Skip to main content Link Expand (external link) Document Search Copy Copied Tues Aug 27 Intro, Syllabus and FAQs Slides Thur Aug 29 Giles, H., & Ogay, T. (2007). Communication Accommodation Theory Bell A. 1984. Language style as audience design . Language in Society. Sections 1 and 3. Tues Sept 3 Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon, and Susan Dumais. 2011. Mark my words! linguistic style accommodation in social media . In Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web Fusaroli R, Bahrami B, Olsen K, Roepstorff A, Rees G, Frith C, Tylén K. 2012. Coming to terms: quantifying the benefits of linguistic coordination . Psychology Society. Thurs Sept 5 Zhao Wang and Aron Culotta. 2019. When do words matter? understanding the impact of lexical choice on audience perception using individual treatment effect estimation . In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, and Bo Pang. 2014. The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter . In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Tue Sept 17 Project Pitches Project Pitches Due Thurs Sept 19 Project Pitches Tue Sept 24 Qian Yang, Justin Cranshaw, Saleema Amershi, Shamsi T. Iqbal, and Jaime Teevan. 2019. Sketching NLP: A Case Study of Exploring the Right Things To Design with Language Intelligence . In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). The Prompt Artists . In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C ‘23). Thurs Sept 26 Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, Nikita Haduong, Suchin Gururangan, and Noah A. Smith. 2021. All That’s ‘Human’ Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text . In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList . In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Tue Oct 1 Project Pitches Thurs Oct 3 Project Pitches Tues Oct 8 Andrew Head, Kyle Lo, Dongyeop Kang, Raymond Fok, Sam Skjonsberg, Daniel S. Weld, and Marti A. Hearst. 2021. Augmenting Scientific Papers with Just-in-Time, Position-Sensitive Definitions of Terms and Symbols . In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘21). The semantic reader project: Augmenting scholarly documents through ai-powered interactive reading interfaces . CACM. Thurs Oct 10 Taewook Kim, Hyomin Han, Eytan Adar, Matthew Kay, and John Joon Young Chung. 2024. Authors’ Values and Attitudes Towards AI-bridged Scalable Personalization of Creative Language Arts . CHI. Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces . CHI. Tue Oct 15 Proposal Talks Project Proposals Due Thurs Oct 17 Proposal Talks Tues Oct 22 Jeffrey T Hancock, Mor Naaman, Karen Levy, AI-Mediated Communication: Definition, Research Agenda, and Ethical Considerations , Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views . In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘23). Thurs Oct 24 Elise Karinshak, Sunny Xun Liu, Joon Sung Park, and Jeffrey T. Hancock. 2023. Working With AI to Persuade: Examining a Large Language Model’s Ability to Generate Pro-Vaccination Messages . Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. Synthetic Lies: Understanding AI-Generated Misinformation and Evaluating Algorithmic and Human Solutions . CHI. Tue Oct 29 Project Check-in Class dedicated to project work. Thurs Oct 31 Katy Ilonka Gero, Vivian Liu, and Lydia Chilton. 2022. Sparks: Inspiration for Science Writing using Language Models . In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ‘22) CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset for Exploring Language Model Capabilities . In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22). Tues Nov 5 Joshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Bernd Bohnet, and Ryan McDonald. 2020. On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization . ACL. FactPICO: Factuality Evaluation for Plain Language Summarization of Medical Evidence . Arxiv Thurs Nov 7 Nisbet MC, Scheufele DA. 2009 What’s next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions . Am J Bot Meta‑summaries effective for improving awareness and understanding of COVID‑19 vaccine safety research . Scientific Reports. Tue Nov 12 Project Check-in Class dedicated to project work. Thurs Nov 14 Ashish Sharma, Kevin Rushton, Inna Lin, David Wadden, Khendra Lucas, Adam Miner, Theresa Nguyen, and Tim Althoff. 2023. Cognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction . ACL Balancing Objectives in Counseling Conversations: Advancing Forwards or Looking Backwards . ACL Tues Nov 19 Eva Sharma and Munmun De Choudhury. 2018. Mental Health Support and its Relationship to Linguistic Accommodation in Online Communities . CHI No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities . In Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web Thurs Nov 21 Kirk, H. R., Vidgen, B., Röttger, P., & Hale, S. A. (2023). Personalisation within bounds: A risk taxonomy and policy framework for the alignment of large language models with personalised feedback . ArXiv. Generative Echo Chamber? Effect of LLM-Powered Search Systems on Diverse Information Seeking . 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