Program
The official proceedings are available here.
*** LOCATION CHANGE ***
This will be at the Westin Hotel, 310 East 5th street (one block west of the Hilton) -- third floor
Program for Nov 5, 2016
9:00–9:15 Welcome
9:15–10:00 Invited talk: James Pennebaker (Psychology, University of Texas, Austin)
"Understanding people's personalities and motivations by analyzing their words"
10:00–10:30 Doctoral consortium presentations
10:30–11:00 Coffee break and poster session
11:00–11:45 Invited talk: Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)
"Interpretability and Measurement"
11:45–12:30 Invited talk: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Information Science, Cornell University)
"Language norms and social dynamics"
12:30–2:00 Lunch break
2:00–2:45 Invited talk: Jason Baldridge (Co-founder and Chief Scientist, People Pattern)
"Predict all the things! (And make sure they are right.)"
2:45–3:30 One-minute poster madness
3:30–4:45 Coffee break and poster session
4:45–5:30 Invited talk: Molly Roberts (Political Science, University of California, San Diego)
"How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument"
5:30 Closing remarks and wrap-up