Overview of the 2014 NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics

Noah A. Smith, Claire Cardie, Anne L. Washington, John D. Wilkerson

Abstract: We describe a research activity carried out during January‐April 2014, seeking to increase engagement between the natural language processing research community and social science scholars. In this activity, participants were offered a corpus of text relevant to the 2007‐8 financial crisis and an open-ended prompt. Their responses took the form of a short paper and an optional demonstration, to which a panel of judges will respond with the goal of identifying efforts with the greatest potential for future interdisciplinary collaboration.