FACTS
PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Committee: Lillian Lee, Jon Kleinberg, Judith Bernstock (advisor for the History of Art minor)
NEWS
Our memorability paper was featured in New Scientist, NPR and other media outlets
Our Echoes of Power paper was featured in MIT’s Technology Review blog
Our work on linguistic coordination in movie dialogs was featured on Nature.com
Released the Cornell Movie--Dialogs Corpus
Spring 2011: Co-Piloting CS6742: Natural Language Processing and Social Interaction
Summer 2010 @ Microsoft Research
Winner of the 2010 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
Finalist in the 2010 Facebook Ph.D. Fellowship Program
Summer 2009 @ Yahoo! Research
PUBLICATIONS
Echoes of power: Language effects and power differences in social interaction
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang and Jon Kleinberg.
To appear in the proceedings of WWW, 2012.
You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee.
To appear in the proceedings of ACL, 2012.
Mark my words! Linguistic style accommodation in social media.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon and Susan Dumais.
Proceedings of WWW, 2011.
Chameleons in Imagined Conversations:
A new Approach to Understanding Coordination of Linguistic Style in Dialogs.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2011.
Competing for users' attention: On the interplay between organic and sponsored search results.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Bo Pang.
Proceedings of WWW, 2010.
Don't ‘have a clue’? Unsupervised co-learning of downward-entailing operators.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lillian Lee
Proceedings of ACL, 2010. Short paper.
For the sake of simplicity: Experiments with unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications.
Mark Yatskar, Bo Pang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of NAACL HLT, 2010. Short paper.
Without a ‘doubt’? Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing operators.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee and Richard Ducott.
Proceedings of NAACL HLT, 2009.
How opinions are received by online communities: A case study on Amazon.com helpfulness votes.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of WWW, 2009.
RESEARCH GROUPS
CONTACT
4130 Upson Hall
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
+1 607 254-5075 (office)
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