Laura Biester

According to our database, Laura Biester authored at least 17 papers between 2020 and 2025.

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2025

Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Supervised and Preference Optimization.

Siyang Liu, Bianca Brie, Wenda Li, Laura Biester, Andrew Lee, James W. Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea

CoRR, March, 2025

Representing and Clustering Errors in Offensive Language Detection.

Jood Otey, Laura Biester, Steven R. Wilson

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025

Sports and Women's Sports: Gender Bias in Text Generation with Olympic Data.

Laura Biester

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025

Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Expert-in-the-Loop Supervised and Preference Optimization.

Siyang Liu, Bianca Brie, Wenda Li, Laura Biester, Andrew Lee, James W. Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

2024

Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models.

Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Artem Abzaliev, Laura Biester, Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Xinyi Gao, Aylin Gunal, Jacky He, Ashkan Kazemi, Muhammad Khalifa, Namho Koh, Andrew Lee, Siyang Liu, Do June Min, Shinka Mori, Joan Nwatu, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Zekun Wang, Winston Wu, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

Understanding, Modeling and Leveraging Temporal Change in Mental Health

Laura Biester

PhD thesis, 2023

A PhD Student's Perspective on Research in NLP in the Era of Very Large Language Models.

Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Artem Abzaliev, Laura Biester, Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Xinyi Gao, Aylin Gunal, Jacky He, Ashkan Kazemi, Muhammad Khalifa, Namho Koh, Andrew Lee, Siyang Liu, Do June Min, Shinka Mori, Joan Nwatu, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Zekun Wang, Winston Wu, Rada Mihalcea

CoRR, 2023

Improving Mental Health Classifier Generalization with Pre-diagnosis Data.

Yujian Liu, Laura Biester, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

We Are in This Together: Quantifying Community Subjective Wellbeing and Resilience.

MeiXing Dong, Ruixuan Sun, Laura Biester, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

Temporal Arcs of Mental Health: Patterns Behind Changes in Depression over Time.

Laura Biester, James W. Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2023, 2023

2022

Emotional and Cognitive Changes Surrounding Online Depression Identity Claims.

Laura Biester, James W. Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea

Dataset, November, 2022

Analyzing the Effects of Annotator Gender across NLP Tasks.

Laura Biester, Vanita Sharma, Ashkan Kazemi, Naihao Deng, Steven R. Wilson, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLPerspectives@LREC 2022, 2022

2021

Emotional and Cognitive Changes Surrounding Online Depression Identity Claims.

Laura Biester, James W. Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea

Dataset, November, 2021

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Mental Health Forums.

Laura Biester, Katie Matton, Janarthanan Rajendran, Emily Mower Provost, Rada Mihalcea

ACM Trans. Manag. Inf. Syst., 2021

IBM @ TREC Clinical Trials Track 2021.

Laura Biester, Venkata Joopudi, Bharath Dandala

Proceedings of the Thirtieth Text REtrieval Conference, 2021

2020

Building Location Embeddings from Physical Trajectories and Textual Representations.

Laura Biester, Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2020

Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums.

Laura Biester, Katie Matton, Janarthanan Rajendran, Emily Mower Provost, Rada Mihalcea

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19@ EMNLP 2020, Online, December 2020, 2020