Skip to main content Link Expand (external link) Document Search Copy Copied Jan 21 Intro, Syllabus and FAQs : Slides Jan 23 Giles, H., & Ogay, T. (2007). Communication Accommodation Theory Language style as audience design . Language in Society. Sections 1 and 3. Lecture : Slides Jan 28 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 Coming to terms: quantifying the benefits of linguistic coordination . Psychology Society. Jan 30 Li Lucy, Suchin Gururangan, Luca Soldaini, Emma Strubell, David Bamman, Lauren Klein, and Jesse Dodge. 2024. AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters . ACL The Importance of Modeling Social Factors of Language: Theory and Practice . NAACL Project Groups Due Feb 4 Project Pitches Project Pitches Due Feb 6 Project Pitches Feb 11 Mitchell L. Gordon, Michelle S. Lam, Joon Sung Park, Kayur Patel, Jeff Hancock, Tatsunori Hashimoto, and Michael S. Bernstein. 2022. Jury Learning: Integrating Dissenting Voices into Machine Learning Models . In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22). Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList . In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Feb 13 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 FactPICO: Factuality Evaluation for Plain Language Summarization of Medical Evidence . Arxiv Lecture Feb 18 Alisa Liu, Xiaochuang Han, Yizhong Wang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Yejin Choi, and Noah A. Smith. 2024. Tuning Language Models by Proxy . In Proceedings of First Annual Conference on Language Models (COLM) The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration . ICLR Febr 20 Hohman, Fred & Conlen, Matthew & Heer, Jeffrey & Chau, Polo. 2020. Communicating with Interactive Articles . Distill. On hypertext narrative . In Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (HT ‘09). Beyond being there . In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘92). Lecture Optional Readings Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson Febr 25 Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen, Abhraneel Sarma, Matthew Kay, and Fanny Chevalier. 2019. Increasing the Transparency of Research Papers with Explorable Multiverse Analyses . In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). LiquidText: a flexible, multitouch environment to support active reading . In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘11). Febr 27 Project Proposals Project Proposals Due March 4 Project Proposals March 6 Project Proposals March 11 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. March 13 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). March 18 No Class March 20 No Class March 25 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). March 27 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). April 1 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. April 3 Project Check-in Class dedicated to project work. April 8 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 April 10 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 April 15 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 . In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘24). April 17 Project Check-in Class dedicated to project work. April 29 Final Presentations May 1 Final Presentations May 6 Final Presentations May 15 No class Final Project Papers Due