Research

Understanding the Effect of Knowledge Graph Extraction Error on Downstream Graph Analyses: A Case Study on Affiliation Graphs.
Erica Cai, Brendan O'Connor.
Preprint, 2025. [pdf]

Relation Extraction Across Entire Books to Reconstruct Community Networks: The AffilKG Datasets.
Erica Cai, Sean McQuade, Kevin Young, Brendan O'Connor.
Preprint, 2025. [pdf]

Identifying and Investigating Global News Coverage of Critical Events such as Disasters and Terrorist Attacks.
Erica Cai*, Xi Chen*, Reagan Keeney, Ethan Zuckerman, Brendan O'Connor, Przemyslaw Grabowicz.
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 2025.

The State of Relation Extraction Data Quality: Is Bigger Always Better?
Erica Cai, Brendan O'Connor.
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) (Findings) 2024. [pdf]

From Low Resource Information Extraction to Identifying Influential Nodes in Knowledge Graphs.
Erica Cai, Olga Simek, Benjamin Miller, Danielle Sullivan-Pao, Evan Young, Christopher Smith.
Complex Networks XV, published in Springer Nature, presented at International Conference on Complex Networks, 2024. (Oral) [pdf]

Adaptive Selection of the Optimal Strategy to Improve Precision and Power in Randomized Trials.
Laura B. Balzer, Erica Cai, Lucas Godoy Garraza, Pracheta Amaranath.
Biometrics, 2023. [pdf]

A Monte Carlo Language Model Pipeline for Zero-Shot Sociopolitical Event Extraction.
Erica Cai, Brendan O'Connor.
New England NLP (from abstract) 2023 (Oral); Text as Data (from abstract) 2023; NeurIPS Instruction Tuning and Instruction Following Workshop 2023. [pdf]

Evaluating Zero-Shot Event Structures: Recommendations for Automatic Content Extraction (ACE) Annotations.
Erica Cai, Brendan O'Connor.
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023. [pdf]

Improving the Efficiency of the PC Algorithm by Using Model-Based Conditional Independence Tests.
Erica Cai, Andrew McGregor, David Jensen.
NeurIPS Causal Machine Learning for Real World Impact Workshop 2022 [pdf] [poster]

"Let Me Just Interrupt You": Estimating Gender Effects in Supreme Court Oral Arguments.
Erica Cai, Ankita Gupta, Katherine Keith, Brendan O’Connor, Douglas Rice.
Journal of Law and Courts 2024; Text as Data (from abstract) 2022. [pdf][poster]

MC3D: A Posterior Predictive Check for Learning Directed Graphical Models.
David Jensen, Erica Cai.
Submitted, 2022 and in progress.

Measuring Interventional Robustness in Reinforcement Learning.
Katherine Avery*, Jack Kenney*, Pracheta Amaranath, Erica Cai, David Jensen.
ArXiv, 2022. [pdf]