Academic Research

My research breaks down into two lenses: [Computer Science] | [Computational Journalism].
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For AI to play a more integrated role in human tasks, it must align with human values and decision-making processes. Doing so, I believe, requires a radically different approach to conceptualizing and training AI; it requires an AI that understands, on a fundamental level, why humans make the decisions we do. My work illuminates this process through simply observing the creative outputs humans produce. This generative model says that a document is generated by a sequence of human actions, which can be inferred by anaylzing the macrostructure of that document (also known as the "discourse structure"). Click on the diagram to filter articles by each area.

I imagine a society where professional journalists can produce more higher-quality information at lower costs, improving our information ecosystem, better informing the public and improving our democracy. My work has targeted different steps in the news gathering process. The workflow for journalism is: I develop computational methods to improve each step. Click on the diagram to filter articles by each area.

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