Hi there! I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Government at Harvard University, advised by Prof. Gary King and Prof. Jim Snyder. I am an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Center for American Political Studies and supported by the Theodore H. Ashford Fellowship.

My research program seeks to measure information environments and their effects on political outcomes. I am interested in how political institutions, mass media, and social media shape information production, provision, and consumption, and in turn, how this information influences political representation and accountability in the United States. I am also interested in the development and application of natural language processing and information extraction methodologies for political and social science.

Previously, I received my B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Political Science at Columbia University, where I was advised by Prof. Kathleen McKeown and Prof. Carlo Prato. I have also worked at Research & Development at the New York Times.

To get in touch, email me at acamara (at) g (dot) harvard (dot) edu.

Publications

Mapping the Multilingual Margins: Intersectional Biases of Sentiment Analysis Systems in English, Spanish, and Arabic.
António Câmara, Nina Taneja, Tamjeed Azad, Emily Allaway, Richard Zemel.
Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI), 2022.
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Detecting Polarized Topics Using Partisanship-aware Contextualized Topic Embeddings.
Zihao He, Negar Mokhberian, António Câmara, Andrés Abeliuk, Kristina Lerman.
Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021.
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Teaching

COMS 4705: Natural Language Processing, Columbia University.
Spring 2022. Head Teaching Assistant. Instructor: Prof. Yassine Benajiba.
Spring 2021, Fall 2021. Teaching Assistant. Instructor: Prof. Kathleen McKeown.
Summer 2021 (A). Teaching Assistant. Instructor: Dr. Daniel Bauer.