Students and postdocs
Krugman has never had many graduate students. He is unsure why this is so. Is it that his style of thinking, intuitive rather than methodological, is too difficult to imitate? he wonders. Is he too distracted? Too busy? Too short? — Larissa MacFarquhar, New Yorker profile
I have been incredibly lucky to serve as the advisor of a
spectacular bunch of people. As I say elsewhere, my research trajectory
has really just involved following their lead. My debt to them is unbounded.
PhD students and postdocs (and 1st position afterwards).
During their time as students at Cornell, my students gave invited talks or interviews at
Bar-Ilan, Carnegie Mellon, CUNY, EPFL, Facebook, Google, the Max Planck
institute, Microsoft Research, Pitt, Stanford, SUNY Stonybrook, the Technion, UMass Amherst, University of
Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, and Yahoo!.
In what follows, for my current students I list the papers they've
written during their time in the Cornell PhD program.
- Cristian
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Recipient, Yahoo Key Scientific
Challenges Award, 2010; Finalist, 2010
Facebook Fellowship
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Cheng/Kleinberg/Lee, You had me at
hello: How phrasing affects memorability. ACL 2012
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee/Pang/Kleinberg, Echoes of power: Language effects and power differences in social interaction. WWW 2012
Choi/Tan/Lee/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Spindel, Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the GMO debates: A position paper, ACL Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics, 2012
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee, Chameleons in imagined
conversations, ACL wksp on Cognitive Modeling and
Computational Linguistics 2011.
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Gamon/Dumais, Mark
my words! Linguistic style accommodation in social
media, WWW 2011.
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee, Don't `have a clue'?
Unsupervised co-learning of downward-entailing operators,
ACL 2010 (short (acceptance rate 22%)).
Yatskar/Pang/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee, For the sake
of simplicity: Experiments with unsupervised extraction of
lexical simplifications, NAACL 2010 (short).
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Broder/Gabrilovich/Josifovski/Pang, Competing for users' attention: On the interplay between
organic and sponsored search results, WWW 2010.
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Lee/Ducott, Without a `doubt'?
Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing operators,
NAACL 2009.
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Kossinets/Kleinberg/Lee, How opinions are received by online communities: A case study on Amazon.com helpfulness votes,
WWW 2009.
- Chenhao Tan
Recipient, Yahoo Key Scientific
Challenges Award, 2012
Tan/Gabrilovich/Pang: To Each His Own: Personalized Content Selection based on Text
Comprehensibility, WSDM 2012
Choi/Tan/Lee/Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil/Spindel, Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the GMO debates: A position paper, ACL Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics, 2012
Tan/Lee/Tang/Jiang/Zhou/Li, User-level sentiment analysis
incorporating social networks, KDD 2011 (poster; the
notification letter gave the aggregate acceptance rate for oral
presentation plus posters as 17.5%)
Lu/Tan/Cardie/Tsou, Joint
bilingual sentiment classification with unlabeled parallel
corpora, ACL 2011.
Wu/Tan/Kleinberg/Macy, Does
bad news go away faster?, ICWSM 2011 (short)
Wang/Tan/Konig/Li, Efficient
document clustering via online nonnegative matrix
factorizations, ICDM 2011.
- Regina Barzilay, postdoc 2002-2003 → assistant professor, MIT
- Rie Johnson (formerly Rie Kubota Ando) Ph.D. 2001 → IBM Watson
Thesis: The Document Representation Problem: An Analysis of LSI and
Iterative Residual Rescaling [pdf]
Received Best
Paper Award at CoNLL 2006
- Oren Kurland, Ph.D. 2006 → tenure-track Lecturer at the Technion
Thesis: Inter-document similarities, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval [pdf]
- Bo
Pang [pronunciation], Ph.D. 2006 → Yahoo! Research
Thesis: Automatic
analysis of document sentiment [pdf].
Featured scientist at
Yahoo! Research
Undergraduate co-authors
- Mohit Bansal (summer intern 2007 → Berkeley): Bansal, Cardie & Lee COLING 2008 poster, The
power of negative thinking: Exploiting label disagreement in the
min-cut classification framework [paper homepage]
- Justin Cheng, B.S. 2012 → Stanford; Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cheng, Kleinberg
& Lee ACL 2012, You had me at hello: How phrasing affects
memorability. [paper homepage]
Co-Winner, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (Male), 2012
- Eunsol Choi, B.A. 2012 → UWashington; Choi, Tan, Lee, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil & Spindel ACL Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics, 2012, Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the GMO debates: A position paper. [paper homepage]
Honorable Mention, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (Female), 2012
- Rick Ducott, B.S. 2010 → Palantir: Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lee, & Ducott NAACL 2009, Without
a ‘doubt’? Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing
operators [paper homepage]
- Matt Thomas, B.S. 2006 → Google: Thomas, Pang & Lee EMNLP 2006, Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts. [paper homepage]
- Mark Yatskar, B.S. 2010 → UWashington: Yatskar, Pang, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, & Lee NAACL 2010 short paper, For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia. [paper homepage]
Profiled as one of Cornell's 20 dynamic members of the class of 2010
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