Samar Haider

CS PhD student @Penn studying the news and its impact on democracy. Computational social science, natural language processing, machine learning, cats.

[Samar Haider @samarhdr]

Excited to share my work towards improving NLP for low-resource languages: Urdu Word Embeddings, a collection of vector representations of Urdu words trained over more than 140M tokens of raw text.

Paper (LREC 2018): https://t.co/y0jun9i9E0

Download: https://t.co/N9nQ3WDell

[Duncan Watts @duncanjwatts]

To all those offering their confident explanations for "Why Trump won" (starting, literally, the morning after) I humbly suggest that you read my book. https://t.co/5gMsQemfOX

[NAACL HLT 2027 @naaclmeeting]

📢Don't miss the NAACL Student Research Workshop!

🖇️ CFP & Important dates: https://t.co/dFCispOyDf

#NLProc

[Josh Nguyen @joshnguyen99]

Everybody trivializes common sense because we believe it is self-evident and universal. But is it really?

Find out by participating in our Common Sense Project: https://t.co/H55yMzoFTy.

With @AmirhosNakh, @MarkWhiting, and @DuncanJWatts at @CSSPenn.

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[CSSLab at Penn @csspenn]

The common sense project is now live! @DuncanJWatts, @MarkWhiting, @amirhosnakh and @joshnguyen99 from the CSSLab invite you to take a quick survey 📝 and measure your common sense💡

https://t.co/lzcr4gWHnh

You can read more about the project here:

https://t.co/IRSbi4ldoM

[Bryan Li @bryanlics]

RAG enables LLMs to access external info 📖. But when this info is multiple languages 🌐, can LLMs reconcile differing viewpoints 🧐? We introduce BordIRlines, a dataset to study the robustness of cross-lingual RAG.
📃https://t.co/1YFiLEAiMG
🗃️ https://t.co/wJl062UkCd
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[Jennifer Allen @_JenAllen]

New blog post for Media Bias Detector!

Worried about Russian disinfo? Our latest analysis shows the focus on Russia-backed efforts like Tenet Media masks a bigger threat dividing America: homegrown media giants like Fox and Tucker Carlson

[CSSLab at Penn @csspenn]

New Media Bias Detector 🔎 Blog Post 📝 - Worried about the Russians dividing America? The call is coming from inside the house

@_JenAllen @duncanjwatts

https://t.co/fveig7IZTK

[The Wharton School @Wharton]

NEWS: We’re proud to support @Penn’s new Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy alongside the @KnightFdn, @PennEngineers, @AnnenbergPenn, @PennSAS, @PennLaw, & @PennSP2: https://t.co/GALAIGmMxk

Led by Profs. @DuncanJWatts & Christopher Yoo, the Center will propel research involving media, technology, and democracy within Penn and become a global hub for researchers, private sector leaders, and policymakers.

[The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences @WarrenCntrPenn]

Amidst a rollercoaster of seemingly endless political news, @csspenn's Media Bias Detector website can “classify media content in somewhat close to real time,” says @WarrenCntrPenn faculty affiliate @duncanjwatts. https://t.co/WJB6YeSJAN

[CSSLab at Penn @csspenn]

📢 Excited to announce that the Knight Foundation @knightfdn has provided a grant for the @UofPenn to establish the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy led by @csspenn director @duncanjwatts and Penn Law Prof. Christopher Yoo 🎉

Read more here:

https://t.co/vkeTLjWPAw

[Duncan Watts @duncanjwatts]

Nice story about @csspenn's Media Bias Detector. https://t.co/YLCNofDOdp
Check out the bias detector here: https://t.co/j5L4aRC7tl @DavMicRot

[CSSLab at Penn @csspenn]

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Death in the news: The mortality risks we face and the ones media organizations talk about

Written by: @calvinisch2

https://t.co/yFbk8gMq1B

[CSSLab at Penn @csspenn]

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Investigating the Impact of Media Bias on News Readers

On @Amir__Tohidi's and @samarhdr's presentation at @IC2S2

https://t.co/h705FqtuyN

[Duncan Watts @duncanjwatts]

On behalf of the International Society for Computational Social Science, I want to thank @xisong,
@dhopkins1776, and their team for putting on a spectacular IC2S2 2024 @Penn this past week. Big crowd, great energy, and high quality content! Looking forward to next year in Sweden!

[Xi Song @xisong]

It’s great to see that next year’s #ic2s2 will be hosted by sociologist @PeterHedstrom1 and his team in Sweden! Looking forward to seeing mingling between analytical sociologists and computational social scientists @duncanjwatts @IAS_LiU @benfjarvis

[K0k!l J @feedkoko]

Lonely no more 🥹🎉🎉🎉
@IC2S2
@dhopkins1776 @xisong

[Xi Song @xisong]

Keynote speech @IC2S2 by @talalrahwan on gender bias in journal editorship. Sociology is the only field in which women are not underrepresented in journal editors ☺️@NYUSociology @NYUAbuDhabi @nyushanghai

[Xi Song @xisong]

International Conference on Computational Social Sciences at Penn Day 0 Tutorial Day. We have more than 300 participants who signed up for today’s events. Photo: @profjamesevans on deep learning @duncanjwatts @dhopkins1776 @IC2S2 #computational #socialscience

[SICSS-Penn @SICSS_Penn]

SICSS-Penn year THREE 🎉 So happy to meet y’all in Philly and enjoy a productive week! 🆒😎

[CSSLab at Penn @csspenn]

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Examining Media Coverage of Misinformation

Coverage of @DavMicRot 's and @duncanjwatts's new paper: Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation

https://t.co/DU29IjRfLH