Writing

*Conference proceedings in computing are comparable to journals in their selectivity and visibility.

Lepp. H. and Alvero, A (2025). Linguistic Affordances Framework: A linguistic-sociological approach for the social study of language technology. Social Science Computer Review. https://journals-sagepub-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1177/08944393251366242 

Liang, W.,  Zhang, Y., Wu., Z., Lepp. H., Ji, W.,  Zhao, X., Cao, H., Chen, L., Liu, S., He, Li., Huang, Z., Yang, D., Potts, C., Manning, C., Zou, J. (2025). Quantifying LLM Usage in Scientific Papers. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02273-8 

Lepp. H. and Scott Smith, D. (2025). “You cannot sound like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), Athens, Greece.

One of 3 submissions out of over 800 selected for “Best paper award”

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Lepp. H. and Sarin, P. (2024).  A global AI community requires language-diverse publishing. Proceedingsof the workshop on Global AI Cultures at the International Conference on Learning Representations, Vienna, Austria.

Translated into six languages!

Liang, W.,  Zhang, Y., Wu., Z., Lepp. H., Ji, W.,  Zhao, X., Cao, H., Chen, L., Liu, S., He, Li., Huang, Z., Yang, D., Potts, C., Manning, C., Zou, J. (2024). Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers. COLM. 

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Liang, W., Izzo, Z., Zhang, Y., Lepp. H., Cao, H., Zhao, X., Chen, L., Ye, H., Liu, S., Huang, Z. and McFarland, D.A. (2024). Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning. Vienna, Austria. 

One of 144 submissions out of over 9,400 accepted for oral presentation 

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Divekar, R.R., Ramanarayanan, V., Lepp. H., Chopade, P. V., Albin, A., Brenner, D. (2021, July). Conversational agents in language education: Where they fit. In Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction International (HCII). Washington, DC (Virtual). 

Lepp. H., Leong, C.W., Roohr, K., Martin-Raugh, M. & Ramanarayanan, V. (2020, October).  Effect of modality on human and machine scoring of presentation videos. Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Virtual), 630-634. 

Lepp. H. & Levow, G.A. (2020, October). Pardon the interruption: An analysis of gender and turn-taking in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. Proceedings of Interspeech, Shanghai, China (Virtual), 1838-1842. 

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Lepp. H. & Levow, G.A. (2020, August). Pardon the interruption: An analysis of gender and turn-taking in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. Proceedings of Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop(NLLP) at Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Diego, California (Virtual), Non-archival.  

Bender, E.M., Crowgey, J.,  Goodman, M.W., Howell, K., Lepp. H., Xia, F., &  Zamaraeva, O. (2020) AGGREGATION: building computational resources automatically from IGT. Invited poster at Reflections on the Impact of DEL-funded Research Over Fifteen Years, Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Lepp. H. (2019). Pardon the interruption: Automatic analysis of gender and competitive speech overlap in United States Supreme Court Hearings.  Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Widening NLP Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics, Florence, Italy, 143-145.

Lepp. H.,  Zamaraeva, O., and Bender, E.M. (2019).  Visualizing inferred morphotactic systems.  Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT  2019): Demonstrations (System Demonstration), Minneapolis, Minnesota, 127–131. 

Lepp. H. (2015).  An investigation of decentralized networks based upon wireless mobile technologies. Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, & Society, 8(2). 

Lepp. H. (2015). Sa'ad Zaghlul's gramophone: the effects of popular music on the Egyptian nation. Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, & Society, 8(3). 

Lepp. H. (2015). Where innovation and citizen safety intersect: the future of American big data regulations. Helvidius: Columbia University Journal of Politics and Society. 

Lepp. H. and Vakil, S. (2024). No joke! A professor and a comedian walk into a bar. Stanford Public Scholarship Collaborative. 

Bender, E. M., Hanna, A. and Lepp, H. (2013). Back to School AI Hype in Education. [Video podcast episode]. In Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mystery-ai-hype-theater-3000/id1690426042 

Lepp. H. (2016). Speaking the same language: Syrians learn Russian. Middle East Notes and Comment, The Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Lepp. H. (2015). Closing the digital divide. Georgetown University Global Futures Initiative.