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Lawrence Birnbaum
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- affiliation: Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
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2020 – today
- 2025
- [c68]Huichen Will Wang, Larry Birnbaum, Vidya Setlur:
Jupybara: Operationalizing a Design Space for Actionable Data Analysis and Storytelling with LLMs. CHI 2025: 1005:1-1005:24 - [c67]Gustavo Adolpho Lucas de Carvalho, Simon Ben Igeri, Jennifer Healey, Victor S. Bursztyn, David Demeter, Lawrence Birnbaum:
A Flash in the Pan: Better Prompting Strategies to Deploy Out-of-the-Box LLMs as Conversational Recommendation Systems. COLING 2025: 8385-8398 - [i7]Huichen Will Wang, Larry Birnbaum, Vidya Setlur:
Jupybara: Operationalizing a Design Space for Actionable Data Analysis and Storytelling with LLMs. CoRR abs/2501.16661 (2025) - 2024
- [i6]Mike D'Arcy, Tom Hope, Larry Birnbaum, Doug Downey:
MARG: Multi-Agent Review Generation for Scientific Papers. CoRR abs/2401.04259 (2024) - [i5]Vidya Setlur, Larry Birnbaum:
Can Nuanced Language Lead to More Actionable Insights? Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Analytical Narrative Structure. CoRR abs/2405.02763 (2024) - 2022
- [c66]Victor S. Bursztyn, David Demeter, Doug Downey, Larry Birnbaum:
Learning to Perform Complex Tasks through Compositional Fine-Tuning of Language Models. EMNLP (Findings) 2022: 1676-1686 - [i4]Victor S. Bursztyn, David Demeter, Doug Downey, Larry Birnbaum:
Learning to Perform Complex Tasks through Compositional Fine-Tuning of Language Models. CoRR abs/2210.12607 (2022) - 2021
- [c65]Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Eunyee Koh, Nedim Lipka, Larry Birnbaum:
Developing a Conversational Recommendation Systemfor Navigating Limited Options. CHI Extended Abstracts 2021: 309:1-309:6 - [c64]Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Nedim Lipka, Eunyee Koh, Doug Downey, Larry Birnbaum:
"It doesn't look good for a date": Transforming Critiques into Preferences for Conversational Recommendation Systems. EMNLP (1) 2021: 1913-1918 - [i3]Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Eunyee Koh, Nedim Lipka, Larry Birnbaum:
Developing a Conversational Recommendation System for Navigating Limited Options. CoRR abs/2104.06552 (2021) - [i2]Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Nedim Lipka, Eunyee Koh, Doug Downey, Larry Birnbaum:
"It doesn't look good for a date": Transforming Critiques into Preferences for Conversational Recommendation Systems. CoRR abs/2109.07576 (2021)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c63]Victor S. Bursztyn, Larry Birnbaum:
Thousands of small, constant rallies: a large-scale analysis of partisan WhatsApp groups. ASONAM 2019: 484-488 - [c62]Tanja Aitamurto, Mike Ananny, Chris W. Anderson, Larry Birnbaum, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Matilda Hanson, Jessica Hullman, Nick Ritchie:
HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions. CHI Extended Abstracts 2019 - [c61]Miriam L. Boon
, Larry Birnbaum:
Identifying "horse race" stories in election news. IUI Companion 2019: 117-118 - 2018
- [c60]Yiben Yang, Larry Birnbaum, Ji-Ping Wang, Doug Downey:
Extracting Commonsense Properties from Embeddings with Limited Human Guidance. ACL (2) 2018: 644-649 - [c59]Diego Gómez-Zará
, Miriam L. Boon
, Larry Birnbaum:
Who is the Hero, the Villain, and the Victim?: Detection of Roles in News Articles using Natural Language Techniques. IUI 2018: 311-315 - 2017
- [c58]Thanapon Noraset, Chen Liang, Larry Birnbaum, Doug Downey:
Definition Modeling: Learning to Define Word Embeddings in Natural Language. AAAI 2017: 3259-3266 - [c57]Jason Cohn, Siddharth Muthukumaran, Larry Birnbaum:
Ranking Content based on Semantic Dimensions: A Multi-objective Approach. ASONAM 2017: 605-608 - 2016
- [i1]Thanapon Noraset, Chen Liang, Larry Birnbaum, Doug Downey:
Definition Modeling: Learning to define word embeddings in natural language. CoRR abs/1612.00394 (2016) - 2015
- [c56]Jason Cohn, Alex Kuntz, Larry Birnbaum:
AttitudeBuzz: Using Social Media Data to Localize Complex Attitudes. ASONAM 2015: 1569-1570 - [c55]Larry Birnbaum, Miriam L. Boon
, Scott Bradley, Jennifer Wilson:
The News Context Project. IUI Companion 2015: 5-8 - 2013
- [c54]Shawn O'Banion
, Larry Birnbaum:
Using explicit linguistic expressions of preference in social media to predict voting behavior. ASONAM 2013: 207-214 - [c53]Shawn O'Banion, Larry Birnbaum, Scott Bradley:
Finding the local angle in national news. IUI Companion 2013: 89-90 - 2012
- [c52]Shawn O'Banion
, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond:
Social media-driven news personalization. RSWeb@RecSys 2012: 45-52 - [p1]Francisco Iacobelli, Nathan D. Nichols, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond:
Information Finding with Robust Entity Detection: The Case of an Online News Reader. Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective 2012: 375-387 - 2010
- [c51]Nicholas D. Allen, John R. Templon, Patrick Summerhays McNally, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond:
StatsMonkey: A Data-Driven Sports Narrative Writer. AAAI Fall Symposium: Computational Models of Narrative 2010 - [c50]Francisco Iacobelli, Nathan D. Nichols, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond:
Finding New Information Via Robust Entity Detection. AAAI Fall Symposium: Proactive Assistant Agents 2010 - [c49]Francisco Iacobelli, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond:
Tell me more, not just "more of the same". IUI 2010: 81-90
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c48]Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum:
MakeMyPage: Social Media Meets Automatic Content Generation. ICWSM 2009 - [c47]Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Bryan Pardo:
Spectrum: Retrieving Different Points of View from the Blogosphere. ICWSM 2009 - [c46]Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus:
Rich interfaces for reading news on the web. IUI 2009: 27-36 - [c45]Earl J. Wagner, Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus:
Modeling multiple-event situations across news articles. K-CAP 2009: 207-208 - 2008
- [c44]Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Bryan Pardo:
Categorizing blogger's interests based on short snippets of blog posts. CIKM 2008: 1525-1526 - [c43]Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum:
LocalSavvy: aggregating local points of view about news issues. LocWeb 2008: 33-40 - [c42]Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum:
What do they think?: aggregating local views about news events and topics. WWW 2008: 1021-1022 - 2007
- [c41]Kenneth D. Forbus, Christopher Riesbeck, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kevin Livingston, Abhishek B. Sharma, Leo C. Ureel II:
Integrating Natural Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Analogical Processing to Learn by Reading. AAAI 2007: 1542-1547 - [c40]Kenneth D. Forbus, Christopher Riesbeck, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kevin Livingston, Abhishek B. Sharma, Leo C. Ureel:
A Prototype System that Learns by Reading Simplified Texts. AAAI Spring Symposium: Machine Reading 2007: 49-54 - [c39]Sanjay Sood, Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum:
TagAssist: Automatic Tag Suggestion for Blog Posts. ICWSM 2007 - [c38]Nathan D. Nichols, Jiahui Liu, Bryan Pardo, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum:
Learning to gesture: applying appropriate animations to spoken text. ACM Multimedia 2007: 827-830 - [c37]Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum:
Measuring Semantic Similarity between Named Entities by Searching the Web Directory. Web Intelligence 2007: 461-465 - [c36]Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum:
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories. WWW 2007: 541-550 - 2006
- [c35]Robert C. Kahlert, Benjamin Rode, David Baxter, Michael Witbrock, Kenneth D. Forbus, Larry Birnbaum, Purvesh Shah, Dave Schneider, Kathy Panton, Alan Belasco, David Crabbe:
Tracking Quantity Fluctuations Using STT. AAAI Fall Symposium: Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection 2006: 77-84 - 2005
- [c34]Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus, Earl J. Wagner, James Baker, Michael Witbrock:
Analogy, Intelligent IR, and Knowledge Integration for Intelligence Analysis. AAAI Spring Symposium: AI Technologies for Homeland Security 2005: 32-37 - [c33]Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Iravani, Kevin Livingston, Biying Shou
, Thomas M. Tirpak:
Task aware information access for diagnosis of manufacturing problems. IUI 2005: 308-310 - 2004
- [c32]Sanjay Sood, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum:
Low-fidelity location based information systems. IUI 2004: 325-327 - 2003
- [c31]Kevin Livingston, Mark Dredze
, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum:
Beyond broadcast. IUI 2003: 260-262 - [c30]Kevin Livingston, Mark Dredze
, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum:
Beyond broadcast: a demo. IUI 2003: 325 - 2002
- [c29]Marko Krema, Larry Birnbaum, Jay Budzik, Kristian J. Hammond:
Themometers and themostats: characterizing and controlling thematic attributes of information. IUI 2002: 196-197 - [c28]Leonard Chen, Sandra Cheng, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond:
The interactive chef: a task-sensitive assistant. IUI 2002: 234-234 - [c27]Jared Dunne, Louis Lapat, Marc Flury, Mustafa Shabib, Tom Warner, Kristian J. Hammond, Lawrence Birnbaum:
mpME!: music recommendation and exploration. IUI 2002: 235-235 - 2001
- [j8]Jay Budzik, Kristian J. Hammond, Lawrence Birnbaum:
Information access in context. Knowl. Based Syst. 14(1-2): 37-53 (2001) - [c26]Christopher Johnson, Larry Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs:
Improved Performance Support through an Integrated Task-Based Video Case Library. ICCBR 2001: 675-689 - [c25]Andrew Crossen, Jay Budzik, Mason Warner, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond:
XLibris: an automated library research assistant. IUI 2001: 49-52 - [c24]David B. Leake, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Cameron Marlow, Hao Yang:
An integrated interface for proactive, experience-based design support. IUI 2001: 101-108 - 2000
- [j7]Christopher Johnson, Larry Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs:
War stories: harnessing organizational memories to support task performance. Intell. 11(1): 16-31 (2000)
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [c23]David B. Leake, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Cameron Marlow, Hao Yang:
Integrating Information Resources: A Case Study of Engineering Design Support. ICCBR 1999: 482-495 - [c22]Jude W. Shavlik, Lawrence Birnbaum, William R. Swartout
, Eric Horvitz, Barbara Hayes-Roth:
Bridging Science and Applications (Panel). IUI 1999: 45-46 - [c21]Christopher Johnson, Lawrence Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs:
Integrating Organizational Memory and Performance Support. IUI 1999: 127-134 - 1998
- [c20]Lawrence Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs, Christopher Johnson:
Interface Design Based on Standardized Task Models. IUI 1998: 65-72 - 1997
- [c19]Lawrence Birnbaum, Eric Horvitz, David Kurlander, Henry Lieberman, Joe Marks, Steven F. Roth:
Compelling Intelligent User Interfaces - How Much AI? IUI 1997: 173-175 - 1996
- [c18]Tom Hinrichs, Ray Bareiss, Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins:
An interface design tool based on explicit task models. CHI Conference Companion 1996: 269-270 - 1995
- [j6]Paul R. Cooper, Lawrence Birnbaum, Matthew Brand:
Causal Scene Understanding. Comput. Vis. Image Underst. 62(2): 215-231 (1995) - [c17]Bruce Krulwich, Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins:
Determining What to Learn Through Component-Task Modeling. IJCAI 1995: 439-447 - 1994
- [c16]Paul R. Cooper, Lawrence Birnbaum, Daniel Halabe, Matthew Brand, Peter N. Prokopowicz:
Divided We Fall: Resolving Occlusions using Causal Reasoning. ECCV (1) 1994: 535-540 - 1993
- [j5]Mark Stefik, Janice S. Aikins, Robert Balzer, John Benoit, Lawrence Birnbaum, Frederick Hayes-Roth, Earl D. Sacerdoti:
Retrospective on "The Organization of Expert Systems, a Tutorial". Artif. Intell. 59(1-2): 221-224 (1993) - [c15]Matthew Brand, Lawrence Birnbaum, Paul R. Cooper:
Sensible Scenes: Visual Understanding of Complex Structures through Causal Analysis. AAAI 1993: 588-593 - [c14]Smadar Kedar, Catherine Baudin, Lawrence Birnbaum, Richard Osgood, Ray Bareiss:
Ask how it works: an intelligent interactive manual for devices. INTERCHI Adjunct Proceedings 1993: 171-172 - [c13]Lawrence Birnbaum, Matthew Brand, Paul R. Cooper:
Looking for trouble: Using causal semantics to direct focus of attention. ICCV 1993: 49-56 - 1991
- [j4]Lawrence Birnbaum:
Rigor Mortis: A Response to Nilsson's "Logic and Artificial Intelligence". Artif. Intell. 47(1-3): 57-77 (1991) - [j3]Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bruce Krulwich, Michael Freed:
Model-Based Integration of Planning and Learning. SIGART Bull. 2(4): 56-60 (1991) - [c12]Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bruce Krulwich, Michael Freed:
Plan Debugging in an Intentional System. IJCAI 1991: 353-359 - [e1]Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins:
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop (ML91), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Morgan Kaufmann 1991, ISBN 1-55860-200-3 [contents] - 1990
- [c11]Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins, Michael Freed, Bruce Krulwich:
Model-Based Diagnosis of Planning Failures. AAAI 1990: 318-323
1980 – 1989
- 1989
- [c10]Bruce Krulwich, Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum:
Improving Decision-Making on the Basis of Experience. ML 1989: 55-57 - [c9]Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins, Bruce Krulwich:
Issues in the Justification-Based Diagnosis of Planning Failures. ML 1989: 194-196 - [c8]Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bruce Krulwich:
An Adaptive Model of Decision-Making in Planning. IJCAI 1989: 511-516 - 1987
- [c7]Lawrence Birnbaum:
Let's Put the AI Back in NLP. TINLAP 1987: 120-123 - 1985
- [c6]Lawrence Birnbaum:
A Short Note on Opportunistic Planning and Memory in Arguments. IJCAI 1985: 281-283 - [c5]Lawrence Birnbaum:
Lexical Ambiguity as a Touchstone for Theories of Language Analysis. IJCAI 1985: 815-820 - 1982
- [j2]Mark Stefik, Jan Aikins, Robert Balzer, John Benoit, Lawrence Birnbaum, Frederick Hayes-Roth, Earl D. Sacerdoti:
The Organization of Expert Systems, A Tutorial. Artif. Intell. 18(2): 135-173 (1982) - [c4]Lawrence Birnbaum:
Argument Molecules: A Functional Representation of Argument Structure. AAAI 1982: 63-65 - 1981
- [c3]Rod McGuire, Lawrence Birnbaum, Margot Flowers:
Opportunistic Processing in Arguments. IJCAI 1981: 58-60 - 1980
- [j1]Roger C. Schank, Michael Lebowitz, Lawrence Birnbaum:
An Integrated Understander. Am. J. Comput. Linguistics 6(1): 13-30 (1980) - [c2]Lawrence Birnbaum, Margot Flowers, Rod McGuire:
Towards an AI Model of Argumentation. AAAI 1980: 313-315
1970 – 1979
- 1979
- [c1]Roger C. Schank, Michael Lebowitz, Lawrence Birnbaum:
Parsing Directly into Knowledge Structures. IJCAI 1979: 772-777
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