Publications

Current manuscripts, peer-reviewed scholarship, and e-prints across NLP, computational social science, health, and human-centered AI.

Under review & in preparation

2026In preparation

PatientPST: Simulating Patient Behavior and Cognitive Reframing in Problem-Solving Therapy

Elham Aghakhani, Lu Wang, Karla T. Washington, George Demiris, Jina Huh-Yoo, Rezvaneh Rezapour · In preparation
Mental HealthPatient Simulation
2026In preparation

From Dialogue to Deliberation in AI-Induced Belief Change

Pooria Jamie, Aria Pessianzadeh, Naima Sultana, J. Ruane, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Homa Hosseinmardi, Amir Ghasemian, Duncan Watts · In preparation
Generative AIBelief Change
2026Under review

Self-Stigma Is Not a Monolith, but Generic Empathy Is: Persona-Conditioned LLM Support for People Who Use Drugs

Layla Bouzoubaa, Rezvaneh Rezapour · Under review
StigmaLLM Support
2026Under review

Modeling Expressions of Self-Stigma over Time among People Who Use Drugs with Reddit User Timelines

Layla Bouzoubaa, Hyung Wook Choi, Milan Varghese, Valerie Earnshaw, Rezvaneh Rezapour · Under review
Longitudinal AnalysisStigma
2026In preparation

From #Dr00gtiktok to #harmreduction: Exploring Substance Use Hashtags on TikTok

Layla Bouzoubaa, Muqi Guo, J. Trybala, Afsaneh Razi, Rezvaneh Rezapour · In preparation
TikTokSubstance Use

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2026Journal

In Generative AI We (Dis)Trust? Computational Analysis of Trust and Distrust in Reddit Discussions

Aria Pessianzadeh, Naima Sultana, Hildegarde Van den Bulck, David Gefen, Shahin Jabbari, Rezvaneh Rezapour · TACL
TrustGenerative AI
2026Conference

Like a Therapist, But Not: Reddit Narratives of AI in Mental Health Contexts

Elham Aghakhani, Rezvaneh Rezapour · Findings of ACL 2026
Relational AIMental Health
2026Journal

Communicative Surrogates and the Ethics of LLM-Mediated Communication

John S. Seberger, Sanonda Datta Gupta, Afsaneh Razi, Shadi Rezapour · AI & Society
AI EthicsCommunication
2026Journal

Phenotypes of Stigma Expressed by People Who Use Drugs on Reddit

Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani, Rezvaneh Rezapour · Social Science & Medicine
StigmaPublic Health
2026Journal

Impact Classification within and beyond Academia: Domain-Robust Annotation and the Capacity of Large Language Models

Maria Becker, Kanyao Han, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Jana Diesner, Andreas Witt · Language Resources & Evaluation
Scientific ImpactLLMs
2026Journal

Arab Spring’s Impact on Science through the Lens of Scholarly Attention, Funding, and Migration

Y. Asgari, H. Zhou, K. Ozer, Rezvaneh Rezapour, M.E. Sloane, A. Bovet · Scientometrics
Science of Science
2026Journal

Be Patient and Kind to Yourself! Abortion-Related Health Information Practices on Reddit in the Age of Dobbs v. Jackson

Alex Poole, Aria Pessianzadeh, Rezvaneh Rezapour · Journal of Documentation
Health InformationReddit
2026Conference

Beyond Binary Detection: A Multi-Dimensional Taxonomy of Cancer Misinformation on Reddit

Aria Pessianzadeh, Pooria Jamie, Naima Sultana, Georgia Himmelstein, Yulia Zektser, Patricia Ganz, Homa Hosseinmardi, Amir Ghasemian, Rezvaneh Rezapour · EMNLP 2026
Cancer MisinformationHealth NLP
2026Conference

Reddit After Roe: A Computational Analysis of Abortion Narratives and Barriers in the Wake of Dobbs

Aria Pessianzadeh, Alex Poole, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ICWSM 2026
NarrativesHealth Information
2026Conference

Stigma and Support in Online Sexual Violence Narratives on Reddit

Shirlene Rose Bandela, Karan Bindal, Vaibhav Garg, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ACM Hypertext 2026
StigmaSupport
2026Workshop

How You Ask Shapes What You Get: Auditing Breast-Cancer Misinformation in TikTok Search

Pooriya Jamie, Aria Pessianzadeh, Homa Hosseinmardi, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Patricia Ganz, Amir Ghasemian · DAIH Workshop at COLM
TikTokCancer Information
2026Workshop

A Transformer and Prototype-Based Interpretable Model for Contextual Sarcasm Detection

Ximing Wen, Rezvaneh Rezapour · WASSA at EACL 2026
SarcasmInterpretability
2025Journal

Talk, Listen, Connect: Navigating Empathy in Human-AI Interactions

Mahnaz Roshanaie, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Magy Seif El-Nasr · AI & Society
EmpathyHuman-AI Interaction
2025Journal

Shifting Narratives in Media Coverage Across a Decade of Drug Discourse in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Layla Bouzoubaa, Ramtin Ehsani, Preetha Chatterjee, Rezvaneh Rezapour · JMIR Infodemiology
Substance UseMedia
2025Conference

From Conversation to Automation: Leveraging Large Language Models to Analyze Strategies in Problem-Solving Therapy

Elham Aghakhani, Lu Wang, Karla T. Washington, George Demiris, Jina Huh-Yoo, Rezvaneh Rezapour · Findings of ACL 2025
TherapyLLMs
2025Conference

Tales of Morality: Comparing Human- and LLM-Generated Moral Stories from Visual Cues

Rezvaneh Rezapour, S. Jeoung, Z. You, Jana Diesner · Findings of EMNLP 2025
MoralityGenerative AI
2025Conference

Not a Swiss Army Knife: Knowledge Workers’ Perceptions of Trade-Offs around Generative Artificial Intelligence Use

Afsaneh Razi, Layla Bouzoubaa, Aria Pessianzadeh, John Seberger, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ASIS&T 2025
2025Conference

Beyond the Lens: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries through Amazon Reviews

J. Naiman, Aria Pessianzadeh, H. Zhao, A.J. Christensen, A. Nunn, S. Srikanth, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ACM Web Science 2025 · Best Poster Award
2025Conference

Exploring Stance on Affirmative Action through Reddit Narratives

Aria Pessianzadeh, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ACM Web Science 2025
2025Conference

The Evolving Landscape of Youth Online Safety: Insights from News Media Analysis

M. Namvarpour, Elham Aghakhani, M. Ekstrand, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Afsaneh Razi · ACM Web Science 2025
2025Conference

Master of Deceit: Comparative Narrative Analysis of Human- and Machine-Generated Deceptive Texts

Samiha Zarin, Minh Trinh, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ACM Web Science 2025
2025Workshop

Analyzing Toxicity in Open Source Software Communications Using Psycholinguistics and Moral Foundations Theory

Ramtin Ehsani, Rezvaneh Rezapour, P. Chatterjee · NLBSE at ICSE 2025
2024Conference

Words Matter: Reducing Stigma in Online Conversations about Substance Use with Large Language Models

Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani, Rezvaneh Rezapour · EMNLP 2024
2024Journal

Structural Balance in Real-World Social Networks: Incorporating Direction and Transitivity in Measuring Partial Balance

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Ly Dinh, Lan Jiang, Jana Diesner · Social Network Analysis and Mining
2024Conference

Decoding the Discourse: Analyzing Personal Narratives of Drug Experiences Shared on Reddit

Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani, Max Song, Minh Trinh, Rezvaneh Rezapour · Findings of ACL 2024
2024Conference

The Evolving Meaning of Trust and Risk in Reddit Discourse about ChatGPT

David Gefen, Shahin Jabbari, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Aria Pessianzadeh, K. Kayastha, Hildegarde Van den Bulck · AMCIS 2024
2024Conference

Detecting Impact-Relevant Sections in Scientific Research

Maria Becker, Kanyao Han, A. Werthmann, Rezvaneh Rezapour, H. Lee, Jana Diesner · LREC-COLING 2024
2024Conference

Extraction of Narrative Spans from Podcast Data

Y. Abdessamed, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Steven Wilson · EACL 2024
2024Workshop

Two-Stage, Graph-Augmented Summarization for Scientific Text Documents

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Y. Ge, Kanyao Han, R. Jeong, Jana Diesner · NLP4Science at EMNLP 2024
2024Workshop

Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Layla Bouzoubaa, Steven Wilson · ICWSM 2024 Workshop Proceedings
2024Workshop

Euphoria’s Hidden Voices: Examining Emotional Resonance and Shared Substance Use Experience of Viewers on Reddit

Layla Bouzoubaa, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ICWSM Workshop 2024
2023Journal

Enhancing Structural Balance to Analyze Signed Digraphs of Real-World Organizational Networks

Ly Dinh, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Lan Jiang, Jana Diesner · Frontiers in Human Dynamics
NetworksComputational Social Science
2023Conference

Exploring the Landscape of Drug Communities on Reddit: A Network Study

Layla Bouzoubaa, J. Young, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ASONAM 2023
Substance UseNetworks
2023Conference

Moving Beyond Stance Detection in Cross-Cutting Communication Analysis

Rezvaneh Rezapour, D. Delgado Ramos, S. Jeoung, Jana Diesner · SBP-BRiMS 2023
StanceOnline Discourse
2023Conference

Exploring Moral Principles Exhibited in OSS: A Case Study on GitHub Heated Issues

Ramtin Ehsani, Rezvaneh Rezapour, P. Chatterjee · ESEC/FSE 2023
MoralitySoftware Communities
2023Workshop

The Evolution of Substance Use Coverage in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Layla Bouzoubaa, Ramtin Ehsani, Preetha Chatterjee, Rezvaneh Rezapour · ICWSM Data Challenge 2023
2022Journal

An Expert-in-the-Loop Method for Domain-Specific Document Categorization Based on Small Annotated Data

Kanyao Han, Rezvaneh Rezapour, K.S. Nakamura, D. Devkota, D.C. Miller, Jana Diesner · JASIS&T
Human-in-the-LoopText Classification
2022Conference

What Makes a Good Podcast Summary?

Rezvaneh Rezapour, S. Reddy, R. Jones, I. Soboroff · SIGIR 2022
SummarizationPodcasts
2021Conference

Incorporating the Measurement of Moral Foundations Theory in Analyzing Stances on Controversial Topics

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Ly Dinh, Jana Diesner · ACM Hypertext 2021
MoralityStance
2021Conference

Detecting Non-Topical Content in Podcasts

S. Reddy, Y. Yu, A. Pappu, A. Sivaraman, Rezvaneh Rezapour, R. Jones · EACL 2021
PodcastsNLP
2021E-print / Resource

Spotify at TREC 2020: Genre-Aware Abstractive Podcast Summarization

Rezvaneh Rezapour, S. Reddy, A. Clifton, R. Jones · Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)
Podcast SummarizationE-print