Past Work

LDA Preprocessing ● Text Analysis Workflows ● Privacy ● Teaching ● Other

LDA Preprocessing

• Jin Cheevaprawatdomrong, Alexandra Schofield, and Attapol T. Rutherford. More Than Words: Collocation Tokenization for Latent Dirichlet Allocation Models. arXiv, 2021.
• Alexandra Schofield, Laure Thompson, and David Mimno. Quantifying the effects of text duplication on semantic models. EMNLP, 2017.
• Alexandra Schofield, Måns Magnusson, Laure Thompson, and David Mimno. Understanding text pre-processing for latent Dirichlet allocation. ACL Workshop for Women in NLP (WiNLP), 2017.
• Alexandra Schofield, Måns Magnusson, and David Mimno. Pulling out the stops: Rethinking stopword removal for topic models. EACL, 2017.*
• Alexandra Schofield and David Mimno. Comparing apples to apple: the effects of stemmers on topic models. TACL Vol. 4, 2016.**

Text Analysis Workflows

• Alexandra Schofield, Siqi Wu, Theo Bayard de Volo, Tatsuki Kuze, Alfredo Gomez, Sharifa Sultana. "My Very Subjective Human Interpretation": Domain Expert Perspectives on Navigating the Text Analysis Loop for Topic Models. GROUP 2025.
• Alexandra Schofield. "The Possibilities and Limitations of Natural Language Processing for the Humanities." In The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities. 2022.
• Simon Babb, Dana Harris, Mia Wang, Ingrid Wu, Theo Bayard de Volo, Alfredo Gomez, Tatsuki Kuze, Taeyun Lee, David Mimno, and Alexandra Schofield. Introducing tsLDA: A Workflow-Oriented Topic Modeling Tool. West Coast NLP, 2021.
[Poster] [Video]
• Alicia Eads, Alexandra Schofield, Fauna Mahootian, David Mimno, and Rens Wilderom. Separating the wheat from the chaff: A topic- and keyword-based procedure for identifying research-relevant text. Poetics, 2020. [Prior IC2S2 paper]
• Theo Bayard de Volo, Alfredo Gomez, Tatsuki Kuze, and Alexandra Schofield. LDA in the Wild: How Practitioners Develop Topic Models. West Coast NLP, 2020. [Poster] [Video]

Privacy

• Alexandra Schofield, Gregory Yauney, and David Mimno. Combatting the challenges of local privacy for distributional semantics with compression. NeurIPS Workshop for Privacy in Machine Learning (PriML), 2019.
• Rishi Bommasani, Steven Wu, and Alexandra Schofield. Towards Private Synthetic Text Generation. NeurIPS Workshop for Machine Learning with Guarantees, 2019.
• Aaron Schein, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Alexandra Schofield, Mingyuan Zhou, and Hanna Wallach. Locally private Bayesian inference for count models. ICML, 2019.
• Alexandra Schofield, Aaron Schein, Zhiwei Steven Wu, and Hanna Wallach. A variational inference approach for locally private inference of Poisson factorization models. NeurIPS Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML), 2018.

Teaching

• Suzanne Rivoire and Alexandra Schofield. WIP: Revealing the Hidden Curriculum: A Multi-Institutional Perspective. Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2025.
• Alexandra Schofield, Richard Wicentowski, and Julie Medero. Learning How To Learn NLP: Developing Introductory Concepts Through Scaffolded Discovery. ACL Workshop on Teaching NLP, 2021.
• Emily M. Bender, Dirk Hovy, and Alexandra Schofield. Integrating Ethics into the NLP Curriculum. ACL Tutorial, 2020. [Slides] [Notes]

Other

• Nile Phillips, Sathvika Anand, Michelle Lum, Manisha Goel, Michelle Zemel, and Alexandra Schofield. Cheap Talk: Topic Analysis of CSR Themes on Corporate Twitter. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Financial NLP and Economics in NLP, 2024.
• Stephanie Fulcar, Clifford Ashmun, Jeremy Bakken, Anna Ding, JP Walker, Alexandra Schofield, and Sarah Kavassalis. "Knowing Best: Distinguishing Features of Scientific Papers Cited in Clean Air Policy." Poster at AGU Fall Meeting, 2023.
• Manisha Goel, Alexandra Schofield, and Michelle Zemel. One Shock, Many Disruptions: Firm Experience After India's Demonetization. AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services, 2022. (Acknowledgments to EconText students Eloise Burtis, Chris Nardi, and Matthew Ivler for data preparation!)
• Jack Hessel and Alexandra Schofield. How effective is BERT without word ordering? Implications for language understanding and data privacy. ACL 2021.
• Alexandra Schofield and Thomas Davidson. Identifying hate speech in social media. ACM Crossroads Magazine (XRDS) Vol 24 (2), 2017.
• Alexandra Schofield and Leo Mehr. Gender-distinguishing features in film dialogue. NAACL 2016 Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLFL), 2016.***
• Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield, Lillian Lee, David Mimno. What do vegans do in their spare time? Latent interest detection in multi-community networks. NeurIPS Networks Workshop, 2015.
• Robert Keller, Alexandra Schofield, August Toman-Yih, Zachary Merritt, John Elliott. Automating the explanation of jazz chord progressions using idiomatic analysis. Computer Music Journal 37:4, 54-69, 2013.
• Robert M Keller, August Toman-Yih, Alexandra Schofield, Zachary Merritt. A creative improvisational companion based on idiomatic harmonic bricks. Proc. 3rd ICCC, 2012.