Jack LaViolette - Incite at Columbia University
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Jack LaViolette
(Graduate Fellow)
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Jack LaViolette is a PhD student in the Columbia University Department of Sociology, a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow, and an Incite Graduate Fellow.
Jack's research interests lie at the intersection of historical, cultural, and computational sociology, with a particular methodological interest in natural language processing. At Incite, he has assisted the Measuring Liberal Arts initiative as well as the Trust Project Mellon Sawyer Seminar.
With support from Incite, he additionally co-organized an eight-lecture series entitled "NLP for Social Science: From Language Models to Social Structures" in the spring of 2023. Prior to joining Incite and Columbia, he was a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University.
He holds an MSc with Distinction in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute and a BA with Honors in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Related Works
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Marcelo SO Goncalves, Isabelle Langrock, Jack LaViolette, Katie Spoon, "Book bans in political context: Evidence from US schools", PNAS Nexus, June 11, 2024
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Mikael Brunila, Jack LaViolette, Sky CH-Wang, Priyanka Verma, Clara Féré, Grant McKenzie, "Toward a Critical Toponymy Framework for Named Entity Recognition: A Case Study of Airbnb in New York City", EMNLP 2023, December 10, 2023
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Peter Bearman, Chad Borkenhagen, Siqi Han, Jack LaViolette, "Interdisciplinary college curriculum and its labor market implications", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, October 16, 2023
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Cristian Capotescu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Judelysse Gomez, Jack LaViolette, Danielle Lee Tomson, "The TrustWorkers Project:Challenges and Methods of Building Trust into Public Scholarship", Public Philosophy Journal, May 9, 2023
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Cristian Capotescu, Tashi Chodon, James Chu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Rishi Goyal, Olusimbo Ige, Jack LaViolette, Sarah Mallik, Lula Mae Phillips, Paulette Spencer, Danielle Lee Tomson, "Community health workers' critical role in trust building between the medical system and communities of color", American Journal of Managed Care, October 28, 2022
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Cristian Capotescu, Tashi Chodon, James Chu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Rishi Goyal, Olusimbo Ige, Jack LaViolette, Sarah Mallik, Lula Mae Phillips, Paulette Spencer, Danielle Lee Tomson, "Community Health Workers can Play a Critical Role in Fostering Trust between the Medical System and Minority Communities", American Journal for Managed Care, October 6, 2022
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Mikael Brunila, Jack LaViolette, "What company do words keep? Revisiting the distributional semantics of J.R. Firth & Zellig Harris", ACL Anthology, July 10, 2022
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Mikael Brunila, Jack LaViolette, "A Framework for Leveraging the Interpretable Properties of Word Mover’s Distance in Sociocultural Analysis", ACL Anthology, November 11, 2021