CS PhD student @Penn studying the news and its impact on democracy. Computational social science, natural language processing, machine learning, cats.
Joined September 2012
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Excited to share my work towards improving NLP for low-resource languages: Urdu Word Embeddings, a collection of vector representations of Urdu words trained over more than 140M tokens of raw text.
Paper (LREC 2018): lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lr…
Download: github.com/samarh/urduvec
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11 Nov 2024
To all those offering their confident explanations for "Why Trump won" (starting, literally, the morning after) I humbly suggest that you read my book. amazon.com/Everything-Obviou…
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29 Oct 2024
📢Don't miss the NAACL Student Research Workshop!
🖇️ CFP & Important dates: naacl2025-srw.github.io/cfp
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4 Oct 2024
Everybody trivializes common sense because we believe it is self-evident and universal. But is it really?
Find out by participating in our Common Sense Project: commonsense.seas.upenn.edu.
With @AmirhosNakh, @MarkWhiting, and @DuncanJWatts at @CSSPenn.
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ALT Common sense comprises beliefs that are shared by many people in a society.
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4 Oct 2024
The common sense project is now live! @DuncanJWatts, @MarkWhiting, @amirhosnakh and @joshnguyen99 from the CSSLab invite you to take a quick survey 📝 and measure your common sense💡
commonsense.seas.upenn.edu
You can read more about the project here:
css.seas.upenn.edu/commonsen…
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3 Oct 2024
RAG enables LLMs to access external info 📖. But when this info is multiple languages 🌐, can LLMs reconcile differing viewpoints 🧐? We introduce BordIRlines, a dataset to study the robustness of cross-lingual RAG.
📃arxiv.org/abs/2410.01171
🗃️ huggingface.co/datasets/bord…
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28 Sep 2024
New blog post for Media Bias Detector!
Worried about Russian disinfo? Our latest analysis shows the focus on Russia-backed efforts like Tenet Media masks a bigger threat dividing America: homegrown media giants like Fox and Tucker Carlson
28 Sep 2024
New Media Bias Detector 🔎 Blog Post 📝 - Worried about the Russians dividing America? The call is coming from inside the house
@_JenAllen @duncanjwatts
mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn…
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28 Sep 2024
New Media Bias Detector 🔎 Blog Post 📝 - Worried about the Russians dividing America? The call is coming from inside the house
@_JenAllen @duncanjwatts
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6 Sep 2024
NEWS: We’re proud to support @Penn’s new Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy alongside the @KnightFdn, @PennEngineers, @AnnenbergPenn, @PennSAS, @PennLaw, & @PennSP2: whr.tn/4dOUSIV
Led by Profs. @DuncanJWatts & Christopher Yoo, the Center will propel research involving media, technology, and democracy within Penn and become a global hub for researchers, private sector leaders, and policymakers.
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Amidst a rollercoaster of seemingly endless political news, @csspenn's Media Bias Detector website can “classify media content in somewhat close to real time,” says @WarrenCntrPenn faculty affiliate @duncanjwatts. thepenngazette.com/detecting…
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5 Sep 2024
📢 Excited to announce that the Knight Foundation @knightfdn has provided a grant for the @UofPenn to establish the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy led by @csspenn director @duncanjwatts and Penn Law Prof. Christopher Yoo 🎉
Read more here:
penntoday.upenn.edu/news/uni…
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29 Aug 2024
Nice story about @csspenn's Media Bias Detector. thepenngazette.com/detecting…
Check out the bias detector here: mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn… @DavMicRot
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1 Aug 2024
New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 - Death in the news: The mortality risks we face and the ones media organizations talk about
Written by: @calvinisch2
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29 Jul 2024
New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 - Investigating the Impact of Media Bias on News Readers
On @Amir__Tohidi's and @samarhdr's presentation at @IC2S2
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21 Jul 2024
On behalf of the International Society for Computational Social Science, I want to thank @xisong,
@dhopkins1776, and their team for putting on a spectacular IC2S2 2024 @Penn this past week. Big crowd, great energy, and high quality content! Looking forward to next year in Sweden!
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It’s great to see that next year’s #ic2s2 will be hosted by sociologist @PeterHedstrom1 and his team in Sweden! Looking forward to seeing mingling between analytical sociologists and computational social scientists @duncanjwatts @IAS_LiU @benfjarvis
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How it started vs how it's going!!
Day 1 of @IC2S2 - will we see you at the poster session at Houston Hall?! 😄🎉🎉
@dhopkins1776 @xisong
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Keynote speech @IC2S2 by @talalrahwan on gender bias in journal editorship. Sociology is the only field in which women are not underrepresented in journal editors ☺️@NYUSociology @NYUAbuDhabi @nyushanghai
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International Conference on Computational Social Sciences at Penn Day 0 Tutorial Day. We have more than 300 participants who signed up for today’s events. Photo: @profjamesevans on deep learning @duncanjwatts @dhopkins1776 @IC2S2 #computational #socialscience
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11 Jul 2024
SICSS-Penn year THREE 🎉 So happy to meet y’all in Philly and enjoy a productive week! 🆒😎
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17 Jul 2024
New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 - Examining Media Coverage of Misinformation
Coverage of @DavMicRot 's and @duncanjwatts's new paper: Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation
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