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@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={[
Data
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@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.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={[
Code and data
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Video synopsis
]} } @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={[
Code and data
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Video synopsis
]} } @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={[
Code and data
]} } @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={[
Code and data
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Blog post
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@inproceedings{icwsm2017, title={Armed Conflicts in Online News: A Multilingual Study}, author={Robert West and Jürgen Pfeffer}, booktitle={ICWSM --- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media}, url={West-Pfeffer_ICWSM-17.pdf}, year={2017} } @inproceedings{www2017, title={Why We Read Wikipedia}, author={Philipp Singer, Florian Lemmerich, Robert West, Leila Zia, Ellery Wulczyn, Markus Strohmaier, and Jure Leskovec}, booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference}, url={Singer-Lemmerich-West-Zia-Wulczyn-Strohmaier-Leskovec_WWW-17.pdf}, year={2017} }
@article{phd-thesis, title={Human Navigation of Information Networks}, author={Robert West}, address={Dissertation, Stanford University}, url={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={Wulczyn-West-Zia-Leskovec_WWW-16.pdf}, year={2016}, misc={
Runner-up for Best Paper Award
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Demo
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Press coverage
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Project website
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Video synopsis
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@inproceedings{www2015, title={Mining Missing Hyperlinks from Human Navigation Traces: A Case Study of Wikipedia}, author={Robert West, Ashwin Paranjape, and Jure Leskovec}, booktitle={WWW --- International World Wide Web Conference}, url={West-Paranjape-Leskovec_WWW-15.pdf}, year={2015} }
@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={West-Paskov-Leskovec-Potts_TACL-14.pdf}, misc={[
Data
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Supplementary material
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Poster
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Data
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Poster
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@inproceedings{nips2013, title={Compressive Feature Learning}, author={Hristo Paskov, Robert West, Trevor Hastie, and John Mitchell}, booktitle={NIPS --- Neural Information Processing Systems}, url={Paskov-West-Mitchell-Hastie_NIPS-13.pdf}, misc={[
Supplementary material
]}, 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={West-White-Horvitz_SIGIR-13.pdf}, misc={[
Poster
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Supplementary material
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Press
]}, 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={DNM-West-Jurafsky-Leskovec-Potts_WWW-13.pdf}, misc={
Best Paper Award
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Uncanny cover art
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@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={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={West-Leskovec_ICWSM-12.pdf}, misc={[
Data
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Poster
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Poster ad
]}, 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={West-Leskovec_WWW-12.pdf}, misc={[
Data
]}, 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={West-Weber-Castillo_WWW-12.pdf}, misc={[
Poster
]}, year={2012} }
@article{ijics2011, title={On the Feasibility of Using a Standardized Test for Evaluating a Speech-Controlled Smart Wheelchair}, author={Joelle Pineau, Robert West, Amin Atrash, Julien Villemure, François Routhier}, booktitle={International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems}, volume={16}, number={2}, pages={121--128}, url={Pineau-et-al_IJICS-11.pdf}, year={2011} }
@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={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={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={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={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={West-Precup-Pineau_CIKM-09.pdf}, misc={[
Project website
]}, 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={West-Pineau-Precup_IJCAI-09.pdf}, misc={[
Play it!
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Data
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Poster
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Press
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