Dallas Card

Updates

• October 2026: I will be in Berkeley and San Francisco to attend COLM and Text as Data, where two of my PhD students, Ben Litterer and Meera Desai, will be presenting posters. Congratulations to Meera on being chosen to give a spotlight talk at COLM!
• September 2026: New work by my PhD student Lavinia Dunagan, Missing context: A Review of Natural Language Processing for Archives, has now been published.
• September 2026: I have joined the Executive Committee for the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT).
• July 2026: We've posted a preprint of our paper on approaches to validation when using LLMs to measure concepts in social science, led by Meera Desai and Abigail Jacobs.
• July 2026: I'll be attending IC2S2 in Burlington, Vermont, where I'll be giving a tutorial on podcasts as a source of social data, with David Jurgens.
• June 2026: I will be attending ACL 2026 in San Diego, where I will be giving an invited keynote at the *SEM workshop on July 3rd.
• April 2026: As a repeat pivoter, I'm happy to share this preprint of our work on the costs of disciplinary pivots.
• January 2026: Thanks to the amazing work of Amber Boydstun, Jill Laufer, and Noah Smith, a new book that I contributed to is now available open-access from Cambridge Elements: Catching Fire in the News - The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms.
• November 2025: I will be attending Computational Humanities Research (CHR) in Luxembourg in December, where my student Lavinia Dunagan will be presenting her paper on the use of religious rhetoric in U.S. Congressional speeches.

Current Ph.D. Students

Selected Publications

• Catching Fire in the News: The Necessary Conditions for Media Storms
  Amber E. Boydstun, Jill R. Laufer, Dallas Card and Noah A. Smith
  Cambridge University Press; 2026
  [online appendix] [bib]


• Characterizing Religious Rhetoric in the U.S. Congressional Record
  Lavinia Dunagan and Dallas Card
  Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 3, 2025
  [code] [bib]


• Semantic Change in Adults is Not Primarily a Generational Phenomenon
  Gaurav Kamath, Michelle Yang, Siva Reddy, Morgan Sonderegger, Dallas Card
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(31), 2025
  [code] [bib] Media coverage: The New World Magazine


• Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem with the Structured Podcast Research Corpus
  Benjamin Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
  [code] [data] [bib]


• Coordinating Chaos: A Structured Review of Linguistic Coordination Methodologies
  Benjamin Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
  [bib]


• Meaning Variation and Data Quality in the Corpus of Founding Era American English
  Dallas Card
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
  [online appendix] [code] [bib]


• You don't need a personality test to know these models are unreliable: Assessing the Reliability of Large Language Models on Psychometric Instruments
  Bangzhao Shu, Lechen Zhang, Minje Choi, Lavinia Dunagan, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Moontae Lee, Dallas Card, David Jurgens
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024
  [bib]


• An Archival Perspective on Pretraining Data
  Meera A. Desai, Irene V. Pasquetto, Abigail Z. Jacobs, Dallas Card
  Patterns, March 2024
  [bib]


• When it Rains, it Pours: Modeling Media Storms and the News Ecosystem
  Benjamin Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card
  Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
  [code] [bib]


• Substitution-based Semantic Change Detection using Contextual Embeddings
  Dallas Card
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
  [code] [bib]


• Whose Language Counts as High Quality? Measuring Language Ideologies in Text Data Selection
  Suchin Gururangan, Dallas Card, Sarah K. Dreier, Emily K. Gade, Leroy Z. Wang, Zeyu Wang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Noah A. Smith
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022
  [code] [bib]


• Computational analysis of 140 years of US political speeches reveals more positive but increasingly polarized framing of immigration
  Dallas Card, Serina Chang, Chris Becker, Julia Mendelsohn, Rob Voigt, Leah Boustan, Ran Abramitzky, Dan Jurafsky
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(31), 2022
  [data and code] [bib] Media coverage: New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times


• The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research
  Abeba Birhane, Pratyusha Kalluri, Dallas Card, William Agnew, Ravit Dotan, and Michelle Bao
  ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2022
  [data and code] [bib] Media coverage: VentureBeat
  [Distinguished Paper Award]
  


• Modular Domain Adaptation
  Junshen Chen, Dallas Card, Dan Jurafsky
  In Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022
  [blog post] [code] [bib]
  


• Problems with Cosine as a Measure of Embedding Similarity for High Frequency Words
  Kaitlyn Zhou, Kawin Ethayarajh, Dallas Card, Dan Jurafsky
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022
  [bib]
  


• On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
  Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli, Russ Altman, Simran Arora, Sydney von Arx, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeannette Bohg, Antoine Bosselut, Emma Brunskill, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shyamal Buch, Dallas Card, et al.
  arXiv:2108.07258, 2021
  [bib]
  


• Expected Validation Performance and Estimation of a Random Variable's Maximum
  Jesse Dodge, Suchin Gururangan, Dallas Card, Roy Schwartz, Noah A. Smith
  Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021
  [bib]
  


• Causal Effects of Linguistic Properties
  Reid Pryzant, Dallas Card, Dan Jurafsky, Victor Veitch, and Dhanya Sridhar
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2021
  [bib]
  


• With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility
  Dallas Card, Peter Henderson, Urvashi Khandelwal, Robin Jia, Kyle Mahowald, and Dan Jurafsky
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
  [code] [bib]
  


• Detecting Stance in Media On Global Warming
  Yiwei Luo, Dallas Card, and Dan Jurafsky
  Findings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
  [code] [bib]
  


• Explain like I am a Scientist: The Linguistic Barriers of Entry to r/science
  Tal August, Dallas Card, Gary Hsieh, Noah A. Smith, and Katharina Reinecke
  Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
  [bib]
  


• On Consequentialism and Fairness
  Dallas Card and Noah A. Smith
  Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020
  [bib]
  


• Show Your Work: Improved Reporting of Experimental Results
  Jesse Dodge, Suchin Gururangan, Dallas Card, Roy Schwartz, and Noah A. Smith
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019
  [code] [bib] Media coverage: WIRED


• Variational Pretraining for Semi-supervised Text Classification
  Suchin Gururangan, Tam Dang, Dallas Card, and Noah A. Smith
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019
  [code] [bib]
  


• The Risk of Racial Bias in Hate Speech Detection
  Maarten Sap, Dallas Card, Saadia Gabriel, Yejin Choi, and Noah A. Smith
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019
  [bib] Media coverage: VOX
  


• Deep Weighted Averaging Classifiers
  Dallas Card, Michael Zhang, and Noah A. Smith
  ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2019
  [code] [blog post] [bib]
  


• Neural Models for Documents with Metadata
  Dallas Card, Chenhao Tan, and Noah A. Smith
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018
  [code] [tutorial] [bib]
  


• Friendships, Rivalries, and Trysts: Characterizing Relations between Ideas in Texts
  Chenhao Tan, Dallas Card, and Noah A. Smith
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017
  [blog post] [bib]
  


• Analyzing Framing through the Casts of Characters in the News
  Dallas Card, Justin H. Gross, Amber E. Boydstun, and Noah A. Smith
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2016
  [bib]
  


• The Media Frames Corpus: Annotations of Frames Across Issues
  Dallas Card, Amber E. Boydstun, Justin H. Gross, Philip Resnik, and Noah A. Smith
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015
  [bib]
  

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