π Deeply grateful to my committee Slava Jankin, @mhallerberg.bsky.social, Hannah BΓ©chara, and Jack Blumenau for their guidance and support throughout the process.
Special thanks to @conjugateprior.org, as well as my colleagues, friends, and family for helping me reach this milestone ππ
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I also analyzed media coverage of international conflicts ποΈ and show how causal explanations shape political discourse. I introduce non-attribution as a distinct framing practice, arguing that omitting causal explanations affects perceptions of responsibility βοΈ
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To get here I:
π Built an annotated corpus: PolitiCAUSE β aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-ma...
π€ Designed an evaluation strategy to test how LLMs parse linguistic causality β aclanthology.org/2025.konvens...
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π My framework introduces a general, scalable method to answer the question βwho is claiming what and about whom?" π€ from unstructured text
Preprint β arxiv.org/abs/2512.03214
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Proud to announce that Iβve defended my PhD thesis at @hertiedatascience.bsky.social πβ¨ I examine how causal explanations are expressed and used in political communication & introduce an NLP framework to identify and parse causal attributions.
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Congratulations! This is great news π
*Introduction to Python* by Hannah BΓ©chara &
@paugc.bsky.social.
ποΈ 25 β 28 August 2025
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