119 - Social NLP, with Diyi Yang

In this episode, Diyi Yang gives us an overview of using NLP models
for social applications, including understanding social
relationships, processes, roles, and power. As NLP systems are
getting used more and more in the real world, they additionally
have increasing social impacts that must be studied. We talk about
how to get started in this field, what datasets exist and are
commonly used, and potential ethical issues. We additionally cover
two of Diyi's recent papers, on neutralizing subjective bias in
text, and on modeling persuasiveness in text. Diyi Yang is an
assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at
Georgia Tech.