TADA 2021

Conference Program

This year’s conference will be held in Palmer Commons at the University of Michigan and is sponsored by the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; the Michigan Institute for Data Science; the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan; the University of Michigan Department of Political Science; Google, and Microsoft. The conference will take place during Eastern Daylight Time business hours.

Thursday October 28

8:00am to 9:00am: Continental Breakfast (Palmer Commons: Great Lakes North Central)

9:15am to 10:30am: Paper Presentations: Longitudinal Studies of Language (Palmer Commons: Forum Hall)

• “Characterizations of Immigrants over 140 Years of American Political Speeches” Dallas Card, Chris Becker, Serina Chang, Julia Mendelsohn, Myera Rashid, Rob Voight, Leah Boustan, Ran Abramitzky, and Dan Jurafsky
• “Studying Language Usage Evolution Using Pretrained and Non-Pretrained Embeddings” Patrick Y. Wu
• “Corporate Disclosure: Facts or Opinions?” Vitaly Meursault
• Discussant: Philip Resnik

10:30am to 10:45am: Coffee Break (Palmer Commons: Great Lakes North Central)

10:45am to noon: Paper Presentations: Methods I (Palmer Commons: Forum Hall)

• “Improving Probabilistic Models in Text Classification via Active Learning” Mitchell Bosley, Saki Kuzushima, Ted Enamorado, and Yuki Shiraito
• “What Text-Based Ideal Points Reveal about Strategic Considerations behind Congressional Behavior across Different Outlets and Issues” Pranav Goel, SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, Alexander Hoyle, Kristina Miler, Philip Resnik” Pranav Goel
• “The Monologic Voice: A Uniting Rhetoric of Supreme Court Opinions” Rosamond Thalken, David Mimno, and Matthew Wilkens
• Discussant: Michael Colaresi

Noon to 1:30pm: Boxed Lunches (Palmer Commons: Great Lakes North Central)

1:30pm to 3:00pm: Poster Session (Palmer Commons: Great Lakes North Central)

3:00pm to 4:15pm: Paper Presentations: Political Communication (Palmer Commons: Forum Hall)

• “Assessing Affective Polarization Using the Text, Audio, and Video from In-Person Telephone and Online Interviews” Bryce Dietrich
• “Manipulative Tactics are the Norm in Political Emails: Evidence from 300K Emails from the 2020 U.S. Election Cycle” Arunesh Mathur, Angelina Wang, Carsten Schwemmer, Maia Hamin, Brandon M. Stewart, and Arvind Narayanan
• “Conversational Receptiveness: Improving Engagement with Opposing Views” Michael Yeomans, Julia Minson, Hanne Collins, and Francesca Gino
• Discussants: Amber Boydstun and Patrick Wu

Participants are on their own for dinner.

Friday October 29

8:00am to 9:00am: Continental Breakfast (Palmer Commons: Great Lakes North Central)

9:15am to 10:30am: Paper Presentations: Methods II (Palmer Commons: Forum Hall)

• “Social Media and Electoral Violence: Evidence from Cote d’Ivoire” Justine M. Davis and Irene Morse
• “A Parameter Search Approach for Choosing an Optimal Character Recognition Framework” Blake Miller and Michael Thompson-Brusstar
• “Syrian Refugee Migration and Return on Social Media” Erin Walk
• Discussant: David Mimno

10:30am to 10:45am: Coffee Break (Palmer Commons: Great Lakes North Central)

10:45am to noon: Paper Presentations: Attitudes, Perspectives, and Beliefs (Palmer Commons: Forum Hall)

• “PolitBelief: A Multi-Source Epistemic Stance Dataset for Analyzing Political Ideology” Ankita Gupta, Su Lin Blodgett, Justin H. Gross, and Brendan T. O’Connor
• “War and Piece: Comparing Perspectives on the World Wars in Wikipedia” Ana Smith and Lillian Lee
• “Biases in Toxic Language Detection: The Role of Annotator Beliefs and Demographics” Maarten Sap, Laura Vianna, Swabha Swayamdipta, Xuhui Zhou, Yejin Choi, and Noah A Smith
• Discussant: Arthur Spirling

Boxed lunches will be provided for the road.