Elliott Ash
Associate Professor
Studies law, economics and politics with natural language processing, analysing judicial opinions, legislation and political speech.
Elliott Ash's lab at ETH Zurich works on language & society, multimodal & grounded language and computational social science. 23 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly ACL and EMNLP.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 39%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 3
- 4 papers2024 · T1 3
- 11 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, EMNLP, EACL, Findings of EMNLP, NAACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Computational social science3 papers
- Language & society2 papers
- Multimodal & grounded language2 papers
- political1 paper
- political sciences0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- EACLCan Reasoning Help Large Language Models Capture Human Annotator Disagreement? (opens in a new tab)
- PNAS (T1)Continuity and change in US legal tradition: Evidence from judicial citation communities (opens in a new tab)
- EconomicaRace-related Research in Economics (opens in a new tab)
- European Economic ReviewSeeing and Hearing is Believing: The Role of Audiovisual Communication in Shaping Inflation Expectations (opens in a new tab)
20254 papers
- EMNLP System DemonstrationsCo-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)DIRAS: Efficient LLM Annotation of Document Relevance in Retrieval Augmented Generation (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Measuring scalar constructs in social science with LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)The Medium Is Not the Message: Deconfounding Document Embeddings via Linear Concept Erasure (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
- Journal of Public EconomicsFrom Viewers to Voters:Tracing Fox News’ Impact on American Democracy (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)The Empirical Variability of Narrative Perceptions of Social Media Texts (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Towards Faithful and Robust LLM Specialists for Evidence-Based Question-Answering (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Whose Preferences? Differences in Fairness Preferences and Their Impact on the Fairness of AI Utilizing Human Feedback (opens in a new tab)
202311 papers
- Artificial Intelligence and LawDetecting the Influence of Chinese Guiding Cases: A Text Reuse Approach (opens in a new tab)
- LIRAILegal extractive summarization of U.S. court opinions (opens in a new tab)
- . Economics LettersMindfulness reduces information avoidance (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Political Institutions and Political EconomyPolarization and Political Selection (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Review of EconomicsText Algorithms in Economics (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Data and Information QualityThe Choice of Knowledge Base in Automated Claim Checking (opens in a new tab)
- Political AnalysisThe Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19 (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPThe Law and NLP: Bridging Disciplinary Disconnects (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Uncovering and Categorizing Social Biases in Text-to-SQL (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)WCLD: Curated Large Dataset of Criminal Cases from Wisconsin Circuit Courts (opens in a new tab)
- CognitionWhat is (and was) a Person? Evidence on Historical Mind Perceptions from Natural Language (opens in a new tab)
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