Computational Social Science
Top features for Economics and Public Finance policy classification across Congresses

How Does Congress Actually Work? Data from 15K Bills

Only 2% of congressional bills become law. We analyze 15K bills from 2021-2023 to understand what drives legislative success and failure.

Natural Language Processing
Information Quality Ratio plot showing statistical dependencies decay as window size increases

Analytical Solution to Word2Vec Softmax & Bias Probing

We provide the first analytical solution to Word2Vec’s softmax skip-gram objective, introducing the Independent Frequencies Model and deriving a low-cost, training-free method for measuring semantic bias directly from corpus statistics.

Natural Language Processing
Types and distribution of coreferences in QuAC dataset showing dialogue complexity

QuAC: Question Answering in Context Dataset

QuAC introduces a conversational QA dataset that models student-teacher interactions, creating context-dependent questions that test systems’ ability to understand dialogue and resolve references.

Natural Language Processing
Visualization of coreference resolution in the CoQA conversational question answering dataset

CoQA Dataset: Advancing Conversational Question Answering

CoQA extends question answering beyond isolated questions to conversations that require context and reference understanding.