CONVERSATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Modeling Conversations and their Social Context
Collaboration, Debating, Persuasion, Pragmatics, etc.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Quantifying the Causal Effects of Conversational Tendencies
Justine Zhang, Sendhil Mullainathan, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of CSCW 2020.
Balancing Objectives in Counseling Conversations: Advancing Forwards or Looking Backwards
Justine Zhang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of ACL 2020.
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Comparing Intentions and Perceptions in Online Discussions
Jonathan P. Chang, Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
Proceedings of WWW 2020.
Trouble on the Horizon: Forecasting the Derailment of Online Conversations as they Develop
Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2019.
Finding Your Voice: The Linguistic Development of Mental Health Counselors
Justine Zhang, Robert Filbin, Christine Morrison, Jaclyn Weiser, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of ACL 2019.
Characterizing Online Public Discussions Through Patterns of Participant Interactions
Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Christina Sauper, Sean J. Taylor
Proceedings of CSCW 2018.
Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure
Justine Zhang, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil,
Lucas Dixon, Yiqing Hua, Nithum Thain, Dario Taraborelli
Proceedings of ACL 2018.
Asking Too Much? The Rhetorical Role of Questions in Political Discourse
Justine Zhang, Arthur Spirling, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of EMNLP 2017.
When Confidence and Competence Collide: Effects on Online Decision-Making Discussions
Liye Fu, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of WWW, 2017.
Conversational Markers of Constructive Discussions
Vlad Niculae and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of NAACL, 2016.
Conversational flow in Oxford-style debates
Justine Zhang, Ravi Kumar, Sujith Ravi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of NAACL, 2016. Short paper.
Winning arguments: Interaction dynamics and persuasion strategies in good-faith online discussions
Chenhao Tan, Vlad Niculae, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee
Proceedings of WWW, 2016.
Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game
Vlad Niculae, Srijan Kumar, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of ACL, 2015.
A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Moritz Sudhof, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, Christopher Potts
Proceedings of ACL, 2013.
Nominated for the Best Paper Award
Echoes of power: Language effects and power differences in social interaction
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang and Jon Kleinberg.
Proceedings of WWW, 2012.
Mark my words! Linguistic style accommodation in social media.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon and Susan Dumais.
Proceedings of WWW, 2011.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations
Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, Andrew Wang, Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2020. System Demos.
It Takes Two to Lie: One to Lie, and One to Listen
Denis Peskov, Benny Cheng, Ahmed Elgohary, Joe Barrow,
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Jordan Boyd-Graber
Proceedings of ACL 2020. Short paper.
Asking the Right Question: Inferring Advice-Seeking Intentions from Personal Narratives
Liye Fu, Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
Proceedings of NAACL 2019.
Characterizing and Curating Conversation Threads: Expansion, Focus, Volume, Re-entry
Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
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.
How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests
Tim Althoff, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky
Proceedings of ICWSM, 2014.
Message impartiality in social media discussions
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Krishna Gummadi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of ICWSM, 2016.
Tie-breaker: Using language models to quantify gender bias in sports journalism
Liye Fu, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee
Proceedings of the IJCAI workshop on NLP meets Journalism, 2016.
Best Paper Award
People on Drugs: Credibility of User Statements in Health Communities
Subhabrata Mukherjee, Gerhard Weikum, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of KDD, 2014.
You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of ACL, 2012.
A computational approach to linguistic coordination
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 2012.
RELEVANT CODE
ConvoKit: Toolkit for analyzing conversations (coordination, politeness, rhetorical intentions)
Code for extracting simple linguistic features from conversations
RELEVANT DATA
Intelligence Squared Debate Dataset
Dataset of tennis post-game interviews
Interactions in online Diplomacy games
Wikipedia Talk Page Conversations Corpus
MEDIA COVERAGE
Our work on winning arguments was features on the You Are Not So Smart podcast
Our work on winning arguments was covered by Washington Post, New York Magazine and others
Our tie-breaker paper was covered by Pacific Standard Magazine
Our work on betrayal was featured in the The Wall Street Journal
Our work on betrayal was covered by Science News, CNN, New York Magazine and others
Our conversation threads paper was mentioned in The New York Times
Our How to Ask for a Favor paper was featured in Huffington Post and other media outlets
Our memorability paper was featured in The New York Times
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