Brendan O'Connor

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2023
Publications (10 Years): 33

Top Topics

Natural Language

Causal Inference

Sentence Compression

Top Venues

Publications

Erica Cai, Brendan O'Connor
A Monte Carlo Language Model Pipeline for Zero-Shot Sociopolitical Event Extraction. CoRR (2023)
Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Brendan O'Connor
Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence. CoRR (2021)
Qingyao Ai, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft
A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval. CoRR (2021)
Andrew Halterman, Katherine A. Keith, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Brendan O'Connor
Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence. ACL/IJCNLP (Findings) (2021)
Katherine A. Keith, Douglas Rice, Brendan O'Connor
Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects. CoRR (2021)
Brendan O'Connor, Simon Dixon, George Fazekas
Zero-shot Singing Technique Conversion. CoRR (2021)
Brendan O'Connor, Simon Dixon, George Fazekas
An Exploratory Study on Perceptual Spaces of the Singing Voice. CoRR (2021)
Dhruvil Gala, Mohammad Omar Khursheed, Hannah Lerner, Brendan O'Connor, Mohit Iyyer
Analyzing Gender Bias within Narrative Tropes. CoRR (2020)
Katherine A. Keith, David Jensen, Brendan O'Connor
Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates. CoRR (2020)
Katherine A. Keith, David Jensen, Brendan O'Connor
Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates. ACL (2020)
Katherine A. Keith, Christoph Teichmann, Brendan O'Connor, Edgar Meij
Uncertainty over Uncertainty: Investigating the Assumptions, Annotations, and Text Measurements of Economic Policy Uncertainty. CoRR (2020)
Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler, Alvin Grissom II, Brendan O'Connor, Mohit Iyyer
Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts. EMNLP/IJCNLP (1) (2019)
Abram Handler, Brian Dillon, Brendan O'Connor
Human acceptability judgements for extractive sentence compression. CoRR (2019)
Jack Merullo, Luke Yeh, Abram Handler, Alvin Grissom II, Brendan O'Connor, Mohit Iyyer
Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts. CoRR (2019)
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time. EMNLP/IJCNLP (1) (2019)
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time. CoRR (2019)
Johnny Wei, Khiem Pham, Brendan O'Connor, Brian Dillon
Evaluating Grammaticality in Seq2seq Models with a Broad Coverage HPSG Grammar: A Case Study on Machine Translation. BlackboxNLP@EMNLP (2018)
Daniel Cohen, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft
Understanding the Representational Power of Neural Retrieval Models Using NLP Tasks. ICTIR (2018)
Qingyao Ai, Brendan O'Connor, W. Bruce Croft
A Neural Passage Model for Ad-hoc Document Retrieval. ECIR (2018)
Katherine A. Keith, Brendan O'Connor
Uncertainty-aware generative models for inferring document class prevalence. EMNLP (2018)
Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei, Khiem Pham, Brian Dillon, Brendan O'Connor
Evaluating Syntactic Properties of Seq2seq Output with a Broad Coverage HPSG: A Case Study on Machine Translation. CoRR (2018)
Katherine A. Keith, Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
Monte Carlo Syntax Marginals for Exploring and Using Dependency Parses. CoRR (2018)
Lakshmi Vikraman, W. Bruce Croft, Brendan O'Connor
Exploring Diversification In Non-factoid Question Answering. ICTIR (2018)
Katherine A. Keith, Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham, Cara Magliozzi, Joshua McDuffie, Brendan O'Connor
Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction. EMNLP (2017)
Su Lin Blodgett, Johnny Wei, Brendan O'Connor
A Dataset and Classifier for Recognizing Social Media English. NUT@EMNLP (2017)
Abram Handler, Brendan O'Connor
Rookie: A unique approach for exploring news archives. CoRR (2017)
Katherine A. Keith, Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham, Cara Magliozzi, Joshua McDuffie, Brendan O'Connor
Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction. CoRR (2017)
Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
Racial Disparity in Natural Language Processing: A Case Study of Social Media African-American English. CoRR (2017)
Alexander Konovalov, Benjamin Strauss, Alan Ritter, Brendan O'Connor
Learning to Extract Events from Knowledge Base Revisions. WWW (2017)
Su Lin Blodgett, Lisa Green, Brendan O'Connor
Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English. CoRR (2016)
Abram Handler, Su Lin Blodgett, Brendan O'Connor
Visualizing textual models with in-text and word-as-pixel highlighting. CoRR (2016)
John Foley, Brendan O'Connor, James Allan
Improving Entity Ranking for Keyword Queries. CIKM (2016)
Abram Handler, Matthew Denny, Hanna M. Wallach, Brendan O'Connor
Bag of What? Simple Noun Phrase Extraction for Text Analysis. NLP+CSS@EMNLP (2016)
Khanh Nguyen, Brendan O'Connor
Posterior calibration and exploratory analysis for natural language processing models. EMNLP (2015)
Khanh Nguyen, Brendan O'Connor
Posterior calibration and exploratory analysis for natural language processing models. CoRR (2015)
Sam Thomson, Brendan O'Connor, Jeffrey Flanigan, David Bamman, Jesse Dodge, Swabha Swayamdipta, Nathan Schneider, Chris Dyer, Noah A. Smith
CMU: Arc-Factored, Discriminative Semantic Dependency Parsing. SemEval@COLING (2014)
Brendan O'Connor
Learning Frames from Text with an Unsupervised Latent Variable Model. CoRR (2013)
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran, Jonathan J. Effrat, Andrew Parker, Benjamin Newman, Aaron Tam
An Online Environment for Democratic Deliberation: Motivations, Principles, and Design CoRR (2013)
Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Naomi Saphra, David Bamman, Manaal Faruqui, Noah A. Smith, Chris Dyer, Jason Baldridge
A Framework for (Under)specifying Dependency Syntax without Overloading Annotators. LAW@ACL (2013)
David Bamman, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith
Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters. ACL (1) (2013)
Brendan O'Connor, Brandon M. Stewart, Noah A. Smith
Learning to Extract International Relations from Political Context. ACL (1) (2013)
Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Naomi Saphra, David Bamman, Manaal Faruqui, Noah A. Smith, Chris Dyer, Jason Baldridge
A framework for (under)specifying dependency syntax without overloading annotators. CoRR (2013)
Todd Davies, Benjamin Newman, Brendan O'Connor, Aaron Tam, Leo Perry
Displaying Asynchronous Reactions to a Document: Two Goals and a Design CoRR (2013)
Brendan O'Connor, Michael Heilman
ARKref: a rule-based coreference resolution system. CoRR (2013)
Todd Davies, Brendan O'Connor, Alex Cochran, Andrew Parker
"Groupware for Groups": Problem-Driven Design in Deme CoRR (2013)
Olutobi Owoputi, Brendan O'Connor, Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith
Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters. HLT-NAACL (2013)
David Bamman, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith
Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media. First Monday 17 (3) (2012)
Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
Mapping the geographical diffusion of new words CoRR (2012)
Dani Yogatama, Michael Heilman, Brendan O'Connor, Chris Dyer, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith
Predicting a Scientific Community's Response to an Article. EMNLP (2011)
Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Brendan O'Connor, Dipanjan Das, Daniel Mills, Jacob Eisenstein, Michael Heilman, Dani Yogatama, Jeffrey Flanigan, Noah A. Smith
Part-of-Speech Tagging for Twitter: Annotation, Features, and Experiments. ACL (2) (2011)
Brendan O'Connor, Michel Krieger, David Ahn
TweetMotif: Exploratory Search and Topic Summarization for Twitter. ICWSM (2010)
Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O'Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation. EMNLP (2010)
Brendan O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith
From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series. ICWSM (2010)
Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng
Cheap and Fast - But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks. EMNLP (2008)