FACTS
Tenure-track faculty at the Max Planck Institute SWS
Join me as a post-doc / phd / intern
Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University
Working with: Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, Dan McFarland and Chris Potts (ordered alphabetically)
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Committee: Lillian Lee, Jon Kleinberg, Judith Bernstock (advisor for the History of Art minor)
NEWS
Our linguistic change paper won the Best Paper Award at WWW 2013
Released the Stanford Politeness Corpus
Our memorability paper was featured in The New York Times
Co-organizing the NAACL Workshop on Language Analysis in Social Media
Our memorability paper was featured in New Scientist, NPR and other media outlets
Our Echoes of Power paper was featured in MIT’s Technology Review blog
Released the Wikipedia Talk Page Conversations Corpus and the Supreme Court Dialogs Corpus
Our work on linguistic coordination in movie dialogs was featured on Nature.com
Released the Cornell Movie--Dialogs Corpus
Spring 2011: Co-Piloting CS6742: Natural Language Processing and Social Interaction
Winner of the 2010 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
PUBLICATIONS
No country for old members: User lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Robert West, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, Christopher Potts
Proceedings of WWW, 2013.
Best Paper Award
A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Moritz Sudhof, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, Christopher Potts
To appear in the proceedings of ACL, 2013.
Linguistic Models for Analyzing and Detecting Biased Language
Marta Recasens, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky
To appear in the proceedings of ACL, 2013.
Characterizing and Curating Conversation Threads: Expansion, Focus, Volume, Re-entry
Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Echoes of power: Language effects and power differences in social interaction
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang and Jon Kleinberg.
Proceedings of WWW, 2012.
You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of ACL, 2012.
A computational approach to linguistic coordination
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 2012.
Mark my words! Linguistic style accommodation in social media.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon and Susan Dumais.
Proceedings of WWW, 2011.
Chameleons in Imagined Conversations:
A new Approach to Understanding Coordination of Linguistic Style in Dialogs.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2011.
Competing for users' attention: On the interplay between organic and sponsored search results.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski, Bo Pang.
Proceedings of WWW, 2010.
Don't ‘have a clue’? Unsupervised co-learning of downward-entailing operators.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lillian Lee
Proceedings of ACL, 2010. Short paper.
For the sake of simplicity: Experiments with unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications.
Mark Yatskar, Bo Pang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of NAACL HLT, 2010. Short paper.
Without a ‘doubt’? Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing operators.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee and Richard Ducott.
Proceedings of NAACL HLT, 2009.
How opinions are received by online communities: A case study on Amazon.com helpfulness votes.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee.
Proceedings of WWW, 2009.
RESEARCH GROUPS
CONTACT
353 Serra Mall
Gates Computer Science 4A
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
cristiand@csostanfordoedu