I am a PhD student in Computer Science working with Brendan O'Connor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

In my research, I develop machine learning, natural language processing, and information extraction methods in order to better explore and understand socio-political trends in unstructured text data. I am interested in applications under the domain of computational social science, a subfield that uses computational approaches to model, simulate, and analyze social, economic, and political phenomena.

Publications

• Uncertainty-aware generative models for inferring document class prevalence.
  Katherine A. Keith and Brendan O'Connor.
  EMNLP 2018. [code] [poster] [bibtex]
• Monte Carlo Syntax Marginals for Exploring and Using Dependency Parses.
  Katherine A. Keith , Su Lin Blodgett, and Brendan O'Connor.
  NAACL 2018. [code] [poster] [bibtex]
• Identifying civilians killed by police with distantly supervised entity-event extraction.
  Katherine A. Keith , Abram Handler, Michael Pinkham, Cara Magliozzi, Joshua McDuffie, and Brendan O’Connor.
  EMNLP 2017. [code & data] [slides] [bibtex]

Misc.

Su Lin Blodgett, Abe Handler, and I co-designed and co-taught Ethical Issues Surrounding Artificial Intelligence Systems and Big Data, a freshman computer science seminar at UMass during Fall 2018. I helped design and organize a Male Ally Workshop for graduate computer science students in Fall 2017.

During the summer of 2018, I worked as a Research Intern at Bloomberg L.P. From 2015 to 2016, I lived in Taiwan on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, and I studied abroad in Beijing, China during Spring 2014.

In my free time, I enjoy trail-running, rock climbing, and skiing.