Invited talks

Linguistic bias as a window into social attitudes. July 2022. SocialNLP @ NAACL 2022.

People first: toward socially-aware NLP-powered writing tools. January 2022. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Through the looking glass: what NLP can reveal about sociolinguistic variation. September 2020. GT NLP Seminar. [slides] [video]

Through the language glass: studying society at scale through social media. February 2020. Computational Social Science Seminar, UMass Amherst.

-. January 2020. Center for Social Media and Political Participation, NYU.

Is it social or linguistic? Examining internal factors in language change. November 2018. New Methods in Computational Sociolinguistics workshop. [slides]

Academic talks

Exploratory text analysis for computational social science. December 2020. Tutorial for CORE Congress. [slides+code]

Tuiteamos o pongamos un tuit? Comparing social factors in loanword integration on social media. September 2020. Guest lecture for Spanish Sociolinguistics course at University of Georgia. [slides]

Measuring and modeling language change. July 2019. Tutorial for IC2S2, presented with Sandeep Soni using materials developed by Jacob Eisenstein. [slide+code+data]

Why do you talk like that? Minority languages and politics. March 2019. Guest lecture for LING 3801 (Applications of Linguistics) at Georgia Tech. [slides]

Language and computers…and society! October 2018. Guest lecture for LING 3813 (Language and Computers) at Georgia Tech. [slides]

Press

“Meet Ian Stewart.” ML@GT interrogation. blog

“Machine learning predictions.” ML@GT video. video

“What makes a new word stick?” ML@GT blog. post

“Coincidences and Surprising Connections.” Talk the Talk podcast. audio (starts at 11:30)

Service

NLP+CSS 201: Beyond the Basics (w/ Katie Keith. site; YouTube