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