Dallas Card

Dallas Card

Email: dalc@umich.edu
Office: North Quad 3421
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I am an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Stanford NLP Group and the Stanford Data Science Institute. I received my Ph.D. from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Noah Smith.

My research centers on making machine learning more reliable and responsible, and on using machine learning and natural language processing to learn about society, history, and culture.



Updates

  • July 2025: I will be attending ACL 2025 in Vienna, as well as the Pre-ACL workshop hosted by the Pioneer Center for AI in Copenhagen.
  • June 2025: Two papers by my student Ben Litterer (with myself and David Jurgens) have been accepted to ACL: The SPoRC podcast dataset paper, and a review of methods for measuring linguistic accommodation/coordination! (Official ACL versions forthcoming)
  • June 2025: I also had a solo authored paper accepted to ACL, investigating the use of the Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA) for studying questions of historical legal meaning. Please see the accompanying online appendix for more details!
  • November 2024: We've released the first version of our Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC), and accompanying paper!
  • October 2024: I will be speaking at the Center for Law and Social Science Workshop (CLASS) at USC on November 18th.
  • July 2024: I will be attending IC2S2 2024 in Philadelphia, July 17-20.

Current Ph.D. Students


Selected Publications

Recent Professional Service

  • FAccT steering committee member (2023-2025)
  • EMNLP 2025 publicity chair
  • Co-organizer of the NLP+CSS workshop at NAACL 2024, June 21 in Mexico City.
  • Co-organizer of the 2024 Midwest Speech and Language Days, April 15-16th, University of Michigan
  • Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (2025, 2024, 2023), FAccT (2025, 2024, 2023), ACL (2023), NAACL (2021)
  • Reviewer for COLM (2024), ACL Rolling Review (2022, 2021), ACL (2022, 2021), EMNLP (2022, 2021), NAACL (2022, 2021) TACL (2023, 2022, 2021), EMNLP Ethics reviewer (2023, 2022, 2021), FAccT (2022), AAAI (2022, 2021), AIES (2023), International Journal of Communication (2024), The Web Conference (2023), Philosophy and Technology (2021), PeerJ (2021)

About me

I'm originally from Winnipeg, but I have also lived in Toronto, Waterloo, Halifax, Sydney, Kampala, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Palo Alto, and now Ann Arbor.

I am an occasional guest on The Reality Check podcast. You can hear me in episodes #466 (biased algorithms), #382 (deep learning), #362 (Simpson's paradox), and #227 (fMRI and vegetative states).



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