Papers by Kelly Shen
Deconfounded Lexicon Induction for Interpretable Social Science (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | Lexical features are useful beyond predictive performance. they can also be used to understand the subjective properties of a text. |
| Approach: | They propose two deep learning algorithms that separate the explanatory power of text from confounds. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithms are predictive of a set of target variables yet uncorrelated to confounds . they pick words associated with narrative persuasion and are more predictive than standard features . |