Social Aspects of Natural Language Processing

INFO 290: Special Topics in Information

This class was originally scheduled for Summer 2024, but was canceled due to adminstrative conflicts. Still, Lucy is leaving up this website in case the resources / readings are still useful for students (and anyone!) to self-study.

Course Overview

1
Introduction
2
Data and model pitfalls
3
“Good” research practices
4
Computational social science
5
NLP for conversations
6
NLP for communities
7
Computational sociolinguistics
8
Misinformation, factuality, & toxicity
9
NLP for literature & history
10
NLP for education & political science
11
Quantifying bias across domains
12
Biases in the LLM pipeline
13
HCI & NLP
14
NLP & HCI