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# Brendan Kennedy

2 papers on this site · 2020–2026

current affiliation [National Security Agency](https://ror.org/0047bvr32), Fort George Meade, United States

Brendan Kennedy has 2 papers on this site, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Aida Mostafazadeh Davani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aida-mostafazadeh-davani/), [Xiang Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-ren/), [Xisen Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xisen-jin/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5008962142) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7252-7475) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5008962142) · [49 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5008962142) · [985 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5008962142&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brendan-kennedy/#papers) · [113 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brendan-kennedy/cited-by/) · 1 more work in our library

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Brendan+Kennedy) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Brendan+Kennedy) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Brendan+Kennedy) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Brendan+Kennedy)

## Affiliations

- [National Security Agency](https://ror.org/0047bvr32) · Fort George Meade, United States —current · 2026 on 1 paper
- [University of Southern California](https://ror.org/03taz7m60) · Los Angeles, United States —2018–2024 on 32 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Topics

[Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Bias, fairness & safety 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Contextualizing Hate Speech Classifiers with Post-hoc Explanation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kennedy-2020-contextualizing-hate-speech-classifiers-post/)** *(2020 · 203 citations)* Hate speech classifiers trained on skewed data often treat group identifiers such as "black", "gay" or "muslim" as signs of hate on their own.
2. **[The Moral Foundations Reddit Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trager-2026-moral-foundations-reddit-corpus/)** *(2026 · 22 citations)* Large, hand-labelled corpora are needed to detect moral sentiment automatically, because the task is highly subjective.

## Also in our library

1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them.

## Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Aida Mostafazadeh Davani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aida-mostafazadeh-davani/) ×2
- [Xiang Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-ren/)
- [Xisen Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xisen-jin/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 113 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brendan-kennedy/cited-by/).