Fields of Study
Computational social science; Culture and cognition; Health and illness; Stigma; Media; Natural language processing (NLP) methods
Publications
Work Under Review and Corresponding Preprints:
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina and Jacob Foster. “Machine learning as a model for cultural learning: teaching an algorithm what it means to be fat.” Under review. Preprint. Code and Python Tutorial on Word Embeddings.
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina. “Theoretical foundations and limits of word embeddings: what types of cultural meaning can they capture?” Revised and resubmitted. Preprint.
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina, Susan Cochran, Vickie Mays, Kai-Wei Chang, and Jacob Foster. “Integrating topic modeling and word embedding to characterize violent deaths.” Under review. Preprint.
Boutyline, Andrei, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, and Devin Cornell. “School, Studying, and Smarts: Gender Stereotypes and Education Across 80 Years of American Print Media, 1930-2009.” Invited to revise and resubmit. Preprint.
Publications:
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina, Jacob Foster, Vickie Mays, Kai-Wei Chang and Susan Cochran. 2021 “Aggression, escalation, and other latent themes in legal intervention deaths of non-Hispanic Black and White men: Results from the 2003-2017 NVDRS.” American Journal of Public Health. 111: S107-S115. Link.
Boutyline, Andrei, Devin Cornell, and Alina Arseniev-Koehler. "All Roads Lead to Polenta: Cultural Attractors at the Junction of Public and Personal Culture." Accepted at Sociological Forum.
Moreno, Megan A, Molly Adrian, Megan A Wilt, Adrienne Ton, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Elizabeth McCauley, and Ann Vander Stoep. 2021. “Displayed Depression Symptoms on Facebook at Two Time Points: Content Analysis.” JMIR Formative Research. 5(5): e20179. Link.
Moreno, Megan, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, and Ellen Selkie. 2016 “Development and testing of a 3-item screening tool for Problematic Internet Use.” Journal of Pediatrics. 176: 167-172.
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina, Hedwig Lee, Tyler McCormick, and Megan Moreno. 2016. “#Pro-Ana: Pro-Eating Disorder Socialization on Twitter.” Journal of Adolescent Health. 58(6):659-664.
Moreno, Megan, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Dana Litt, Dimitri Christakis. 2016. “Evaluating college students' displayed alcohol references on Facebook and Twitter.” Journal of Adolescent Health. 58(5): 527:532.
Pumper, Megan, Jason Mendoza, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Matt Holm, Alan Waite, and Megan Moreno. 2015. “Using a Facebook Group as an Adjunct to a Pilot mHealth Physical Activity Intervention: A Mixed Methods Approach.” Studies of Health Technology Informatics. 219:97-101.
Book chapters:
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina and Jacob Foster. “Sociolinguistic Properties of Word Embeddings.” Forthcoming chapter in The Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology, edited by Morteza Dehghani and Ryan L. Boyd. Guilford Press. Preprint.
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina, Laura Hooper, and Hedwig Lee. 2014. “Online Pro-Eating Disorder (Pro-ED) Activity.” Pp 553-563 in AM:STARs: Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. Vol 25, Social Networking and New Technologies, edited by V. Strasberger and M. Moreno. American Academy of Pediatrics.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings:
Ankith Uppunda, Susan Cochran, Jacob Foster, Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Vickie Mays and Kai-Wei Chang. 2021. "Adapting Coreference Resolution for Processing Violent Death Narratives.'' Pp 4553-4559 in Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL): Human Language Technologies. PDF.
Larimore, Savannah, Ian Kennedy, Breon Haskett and Alina Arseniev-Koehler. 2021. "Reconsidering Annotator Disagreement about Racist Language: Noise or Signal?'' Pp 81-90 in Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media. PDF.
Arseniev-Koehler, Alina, Sharon Mozgai, and Stefan Scherer. 2018. “What type of happiness are you looking for? A closer look at detecting depression.” 2018. Pp 1-12 in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic.
Grants and Awards
Best Dissertation-in-Progress Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Mathematical Sociology, 2021
Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Divison, 2021-2022
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Mathematical Sociology, 2020
Graduate Summer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, 2020
Computational Social Science Summer School on Multimedia Data Travel Grant from the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2019
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) Fellow, 2018, 2019
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017-2020
Graduate Research Mentorship Year-Long Award from UCLA, 2017-2018
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award from UCLA Graduate Divison, 2017 (declined)
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award from UCLA Graduate Divison, 2016
Howard B. Woolston Award for Academic Excellence from Univerrsity of Washington Dept. of Sociology, 2014
Mary Gates Research Scholar, 2014
Conference Presentations
“Theoretical foundations and limits for word embeddings: what types of cultural meaning can they capture?” American Sociological Association Meeting, 2021. Virtual due to Covid-19.
“Aggression, escalation, and other latent themes in legal intervention/shooting deaths of non-Hispanic Black and White men: Results from the 2003-2017 NVDRS.” American Sociological Association Meeting, 2021. Virtual due to Covid-19.
“Discourses of Death: Introducing a new method to model topics in word embeddings.” American Sociological Association Meeting, 2020. Virtual due to Covid-19.
“School, Studying, and Smarts: Gender of Education Across 80 Years of American Print Media, 1930-2009.” American Sociological Association Meeting, 2020. Virtual due to Covid-19.
“The Gendered Meanings of Gender-Fair Language.” Text across Domains (TextXD) Conference, 2019. UC Berkeley, CA.
“Intro to Word Embeddings.” Text Analysis Across Domains (TextXD) Conference, 2019. UC Berkeley, CA.
“Gender equal or gender neutral? Gender connotations in occupational nouns.” IC2S2 International Conference on Computational Social Science, 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“Gender, Morality, Social Class, and other Cultural Dimensions in Word Embeddings.” Text across Domains (TextXD) Conference, 2018. UC Berkeley, CA.
“What type of happiness are you looking for? A closer look at detecting depression.” Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, 2018. New Orleans, LA.
“What type of happiness are you looking for? A closer look at detecting depression.” UCSD/UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Culture, Health, and Mind, 2018. UC San Diego, CA.
“Reading “fat,” thinking “unhealthy” and other schemata invoked from obesity news,” 28th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference at UCLA, 2018. Los Angeles, CA.
“Quantifying Social Biases in Obesity Discourse 1980-2016” American Sociological Association Meeting, 2017. Montreal, Canada.
“Pro-Eating Disorder (pro-ED) Social Interaction on Twitter.” Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Meeting, 2015. Los Angeles, CA.
Advisors
Committee: Jacob Foster, Jessica Collett, Morteza Dehghani and Omar Lizardo
Degrees
B.A. with Honors in Sociology and minor in Statistics, University of Washington, 2014
M.A. in Sociology, University of California - Los Angeles, 2017