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Career

· Associate Professor, University of Michigan2023–
· Assistant Professor, University of Michigan2017–
· Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University2015–
· Postdoctoral Scholar, McGill University2014–2015
· Research Scientist, University of Rome "La Sapienza"2013–2014
· Visiting Researcher, HRL Laboratories2010–2013
· Research Software Development Intern, Microsoft2010–2010
· Software Development Intern, Microsoft2009–2009
· Teaching Fellow, University of California2009–2011
· Graduate Student Intern, Sun Microsystems2008–2008
· Teaching Assistant, University of California2006–2009

Publications (151)

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
arXiv.org · 2022
2,201
cited
Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
317
cited
Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2018
285
cited
That's What Friends Are For: Inferring Location in Online Social Media Platforms Based on Social Relationships
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2013
265
cited
SemEval-2013 Task 12: Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2013
250
cited
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
246
cited
Geolocation Prediction in Twitter Using Social Networks: A Critical Analysis and Review of Current Practice
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2015
226
cited
SemEval-2012 Task 2: Measuring Degrees of Relational Similarity
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2012
220
cited
Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data
The Web Conference · 2019
218
cited
Align, Disambiguate and Walk: A Unified Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2013
195
cited
Geotagging one hundred million Twitter accounts with total variation minimization
2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) · 2014
194
cited
A Just and Comprehensive Strategy for Using NLP to Address Online Abuse
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2019
149
cited
Finding Microaggressions in the Wild: A Case for Locating Elusive Phenomena in Social Media Posts
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2019
140
cited
The S-Space Package: An Open Source Package for Word Space Models
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2010
127
cited
User Migration in Online Social Networks: A Case Study on Reddit During a Period of Community Unrest
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2016
120
cited
SemEval-2013 Task 13: Word Sense Induction for Graded and Non-Graded Senses
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2013
115
cited
Still out there: Modeling and Identifying Russian Troll Accounts on Twitter
Web Science Conference · 2019
105
cited
Incorporating Dialectal Variability for Socially Equitable Language Identification
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2017
102
cited
Do LLMs Understand Social Knowledge? Evaluating the Sociability of Large Language Models with SocKET Benchmark
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
94
cited
POTATO: The Portable Text Annotation Tool
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2022
91
cited
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