@inproceedings{eggleston-oconnor-2022-cross,
    title = "Cross-Dialect Social Media Dependency Parsing for Social Scientific Entity Attribute Analysis",
    author = "Eggleston, Chloe  and
      O{'}Connor, Brendan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022)",
    month = oct,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Gyeongju, Republic of Korea",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2022.wnut-1.4/",
    pages = "38--50",
    abstract = "In this paper, we utilize recent advancements in social media natural language processing to obtain state-of-the-art syntactic dependency parsing results for social media English. We observe performance gains of 3.4 UAS and 4.0 LAS against the previous state-of-the-art as well as less disparity between African-American and Mainstream American English dialects. We demonstrate the computational social scientific utility of this parser for the task of socially embedded entity attribute analysis: for a specified entity, derive its semantic relationships from parses' rich syntax, and accumulate and compare them across social variables. We conduct a case study on politicized views of U.S. official Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic."
}