Robert West

Orcid: 0000-0002-3984-1232

Affiliations:
  • EPFL, Switzerland
  • Stanford University, Department of Computer Science (former)


According to our database1, Robert West authored at least 146 papers between 2009 and 2024.

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2024
The Era of Semantic Decoding.
CoRR, 2024

On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
CoRR, 2024

Emojinize: Enriching Any Text with Emoji Translations.
CoRR, 2024

Making Reasoning Matter: Measuring and Improving Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning.
CoRR, 2024

Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers.
CoRR, 2024

Symbolic Autoencoding for Self-Supervised Sequence Learning.
CoRR, 2024

Sketch-Guided Constrained Decoding for Boosting Blackbox Large Language Models without Logit Access.
CoRR, 2024

Evaluating Language Model Agency through Negotiations.
CoRR, 2024

Deplatforming Norm-Violating Influencers on Social Media Reduces Overall Online Attention Toward Them.
CoRR, 2024

Fly-Swat or Cannon? Cost-Effective Language Model Choice via Meta-Modeling.
Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2024

REFINER: Reasoning Feedback on Intermediate Representations.
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023
A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia.
ACM Trans. Web, May, 2023

A Glitch in the Matrix? Locating and Detecting Language Model Grounding with Fakepedia.
CoRR, 2023

SoK: Memorization in General-Purpose Large Language Models.
CoRR, 2023

Prevalence and prevention of large language model use in crowd work.
CoRR, 2023

Protection from Evil and Good: The Differential Effects of Page Protection on Wikipedia Article Quality.
CoRR, 2023

Stranger Danger! Cross-Community Interactions with Fringe Users Increase the Growth of Fringe Communities on Reddit.
CoRR, 2023

In-class Data Analysis Replications: Teaching Students while Testing Science.
CoRR, 2023

Food Choice Mimicry on a Large University Campus.
CoRR, 2023

Causally estimating the effect of YouTube's recommender system using counterfactual bots.
CoRR, 2023

Flows: Building Blocks of Reasoning and Collaborating AI.
CoRR, 2023

Tube2Vec: Social and Semantic Embeddings of YouTube Channels.
CoRR, 2023

Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks.
CoRR, 2023

Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia.
CoRR, 2023

Generating Faithful Synthetic Data with Large Language Models: A Case Study in Computational Social Science.
CoRR, 2023

Flexible Grammar-Based Constrained Decoding for Language Models.
CoRR, 2023

Wikipedia and open access.
CoRR, 2023

Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption.
CoRR, 2023

Descartes: Generating Short Descriptions of Wikipedia Articles.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023

Automated Content Moderation Increases Adherence to Community Guidelines.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023

The Glass Ceiling of Automatic Evaluation in Natural Language Generation.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2023, 2023

The Amplification Paradox in Recommender Systems.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

Quotatives Indicate Decline in Objectivity in U.S. Political News.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

DiPPS: Differentially Private Propensity Scores for Bias Correction.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2023

Exploiting Asymmetry for Synthetic Training Data Generation: SynthIE and the Case of Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Grammar-Constrained Decoding for Structured NLP Tasks without Finetuning.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

2022
A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment.
Proc. VLDB Endow., 2022

Privacy accounting εconomics: Improving differential privacy composition via a posteriori bounds.
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2022

Characterizing Alternative Monetization Strategies on YouTube.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

Biased Bytes: On the Validity of Estimating Food Consumption from Digital Traces.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

Anticipated versus Actual Effects of Platform Design Change: A Case Study of Twitter's Character Limit.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

Language Model Decoding as Likelihood-Utility Alignment.
CoRR, 2022

Differentially Private Propensity Scores for Bias Correction.
CoRR, 2022

On the Choice of Databases in Differential Privacy Composition.
CoRR, 2022

Distribution inference risks: Identifying and mitigating sources of leakage.
CoRR, 2022

United States Politicians' Tone Became More Negative with 2016 Primary Campaigns.
CoRR, 2022

On the Context-Free Ambiguity of Emoji: A Data-Driven Study of 1, 289 Emojis.
CoRR, 2022

Language-Agnostic Website Embedding and Classification.
CoRR, 2022

WIKI'2022: 9th Annual Wiki Workshop.
Proceedings of the Companion of The Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event / Lyon, France, April 25, 2022

Going Down the Rabbit Hole: Characterizing the Long Tail of Wikipedia Reading Sessions.
Proceedings of the Companion of The Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event / Lyon, France, April 25, 2022

Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough.
Proceedings of the WSDM '22: The Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Virtual Event / Tempe, AZ, USA, February 21, 2022

Quote Erat Demonstrandum: A Web Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus.
Proceedings of the SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, July 11, 2022

GenIE: Generative Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

Strong Heuristics for Named Entity Linking.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop, 2022

Efficient Entity Candidate Generation for Low-Resource Languages.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Can online attention signals help fact-checkers to fact-check?
Proceedings of the Workshop Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022

Post Approvals in Online Communities.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022

Homepage2Vec: Language-Agnostic Website Embedding and Classification.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022

On the Context-Free Ambiguity of Emoji.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2022

Invariant Language Modeling.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Crosslingual Section Title Alignment in Wikipedia.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2022

2021
Wikipedia citations: A comprehensive data set of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia.
Quant. Sci. Stud., 2021

Postmortem memory of public figures in news and social media.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2021

Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

Formation of Social Ties Influences Food Choice: A Campus-wide Longitudinal Study.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

GenIE: Generative Information Extraction.
CoRR, 2021

Invariant Language Modeling.
CoRR, 2021

Population-scale dietary interests during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CoRR, 2021

What do fact checkers fact-check when?
CoRR, 2021

Post-mortem memory of public figures in news and social media.
CoRR, 2021

Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19 mobility restrictions.
CoRR, 2021

Keeping Up with the Trends: Analyzing the Dynamics of Online Learning and Hiring Platforms in the Software Programming Domain.
Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2021

Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Proceedings of the WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, 2021

On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web.
Proceedings of the WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, 2021

Crosslingual Topic Modeling with WikiPDA.
Proceedings of the WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, 2021

Quotebank: A Corpus of Quotations from a Decade of News.
Proceedings of the WSDM '21, 2021

Are Anti-Feminist Communities Gateways to the Far Right? Evidence from Reddit and YouTube.
Proceedings of the WebSci '21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, 2021

Laughing Heads: Can Transformers Detect What Makes a Sentence Funny?
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

A Ladder of Causal Distances.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

YouNiverse: Large-Scale Channel and Video Metadata from English-Speaking YouTube.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

Measuring Societal Biases from Text Corpora with Smoothed First-Order Co-occurrence.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

Global Gender Differences in Wikipedia Readership.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

Political Polarization in Online News Consumption.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

Evolution of Retweet Rates in Twitter User Careers: Analysis and Model.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

Recursive Input and State Estimation: a General Framework for Learning from Time Series With Missing Data.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

Node Attribute Completion in Knowledge Graphs with Multi-Relational Propagation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

Low-Rank Subspaces for Unsupervised Entity Linking.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Better than Average: Paired Evaluation of NLP systems.
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020
Darks and Stripes: Effects of Clothing on Weight Perception.
J. Soc. Comput., 2020

Human biases in body measurement estimation.
EPJ Data Sci., 2020

Does Platform Migration Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels.
CoRR, 2020

Adoption of Twitter's New Length Limit: Is 280 the New 140?
CoRR, 2020

Experts and authorities receive disproportionate attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis.
CoRR, 2020

Wikipedia Citations: A comprehensive dataset of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia.
CoRR, 2020

Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia Following COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions.
CoRR, 2020

Learning High Order Feature Interactions with Fine Control Kernels.
CoRR, 2020

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia.
Proceedings of the WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020, 2020

Broccoli: Sprinkling Lightweight Vocabulary Learning into Everyday Information Diets.
Proceedings of the WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020, 2020

WikiHist.html: English Wikipedia's Full Revision History in HTML Format.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2020

Auditing radicalization pathways on YouTube.
Proceedings of the FAT* '20: Conference on Fairness, 2020

KLearn: Background Knowledge Inference from Summarization Data.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

Calibration of Google Trends Time Series.
Proceedings of the CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2020

Privacy-Preserving Classification with Secret Vector Machines.
Proceedings of the CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2020

On the Limitations of Cross-lingual Encoders as Exposed by Reference-Free Machine Translation Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

2019
Causal Effects of Brevity on Style and Success in Social Media.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019

Robust Cross-lingual Embeddings from Parallel Sentences.
CoRR, 2019

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning with Secret Gradient Descent.
CoRR, 2019

Message Distortion in Information Cascades.
Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, 2019

Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers.
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2019

Crosslingual Document Embedding as Reduced-Rank Ridge Regression.
Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2019

Eliciting New Wikipedia Users' Interests via Automatically Mined Questionnaires: For a Warm Welcome, Not a Cold Start.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2019

Hot Streaks on Social Media.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2019

Impact of Explicit Failure and Success-driven Preparatory Activities on Learning.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Reverse-Engineering Satire, or "Paper on Computational Humor Accepted despite Making Serious Advances".
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019

2018
When Sheep Shop: Measuring Herding Effects in Product Ratings with Natural Experiments.
Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web, 2018

Welcome on Behalf of the Wiki Workshop Chairs & Organization.
Proceedings of the Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018, 2018

Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations.
Proceedings of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

Latent Structure in Collaboration: The Case of Reddit r/place.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018

Quootstrap: Scalable Unsupervised Extraction of Quotation-Speaker Pairs from Large News Corpora via Bootstrapping.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018

How Constraints Affect Content: The Case of Twitter's Switch from 140 to 280 Characters.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018

Compiling Questions into Balanced Quizzes about Documents.
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018

2017
Why We Read Wikipedia.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2017

Armed Conflicts in Online News: A Multilingual Study.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2017

2016
Human navigation of information networks.
PhD thesis, 2016

Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2016

Improving Website Hyperlink Structure Using Server Logs.
Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2016

2015
Reports of the 2015 Workshops Held at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.
AI Mag., 2015

Mining Missing Hyperlinks from Human Navigation Traces: A Case Study of Wikipedia.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2015

2014
Exploiting Social Network Structure for Person-to-Person Sentiment Analysis.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2014

Knowledge base completion via search-based question answering.
Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, 2014

The last click: why users give up information network navigation.
Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2014

2013
From cookies to cooks: insights on dietary patterns via analysis of web usage logs.
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities.
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, 2013

Here and there: goals, activities, and predictions about location from geotagged queries.
Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2013

Compressive Feature Learning.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26: 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2013. Proceedings of a meeting held December 5-8, 2013

2012
A data-driven sketch of Wikipedia editors.
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference, 2012

Human wayfinding in information networks.
Proceedings of the 21st World Wide Web Conference 2012, 2012

Drawing a data-driven portrait of Wikipedia editors.
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, 2012

Automatic Versus Human Navigation in Information Networks.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2012

2010
Towards a standardized test for intelligent wheelchairs.
Proceedings of the 10th Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, 2010

Automatically suggesting topics for augmenting text documents.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2010

2009
Development and Validation of a Robust Speech Interface for Improved Human-Robot Interaction.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2009

Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances between Concepts.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

Completing wikipedia's hyperlink structure through dimensionality reduction.
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009


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