talks and teaching

tutorials

• The Meaning and Measurement of Bias: Lessons from NLP. Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). 2020.
  • Abigail Z. Jacobs, Su Lin Blodgett, Solon Barocas, Hal Daumé III, and Hanna Wallach.

invited talks and panels

• “Towards Equitable Language Technologies”. Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Washington. January 2022.
• ____. Cultural Assessment Working Group, Digital Library Federation. December 2021.
• ____. Computer Science Colloquium, Williams College. November 2021.
• Language and Justice: Social Implications of Language Technologies”. Bocconi University. October 2021.
• “Computational Approaches to Measuring Stereotyping in Language”. Workshop on Generics and Stereotypes in Language, Institute for Language, Logic and Computation, the University of Amsterdam. September 2021.
• Towards Building Equitable Language Technologies”. Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. August 2021.
• Invited panelist. Workshop on Foundation Models, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI). August 2021.
• “Towards Building Equitable Language Technologies”. xAI Discussion Group, Aggregate Intellect. July 2021.
• Invited panelist, Ethics in AI Panel. Level 3 AI Assistant Conference (L3-AI). June 2021.
• “Towards Building Equitable Language Technologies”. Annual Linguistics Student Association Spring Colloquium, San Diego State University. May 2021.
• ____. Artificial Intelligence in the Liberal Arts, Amherst College. April 2021.
• “Language and Justice: Reconsidering Harms in Language Systems and Practices”. Seminar Series, Naver Labs. April 2021.
• ____. NLP/Text-as-Data Speaker Series, New York University. April 2021.
• ____. AI Ethics Group, MIT. March 2021.
• ____. NLP Seminar, University of California, Berkeley. March 2021.
• Invited panelist, Voices of Data Science at UMass Amherst. February 2021.
• ____. NLP Seminar, Stanford University. February 2021.
• “Language and Justice: Understanding Harms in NLP Systems and Practices”. Computer Science & Engineering Colloquia Series, Washington University in St. Louis. November 2020.
• “Language and Justice: A Collection of Thoughts on the Social Implications of Language Technologies”. NLP with Friends. October 2020.
• “Language and Justice: Understanding Harms in NLP Systems and Practices”. Educational Testing Service. August 2020.
• “Sociolinguistically Driven Approaches for Justice in Natural Language Processing Systems”. Microsoft Research New York. February 2020.
• “Fairness and Justice in Natural Language Processing”. Womxn in Computer Science, Dartmouth College. November 2019.
• “Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media”. Computational Social Science Institute Seminar, University of Massachusetts Amherst. April 2019.
• ____. Workshop on New Methods in Computational Sociolinguistics, Lorentz Center, Leiden University. November 2018.
• ____. Summer Dialect Research Project, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst. June 2018.
• ____. Data Science Research Symposium, University of Massachusetts Amherst. April 2017.
• ____. Computational Linguistics Workshop, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst. April 2017.
• ____. Computer Science Colloquium, Wellesley College. November 2016.

teaching

• Abe Handler, Katherine Keith, and I co-designed and co-taught a freshman computer science seminar, Ethical Issues Surrounding Artificial Intelligence Systems and Big Data in fall 2018.
• Teaching assistant for Advanced Natural Language Processing (graduate) in spring 2017.

guest lectures

• “Language, Language Technologies, and Justice”. Georgia Institute of Technology. 2022.
• “Towards Equitable Language Technologies”. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2021.
• “Language and Justice”. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2020.
• “NLP and Social Good”. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2020.
• “Ethics in NLP”. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2020.
• ____. Mount Holyoke College. 2020.
• “Ethics in Machine Learning”. Mount Holyoke College. 2020.
• “Variation in Social Media”. Mount Holyoke College. 2017.
• ____. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2017.