Ted Forsyth and colleagues win Outstanding Paper Award
Ted Forsyth, a Sociology PhD student in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, along with his co-authors, was recently selected for an Outstanding Paper Award at the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, held in Budapest, Hungary. 20 papers out of nearly 17,000 submissions were selected for this award. The paper, titled “Race in the Record: Measuring Racial Signal and Model Inference in Police Arrest Narratives,” will be published in the conference proceedings.