Publications

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@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>]}
}

@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}
}

@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{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}
}

@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.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>]}
}

@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={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
--- [<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={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={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={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={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={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={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={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={West-White-Horvitz_WWW-13.pdf},
misc={[<a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~west1/from-cookies-to-cooks/">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={DNM-West-Jurafsky-Leskovec-Potts_WWW-13.pdf},
misc={Best Paper Award
--- [<a href="/people/west/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={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={[<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={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={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={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={[<a href="http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/link-suggestion/">Project website</a>]},
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={[<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="http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/project.php">Project website</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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