Our paper on cancer misinformation is accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026
Our paper, Beyond Binary Detection: A Multi-Dimensional Taxonomy of Cancer Misinformation on Reddit, is accepted to Findings of EMNLP. The work develops a multidimensional framework for characterizing cancer misinformation online.
New TACL paper on trust and distrust in generative AI
Our longitudinal study examines how trust and distrust toward GenAI are expressed and how they evolve over time.
Layla Bouzoubaa graduates from the PhD program
Layla is SocialNLP's first graduated PhD student and begins a postdoctoral position after graduation.
"Like a Therapist, But Not" accepted to ACL 2026
Led by Elham Aghakhani, this work studies Reddit narratives of AI use in mental-health contexts and is accepted for publication at ACL 2026.
Reddit After Roe accepted to ICWSM 2026
Aria Pessianzadeh and collaborators examine abortion narratives, information practices, and barriers after Dobbs in this newly accepted paper.
Paper accepted to WASSA at EACL 2026
Our paper "A Transformer and Prototype-based Interpretable Model for Contextual Sarcasm Detection" has been accepted.
Research Awards and Funding
Recently received the Google Cloud Research Award, the OpenAI Research Award, and funding from the National Institute of Aging and PennAI to study problem-solving therapy. Additionally, received Longsview Fellowships with Jill Wenderott (PI) to explore "AI for Lab Notebooks: Supplanting Manual Entry with a Virtual Lab Assistant."
Paper accepted to Scientometrics Journal
Our paper "Arab Spring's Impact on Science through Scholarly Attention, Funding, and Migration" is accepted for publication.
Paper accepted for publication in AI and Society
Our collaborative work has been accepted for publication in AI and Society.
Paper accepted to JMIR Infodemiology
Our paper "Shifting Narratives in Media Coverage: A Decade of Drug Discourse in The Philadelphia Inquirer" has been accepted.
Four papers accepted to ACM WebSci 2025
We had four papers accepted to ACM WebSci, including collaborative work on measuring the impact of scientific documentaries which received the Best Poster Award.
Paper accepted to EMNLP 2025
Our paper "Tales of Morality: Comparing Human and LLM Moral Storytelling from Visual Cues" has been accepted.
Paper accepted to ASIS&T 2025
Our paper "Not a Swiss Army Knife: Academics’ Perceptions of Trade-Offs Around Generative Artificial Intelligence Use" has been accepted.
Problem-Solving Therapy work accepted to ACL 2025
Our paper, "From Conversation to Automation: Leveraging Large Language Models to Analyze Strategies in Problem-Solving Therapy," has been accepted to ACL 2025. We develop a clinically grounded framework for analyzing therapist strategies in real-world PST conversations.
Phenotypes of Stigma published in Social Science & Medicine
Our work identifies distinct forms of stigma expressed in lived-experience narratives shared by people who use drugs.
ICWSM 2024 Workshop Report Published
You can now read the report of our ICWSM 2024 workshop online (link).
Paper accepted to Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal
Our paper "Structural balance in real-world social networks: incorporating direction and transitivity in measuring partial balance" has been accepted.
Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2024 and NLP4Science
Our paper "Words Matter: Reducing Stigma in Online Conversations about Substance Use with Large Language Models" has been accepted to EMNLP 2024. Additionally, "Two-Stage Graph-Augmented Summarization for Scientific Documents" was accepted to the NLP4Science Workshop.
Paper accepted to ACL 2024 Findings
Our paper, "Decoding the Narratives: Analyzing Personal Drug Experiences On Reddit", has been accepted.
Five abstracts accepted to IC2S2
We are excited to have two oral presentations and three posters accepted!
Paper accepted to ICWSM Workshop
Our paper "Examining Emotional Resonance and Shared Substance Use Experience of Euphoria Viewers on Reddit" is accepted to the 5th Workshop on Data For the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable at ICWSM.
Organizing Workshop at ICWSM
We are organizing the 1st workshop on "Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media" at ICWSM.
Paper accepted at LREC-COLING 2024
New paper accepted on the extraction of impact-relevant sections in scientific research.
Paper accepted at EACL 2024
New paper accepted on the analysis of narrativity in podcast data.
Presentations and Panels
Gave a talk at the AI and Global Data Governance Panel at Drexel's Global Studies and Modern Languages. Additionally, Layla presented our work on analyzing drug experiences online at TADA 2023, and we attended the CRA-WP Early Career workshop in Chicago.