News

In Press: Check out the Time article on misinformation and the fight against Ebola citing our work work on rumor detection.
In Press: Our work on rumor detection is featured in Forsal.pl, a finance Polish magazine.
Two journal papers accepted at Language Resources and Evaluation Journal (LRE) and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Rackham News
I defended my thesis on July 20th, 2012.
I won the Rackham Centennial Spring/Summer Fellowship Award -- Thanks Rackham!
Paper accepted at NAACL-2012.
I will be at Stony Brook University on 3/2.
I will be visiting Rutgers on 2/27 and Columbia on 2/28.
Paper accepted at CI-2012.
Our project iOPENER is featured on NSF Discoveries.
I won the 2nd place in the CSE Honors competition. Thanks CSE!
I did my dissertation proposal on November 14, 2011
Paper accepted at EMNLP-2011.
Paper accepted at AAAI-2011.
I am helping Mike and Drago organize the 2nd University of Michigan Workshop on Data Mining.
Paper accepted at the International Conference on Complex Systems.
In June 2011, I'm going back to Seattle as a summer intern at Microsoft Research.
Learning from Collective Human Behavior to Introduce Diversity in Lexical Choice, with D. Radev. ACL 2011
My first attempt to blog about Computational Linguistics, Information, and people.
In May 2010, I joined the NLP group at Microsoft Research as a summer intern.
What's with the Attitude? A study of Participant Attitude in Multi-Party Online Discussions with A. Hassan and D. Radev. EMNLP 2010.
Citation Summarization Through Keyphrase Extraction with D. Radev and A. Ozgur. COLING 2010.
Identifying Non-explicit Citing Sentences for Citation-based Summarization with D. Radev. ACL 2010.
In Spring 2010 I am co-organizing The University of Michigan Workshop on Data Mining.