Talks
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
-- Walt Whitman, "When I heard the learn'd astronomer", Leaves of Grass
This page links to slides for some of my “broader-topic” (usually
one-hour) talks, in reverse chronological order, except for this:
(For talks covering a single paper, please see my papers page
for links to each paper's “homepage”.)
- Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep?
Humor "Understanding" Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest
Venue: Eugene Charniak Memorial Symposium, 2024.
- ACL 2021 Distinguished Service Award acceptance remarks
Venue: ACL 2021.
(I currently can't convince Adobe Acrobat that the first page has an image that requires alt text. The other images' alt text seems to get picked up OK.)
- (Online) discussion dynamics: Can we better manage conversations on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.?
Venue: Data Science Research Day,
University of Edinburgh, 2019.
- Some features I like and some questions I have
Venue: The 11th Triennial Invitational Choice Symposium, “Wisdom for words: Insight from language and textual analysis” workshop, 2019.
- Analyzing phrasing effects via found conversations: “Parallel universes” in Twitter, ChangeMyView, and the Fed (FOMC)
Venues: Beyond the Lab: Using Big Data to Discover Principles of Cognition 2016 — the 2017 Leading Edge Workshop of the Psychonomic Society; similar version at Behavioral insights from text, the Wharton school, University of Pennsylvania, 2018; INLG 2018
- Natural Language Processing for Computational Social Science, invited tutorial, with Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Venue: NIPS 2016
- Discussant slides: sentiment, persuasion, “label transfer” (The “thing for Hanna Wallach”: there's a ChangeMyView participant with userid “ThatBelligerentSloth”)
Venue: Text as Data 2016
References:
Colaresi, Greene, Park 2016; Boydstun, Card, Smith 2016; Chapter 6 of Pang and Lee 2008; Tan, Niculae, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lee 2016
- “Big data pragmatics!”, or, “Putting the ACL in computational social science”, or, if you think these title alternatives could turn people on, turn people off, or otherwise have an effect, this talk might be for you
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Venue: NAACL 2015, WiML 2015
References:
Althoff/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Jurafsky ICWSM 2014,
Artzi/Pantel/Gamon NAACL 2012,
Backstrom/Kleinberg/Lee/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil WSDM 2013, Barzilay/McKeown ACL 2001 Baumer/Elovic/Qin/Polletta/Gay NAACL 2015,
Bell/Loftus JPSP 1989,
Choi/Tan/Lee/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Spindel ExProm 2012,
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Cheng/Kleinberg/Lee ACL
2012,
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/West/Jurafsky/Leskovec/Potts WWW 2013,
Eisenstein/O'Connor/Smith/Xing PLOS 2014,
Farkas/Vincze/Mora/Csirik/Szarvas CoNLL 2010,
Grimmer/Messing/Westwood 2014,
Guerini/Ötzbal/Strapparava NAACL 2015,
Guerini/Strapparava/Ötzbal ICWSM 2011,
Hopkins 2013,
Leskovec/Backstrom/Kleinberg KDD 2009,
Louis/Nenkova TACL 2013,
Nguyen/Boyd-Graber/Resnik NIPS 2013,
Petrovic/Osborne/Lavrenko ICWSM 2011,
Prabhakaran/Rambow ACL 2014,
Salganik/Dodds/Watts Science 2006,
Simmons/Adamic/Adar ICWSM 2011,
Tan/Lee/Pang ACL 2014,
Tan/Lee ACL 2014 short,
Tsur/Rappoport WSDM 2012, Tsur/Calaci/Lazer ACL 2015, Wang/Chen/Kan NAACL wksp 2012, Xu/Ritter/Callison-Burch/Dolan/Ji TACL 2014
- Punchlines and morals
Venue: concluding lecture of Machine Learning and Data Science, spring 2015
- Asymmetric language synchronization in social interaction
Venues: SIGDial 2014, UMAP 2013
References: Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee/Pang/Kleinberg WWW
2012, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/West/Jurafsky/Leskovec/Potts, WWW 2013
- Is it all in the phrasing? Computational explorations in how we say what we say
Venues: Google, 2013
References: Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Cheng/Kleinberg/Lee ACL
2012, Choi/Tan/Lee/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Spindel ExProm 2012
-
Language as influence(d): Power and memorability
[a social-science audience version] [a computer-science audience version]
Venues: Emory University's Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods, year on Big Data, 2012; IEEE Spoken Language Technologies, 2012, and various other institutions
References: Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee/Pang, Kleinberg WWW
2012, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Cheng/Kleinberg/Lee ACL
2012, Backstrom/Kleinberg/Lee/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil WSDM 2013 (in the SLT talk)
- “I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that”: Can computers really understand what we say?
Venue: Cornell evening summer lecture series, July 2012. Shorter version given at the 2013 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, entitled “I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that”: Linguistics, Statistics, and Natural Language Processing in the Big Data Era
- Human language technology and where it's headed
Venue: South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive,
2012. Co-presented with Jason Baldridge, with contributions from
Philip Resnik.
Audio available here
References:
- Turing Mind 1950, Enrico/Baldridge
Int. J. American Ling. 2011,
Barzilay/Lee,
NAACL 2003, Leskovec/Backstrom/Kleinberg
KDD 2009, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Cheng/Kleinberg/Lee,
ACL 2012, Speriosu/Sudan/Upadhyay/Baldridge,
Wksp on unsupervised learning in NLP 2011, Tan/Lee/Tang/Jiang/Zhou/Li,
KDD 2011, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee/Pang/Kleinberg WWW 2012,
Nguyen/Boyd-Graber/Resnik ACL 2012, Speriosu/Brown/Moon/Baldridge/Erk
Wksp on computational models of spatial language interpretation 2011, Wing/Baldridge
ACL 2011, Narayanan/Shmatikov
Oakland 2008, Narayanan/Paskov/Gong/Bethencourt/Stefanov/Shin/Song
Oakland 2012
- Language as influence(d)
Venue: University of Maryland, 2011
References:
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Kossinets/Kleinberg/Lee
WWW 2009, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Gamon/Dumais
WWW 2011, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee
CMCL 2011
- Sentiment of two women: Sentiment analysis and social media (joint with Bo Pang)
Venue: South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, 2011
- Clueless: Explorations in unsupervised, knowledge-lean extraction of
lexical-semantic information
Venue: CoNLL 2010 invited talk (abstract)
References: Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee/Ducott
NAACL '09, Yatskar/Pang/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee
NAACL '10, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee
ACL '10
- NLP overview (audience: mostly political scientists and lawyers)
Venue:
Very short talk at the NSF 2009 workshop on Automated Content Analyis and the Law
- A tempest: Or, On the flood of interest in sentiment analysis,
opinion mining, and the computational treatment of subjective
language
Venue: AAAI 2008 invited talk; ICWSM 2009 invited talk
References: Pang/Lee
survey monograph 2008,
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Kossinets/Kleinberg/Lee
WWW 2009
- Only connect! Explorations in graph-based approaches to
information retrieval and natural-language processing
Venue: NESCAI 2008
invited talk
References: Kurland/Lee SIGIR
2006, Kurland/Lee SIGIR
2005, Thomas/Pang/Lee
EMNLP 2006
- What is the matter? Explorations in document classification
Venue: UAI 2004 invited talk
References: Ando/Lee
SIGIR 2001, Pang/Lee ACL 04
- Natural Language
Technology
Venue: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning series, Rome
Air Force Lab, 10/17/00.
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