Natural Language Processing
Exploring Racial and Gender Differences in Opioid Use Disorder and Designing NLP-based Diagnosis Tools (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 21, 2023—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Chen Jin to work in the laboratory of Dr. Alvin D. Jeffery, Ph.D. in the School of Nursing during the summer of 2023. Chen is a rising senior with majors in Economics and Medicine Health and Society (MHS), and a minor in Data Science. Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has become an...
Data Science Institute makes strides in project aiming to create an AI Assistant for acquiring low-resource languages like Hindi
May. 2, 2023—The Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute made progress this semester on a research project to bridge the gap in language acquisition of low-resource languages through deep learning. The team is developing an AI assistant for language professors and tools that keep the curricula up-to-date with changes in the Hindi language. Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies,...
DSI hosts AI Revolutions Symposium
Mar. 29, 2023—The Data Science Institute would like to thank all of the attendees and speakers that made our AI Revolutions Symposium this week a great event for the Vanderbilt community. The two-day event showcased the latest developments and impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and academia. The DSI’s Chief Data Scientist, Jesse Spencer-Smith, opened the...
Modeling Multiattribute Food Decisions Using Semantic Representations (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Ke Lai to work in the laboratory of Professor Jennifer Trueblood in the Department of Psychology during the summer of 2022. Ke is a senior with majors in Psychology and Economics. Interested in how people people make decisions or judgments about food items, Ke and Professor Trueblood began by focusing on...
The Contested Meaning of Abortion (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Rebecca Rossi to work in the laboratory of Dr. Sophie Bjork-James in the Department of Anthropology during the summer of 2022. Rebecca is a senior with a major Mathematics. This project examines how individuals and organizations discuss the topic of abortion on social media. By examining Twitter data related to abortion...
Building Family Trees: Identifying Enslaved People in Ecclesiastical Records
Aug. 25, 2021—The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA) preserves the oldest serial records for slave societies in the Americas. The records contain handwritten text in collections of books by ecclesiastical (religious) and notaries (other government officials) for the purposes of recording births, marriages, and deaths. The text are written in ecclesiastical Spanish and Portuguese. Through efforts of...
Laying Down the Law with Class Action Lawsuits
Aug. 16, 2021—How do judges choose a fair amount for attorney’s compensation in class action lawsuits? Is the decision consistent across similar court cases? Are there quantifiable defining characteristics that form the basis for differentiation in attorneys’ fees awards? Attorney and Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise Law Professor Brian Fitzpatrick seeks to answer these questions....
Illuminating the Unseen: Insights into the African-American experience at Vanderbilt
Jul. 12, 2021—Who are the people who have made Vanderbilt great and made it into the hallmark of excellence and inclusivity that it is today? In 2007, inspired by notable African-American Vanderbilt alum whose contributions and accomplishments were relatively unknown to current Vanderbilt students, Dr. Rosevelt Noble began the Lost in the Ivy project. He sought to...
Legal Natural Language Processing (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Henry Savich to work in the laboratory of Professor Brian Fitzpatrick in the Vanderbilt Law School during the summer of 2020. Henry graduated in May 2021 with a major in Mathematics and minors in Physics and Scientific Computing. The Legal Natural Language Processing (NLP) project, funded by this fellowship, aimed to...
Exploring Textual Data to Understand Educators’ Opinions and School Characteristics (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2019—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Jong Eun Jung to work in the laboratory of Professor Jason Grissom in the Department of Leadership Policy and Organization during the summer of 2019. Jong anticipates graduating in 2022 and is majoring in Human and Organizational Development and Computer Science. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the...