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Brendan T. O'ConnorAssociate Professor, College of Information and Computer SciencesAssociate Director, Computational Social Science Institute University of Massachusetts Amherst brenocon@cs.umass.edu, @brendan642, @brenocon.bsky.social Room 238, Computer Science Building, 140 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003 |
I am an associate professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst. My group is the SLANG Lab, part of UMass NLP. I am also an associate director of the Computational Social Science Institute, and affiliated with the UMass CogSci and the Centers for Data Science and Intelligent Information Retrieval.
Links: CV, Bio, Teaching, Talks, Notes, Misc.
Some current things:
Some current collaborative projects:
Research:
What can statistical text analysis tell us about society?
I develop
text analysis
methods
that can help answer social science
questions.
I'm interested in
statistical machine learning and
natural language processing,
especially when informed by or applied to areas like
political science or sociolinguistics.
My work often uses text data from news and social media.
There is a rich set of other faculty at UMass interested in areas from computational social science to natural language processing. See the Computational Social Science Institute (CSSI) website, and UMass NLP affiliates.
Background:
I joined UMass after receiving my PhD
from
Carnegie Mellon University's
Machine Learning Department.
I have also been a
Visiting Fellow at Harvard IQSS,
and
interned with the Facebook Data Science team.
Before grad school,
I worked on crowdsourced annotations at CrowdFlower / Dolores Labs,
and
natural language search at Powerset.
I started studying the intersection of AI and social science
as an undergrad/masters student in
Stanford
Symbolic Systems (cognitive science, more or less).
Link: Full bio.