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Research Interests
Professor Birnbaum's research and teaching focus on applied Artificial Intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), intelligent information systems, social media data analytics, machine learning, with applications to media and journalism. A key focus is on methods for the automatic generation of content by machine, including specifically the automatic generation of narratives from data. Another important area of research is intelligent information systems, including models of automatic and contextual search and information diversity. A third focus is on preference predication and recommendation using social media data.
Education/Academic qualification
Computer Science, PhD, Yale University
… → 1986
Computer Science, MS, Yale University
… → 1980
BS, Yale University
… → 1977
Research interests keywords
- Case-based reasoning
- Computer vision
- Educational software
- Human-computer interaction
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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RI: Small: Extracting and Representing Commonsense Knowledge Using Language Models
Downey, D. C. (PD/PI), Downey, D. C. (PD/PI), Birnbaum, L. A. (Co-PD/PI) & Birnbaum, L. A. (Co-PD/PI)
10/1/20 → 9/30/25
Project: Research project
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SPADE: Strategic Probabilistic Attitudinal Diplomacy Engine
Subrahmanian, V. S. (PD/PI), Subrahmanian, V. S. (PD/PI), Birnbaum, L. A. (Co-PD/PI) & Birnbaum, L. A. (Co-PD/PI)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
1/3/22 → 12/31/23
Project: Research project
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Envisioning Workshops for Computing in Undergraduate Education
Birnbaum, L. A. (PD/PI)
9/1/19 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project
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Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for DEmocratizing Manufacturing Accessibility for Designers (DEMAND)
Cao, J. (PD/PI), Birnbaum, L. A. (Co-PD/PI), Carruthers, B. G. (Other) & Ehmann, K. (Other)
9/1/18 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
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Interest Project Northwestern University Proposal for the Creation of a Knight News Testing and Innovation Lab
Birnbaum, L. A. (PD/PI) & Hammond, K. J. (PD/PI)
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
12/13/10 → 3/31/17
Project: Research project
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The Impact of Strategic Communication in Coopetitive Multiagent Settings
Baldwin, J., Birnbaum, L., Chan, D., Denisenko, N., Nau, D., Paredes, J. N., Pulice, C., Simari, G. I., Subrahmanian, V. S. & Waltzman, R., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning to Perform Complex Tasks through Compositional Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Bursztyn, V. S., Demeter, D., Downey, D. & Birnbaum, L., 2022, p. 1676-1686. 11 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Open Access4 Scopus citations -
Developing a Conversational Recommendation Systemfor Navigating Limited Options
Bursztyn, V. S., Healey, J., Koh, E., Lipka, N. & Birnbaum, L., May 8 2021, Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access5 Scopus citations -
"It doesn't look good for a date": Transforming Critiques into Preferences for Conversational Recommendation Systems
Bursztyn, V. S., Healey, J., Lipka, N., Koh, E., Downey, D. & Birnbaum, L., 2021, EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1913-1918 6 p. (EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
2 Scopus citations -
HCI for accurate, impartial and transparent journalism: Challenges and solutions
Aitamurto, T., Birnbaum, L. A., Hullman, J. R., Ananny, M., Diakopoulos, N. A., Ritchie, N., Anderson, C. W. & Hanson, M., May 2 2019, CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 3299007. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
8 Scopus citations