Publications

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2024

7. Saldías, B., (July 2024) Designing Child-Centered Content Exposure and Moderation. Presented as a poster at the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Philadelphia, USA.
paper, poster, citation.

6. Overney, C., Saldías, B., Dimitrakopoulou, D., & Roy, D. (March 2024) SenseMate: An Accessible and Beginner-Friendly Human-AI Platform for Qualitative Data Analysis. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Contribution: Led the implementation, training setup, and evaluation framework for rationale extraction models.

paper. citation.

2022

5. Saldias, B., Foster, G., Freitag, M., & Tan, Q. (May, 2022) Toward More Effective Human Evaluation for Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 2022 ACL Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval). ACL.

paper, video, poster, slides, citation.

2020

4. Saldias, B., & Roy, D. (July, 2020) Exploring aspects of similarity between spoken personal narratives by disentangling them into narrative clause types. Proceedings of the 2020 ACL Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE). ACL.

Work also presented at WiML @ NeurIPS19, WiML @ ICML20, CODI @ EMNLP20.

paper, video, short video, slides, poster, repo, @medialab, citation.

2019

3. Bhargava, R.*, Chung, A.*, Gaikwad, N.*, Hope, A.*, Jen, D.*, Rubinovitz, J.*, Saldias, B.*, & Zuckerman, E.* (2019, November). Gobo: A System for Exploring User Control of Invisible Algorithms in Social Media. Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). ACM. *All authors contributed equally to this research.

paper, poster, @medialab, citation.

2. Saldias, B., & Picard, R. (2019, September). Tweet Moodifier: Towards Giving Emotional Awareness to Twitter Users. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII). IEEE.

paper, slides, poster, news, @medialab, citation.

1. Saldias, B., Protopapas, P., & Pichara, K. (2019, May). A Full Probabilistic Model for Yes/No Type Crowdsourcing in Multi-Class Classification. Proceedings of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) (pp. 756-764). SIAM.

paper, slides, poster, repo, citation.

Working papers

Saldias, B.*, Gillani, N.*, Priscilla-Makini, S.*, Hughes, M.*, Roy, D.  Exploring a human-bot blended storytelling model for youth mentorship. Working paper.

Saldias, B., Roy, D. Rationalizing Natural Language Content Moderation. Working paper.

Noteworthy acknowledgments

Kumar, I. K. (MIT MSc Thesis 2023). Fostering Well-Being: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth. thesis. Contribution: Developed and deployed content moderation NLP models for social network app focused on youth based on mental-health thriving values.

Hughes, M., & Roy, D. (CHI 2021) Keeper: A Synchronous Online Conversation Environment Informed by In-Person Facilitation Practices. paper. thesis. Contribution: Architected and developed the complete backend, server setup, and deployment processes to make Keeper functional and allow for human evaluation.

Jiang, H., et al. (COLING 2022) CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models. paper. Contribution: Discussion in ideation, framing, and feedback stages.