Scholar
Laura Biester
Google Scholar ID: V-lAKfYAAAAJ
Middlebury College
Citations & Impact
Citations
168
H-index
7
i10-index
6
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Supervised and Preference Optimization (ACL 2025)
- - Sports and Women's Sports: Gender Bias in Text Generation with Olympic Data (NAACL 2025)
- - Representing and Clustering Errors in Offensive Language Detection (NAACL SRW 2025)
- - How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behaviour (Nature Human Behaviour, 2024)
- - Tightly Coupled Worksheets and Homework Assignments for NLP (Workshop on Teaching NLP at ACL 2024)
- - Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models (LREC-COLING 2024)
- - Temporal Arcs of Mental Health: Patterns Behind Changes in Depression over Time (ACII 2023 Late Breaking Results)
- - Lexical Measurement of Teaching Qualities (ASEE 2023)
- - Improving Mental Health Classifier Generalization with Pre-Diagnosis Data (ICWSM 2023)
- - We Are in This Together: Quantifying Community Subjective Wellbeing and Resilience (ICWSM 2023)
- - Emotional and Cognitive Changes Surrounding Online Depression Identity Claims (PLOS ONE, 2022)
- - Analyzing the Effects of Annotator Gender Across NLP Tasks (NLPerspectives Workshop at LREC 2022)
Research Experience
- - PhD Research at University of Michigan: Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science
- - Intern at IBM Research: Worked on Clinical NLP
- - Full-time Software Engineer at Pinterest: Worked on database systems for two years
Education
- - PhD: University of Michigan, Computer Science and Engineering, August 2023, Advisor: Dr. Rada Mihalcea
- - MS: University of Michigan, Computer Science and Engineering, May 2020
- - BA: Carleton College, Computer Science, June 2016
Background
- - Research Interests: Intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Social Science
- - Professional Field: Modeling language change over time for individuals with depression, primarily using social media data, perspectivism in NLP, bias in language, and Clinical NLP
- - Brief Introduction: Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Middlebury College, teaching Natural Language Processing and Introduction to Computing.
Miscellany
- - Personal interests not mentioned
