@rezapour.bsky.social
Assistant prof. of information science at Drexel CCI. computational social science, NLP for social good, narratives, stigma, #NLProc #NLP #NLP4SG Previously at UIUC, Spotify. she/her. shadirezapour.com
If you're a researcher of social media, content moderation, trust and safety, algorithmic accountability, etc. and you're not working for a platform company, please join us and help in the collective defense of this important work: independenttechresearch.org
Last paper of the year 🎉 Our paper on phenotypes of stigma is out in Social Science & Medicine. Using NLP and social media data, we reveal stigma patterns often missed by other methods. Shout out to my PhD students@laylab.bsky.social @elhamagk.bsky.social
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
#AcademicSky #NLP
🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs?
🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉
The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.
Check out our paper at #ACL2025NLP "From Conversation to Automation: Leveraging LLMs for Problem-Solving Therapy Analysis"🧠🤖We annotate Problem-Solving Therapy using theory-driven strategies and examine autonomy, self-disclosure, and metaphor @elhamagk.bsky.social
📄 aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Unfortunately, I am not attending #IC2S2 this year, but my amazing collaborator Mahnaz Roshanaie will be presenting our work:
“Navigating Empathy in Human-AI Interactions” (#798)
🗓️ July 23, 2025
🕚 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Session: Human-AI Interactions
Catch it if you can!
Check up on your Iranian colleagues and students; this is a full-on war!
🎓 Plus, huge congrats to @laylab.bsky.social for presenting her thesis proposal at the Websci Doctoral Consortium!
Feeling super proud of our team, especially our brilliant undergrads and PhD students who led, published, and presented such impactful work.
🧒 Youth Online Safety in News w/@afsanehrazi.bsky.social,@elhamagk.bsky.social , @md.ekstrandom.net , and Matt Namvarpour,
📰 3.9K+ articles (2002–2024)
📈 Focus shifted to tech platforms & bullying
💬 Sentiment more negative over time
📌 Trends linked to policy & events
👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🤖 Deception: Human vs. AI w two amazing STAR undergrads Minh Trinh & Samiha Zarin🌟
📚 GPT-3.5/4o = more formal, polished lies
🙋♀️ Humans = more social, casual deception
⚠️ LLMs still carry subtle biases
A cool dive into the language of deceit
👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🎬 Impact of Science Documentaries w/ @ariapessian.bsky.social and collaborators:
📊 New taxonomy for measuring impact
📝 Annotated Amazon reviews
🤖 ML + LLMs used to analyze public sentiment
🌍 Science storytelling = powerful!
👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Won Best Poster Award #websci2025 🏆
📘 Stance on Affirmative Action (AA) via Reddit with @ariapessian.bsky.social
🔍 Analyzed Reddit posts on AA
🧠 LLMs built nuanced stance labels
⚖️ Moral values like Fairness shaped narratives
🗣️ Most users were skeptical of current AA policies
👉 More: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🚀 The Social NLP Lab had an amazing week at #WebSci2025! We shared our work on AI, language & society, from Reddit to documentaries, deception to youth safety. Here’s a thread on what we presented 👇🧵
If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era.
national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Women and girls belong in science, and their inclusion fosters innovation.
In 2025, we join the United Nations to celebrate 10 years of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—a key milestone in advancing gender equality and empowering women globally.
I'm co-organizing th Ph.D. Symposium at WebSci'25! Apply by March 10th for a fun and community-filled day!
www.websci25.org/call-for-phd...
Check out our latest research on how TikTok is used to promote harm reduction and raise awareness about substance-related issues/content through the hashtags and posts we examined.📲✨
Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Don’t forget noise canceling headphones 🎧
🎉students studying AI and culture🎉
if you had an audience with senior folks from computer science, social science, and the humanities studying AI and culture, what questions would you ask them about the field, careers, skill sets, etc?
students only!
forms.gle/tZY5tJW2gqVd...
Despite media representations to the contrary, "women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields...A large-scale survey of the same faculty indicates that the reasons faculty leave are gendered, even for institutions, fields, and career ages in which retention rates are not"
Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one.
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN
Congrats!
I created two starter packs for Women in AI, as the first filled up 😎
I really hope I’ve added everyone who’s asked to be added, but let me know if you don’t see yourself. Nominations also welcome!
go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg
go.bsky.app/2wr669L
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.
Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎
Apply by December 15th!
All the ACL chapters are here now: @aaclmeeting.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social @eaclmeeting.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social #NLProc
Started making a list of researchers working at the intersection of healthcare, language, and computation. Please help me add more people!
Presenting our work “Two-stage graph-augmented summarization of scientific documents” today at #EMNLP #NLP4Science
aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4sci...
Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?
Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!
go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
Thank you :)