Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/12/2021 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Spark Talk: Word Embeddings for Social Science by Dr. Dong Nguyen (Dec 10, 2021)
Description: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has changed radically with the emergence of neural network approaches that learn to represent words, sentences, and other linguistic units as dense real-valued vectors, so-called embeddings. In this talk, I will give an introduction to word embeddings: what are they, how can we use them to explore social science questions, and what are potential pitfalls? I will highlight two case studies: one on societal biases, and one on language change on Twitter.
