Johannes Eichstaedt


2020

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Explaining the Trump Gap in Social Distancing Using COVID Discourse
Austin Van Loon | Sheridan Stewart | Brandon Waldon | Shrinidhi K Lakshmikanth | Ishan Shah | Sharath Chandra Guntuku | Garrick Sherman | James Zou | Johannes Eichstaedt
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020

Our ability to limit the future spread of COVID-19 will in part depend on our understanding of the psychological and sociological processes that lead people to follow or reject coronavirus health behaviors. We argue that the virus has taken on heterogeneous meanings in communities across the United States and that these disparate meanings shaped communities’ response to the virus during the early, vital stages of the outbreak in the U.S. Using word embeddings, we demonstrate that counties where residents socially distanced less on average (as measured by residential mobility) more semantically associated the virus in their COVID discourse with concepts of fraud, the political left, and more benign illnesses like the flu. We also show that the different meanings the virus took on in different communities explains a substantial fraction of what we call the “”Trump Gap”, or the empirical tendency for more Trump-supporting counties to socially distance less. This work demonstrates that community-level processes of meaning-making in part determined behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and that these processes can be measured unobtrusively using Twitter.

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Detecting Emerging Symptoms of COVID-19 using Context-based Twitter Embeddings
Roshan Santosh | H. Schwartz | Johannes Eichstaedt | Lyle Ungar | Sharath Chandra Guntuku
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020

In this paper, we present an iterative graph-based approach for the detection of symptoms of COVID-19, the pathology of which seems to be evolving. More generally, the method can be applied to finding context-specific words and texts (e.g. symptom mentions) in large imbalanced corpora (e.g. all tweets mentioning }#COVID-19). Given the novelty of COVID-19, we also test if the proposed approach generalizes to the problem of detecting Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR). We find that the approach applied to Twitter data can detect symptom mentions substantially before to their being reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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Understanding Weekly COVID-19 Concerns through Dynamic Content-Specific LDA Topic Modeling
Mohammadzaman Zamani | H. Andrew Schwartz | Johannes Eichstaedt | Sharath Chandra Guntuku | Adithya Virinchipuram Ganesan | Sean Clouston | Salvatore Giorgi
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science

The novelty and global scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to rapid societal changes in a short span of time. As government policy and health measures shift, public perceptions and concerns also change, an evolution documented within discourse on social media.We propose a dynamic content-specific LDA topic modeling technique that can help to identify different domains of COVID-specific discourse that can be used to track societal shifts in concerns or views. Our experiments show that these model-derived topics are more coherent than standard LDA topics, and also provide new features that are more helpful in prediction of COVID-19 related outcomes including social mobility and unemployment rate.

2017

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DLATK: Differential Language Analysis ToolKit
H. Andrew Schwartz | Salvatore Giorgi | Maarten Sap | Patrick Crutchley | Lyle Ungar | Johannes Eichstaedt
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

We present Differential Language Analysis Toolkit (DLATK), an open-source python package and command-line tool developed for conducting social-scientific language analyses. While DLATK provides standard NLP pipeline steps such as tokenization or SVM-classification, its novel strengths lie in analyses useful for psychological, health, and social science: (1) incorporation of extra-linguistic structured information, (2) specified levels and units of analysis (e.g. document, user, community), (3) statistical metrics for continuous outcomes, and (4) robust, proven, and accurate pipelines for social-scientific prediction problems. DLATK integrates multiple popular packages (SKLearn, Mallet), enables interactive usage (Jupyter Notebooks), and generally follows object oriented principles to make it easy to tie in additional libraries or storage technologies.

2016

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Modelling Valence and Arousal in Facebook posts
Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro | H. Andrew Schwartz | Gregory Park | Johannes Eichstaedt | Margaret Kern | Lyle Ungar | Elisabeth Shulman
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

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Does ‘well-being’ translate on Twitter?
Laura Smith | Salvatore Giorgi | Rishi Solanki | Johannes Eichstaedt | H. Andrew Schwartz | Muhammad Abdul-Mageed | Anneke Buffone | Lyle Ungar
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2015

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The role of personality, age, and gender in tweeting about mental illness
Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro | Johannes Eichstaedt | Gregory Park | Maarten Sap | Laura Smith | Victoria Tobolsky | H. Andrew Schwartz | Lyle Ungar
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality

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Extracting Human Temporal Orientation from Facebook Language
H. Andrew Schwartz | Gregory Park | Maarten Sap | Evan Weingarten | Johannes Eichstaedt | Margaret Kern | David Stillwell | Michal Kosinski | Jonah Berger | Martin Seligman | Lyle Ungar
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2014

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Towards Assessing Changes in Degree of Depression through Facebook
H. Andrew Schwartz | Johannes Eichstaedt | Margaret L. Kern | Gregory Park | Maarten Sap | David Stillwell | Michal Kosinski | Lyle Ungar
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality

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Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media
Maarten Sap | Gregory Park | Johannes Eichstaedt | Margaret Kern | David Stillwell | Michal Kosinski | Lyle Ungar | Hansen Andrew Schwartz
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

2013

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Choosing the Right Words: Characterizing and Reducing Error of the Word Count Approach
Hansen Andrew Schwartz | Johannes Eichstaedt | Eduardo Blanco | Lukasz Dziurzynski | Margaret L. Kern | Stephanie Ramones | Martin Seligman | Lyle Ungar
Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 1: Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity