Samar Haider

Excited to share my work towards improving NLP for low-resource languages: Urdu Word Embeddings, a collection of vector representations of Urdu words trained over more than 140M tokens of raw text. Paper (LREC 2018): lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lr… Download: github.com/samarh/urduvec

To all those offering their confident explanations for "Why Trump won" (starting, literally, the morning after) I humbly suggest that you read my book. amazon.com/Everything-Obv…

📢Don't miss the NAACL Student Research Workshop! 🖇️ CFP & Important dates: naacl2025-srw.github.io/cfp #NLProc

Everybody trivializes common sense because we believe it is self-evident and universal. But is it really? Find out by participating in our Common Sense Project: commonsense.seas.upenn.edu. With @AmirhosNakh, @MarkWhiting, and @DuncanJWatts at @CSSPenn. 1/n

The common sense project is now live! @DuncanJWatts, @MarkWhiting, @amirhosnakh and @joshnguyen99 from the CSSLab invite you to take a quick survey 📝 and measure your common sense💡 commonsense.seas.upenn.edu You can read more about the project here: css.seas.upenn.edu/commonsensical…

RAG enables LLMs to access external info 📖. But when this info is multiple languages 🌐, can LLMs reconcile differing viewpoints 🧐? We introduce BordIRlines, a dataset to study the robustness of cross-lingual RAG. 📃arxiv.org/abs/2410.01171 🗃️ huggingface.co/datasets/borde… 1/4 🧵

New blog post for Media Bias Detector! Worried about Russian disinfo? Our latest analysis shows the focus on Russia-backed efforts like Tenet Media masks a bigger threat dividing America: homegrown media giants like Fox and Tucker Carlson

New Media Bias Detector 🔎 Blog Post 📝 - Worried about the Russians dividing America? The call is coming from inside the house @_JenAllen @duncanjwatts mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/worried-a…

NEWS: We’re proud to support @Penn’s new Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy alongside the @KnightFdn, @PennEngineers, @AnnenbergPenn, @PennSAS, @PennLaw, & @PennSP2: whr.tn/4dOUSIV Led by Profs. @DuncanJWatts & Christopher Yoo, the Center will propel research involving media, technology, and democracy within Penn and become a global hub for researchers, private sector leaders, and policymakers.

Amidst a rollercoaster of seemingly endless political news, @csspenn's Media Bias Detector website can “classify media content in somewhat close to real time,” says @WarrenCntrPenn faculty affiliate @duncanjwatts. thepenngazette.com/detecting-medi…

📢 Excited to announce that the Knight Foundation @knightfdn has provided a grant for the @UofPenn to establish the Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy led by @csspenn director @duncanjwatts and Penn Law Prof. Christopher Yoo 🎉 Read more here: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/universit…

Nice story about @csspenn's Media Bias Detector. thepenngazette.com/detecting-medi… Check out the bias detector here: mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu @DavMicRot

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Death in the news: The mortality risks we face and the ones media organizations talk about Written by: @calvinisch2 mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/death-in-…

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Investigating the Impact of Media Bias on News Readers On @Amir__Tohidi's and @samarhdr's presentation at @IC2S2 mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/investiga…

On behalf of the International Society for Computational Social Science, I want to thank @xisong, @dhopkins1776, and their team for putting on a spectacular IC2S2 2024 @Penn this past week. Big crowd, great energy, and high quality content! Looking forward to next year in Sweden!

It’s great to see that next year’s #ic2s2 will be hosted by sociologist @PeterHedstrom1 and his team in Sweden! Looking forward to seeing mingling between analytical sociologists and computational social scientists @duncanjwatts @IAS_LiU @benfjarvis

Lonely no more 🥹🎉🎉🎉 @IC2S2 @dhopkins1776 @xisong

Keynote speech @IC2S2 by @talalrahwan on gender bias in journal editorship. Sociology is the only field in which women are not underrepresented in journal editors ☺️@NYUSociology @NYUAbuDhabi @nyushanghai

International Conference on Computational Social Sciences at Penn Day 0 Tutorial Day. We have more than 300 participants who signed up for today’s events. Photo: @profjamesevans on deep learning @duncanjwatts @dhopkins1776 @IC2S2 #computational #socialscience

SICSS-Penn year THREE 🎉 So happy to meet y’all in Philly and enjoy a productive week! 🆒😎

New Media Bias Detector 🔍 Blog Post 📝 -  Examining Media Coverage of Misinformation Coverage of @DavMicRot 's and @duncanjwatts's new paper: Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/examining…