Camille A. Harris

I’m a rising 4th year PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Interactive Computing program. I’m advised by Diyi Yang and Neha Kumar. My research primarily focuses on biases towards underrepresented, indigenous, and colonized dialects and languages in natural language processing (NLP). Beyond that, I also study a wide span of research problems related to marginalized groups and their experiences with social media and AI systems, spanning NLP, Human Computer Interaction, and Social Computing. I am a Ford Predoctoral Fellow and a GEM Fellow.

Currently I am an intern at IBM Research on the Tech for Justice Team. Previously I was a research intern on the algorithm fairness team at Snap Inc. and an intern at Adobe Research. I earned a Bachelor’s in Computer Science at the University of California Berkeley, go Bears!

selected publications

FAccT

Exploring the Role of Grammar and Word Choice in Bias toward African American English (AAE) in Hate Speech Classification

Camille Harris, Matan Halevy, Ayanna Howard, and 2 more authors

In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2022

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@inproceedings{harris2022exploring,
  title = {Exploring the Role of Grammar and Word Choice in Bias toward African American English (AAE) in Hate Speech Classification},
  author = {{Harris}, Camille and {Halevy}, Matan and {Howard}, Ayanna and {Bruckman}, Amy and {Yang}, Diyi},
  journal = {FAccT},
  booktitle = {2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
  pages = {789--798},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3531146.3533144},
}

ACL

VALUE: Understanding Dialect Disparity in NLU

Caleb Ziems, Jiaao Chen, Camille Harris, and 2 more authors

2022

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@article{ziems2022value,
  title = {VALUE: Understanding Dialect Disparity in NLU},
  author = {{Ziems}, Caleb and {Chen}, Jiaao and {Harris}, Camille and {Anderson}, Jessica and {Yang}, Diyi},
  booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2022},
  year = {2022},
}

EAAMO

Mitigating Racial Biases in Toxic Language Detection with an Equity-Based Ensemble Framework

Matan Halevy, Camille Harris, Amy Bruckman, and 2 more authors

2021

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@incollection{halevy2021mitigating,
  title = {Mitigating Racial Biases in Toxic Language Detection with an Equity-Based Ensemble Framework},
  author = {{Halevy}, Matan and {Harris}, Camille and {Bruckman}, Amy and {Yang}, Diyi and {Howard}, Ayanna},
  booktitle = {Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization},
  pages = {1--11},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3465416.3483299},
}