Publications

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@inproceedings{arxiv32,
  author={Clément Dumas, Chris Wendler, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giovanni Monea, and Robert West},
  title={Separating Tongue from Thought: Activation Patching Reveals Language-Agnostic Concept Representations in Transformers},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08745},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv31,
  author={Julian Minder, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr, Giovanni Monea, Chris Wendler, Robert West, and Ryan Cotterell},
  title={Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07404},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv31,
  author={Adam Fourney, Gagan Bansal, Hussein Mozannar, Cheng Tan, Eduardo Salinas, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Friederike Niedtner, Grace Proebsting, Griffin Bassman, Jack Gerrits, Jacob Alber, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Robert West, Victor Dibia, Ahmed Awadallah, Ece Kamar, Rafah Hosn, Saleema Amershi},
  title={Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04468},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv29,
  author={Giuseppe Russo Latona, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tim R. Davidson, Veniamin Veselovsky, and Robert West},
  title={The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02150},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv28,
  author={Akhil Arora, Lars Klein, Nearchos Potamitis, Roland Aydin, Çağlar Gülçehre, and Robert West},
  title={Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models using Genetic Particle Filtering},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06691},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv27,
  author={Francesco Salvi, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Riccardo Gallotti, and Robert West},
  title={On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14380},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv26,
  author={Maxime Peyrard, Martin Josifoski, and Robert West},
  title={The Era of Semantic Decoding},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14562},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv24,
  author={Marija Šakota, Isaac Johnson, Guosheng Feng, and Robert West},
  title={Edisum: Summarizing and Explaining Wikipedia Edits at Scale},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03428},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv23,
  author={Lars Klein, Roland Aydin, and Robert West},
  title={Emojinize 🔤➡🙂️: Enriching Any Text with Emoji Translations},
  booktitle={arXiv preprint},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03857},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv20,
author={Mohammad Hossein Amani, Nicolas Mario Baldwin, Amin Mansouri, Martin Josifoski, Maxime Peyrard, and Robert West},
title={Symbolic Autoencoding for Self-Supervised Sequence Learning},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10575},
year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv15,
author={Martin Josifoski, Lars Klein, Maxime Peyrard, Yifei Li, Saibo Geng, Julian Paul Schnitzler, Yuxing Yao, Jiheng Wei, Debjit Paul, and Robert West},
title={Flows: Building Blocks of Reasoning and Collaborating AI},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01285},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv13,
author={Valentin Hartmann, Anshuman Suri, Vincent Bindschaedler, David Evans, Shruti Tople, and Robert West},
title={SoK: Memorization in General-Purpose Large Language Models},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18362},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv11,
author={Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Akhil Arora, Martin Josifoski, Ashton Anderson, and Robert West},
title={Generating Faithful Synthetic Data with Large Language Models: A Case Study in Computational Social Science},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15041},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv7,
author={Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Robert West},
title={Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv5,
author={Valentin Hartmann, Vincent Bindschaedler, and Robert West},
title={On the Choice of Databases in Differential Privacy Composition},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13697},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv4,
author={Kristina Gligorić, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Martin Müller, Olesia Altunina, Maxime Peyrard, Marcel Salathé, Giovanni Colavizza, and Robert West},
title={Experts and Authorities Receive Disproportionate Attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 Crisis},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08364},
year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv3,
author={Ali Sabet, Prakhar Gupta, Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier, Robert West, and Martin Jaggi},
title={Robust Cross-lingual Embeddings from Parallel Sentences},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12481},
year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv2,
author={Valentin Hartmann and Robert West},
title={Secure Summation via Subset Sums: A New Primitive for Privacy-Preserving Distributed Machine Learning},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11993},
year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{arxiv1,
author={Meryem M'hamdi, Robert West, Andreea Hossmann, Michael Baeriswyl, and Claudiu Musat},
title={Expanding the Text Classification Toolbox with Cross-lingual Embeddings},
booktitle={arXiv preprint},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09878},
year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{cacm2025b,
 author={Robert West and Roland Aydin},
 title={The AI Alignment Paradox},
 booktitle={CACM --- Communications of the ACM},
 url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20806},
 year={2025},
 misc={To appear
 ---[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idf6-TijAWg">Short talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{cacm2025a,
  author={Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Philip Cozzolino, Andrew Gordon, David Rothschild, and Robert West},
  title={Prevalence and Prevention of Large Language Model Use in Crowd Work},
  booktitle={CACM --- Communications of the ACM},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15683},
  year={2025},
  misc={To appear}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2025a,
  author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Jordi Cluet i Martinell, Marie Reignier-Tayar, and Robert West},
  title={Deplatforming Norm-Violating Influencers on Social Media Reduces Overall Online Attention Toward Them},
  booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01253},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2025b,
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West, and Sanjay Kairam},
  title={Post Guidance for Online Communities},
  booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  year={2025},
  misc={To appear}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2025,
  author={Thorsten Ruprechter, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West, and Denis Helic},
  title={Protection from Evil and Good: The Differential Effects of Page Protection on Wikipedia Article Quality},
  booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12696},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2024a,
  author={Tomás Feith, Akhil Arora, Martin Gerlach, Debjit Paul, and Robert West},
  title={Entity Insertion in Multilingual Linked Corpora: The Case of Wikipedia},
  booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1268/},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2024b,
  author={Paula Rescala, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tiancheng Hu, and Robert West},
  title={Can Language Models Recognize Convincing Arguments?},
  booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings)},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.515/},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2024c,
  author={Niklas Stoehr, Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell, and Aaron Schein},
  title={Activation Scaling for Steering and Interpreting Language Models},
  booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings)},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.479/},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2024d,
 author={Debjit Paul, Robert West, Antoine Bosselut, and Boi Faltings},
 title={Making Reasoning Matter: Measuring and Improving Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning},
 booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings)},
 url={https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.882/},
 year={2024},
 misc={[<a href="https://debjitpaul.github.io/reasoningmatter/">Blog post</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2024e,
  author={Tim R. Davidson, Viacheslav Surkov, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giuseppe Russo, Robert West, and Caglar Gulcehre},
  title={Self-Recognition in Language Models},
  booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings)},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.703/},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{scientometrics2024,
author={Puyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib, Robert West, and Giovanni Colavizza},
title={Open Access Improves the Dissemination of Science: Insights from Wikipedia},
booktitle={Scientometrics},
url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05163-4},
year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{nexus2024,
  author={Kristina Gligorić, Arnaud Chiolero, Emre Kıcıman, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz, and Robert West},
  title={Food Choice Mimicry on a Large University Campus},
  booktitle={PNAS Nexus},
  url={https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/12/pgae517/7902028},
  volume={2},
  number={3},
  pages={pgae517},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{frontnutr2024,
author={Kristina Gligorić, Robin Zbinden, Arnaud Chiolero, Emre Kıcıman, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz, and Robert West},
title={Measuring and Shaping the Nutritional Environment via Food Sales Logs: Case Studies of Campus-wide Food Choice and a Call to Action},
booktitle={Frontiers in Nutrition},
url={https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1231070},
volume={11},
pages={1231070},
year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{hdsr2024,
author={Kristina Gligorić, Tiziano Piccardi, Jake Hofman, and Robert West},
title={In-Class Data Analysis Replications: Teaching Students While Testing Science},
booktitle={Harvard Data Science Review},
volume={6},
number={3},
url={https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.f9720d1f},
year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{acl2024d,
author={Chris Wendler, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giovanni Monea, and Robert West},
title={Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers},
booktitle={ACL --- Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10588},
year={2024},
misc={🏆 Outstanding Paper Award
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/llm-latent-language">Code</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{acl2024a,
author={Zachary Horvitz, Jingru Chen, Rahul Aditya, Harshvardhan Srivastava, Robert West, Zhou Yu, and Kathleen McKeown},
title={Getting Serious about Humor: Crafting Humor Datasets with Unfunny Large Language Models},
booktitle={ACL --- Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00794},
year={2024},
misc={🏆 Outstanding Paper Award
--- [<a href="https://github.com/zacharyhorvitz/Getting-Serious-With-LLMs">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{acl2024c,
author={Saibo Geng, Berkay Döner, Chris Wendler, Martin Josifoski, and Robert West},
title={Sketch-Guided Constrained Decoding for Boosting Blackbox Large Language Models without Logit Access},
booktitle={ACL --- Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09967},
year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{acl2024b,
author={Giovanni Monea, Maxime Peyrard, Martin Josifoski, Vishrav Chaudhary, Jason Eisner, Emre Kıcıman, Hamid Palangi, Barun Patra, and Robert West},
title={A Glitch in the Matrix? Locating and Detecting Language Model Grounding with Fakepedia},
booktitle={ACL --- Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02073},
year={2024},
misc={[<a href=" https://epfl-dlab.github.io/llm-grounding-analysis/">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{iclr2024,
 author={Tim R. Davidson, Veniamin Veselovsky, Martin Josifoski, Maxime Peyrard, Antoine Bosselut, Michal Kosinski, and Robert West},
 title={Evaluating Language Model Agency through Negotiations},
 booktitle={ICLR --- International Conference on Learning Representations},
 url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04536},
 year={2024},
 misc={[<a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/2024-01-10-evaluating-language-model-agency/">Blog post</a>]
 --- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/LAMEN">Code</a>]
 --- [<a href="https://zenodo.org/records/10254697">Data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{eacl2024,
author={Debjit Paul, Mete Ismayilzada, Maxime Peyrard, Beatriz Borges, Antoine Bosselut, Robert West, and Boi Faltings},
title={REFINER: Reasoning Feedback on Intermediate Representations},
booktitle={EACL --- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Paul-Ismayilzada-Peyrard-Borges-Bosselut-West-Faltings.pdf},
year={2024},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/debjitpaul/refiner">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://debjitpaul.github.io/refiner/">Blog post</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{pnas2024,
  title={Causally Estimating the Effect of YouTube's Recommender System Using Counterfactual Bots},
  author={Homa Hosseinmardi, Amir Ghasemian, Miguel Rivera-Lanas, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West, and Duncan J. Watts},
  booktitle={PNAS --- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
  url={https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313377121},
  volume={121},
  number={8},
  pages={e2313377121},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{wsdm2024,
 author={Marija Šakota, Maxime Peyrard, and Robert West},
 title={Fly-Swat or Cannon? Cost-Effective Language Model Choice via Meta-Modeling},
 booktitle={WSDM --- International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
 url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Sakota-Peyrard-West_WSDM-24.pdf},
 year={2024},
 misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/forc">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2024c,
author={Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Robert West},
title={Stranger Danger! Cross-Community Interactions with Fringe Users Increase the Growth of Fringe Communities on Reddit},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Russo-HortaRibeiro-West_ICWSM-24.pdf},
year={2024},
misc={🏆 Best Paper Award}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2024d,
 author={Léopaul Boesinger, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Veniamin Veselovsky, and Robert West},
 title={Tube2Vec: Social and Semantic Embeddings of YouTube Channels},
 booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
 url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Boesinger-HortaRibeiro-Veselovsky-West_ICWSM-24.pdf},
 year={2024},
 misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/youtube-embeddings">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2024a,
author={Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, and Robert West},
title={Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Piccardi-Gerlach-West_ICWSM-24.pdf},
year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2024b,
author={Akhil Arora, Robert West, and Martin Gerlach},
title={Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Arora-West-Gerlach_ICWSM-24.pdf},
year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2023b,
 author={Saibo Geng, Martin Josifoski, Maxime Peyrard, and Robert West},
 title={Grammar-Constrained Decoding for Structured NLP Tasks without Finetuning},
 booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
 url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Geng-Josifoski-Peyrard-West_EMNLP-23.pdf},
 year={2023},
 misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/GCD">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2023a,
 author={Martin Josifoski, Marija Šakota, Maxime Peyrard, and Robert West},
 title={Exploiting Asymmetry for Synthetic Training Data Generation: SynthIE and the Case of Information Extraction},
 booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
 url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Josifoski-Sakota-Peyrard-West_EMNLP-23.pdf},
 year={2023},
 misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/SynthIE">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{ijcnlpaacl2023,
  author={Pierre Colombo, Maxime Peyrard, Nathan Noiry, Robert West, and Pablo Piantanida},
  title={The Glass Ceiling of Automatic Evaluation in Natural Language Generation},
  booktitle={IJCNLP-AACL --- International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings)},
  url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Colombo-Peyrard-Noiry-West-Piantanida_IJCNLP-23.pdf},
  year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{scirep2023,
 author={Jonathan Külz, Andreas Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel, Stephan Günnemann, and Robert West},
 title={United States Politicians' Tone Became More Negative with 2016 Primary Campaigns},
 booktitle={Scientific Reports},
 volume={13},
 pages={10495},
 url={https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36839-1},
 year={2023},
 misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/Negativity_in_2016_campaign">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{nexus2023,
  title={Deplatforming Did Not Decrease Parler Users' Activity on Fringe Social Media},
  author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Homa Hosseinmardi, Robert West, and Duncan J. Watts},
  booktitle={PNAS Nexus},
  volume={2},
  number={3},
  pages={pgad035},
  year={2023},
  url={https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad035}
}

@inproceedings{plosone2023,
author={Kristina Gligorić, George Lifchits, Robert West, and Ashton Anderson},
title={Linguistic Effects on News Headline Success: Evidence from Thousands of Online Field Experiments (Registered Report)},
booktitle={PLOS ONE},
volume={18},
number={3},
pages={e0281682},
url={https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281682},
misc={[<a href="https://osf.io/j3drb/?view_only=0b50f63b30a24335a04e0f6bed7fd6cc">Preregistration</a>]},
year={2023},
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2023c,
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Veniamin Veselovsky, and Robert West},
title={The Amplification Paradox in Recommender Systems},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Veselovsky-West_ICWSM-23.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/amplification_paradox">Code</a>]},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2023b,
author={Tiancheng Hu, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West, and Andreas Spitz},
title={Quotatives Indicate Decline in Objectivity in U.S. Political News},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Hu-HortaRibeiro-West-Spitz_ICWSM-23.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/quotative_bias">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/7983078">Data</a>]},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2023a,
author={Liangwei Chen, Valentin Hartmann, and Robert West},
title={DiPPS: Differentially Private Propensity Scores for Bias Correction},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Chen-Hartmann-West_ICWSM-23.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/DiPPS">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://youtu.be/hRBVVn_tnC0">Video</a>]},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{acl2023,
author={Niklas Stoehr, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Josef Valvoda, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell, and Aaron Schein},
title={An Ordinal Latent Variable Model of Conflict Intensity},
booktitle={ACL --- Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Stoehr-TorrobaHennigen-Valvoda-West-Cotterell-Schein_ACL-23.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/niklasstoehr/ordinal-conflict-intensity">Code</a>]},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{www2023a,
author={Marija Šakota, Martin Peyrard, and Robert West},
title={Descartes: Generating Short Descriptions of Wikipedia Articles},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Sakota-Peyrard-West_WWW-23.pdf},
year={2023},
misc={[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TesPBaVrZaI">Video</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/descartes">Code</a>]},
}

@inproceedings{www2023b,
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Justin Cheng, and Robert West},
title={Automated Content Moderation Increases Adherence to Community Guidelines},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Cheng-West_WWW-23.pdf},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{eacl2023,
author={Martin Josifoski, Maxime Peyrard, Frano Rajič, Jiheng Wei, Debjit Paul, Valentin Hartmann, Barun Patra, Vishrav Chaudhary, Emre Kıcıman, Boi Faltings, and Robert West},
title={Language Model Decoding as Likelihood--Utility Alignment},
booktitle={EACL --- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings)},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Josifoski-Peyrard-Rajic-Wei-Paul-Hartmann-Patra-Chaudhary-Kiciman-Faltings-West_EACL-23.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/understanding-decoding">Code and data</a>]},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{tweb2023,
author={Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Akhil Arora, and Robert West},
title={A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia},
booktitle={TWEB --- ACM Transactions on the Web},
volume={17},
number={2},
pages={11},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Piccardi-Gerlach-Arora-West_TWEB-23.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/how_readers_browse_wikipedia">Code</a>]},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{satml2023,
author={Valentin Hartmann, Léo Meynent, Maxime Peyrard, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Shruti Tople, and Robert West},
title={Distribution Inference Risks: Identifying and Mitigating Sources of Leakage},
booktitle={SaTML --- IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08541},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/distribution-inference-risks">Code</a>]},
year={2023}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp2022,
author={Maxime Peyrard, Sarvjeet Singh Ghotra, Martin Josifoski, Vidhan Agarwal, Barun Patra, Dean Carignan, Emre Kıcıman, Saurabh Tiwary, and Robert West},
title={Invariant Language Modeling},
booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Peyrard-Ghotra-Josifoski-Agarwal-Patra-Carignan-Kiciman-Tiwary-West_EMNLP-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/invariant-language-models">Code</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{bigdata2022,
author={Djellel Difallah, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Eriq Augustine, Robert West, and Leila Zia},
title={Crosslingual Section Title Alignment in Wikipedia},
booktitle={BigData --- IEEE International Conference on Big Data},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Difallah-SaezTrumper-Augustine-West-Zia_BigData-22.pdf},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2022a,
title={Biased Bytes: On the Validity of Estimating Food Consumption from Digital Traces},
author={Kristina Gligorić, Irena Đorđević, and Robert West},
booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
year={2022},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Gligoric-Djordjevic-West_CSCW-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/biased-bytes">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2022b,
title={Anticipated versus Actual Effects of Platform Design Change: A Case Study of Twitter's Character Limit},
author={Kristina Gligorić, Justyna Częstochowska, Ashton Anderson, and Robert West},
booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
year={2022},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Gligoric-Czestochowska-Anderson-West_CSCW-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/anticipated-vs-actual">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/7009935">Data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{naacl2022,
author={Martin Josifoski, Nicola De Cao, Maxime Peyrard, Fabio Petroni, and Robert West},
title={GenIE: Generative Information Extraction},
booktitle={NAACL --- Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Josifoski-DeCao-Peyrard-Petroni-West_NAACL-22.pdf},
year={2022},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/GenIE">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{naaclsrw2022,
author={Marko Čuljak, Andreas Spitz, Robert West, and Akhil Arora},
title={Strong Heuristics for Named Entity Linking},
booktitle={NAACL-SRW --- Student Research Workshop at the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Culjak-Spitz-West-Arora_NAACL-SRW-22.pdf},
year={2022},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/nelight">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxYMR9ApV5w">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{lrec2022,
author={Alberto García-Durán, Akhil Arora, and Robert West},
title={Efficient Entity Candidate Generation for Low-Resource Languages},
booktitle={LREC --- Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/GarciaDuran-Arora-West_LREC-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/pti-candgen">Code and data</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{sigir2022,
author={Vuk Vuković, Akhil Arora, Huan-Cheng Chang, Andreas Spitz, and Robert West},
title={Quote Erat Demonstrandum: A Web Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus},
booktitle={SIGIR --- ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (demo track)},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Vukovic-Arora-Chang-Spitz-West_SIGIR-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://quotebank.dlab.tools/">Demo</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2022,
title={Characterizing Alternative Monetization Strategies on YouTube},
author={Yiqing Hua, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Thomas Ristenpart, Robert West, and Mor Naaman},
booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Hua-HortaRibeiro-Ristenpart-West-Naaman_CSCW-22.pdf},
year={2022},
misc={[<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hj5K984d_8LgUh-ApTBs3at1auKRAA-incAyRmIEVu0/edit#gid=1282467785">Press</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{wikiworkshop2022,
title={Going Down the Rabbit Hole: Characterizing the Long Tail of Wikipedia Reading Sessions},
author={Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, and Robert West},
booktitle={Wiki Workshop at The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Piccardi-Gerlach-West_WikiWorkshop-22.pdf},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2022a,
title={Homepage2Vec: Language-Agnostic Website Embedding and Classification},
author={Sylvain Lugeon, Tiziano Piccardi, and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Lugeon-Piccardi-West_ICWSM-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19406693">Data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/homepage2vec">Code</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2022b,
title={On the Context-Free Ambiguity of Emoji},
author={Justyna Częstochowska, Kristina Gligorić, Maxime Peyrard, Yann Mentha, Michał Bień, Andrea Grütter, Anita Auer, Aris Xanthos, and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Czestochowska-Gligoric-Peyrard-Mentha-Bien-Gruetter-Auer-Xanthos-West_ICWSM-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/emoji-ambiguity">Code and data</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2022c,
title={Post Approvals in Online Communities},
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Justin Cheng, and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Cheng-West_ICWSM-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6ReJcv0wU">Talk</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2022d,
title={Can Online Attention Signals Help Fact-Checkers Fact-Check?},
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Savvas Zannettou, Oana Goga, Fabrício Benevenuto, and Robert West},
booktitle={MEDIATE Workshop at ICWSM},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Zannettou-Goga-Benevenuto-West_MEDIATE-22.pdf},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{vldb2022,
title={A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment},
author={Manuel Leone, Stefano Huber, Akhil Arora, Alberto García-Durán, and Robert West},
booktitle={PVLDB --- Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},
volume={15},
number={8},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Leone-Huber-Arora-GarciaDuran-West_VLDB-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/entity-matchers">Code and data</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{popets2022,
title={Privacy Accounting εconomics: Improving Differential Privacy Composition via A Posteriori Bounds},
author={Valentin Hartmann, Vincent Bindschaedler, Alexander Bentkamp, and Robert West},
booktitle={PoPETs --- Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies},
number={3},
pages={222--246},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Hartmann-Bindschaedler-Bentkamp-West_PoPETS-22.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/abentkamp/odp">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19330649">Supplementary material</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc2oTUJOCBE">Talk</a>]},
year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{natcomms2022,
title={Population-Scale Dietary Interests During the COVID-19 Pandemic},
author={Kristina Gligorić, Arnaud Chiolero, Emre Kıcıman, Ryen White, and Robert West},
booktitle={Nature Communications},
volume={13},
number={1073},
url={https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28498-z},
year={2022},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/kristinagligoric/dietary-interests-covid">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgYk6JmjoFg">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{wsdm2022,
author={Akhil Arora, Martin Gerlach, Tiziano Piccardi, Alberto García-Durán, and Robert West},
title={Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough},
booktitle={WSDM --- International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Arora-Gerlach-Piccardi-GarciaDuran-West_WSDM-22.pdf},
year={2022},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/wikinav-approx">Data and code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPz57eJYYMs">Talk</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xavqc5gx08u8tte/WSDM22-fp659_wikinav-approx.pdf?dl=0">Poster</a>]
--- [<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bf9BlqX_yvrfQw-DgOyhg79fBHeVLR1wYVAv7v-kzHI">Slides</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{scirep21,
title={Volunteer Contributions to Wikipedia Increased During COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions},
author={Thorsten Ruprechter, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tiago Santos, Florian Lemmerich, Markus Strohmaier, Robert West, and Denis Helic},
booktitle={Scientific Reports},
volume={11},
pages={21505},
url={https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00789-3},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/ruptho/wiki-volunteers-covid">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210301161236/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269414-wikipedia-has-seen-a-spike-in-people-editing-pages-during-the-pandemic/">Press</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{pnas21,
title={Postmortem Memory of Public Figures in News and Social Media},
author={Robert West, Jure Leskovec, and Christopher Potts},
booktitle={PNAS --- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
volume={118},
number={38},
pages={e2106152118},
url={https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2106152118},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/post-mortem-memory">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://pnas.altmetric.com/details/107281253/news">Press</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp21a,
title={Low-rank Subspaces for Unsupervised Entity Linking},
author={Akhil Arora, Alberto García-Durán, and Robert West},
booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Arora-GarciaDuran-West_EMNLP-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/eigenthemes">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{emnlp21b,
title={Classifying Dyads for Militarized Conflict Analysis},
author={Niklas Stoehr, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Samin Ahbab, Robert West, and Ryan Cotterell},
booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Stoehr-TorrobaHennigen-Ahbab-West-Cotterell_EMNLP-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://conflict-ai.github.io/conflictwiki/">Demo</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/conflict-ai/conflictwiki">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{plosone2021b,
author={Kristina Gligorić, George Lifchits, Robert West, and Ashton Anderson},
title={Linguistic Effects on News Headline Success: Evidence from Thousands of Online Field Experiments (Registered Report Protocol)},
booktitle={PLOS ONE},
volume={16},
number={9},
pages={e0257091},
url={https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257091},
misc={[<a href="https://osf.io/j3drb/?view_only=0b50f63b30a24335a04e0f6bed7fd6cc">Preregistration</a>]},
year={2021},
}

@inproceedings{acl2021,
author={Maxime Peyrard, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger, and Robert West},
title={Better than Average: Paired Evaluation of NLP Systems},
booktitle={ACL --- Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Peyrard-Zhao-Eger-West_ACL-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/pairformance">Pairformance tool</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/BT-eval">Evaluation code</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{ijcai2021a,
author={Maxime Peyrard and Robert West},
title={A Ladder of Causal Distances},
booktitle={IJCAI --- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Peyrard-West_IJCAI-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/causal-distances">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{ijcai2021b,
author={Maxime Peyrard, Beatriz Borges, Kristina Gligorić, and Robert West},
title={Laughing Heads: Can Transformers Detect What Makes a Sentence Funny?},
booktitle={IJCAI --- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Peyrard-Borges-Gligoric-West_IJCAI-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/laughing-head">Code</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{websci2021,
title={Are Anti-Feminist Communities Gateways to the Far Right? Evidence from Reddit and YouTube},
author={Robin Mamié, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Robert West},
booktitle={WebSci --- ACM Web Science Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Mamie-HortaRibeiro-West_WebSci-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/manosphere_to_altright">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5588461">Data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HYEfOo_I8E">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2021b,
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Emiliano De Cristofaro, and Robert West},
title={Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels},
booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Jhaver-Zannettou-Blackburn-DeCristofaro-Stringhini-West_CSCW-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={🏆 Honorable Mention Award
--- [<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5171068">Data</a>
--- [<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hj5K984d_8LgUh-ApTBs3at1auKRAA-incAyRmIEVu0/edit?ts=5ead95ab#gid=1767795241">Press</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2021,
title={Formation of Social Ties Influences Food Choice: A Campus-Wide Longitudinal Study},
author={Kristina Gligorić, Ryen White, Emre Kıcıman, Eric Horvitz, Arnaud Chiolero, and Robert West},
booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Gligoric-White-Kiciman-Horvitz-Chiolero-West_CSCW-21.pdf},
misc={🏆 Honorable Mention Award
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/tie-formation-food">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3IIr8b_cI0">Talk</a>]
--- [<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210228154924/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269410-what-you-eat-is-influenced-by-the-food-choices-of-people-you-dine-with/">Press</a>]},
year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2021b,
author={Kiran Garimella, Tim Smith, Rebecca Weiss, and Robert West},
title={Political Polarization in Online News Consumption},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
year={2021},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Garimella-Smith-Weiss-West_ICWSM-21.pdf},
misc={🏆 Best Paper Award
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMyu8upbl6o">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2021f,
title={Evolution of Retweet Rates in Twitter User Careers: Analysis and Model},
author={Kiran Garimella and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
year={2021},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Garimella-West_ICWSM-21.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/retweet-evolution">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS5H1UJyrqM">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2021e,
title={YouNiverse: Large-Scale Channel and Video Metadata from English YouTube},
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
year={2021},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-West_ICWSM-21.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4327607">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2021d,
author={Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Robert West, Markus Strohmaier, and Leila Zia},
title={Global Gender Differences in Wikipedia Readership},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
year={2021},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Johnson-Lemmerich-SaezTrumper-West-Strohmaier-Zia_ICWSM-21.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2021c,
author={Navid Rekabsaz, Robert West, and James Henderson, and Allan Hanbury},
title={Measuring Societal Biases from Text Corpora with Smoothed First-Order Co-occurrence},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
year={2021},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Rekabsaz-West-Henderson-Hanbury_ICWSM-21.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/navid-rekabsaz/SmoothedFirstOrderBias">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2021,
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Maxime Peyrard, Florian Lemmerich, Markus Strohmaier, and Robert West},
title={Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Gligoric-Peyrard-Lemmerich-Strohmaier-West_ICWSM-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/wiki_pageviews_covid">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiBnS7VMtx0">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{wsdm2021,
author={Timoté Vaucher, Andreas Spitz, Michele Catasta, and Robert West},
title={Quotebank: A Corpus of Quotations from a Decade of News},
booktitle={WSDM --- International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Vaucher-Spitz-Catasta-West_WSDM-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4277311">Data and code</a>]
--- Talks: [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqCi_rCJBC4">1</a>] [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9DesMm3-60">2</a>]
--- [<a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Vaucher-Spitz-Catasta-West_WSDM-21_poster.pdf">Poster</a>]
--- [<a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Vaucher-Spitz-Catasta-West_WSDM-21_slides.pdf">Slides</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icassp2021a,
author={Alberto García-Durán and Robert West},
title={Recursive Input and State Estimation: A General Framework for Learning from Time Series with Missing Data},
booktitle={ICASSP --- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/GarciaDuran-West_ICASSP-21.pdf},
year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{icassp2021b,
author={Eda Bayram, Alberto García-Durán, and Robert West},
title={Node Attribute Completion in Knowledge Graphs with Multi-Relational Propagation},
booktitle={ICASSP --- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Bayram-GarciaDuran-West_ICASSP-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://bayrameda.github.io/publication/node/">Code, poster, video</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{www2021a,
author={Tiziano Piccardi and Robert West},
title={Crosslingual Topic Modeling with WikiPDA},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Piccardi-West_WWW-21.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/WikiPDA">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38zY7X2IPWQ">Talk</a>]},
year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{www2021b,
author={Andreas Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel, and Robert West},
title={Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Spitz-AbuAkel-West_WWW-21.pdf},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/SpokespersonAttribution">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/2021-03-23-spokesperson-papers/">Blog</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJTPN1xutU">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{www2021c,
author={Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza, and Robert West},
title={On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Piccardi-Redi-Colavizza-West_WWW-21.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/WikipediaAsWebGateway">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjOondMEfqM">Talk</a>]},
year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{plosone2021,
author={Ahmad Abu-Akel, Andreas Spitz, and Robert West},
title={The Effect of Spokesperson Attribution on Public Health Message Sharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic},
booktitle={PLOS ONE},
volume={16},
number={2},
pages={e0245100},
url={https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245100},
year={2021},
misc={[<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wks96AsMG72LqXV5iVCIs6WpeQzHBKmbqQNqVWANle8">Media coverage</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/SpokespersonAttributionCOVID">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/2021-03-23-spokesperson-papers/">Blog</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJTPN1xutU">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{frontpsych2021,
author={Ahmad Abu-Akel, Andreas Spitz, and Robert West},
title={Who Is Listening? Spokesperson Effect on Communicating Social and Physical Distancing Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic},
booktitle={Frontiers in Psychology},
volume={11},
pages={3845},
url={https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564434},
year={2021}
}

@inproceedings{qss2020,
author={Harshdeep Singh, Robert West, and Giovanni Colavizza},
title={Wikipedia Citations: A Comprehensive Dataset of Citations with Identifiers Extracted from English Wikipedia},
booktitle={Quantitative Science Studies},
volume={2},
number={1},
pages={1--19},
url={https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00105},
misc={[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3940692">Data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/Harshdeep1996/cite-classifications-wiki">Code</a>]},
year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{ijaied2020,
author={Ramtin Yazdanian, Robert West, and Pierre Dillenbourg},
title={Keeping Up with the Trends: Analyzing the Dynamics of Online Learning and Hiring Platforms in the Software Programming Domain},
booktitle={International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education},
volume={31},
pages={896--939},
url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-020-00231-1},
year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{epjds2020,
author={Kirill Martynov, Kiran Garimella, and Robert West},
title={Human Biases in Body Measurement Estimation},
volume={9},
number={31},
booktitle={EPJ Data Science},
url={https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00250-x},
year={2020}
}

@article{jsc2020,
title={Darks and Stripes: Effects of Clothing on Weight Perception},
author={Kirill Martynov, Kiran Garimella, and Robert West},
booktitle={JoSoCo --- Journal of Social Computing},
volume={1},
number={1},
pages={53--70},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Martynov-Garimella-West_JSC-20.pdf},
misc={[<a href="https://youtu.be/PORTylDd5jM">Talk</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/darks_and_stripes">Code</a>]},
year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{femnlp2020,
title={KLearn: Background Knowledge Inference from Summarization Data},
author={Maxime Peyrard and Robert West},
booktitle={EMNLP --- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings)},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Peyrard-West_FindingsEMNLP-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/KLearn">Code</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{cikm2020a,
title={Calibration of Google Trends Time Series},
author={Robert West},
booktitle={CIKM --- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West_CIKM-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/GoogleTrendsAnchorBank">Python library</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VACUiY19MQQ">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{cikm2020b,
title={Privacy-Preserving Classification with Secret Vector Machines},
author={Valentin Hartmann, Konark Modi, Josep M. Pujol, and Robert West},
booktitle={CIKM --- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Hartmann-Modi-Pujol-West_CIKM-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ4lwO_stek">Talk</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core/tree/6945afff7be667ed74b0b7476195678262120baf/modules/secvm/sources">Client code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/secvm-server">Server code</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2020,
title={WikiHist.html: English Wikipedia’s Full Revision History in HTML Format},
author={Blagoj Mitrevski, Tiziano Piccardi, and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Mitrevski-Piccardi-West_ICWSM-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3605388">Code and data</a>]
-- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhGMbPPDUo">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{www2020a,
title={Broccoli: Sprinkling Lightweight Vocabulary Learning into Everyday Information Diets},
author={Roland Aydin, Lars Klein, Arnaud Miribel, and Robert West},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Aydin-Klein-Miribel-West_WWW-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/broccoli">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{www2020b,
title={Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia},
author={Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza, and Robert West},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Piccardi-Redi-Colavizza-West_WWW-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/wikipedia-citation-engagement">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://youtu.be/GS9Jc3IFhVQ?t=1980">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{acl2020,
title={On the Limitations of Cross-lingual Encoders as Exposed by Reference-Free Machine Translation Evaluation},
author={Wei Zhao, Goran Glavaš, Maxime Peyrard, Yang Gao, Robert West, and Steffen Eger},
booktitle={ACL --- Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Zhao-Glavas-Peyrard-Gao-West-Eger_ACL-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/AIPHES/ACL20-Reference-Free-MT-Evaluation">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{fat2020,
title={Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube},
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Raphael Ottoni, Robert West, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, and Wagner Meira Jr.},
booktitle={FAT* --- ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Ottoni-West-Almeida-Meira_FAT-20.pdf},
year={2020},
misc={[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju-J53S4W0">Talk</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/manoelhortaribeiro/radicalization_youtube">Code</a>]
--- [<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hj5K984d_8LgUh-ApTBs3at1auKRAA-incAyRmIEVu0/edit?ts=5ead95ab#gid=0">Press</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{jep2020,
title={Differential Benefits of Explicit Failure-driven and Success-driven Scaffolding in Problem-Solving Prior to Instruction},
author={Tanmay Sinha, Manu Kapur, Robert West, Michele Catasta, Matthias Hauswirth, and Dragan Trninic},
booktitle={Journal of Educational Psychology},
volume={113},
number={3},
pages={530--555},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Sinha-Kapur-West-Catasta-Hauswirth-Trninic_JEP-20.pdf},
year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{cscw2019,
title={Causal Effects of Brevity on Style and Success in Social Media},
author={Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, and Robert West},
booktitle={CSCW --- ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Gligoric-Anderson-West_CSCW-19.pdf},
year={2019},
misc={[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcY0TMyBNrk">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2019a,
title={Eliciting New Wikipedia Users’ Interests via Automatically Mined Questionnaires: For a Warm Welcome, Not a Cold Start},
author={Ramtin Yazdanian, Leila Zia, Jonathan Morgan, Bahodir Mansurov, and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Yazdanian-Zia-Morgan-Mansurov-West_ICWSM-19.pdf},
year={2019},
misc={🏆 Outstanding Paper Award
--- [<a href="https://github.com/RamtinYazdanian/wikipedia_coldstart_questionnaire">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2019b,
title={Hot Streaks on Social Media},
author={Kiran Garimella and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Garimella-West_ICWSM-19.pdf},
year={2019},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/gvrkiran/hot-streaks-social-media">Data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{aidb2019,
title={Accelerating B+tree Search by Using Simple Machine Learning Techniques},
author={Anisa Llaveshi, Utku Sirin, Anastasia Ailamaki, and Robert West},
booktitle={AIDB --- VLDB Workshop on Applied AI for Database Systems and Applications},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Llaveshi-Sirin-Ailamaki-West_AIDB-19.pdf},
year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{cogsci2019,
title={Impact of Explicit Failure and Success-driven Preparatory Activities on Learning},
author={Tanmay Sinha, Manu Kapur, Robert West, Michele Catasta, Matthias Hauswirth, and Dragan Trninic},
booktitle={CogSci --- Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Sinha-Kapur-West-Catasta-Hauswirth-Trninic_CogSci-19.pdf},
year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{www2019,
title={Message Distortion in Information Cascades},
author={Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, and Robert West},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Gligoric-West_WWW-19.pdf},
year={2019},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/mdic">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://epfl-dlab.github.io/mdic/">Interactive visualization</a>]
--- [<a href="https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.wcsj2019.eu/single-post/2019/07/05/Chinese-whispers-20">Press</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{wsdm2019a,
title={Crosslingual Document Embedding as Reduced-Rank Ridge Regression},
author={Martin Josifoski, Ivan S. Paskov, Hristo S. Paskov, Martin Jaggi, and Robert West},
booktitle={WSDM --- International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Josifoski-Paskov-Paskov-Jaggi-West_WSDM-19.pdf},
year={2019},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/Cr5">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{wsdm2019,
title={Why the World Reads Wikipedia: Beyond English Speakers},
author={Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Robert West, and Leila Zia},
booktitle={WSDM --- International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Lemmerich-SaezTrumper-West-Zia_WSDM-19.pdf},
year={2019},
misc={[<a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7579937.v1">Data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{aaai2019,
title={Reverse-Engineering Satire, or “Paper on Computational Humor Accepted Despite Making Serious Advances”},
author={Robert West and Eric Horvitz},
booktitle={AAAI --- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Horvitz_AAAI-19.pdf},
year={2019},
misc={[<a href="http://unfun.me">Play Unfun.me</a>]
--- [<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/unfun">Code and data</a>]
--- [Press <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612776/computer-science-reveals-why-this-headline-is-not-funny/">1</a>,
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190124070243/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/14/human_computer_interaction_headline_satire/">2</a>,
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190202101758/https://www.sciencenews.org/article/onion-headlines-could-teach-ai-what-makes-satire-funny">3</a>,
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190203202711/https://interestingengineering.com/researchers-use-machine-learning-to-deconstruct-satire-satire-approves">4</a>,
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190212094145/https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wissenschaftler-erkunden-mit-Ueberschriften-Datenbank-das-Wesen-von-Humor-4304432.html">5</a>,
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190212094402/https://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Was-lustig-ist-und-was-nicht-4304427.html">6</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.upr.org/post/undisciplined-computer-scientist-and-information-systems-specialist">Radio</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{cikm2018,
title={Compiling Questions into Balanced Quizzes about Documents},
author={Cristina Menghini, Jessica Dehler Zufferey, and Robert West},
booktitle={CIKM --- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Menghini-Dehler-West_CIKM-18.pdf},
year={2018}
}

@inproceedings{conll2018,
title={Churn Intent Detection in Multilingual Chatbot Conversations and Social Media},
author={Christian Abbet, Meryem M'hamdi, Athanasios Giannakopoulos, Robert West, Andreea Hossmann, Michael Baeriswyl, and Claudiu Musat},
booktitle={CoNLL --- SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Abbet-Mhamdi-Giannakopoulos-West-Hossmann-Baeriswyl-Musat_CoNLL-18.pdf},
year={2018}
}

@inproceedings{sigir2018,
title={Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations},
author={Tiziano Piccardi, Michele Catasta, Leila Zia, and Robert West},
booktitle={SIGIR --- ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Piccardi-Catasta-Zia-West_SIGIR-18.pdf},
year={2018},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/structuring-wikipedia-articles">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://youtu.be/2ymKDO3AGBI">Video synopsis</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2018c,
title={How Constraints Affect Content: The Case of Twitter's Switch from 140 to 280 Characters},
author={Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Gligoric-Anderson-West_ICWSM-18.pdf},
year={2018},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/140_to_280">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://youtu.be/1EaNjtEFUk8">Video synopsis</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcY0TMyBNrk">Talk</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2018b,
title={Quootstrap: Scalable Unsupervised Extraction of Quotation–Speaker Pairs from Large News Corpora via Bootstrapping},
author={Dario Pavllo, Tiziano Piccardi, and Robert West},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Pavllo-Piccardi-West_ICWSM-18.pdf},
year={2018},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/quootstrap">Code and data</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2018a,
title={Latent Structure in Collaboration: The Case of Reddit r/place},
author={Jérémie Rappaz, Michele Catasta, Robert West, and Karl Aberer},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Rappaz-Catasta-West-Aberer_ICWSM-18.pdf},
year={2018}
}

@inproceedings{www2018,
title={When Sheep Shop: Measuring Herding Effects in Product Ratings with Natural Experiments},
author={Gael Lederrey and Robert West},
booktitle={WWW --- The Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Lederrey-West_WWW-18.pdf},
year={2018},
misc={[<a href="https://github.com/epfl-dlab/when_sheep_shop">Code and data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/2017-08-30-of-sheep-and-beer/">Blog post</a>]}
}

@article{phd-thesis,
title={Human Navigation of Information Networks},
author={Robert West},
address={Dissertation, Stanford University},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West_Dissertation-2016.pdf},
year={2016}
}

@inproceedings{www2016b,
title={Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendation},
author={Ellery Wulczyn, Robert West, Leila Zia, and Jure Leskovec},
booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Wulczyn-West-Zia-Leskovec_WWW-16.pdf},
year={2016},
misc={🏆 Runner-up for Best Paper Award
--- [<a href="http://recommend.wmflabs.org">Demo</a>]
--- [<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage/Media">Press coverage</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{www2016a,
title={Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes},
author={Srijan Kumar, Robert West, and Jure Leskovec},
booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Kumar-West-Leskovec_WWW-16.pdf},
year={2016},
misc={[<a href="http://cs.umd.edu/~srijan/hoax">Project website</a>]
--- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8hP7mM4S0E">Video synopsis</a>]}
}

@inproceedings{wsdm2016,
title={Improving Website Hyperlink Structure Using Server Logs},
author={Ashwin Paranjape, Robert West, Leila Zia, and Jure Leskovec},
booktitle={WSDM --- International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Paranjape-West-Leskovec-Zia_WSDM-16.pdf},
year={2016}
}

@article{tacl2014,
title={Exploiting Social Network Structure for Person-to-Person Sentiment Analysis},
author={Robert West, Hristo S. Paskov, Jure Leskovec, and Christopher Potts},
booktitle={TACL --- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
volume={2},
number={Oct},
pages={297--310},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Paskov-Leskovec-Potts_TACL-14.pdf},
misc={[<a href="http://snap.stanford.edu/data/wiki-RfA.html">Data</a>]
--- [<a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~west1/TACL2014/">Supplementary material</a>]
--- [<a href="/people/west/pub/West-Paskov-Leskovec-Potts_TACL-14_poster.jpg">Poster</a>]},
year={2014}
}

@inproceedings{www2014,
title={Knowledge Base Completion via Search-Based Question Answering},
author={Robert West, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Kevin Murphy, Shaohua Sun, Rahul Gupta, and Dekang Lin},
booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Gabrilovich-Murphy-Sun-Gupta-Lin_WWW-14.pdf},
year={2014}
}

@inproceedings{wsdm2014,
title={The Last Click: Why Users Give up Information Network Navigation},
author={Aju T. Scaria, Rose M. Philip, Robert West, and Jure Leskovec},
booktitle={WSDM --- International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Scaria-Philip-West-Leskovec_WSDM-14.pdf},
misc={[<a href="http://snap.stanford.edu/data/wikispeedia.html">Data</a>]
--- [<a href="/people/west/pub/Scaria-Philip-West-Leskovec_WSDM-14_poster.jpg">Poster</a>]},
year={2014}
}

@inproceedings{nips2013,
title={Compressive Feature Learning},
author={Hristo Paskov, Robert West, Trevor Hastie, and John Mitchell},
booktitle={NIPS --- Neural Information Processing Systems},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Paskov-West-Mitchell-Hastie_NIPS-13.pdf},
misc={[<a href="/people/west/pub/Paskov-West-Mitchell-Hastie_NIPS-13_appendix.pdf">Supplementary material</a>]},
year={2013}
}

@inproceedings{sigir2013,
title={Here and There: Goals, Activities, and Predictions about Location from Geotagged Queries},
author={Robert West, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz},
booktitle={SIGIR --- ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-White-Horvitz_SIGIR-13.pdf},
misc={[<a href="/people/west/pub/West-White-Horvitz_SIGIR-13_poster.jpg">Poster</a>]},
year={2013}
}

@inproceedings{www2013_from-cookies-to-cooks,
title={From Cookies to Cooks: Insights on Dietary Patterns via Analysis of Web Usage Logs},
author={Robert West, Ryen W. White, and Eric Horvitz},
booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-White-Horvitz_WWW-13.pdf},
misc={[<a href="/people/west/pub/West-White-Horvitz_WWW-13/">Supplementary material</a>]
--- [<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513811/surfing-logs-reveal-global-eating-patterns/">Press</a>]},
year={2013}
}

@inproceedings{www2013_no-country-for-old-members,
title={No Country for Old Members: User Lifecycle and Linguistic Change in Online Communities},
author={Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Robert West, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, and Christopher Potts},
booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/DNM-West-Jurafsky-Leskovec-Potts_WWW-13.pdf},
misc={🏆 Best Paper Award
--- [<a href="/people/west/assets/img/www13_cover-art.png">Uncanny cover art</a>]},
year={2013}
}

@inproceedings{wikisym2012,
title={Drawing a Data-Driven Portrait of Wikipedia Editors},
author={Robert West, Ingmar Weber, and Carlos Castillo},
booktitle={WikiSym --- International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Weber-Castillo_WikiSym-12.pdf},
misc={(Extended version of "A Data-Driven Sketch of Wikipedia Editors", see below.)},
year={2012}
}

@inproceedings{icwsm2012,
title={Automatic versus Human Navigation in Information Networks},
author={Robert West and Jure Leskovec},
booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Leskovec_ICWSM-12.pdf},
misc={[<a href="http://snap.stanford.edu/data/wikispeedia.html">Data</a>]
--- [<a href="/people/west/pub/West-Leskovec_ICWSM-12_poster.jpg">Poster</a>]
--- [<a href="/people/west/pub/West-Leskovec_ICWSM-12_poster-ad.pdf">Poster ad</a>]},
year={2012}
}

@inproceedings{www2012_human-wayfinding,
title={Human Wayfinding in Information Networks},
author={Robert West and Jure Leskovec},
booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Leskovec_WWW-12.pdf},
misc={[<a href="http://snap.stanford.edu/data/wikispeedia.html">Data</a>]},
year={2012}
}

@inproceedings{www2012_data-driven-sketch,
title={A Data-Driven Sketch of Wikipedia Editors},
author={Robert West, Ingmar Weber, and Carlos Castillo},
booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference (Poster)},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Weber-Castillo_WWW-12.pdf},
misc={[<a href="/people/west/pub/West-Weber-Castillo_WWW-12_poster.jpg">Poster</a>]},
year={2012}
}

@inproceedings{cikm2010,
title={Automatically Suggesting Topics for Augmenting Text Documents},
author={Robert West, Doina Precup, and Joelle Pineau},
booktitle={CIKM --- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Precup-Pineau_CIKM-10.pdf},
year={2010}
}

@article{msc-thesis,
title={Extracting Semantic Information from Wikipedia Using Human Computation and Dimensionality Reduction},
author={Robert West},
address={Master's thesis, McGill University},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West_MScThesis-2010.pdf},
year={2010}
}

@inproceedings{permis2010,
title={Towards a Standardized Test for Intelligent Wheelchairs},
author={Joelle Pineau, Robert West, Amin Atrash, Julien Villemure, and François Routhier},
booktitle={PerMIS --- Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Pineau-et-al_PerMIS-10.pdf},
year={2010}
}

@inproceedings{resna2010,
title={Human-Oriented Design and Initial Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair},
author={Wormser Honoré, Amin Atrash, Patrice Boucher, Robert Kaplow, Sousso Kelouwani, Hai Nguyen, Julien Villemure, Robert West, François Routhier, Paula Stone, Claude Dufour, Jean-Paul Dussault, Daniel Rock, Paul Cohen, Louise Demers, Robert Forget, and Joelle Pineau},
booktitle={RESNA Annual Conference},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/Honore-et-al_RESNA-10.pdf},
year={2010}
}

@inproceedings{cikm2009,
title={Completing Wikipedia's Hyperlink Structure through Dimensionality Reduction},
author={Robert West, Doina Precup, and Joelle Pineau},
booktitle={CIKM --- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Precup-Pineau_CIKM-09.pdf},
year={2009}
}

@inproceedings{ijcai2009,
title={Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances between Concepts},
author={Robert West, Joelle Pineau, and Doina Precup},
booktitle={IJCAI --- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
url={https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Pineau-Precup_IJCAI-09.pdf},
misc={[<a href="http://www.wikispeedia.net/" style="font-weight:bold">Play it!</a>]
--- [<a href="http://snap.stanford.edu/data/wikispeedia.html">Data</a>]
--- [<a href="https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/West-Pineau-Precup_IJCAI-09_poster.jpg">Poster</a>]
--- [<a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/image/20100721__Wikiracing__picking_up_speed_among_college_students.html">Press</a>]},
year={2009}
}

@article{ijsr2009,
title={Development and Validation of a Robust Speech Interface for Improved Human-Robot Interaction},
author={Amin Atrash, Robert Kaplow, Julien Villemure, Robert West, Hiba Yamani, and Joelle Pineau},
booktitle={International Journal of Social Robotics},
volume={1},
number={4},
pages={345--356},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-009-0032-4},
year={2009}
}

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