Brendan O'Connor
About
Brendan O'Connor is an associate professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who works in the intersection of computational social science and natural language processing (NLP) — studying how social factors influence language technologies, and how to better understand social trends with text analysis. For example, he has investigated racial bias in NLP technologies, political events reported in news, language in Twitter, and crowdsourcing foundations of NLP. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER and Google Faculty Research awards, has received a best paper award, and his research has been cited thousands of times and been featured in the media. At UMass Amherst, he is affiliated with the Computational Social Science Institute and Center for Data Science.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Clustering political words: senses and connotations
Year: 2003
Citations: 2
Venue: Final Project. CS224N/Ling 237
Latest Recorded Paper
FSLI: An Interpretable Formal Semantic System for One-Dimensional Ordering Inference
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08415
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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