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Spring 2023: "Knowledge graphs and semantic computing" speaker series

wins the best paper award at iConference 2023

Fall 2022: "Responsible Data Science and AI" speaker series and graduate course (syllabus)
Oct 2022: Shubhanshu Mishra (Twitter), Rezvaneh Rezapour (Drexel), and Jana teaching workshop “Hands-on advanced machine learning for information extraction” at Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Oct 2022: Jana and Julian Chin teaching workshop "From words to networks: Text-based / Semantic network analysis" at the Ghent University, Belgium
New paper: Han, K., Rezapour, R., Nakamura, K., Devkota, D., Miller, D., & Diesner, J. (2022). An expert‐in‐the‐loop method for domain‐specific document categorization based on small training data. JASIST.
Jana giving an invited talk "Computational Social Science: bias detection and theory validation" at the University of Luxembourg
Congratulations to Pingjing Yang, who was awarded a Digital Humanism fellowship
New collaborative grant for "Geospatial Variability of Illicit Opioid Use and Disparities in Treatment Resources"
New collaborative grant for "Establishing a Templeton LSST Early-Career Research Fellowship"
Sunbelt 2022: Dinh, L., Pingjing, Y., & Diesner, J. (2022). From plan to practice: Interorganizational response networks extraction from emergency management plans, situational reports, and tweets about hurricane events.
IC2S2 2022: Han, K., Rezapour, R., Nakamura, K., Devkota, D., Miller, D., & Diesner, J. (2022). An Expert-in-the-Loop Method for Domain-Specific Document Categorization Based on Small Annotated Data.
IC2S2 2022: Dinh, L., Yang, P., & Diesner, J. (2022). From plan to practice: Interorganizational response networks extraction from emergency management plans, situational reports, and tweets about hurricane events.
JCDL 2022: Hu, Y., LeBlanc, Z., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J.S. (2022). Complexities Associated with User-generated Book Reviews in Digital Libraries: Temporal, Cultural, and Political Case Studies
Spring 2022: "Responsible Data Science and AI" speaker series and graduate course
PhD Dissertation Defense: Congrats to Rezvaneh (Shadi) Rezapour for successfully defending her PhD dissertation, "From User-generated Text to Insight: Context-aware Measurement of Social Impacts and Interactions Using Natural Language Processing"
Fall 2021: "Responsible Data Science and AI" speaker series and graduate course
PhD Dissertation Defense: Rezvaneh (Shadi) Rezapour will defend her dissertation, "From User-generated Text to Insight: Context-aware Measurement of Social Impacts and Interactions Using Natural Language Processing" on Tuesday, July 20th, 2021, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Hypertext 2021 paper: Rezapour, S., Dinh, L., & Diesner, J. (2021). Incorporating the Measurement of Moral Foundations Theory in Analyzing Stances on Controversial Topics
CSCW 2021 paper: Han, K., Rezapour, S., Nakamura, K., Devkota, D., S., Miller, D., & Diesner, J. (2021). Expertise-in-the-Loop Categorization of Bioconservation Documents Based on Small-Size Training Data
Workshop on how to use Python for Network Analysis at WebConf 2021, Networks 2021, IC2S2 2021 with Samin Aref, Ly Dinh and Rezvaneh “Shadi” Rezapour
ACL 2021 paper: Yubin, G., Dinh, L., Liu, X., Su, J., Lu, Z., Wang, A., & Diesner, J. (2021). BACO: A Background Knowledge- and Content-based Framework for Citing Sentence Generation
Haejin Lee and Chieh-Li "Julian" Chin joining as new PhD students. Welcome to both of you!
New collaborative grant for "Assessing Impact Patterns in Research Texts Applying Corpus Driven Methods"
New collaborative grant "Health Data Literacy Ambassadors" with Rachel Magee and Cathy Blake
New conference presentation: Yang P., Sarol, J., Dinh, L., & Diesner, J. (2021). Reliable relation extraction for social network construction. Presented at NASN2021
New confrence paper: Jiang, L., Dinh, L., Rezapour, R., & Diesner, J. (2020). Which groups do you belong to? Sentiment-based PageRank to measure formal and informal influence in social networks. Presented at COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020
New workshop paper: Han, K., Rezapour, R., Nakamura, K.S., Devkota, D., Miller, D.C., & Diesner, J. (2020). Domain-knowledge-based classification of biodiversity conservation actions based on project reports. Presented at METRICS 2020 at ASIS&T
We are excited to have Sul lam Jeoung, Clara Belitz, Angela Rhodes and a group of Undergraduate researchers join the Social Computing Lab! Check our team members from here
Congrats to Ly Dinh being awarded the Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship
Congrats to Shadi Rezapour being awarded the Bloomberg / NCWIT Conference Grant for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Congrats to Shadi Rezapour being selected to attend and present at the 2nd Annual Michigan Institute for Data Science Consortium for Researchers in Training
Workshop tutorial: Jana, Julian, Janina, and Lan teaching "From Words to Networks: Text-based/ Semantic Network Analysis" at the "Getting Started in Digital Humanities" workshop
New journal paper: Aref, S.*, Dinh, L.*, Rezapour, R.*, & Diesner, J. (2020). Multilevel structural evaluation of signed directed social networks based on balance theory. Scientific Reports 10, 15228. (*Authors contributed equally)
New journal paper: Parulian, N., Lu, T., Mishra, S., Avram, M., & Diesner, J. (2020). Effectiveness of the execution and prevention of metric-based adversarial attacks on social network data. Information, 11(6), 306
Poster and Paper presentations at IC2S2: Please find the videos and schedule for our presentations from here
Talk at Sunbelt 2020: Rezapour, R., Park, J., & Diesner, J. (2020). Detecting characteristics of cross-cutting language networks on social media
New workshop paper: Han, K., Yang, P., Mishra, S., & Diesner, J. (2020). WikiCSSH: Extracting Computer Science Subject Headings from Wikipedia. In Proceedings of Scientific Knowledge Graphs Workshop co-located with the 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), held online
Apr 9, 2020: Congrats to Shadi Rezapour for successfully defending her PhD proposal, "Text Mining for Social Good: Context-aware Measurement of Social Impact and Effects Using Natural Language Processing"
Hiring: Postdoctoral Research Associate -- Please submit your applications by April 7th, 2020 (11:55pm AoE)
With LREC being cancelled, the organizers of the "2nd Workshop on Computational Impact Detection from Text Data" will organize the workshop at a later date in person
Mar 6, 2020: We are at WiDS Urbana-Champaign 2020. The UIUC ACM-Women student chapter, with their chair Shadi Rezapour, co-organized a student poster session. Ly Dinh served on the poster session program committee. Jana chairs a panel on "Creating Meaningful Impact: Opportunities for Women in the Data Science Revolution". Lan Jiang, Ly Dinh, Shadi Rezapour, Tiffany Lu, Nikolaus Parulian, Janina Sarol, Pingjing Yang, and Xiujia Yang will present their research at the student poster session
Feb 28, 2020: Jana giving an invited talk at the Data Quality Challenge Conference, Hannover, Germany
Call for papers: 2nd Workshop on Computational Impact Detection from Text Data @ LREC 2020; due: March 6th, 2020
Call for posters: 2020 Women in Data Science Urbana-Champaign; due: January 30th, 2020
Dec 9-11, 2019: Jana giving an invited talk at the Bulletproof Hosting and Botnet Attacks Conference in German Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Hamburg, Germany
Nov 11, 2019: CSCW '19 poster by Rezapour R et al.: How do Moral Values Differ in Tweets on Social Movements?
Nov 3-7, 2019: EMNLP-IJCNLP '19 paper by Jiang M et al.: TIGEr: Text-to-Image Grounding for Image Caption Evaluation
Oct 30, 2019: Jana's team giving poster presentations at iSchool Research Showcase 2019
Oct 22: Jana giving an invited talk at the CIRI Webinar: Supporting Practitioners and Analysts in Making Decisions about Data Analytics to Study Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations
Oct 1-4, 2019: Jana and Shadi Rezapour at Grace Hopper, Shadi presenting poster on our impact assessment research
Sept 25-27, 2019: Jana giving an invited talk at Conference of the Academy of Sociology on Digital Societies, Konstanz, Germany
Sept 17, 2019: Paper at SIDEWAYS 2019 Workshop at ACM Hypertext-- Mishra S, & Diesner J: Capturing signals of enthusiasm and support for social causes on Twitter
Sept 17, 2019: Shub teaching tutorial “Advanced machine learning for information extraction from tweets” at ACM Hypertext 2019, Hof, Germany
Aug 27-30, 2019: ASONAM '19 Social Influence workshop paper by Avram MV, Mishra S, Parulian N, & Diesner J: Adversarial perturbations to manipulate the perception of power and influence in networks
Aug 24, 2019: Congrats to Shadi Rezapour who got accepted as a mentor for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program @ Illinois (URAP@Illinois)
Aug 22, 2019: Congrats to Garrick Sherman who successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Document expansion and language model re-estimation for information retrieval”
July 24, 2019: Shub teaching tutorial on "Machine Learning for Information Extraction" at Research Park (EnterpriseWorks Room 130)
July 20, 2019: Jana giving a keynote (Responsible Social Computing: Validating Network Data and Theory) at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
July 20, 2019: IC2S2 presentation: Mishra S, Fegley BD, Diesner J, & Torvik VI: Self-citation is the hallmark of productive authors, of any gender; based on our related paper in PLoS ONE
June 24, 2019: Shub successfully defended his dissertation, "Information Extraction from Digital Social Trace Data with Applications to Social Media and Scholarly Communication Data"
June 19-20, 2019: Words and Networks track at SUNBELT 2019, with about 30 papers
June 20, 2019: SUNBELT 2019 presentation at the Words and Networks track -- Dinh L, Rezapour R, Jiang L, & Diesner J (2019) Considering transitivity and leveraging text content to assess balance in directed networks
June 19, 2019: SUNBELT 2019 presentation at the Using network research for impact evaluation track -- Avram M, Mishra S, & Diesner J (2019) Adversarial perturbations for identifying strategies toward biasing the perceptions of power and influence in social networks
June 6, 2019: NAACL WASSA 2019 presentation -- Rezapour R, Shah S, & Diesner J (2019) Enhancing the measurement of social effects by capturing morality
May 16, 2019: Jana giving a talk at University of Cologne, Germany: "Understanding Social Structure and Behavior through Mixed-Methods Research: Bias Detection and Theory Validation" (Philosophikum Raum S93 at 14-15:30)
May 15, 2019: Jana giving a talk at Leibnitz Institute for German Language, Mannheim, Germany: "Responsible Social Computing" (Lecture Hall at 11:00)
May 2019: Jana, Shub, Shadi, and Ming present at the Midwest Speech and Language Days.
Presentation: Mishra, S., & Diesner, J. (2019). Multi-dataset-multi-task neural sequence tagging for information extraction from tweets.
Presentation: Rezapour, R., Shah, S., Diesner, J. (2019). Enhancing the measurement of social effects by capturing morality.
Poster: Rezapour, R., Diesner, J. (2019). Classification and detection of micro-level impact of issue-focused films based on reviews.
Poster: Jiang, M., & Diesner, J. (2019). Interpretability of feature vector space built for image captioning.
New resource released: Enhanced Morality Lexicon - an enhanced version of the original Moral Foudation Dictionary, which we syntactically disambiguated, and expanded in size and scope. Related paper from WASSA Workshop @ NAACL: Rezapour R., Shah S., & Diesner J. (2019) Enhancing the measurement of social effects by capturing morality.
New journal paper: Kim J, & Diesner J (2019) Formational bounds of link prediction in collaboration networks. Scientometrics
New journal paper: Mishra S, Fegley BD, Diesner J, & Torvik VI (2018) Self-citation is the hallmark of productive authors, of any gender. PLoS ONE
Mar 29, 2019: Jana gives a keynote talk at DHd2019
Dec 7, 2018: Jana presents Biases in Bibliometric Network Data and the Measurement of Triadic Closure at the EuroCSS 2018 Symposium
Dec 5, 2018: Jana chairs Workshop on Biases in Social Computing Data and Technology, co-located with the EuroCSS 2018 Symposium
Dec 5, 2018: Jana gives a keynote at 1st Workshop on Reframing Research, co-located with the EuroCSS 2018 Symposium
Dec 3, 2018: Jana gives a keynote Responsible Social Computing at Annual Conference of the German Association for Network Research (DGNet)
Nov 13, 2018: Ly wins the ASIS&T 2018 Student Design Competition
Nov 12, 2018: Ly presents Middle of the (by)line: Examining hyperauthorship networks in the Human Genome Project at the ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada
Nov 10, 2018: Shub's paper, Expertise as an aspect of author contributions, wins Best Student Paper Award at the Workshop on Informetric and Scientometrics Research (Metrics 2018), ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting, Vancouver Canada
Oct 24, 2018: Jana giving a talk on Practical Ethics and Responsible Computing at the Partners in Business Ethics Symposium
Call for abstracts: Words and Networks at 2nd North American Social Network Conference (NASN)
Sept 12: Jana giving a keynote on Biases at Historical Network Research Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
August 2018: Nicolas LaLone (PostDoc), Janina Sarol (PhD student) and Mihai Avram (PhD student) join Social Computing Lab
July 2018: Jana teaches Network Analysis to International Students through Summer Program
July 2018: Jana was awarded R.C. Evans Data Analytics Fellowship from UIUC Deloitte Foundation Center for Business Analytics
July 2018: Jana, Shub, Ly, and Shadi present at Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
July 2018: Jana is awarded Linowes Fellowship
ACM HyperText 2018 paper by Mishra and Diesner
June 2018: Words and Networks Session at Sunbelt 2018
April 2018: Jana receives grant from Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), the Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence for the project "Review and Assessment of the Usage of Computational Methods for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Efforts, and Scalable Measurement of Emergency Response from Text Data"
May 2018: Jana co-chairs 1st Workshop on Computational Impact Detection from Text Data at LREC 2018
April 2018: Workshop: The 3rd International Workshop on Social Sensing (SocialSens 2018)
Feb 2018: Workshop Keynote: Jana gives keynote presentation on ethical and legal challenges for text analytics research at the Collaborative Research on Extreme-Scale Text Analytics (CRESTA) workshop, Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, February 1st, 2018
Dec 2017: Dissertation Proposal Defense: Garrick Sherman presents "Document expansion and language model re-estimation for information retrieval", 242 iSchool, December 14th, 2017, 1:00pm - 3:30 pm
Dec 2017: Dissertation Proposal Defense: Shubhanshu Mishra presents "Information extraction from digital social trace data – applications in social media and scholarly data analysis", 131 iSchool, December 8th, 2017, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Dec 2017: Dissertation Proposal Defense: Aseel Addawood presents "Information Credibility on Social Media for Controversial Health Issues", 131 iSchool, December 1st, 2017, 8:30 am - 10:30 am
Oct 2017: Jana is a co-principal investigator on the "Alliance for IoBT Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-driven Networks (IoBT REIGN)"; a multi-institutional initiative funded by the Army Research Lab (academic lead of Alliance: Tarek Abdelzaher)
Oct 2017: Jana co-organizes "Human-Centered Data Science and Social Computing" session with Joe Yun for Illinois Data Science Day, October 10, 10:50am - 12:20pm
Sept 2017: Dissertation Proposal Defense: Craig Willis presents "Temporal Language Models for Information Retrieval", September 7, 2017
July 2017: Jana receives grant from Institute for German Language (Germany) for "TextTransfer – Corpus-based detection of secondary use of scientific publications"
July 2017: Jana receives grant from KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) for "Analysis of academic activity patterns in academic literature"
New journal paper: Jinseok Kim and Jana Diesner: Over-time measurement of triadic closure in scientific collaboration networks, Journal for Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
Call for Submissions: Lightning talks on cutting edge research in "Human-Centered Data Science and Social Computing", deadline extended to Friday, September 29th, 2017, 11:59pm CST
Symposium talk: Dr. Diesner presents "Impact Assessment of Information Products and Data Provenance" at Cultural Analytics 2017, University of Notre Dame, May 26, 2017
Workshop talk: Dr. Diesner is a guest speaker of the workshop "Re-Computing Social Sciences: What have we learned after a decade?", UC Davis, May 19, 2017
ACM CSCW 2017 paper: Rezapour R, Diesner J (2017) Classification and Detection of Micro-Level Impact of Issue-Focused Films based on Reviews