 (joint with Regina Barzilay) and the
IJCAI 2016 Natural Language Processing meets Journalism workshop (joint
with Liye Fu and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil). She earned a citation
in “Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004” by Technology Research
News (also joint with Regina Barzilay). Her co-authored work has received
several mentions in the popular press, including The New York Times, NPR’s
All Things Considered, and NBC’s The Today Show, and one of her co-authored
papers on the memorability of movie quotes was publicly called “boring” by
YouTubers Rhett and Link in a video viewed 2.6 million times.


Suggested background:

   - Attached in Repository: You had me at hello: How phrasing affects
   memorability.
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/lillian_lee/blob/master/memorability.pdf>
   - Attached in Repository: The effect of wording on message propagation:
   Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/lillian_lee/blob/master/wording-effects-message-propagation.pdf>
   - Attached in Repository: Winning arguments: Interaction dynamics and
   persuasion strategies in good-faith online discussions
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/lillian_lee/blob/master/winning-arguments.pdf>




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The 2018-2019 Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>meets Thursdays
from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate
students are welcome.

Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are
expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the issues
page  <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/lillian_lee/issues>of
the workshop’s public repository on GitHub.
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/lillian_lee> Further
instructions are documented in the Computational Social Science
Workshop’s README
on Github. <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/README>


-- 
Nora Nickels
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development
Preceptor, Masters in Computational Social Science
Fellow, Institute for Mind and Biology
The University of Chicago
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