Invited Talks

The workshop featured a number of accomplished invited keynote speakers from a wide range of disciplines, including:

• Jason Baldridge, co-founder and chief scientist, People Pattern
  • "Predict all the things! (And make sure they're right.)"
• Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Information Science, Cornell University
  • "Language norms and social dynamics"
• James Pennebaker, Psychology, University of Texas, Austin
  • "Understanding people's personalities and motivations by analyzing their words"
• Molly Roberts, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
  • "How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument"
• Hanna Wallach, Microsoft Research / University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • "Interpretability and Measurement"

See the schedule page for times.