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✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨
And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes!
Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...
Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR)
#NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP
@aclmeeting.bsky.social
Representations of ADHD and autism are converging in social media discourse - we break down our new findings in this short piece.
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/adh...
#PsychSciSky #NLP #compsocialsci
While ADHD and autism are distinct diagnoses, our research shows that on social media, the lines between them are blurring.
(summary below)
#PsychSciSky #NLP #compsocialsci
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40392589/
I am en route to Vienna for COMPTEXT!
I'll be talking about our metaphorical dehumanization work and a survey/reflection on NLP for anti-antisemitism.
I'm a newbie and don't know many European computational political communication people so please be my friend!
#compsocialsci #polisky #polcomm
#AcademicChatter #HigherEdJobs #PhDForum Given the volatile situation in US academia and job market insecurities - If you are looking for a post-doc #SocialPsychology #CognitiveScience
#CompSocialSci #AgentBasedModeling, Sam & I have a position @uwaterloopsych.bsky.social #Canada!
Screenshot of top half of first page of paper. The paper is titled: "When People are Floods: Analyzing Dehumanizing Metaphors in Immigration Discourse with Large Language Models". The authors are Julia Mendelsohn (University of Chicago) and Ceren Budak (University of Michigan). The top right corner contains a visual showing the sentence "They want immigrants to pour into and infest this country". The caption says: Figure 1: Dehumanizing sentence likening immigrants to the source domain concepts of Water and Vermin via the words "pour" and "infest". The abstract text on the left reads: Metaphor, discussing one concept in terms of another, is abundant in politics and can shape how people understand important issues. We develop a computational approach to measure metaphorical language, focusing on immigration discourse on social media. Grounded in qualitative social science research, we identify seven concepts evoked in immigration discourse (e.g. "water" or "vermin"). We propose and evaluate a novel technique that leverages both word-level and document-level signals to measure metaphor with respect to these concepts. We then study the relationship between metaphor, political ideology, and user engagement in 400K US tweets about immigration. While conservatives tend to use dehumanizing metaphors more than liberals, this effect varies widely across concepts. Moreover, creature-related metaphor is associated with more retweets, especially for liberal authors. Our work highlights the potential for computational methods to complement qualitative approaches in understanding subtle and implicit language in political discourse.
New preprint!
Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard.
We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3
#NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci
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🗣️We've extended the deadline for WebSci'25! Submissions are due **December 7**
Please consider submitting to this interdisciplinary conference examining multiple facets of internet research. Hosted by Rutgers University this spring #CompSocialSci #commsky #hci
CFP: www.websci25.org/call-for-pap...
