Publications

BASIL: Bayesian Assessment of Sycophancy in LLMs

Katherine Atwell, Pedram Heydari, Anthony Sicilia, and Malihe Alikhani. ArXiv, 2025.

Measuring Bias and Agreement in Large Language Model Presupposition Judgments

Katherine Atwell, Mandy Simons and Malihe Alikhani. In the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 2025.

Contextual ASR Error Handling with LLMs Augmentation for Goal-Oriented Conversational AI

Yuya Asano, Sabit Hassan, Paras Sharma, Anthony B. Sicilia, Katherine Atwell, Diane Litman, and Malihe Alikhani. In the Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track, 2025.

Studying and Mitigating Biases in Sign Language Understanding Models

Katherine Atwell, Danielle Bragg, and Malihe Alikhani. In the Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024.

The Importance of Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing

Katherine Atwell, Mandy Simons and Malihe Alikhani. Sign Language Machine Translation, 2024.

Generating Signed Language Instructions in Large-Scale Dialogue Systems

Mert Inan, Katherine Atwell, Anthony Sicilia, Lorna Quandt, and Malihe Alikhani. In the Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 6: Industry Track), 2024.

Combining Discourse Coherence with Large Language Models for More Inclusive, Equitable, and Robust Task-Oriented Dialogue

Katherine Atwell, Mert Inan, Anthony B. Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani. In the Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024.

Multilingual Content Moderation: A Case Study on Reddit

Meng Ye, Karan Sikka, Katherine Atwell, Sabit Hassan, Ajay Divakaran, and Malihe Alikhani. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.

How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion

Venkata Govindarajan, Katherine Atwell, Barea Sinno, Malihe Alikhani, David Beaver, and Junyi Jessy Li. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.

The Role of Context and Uncertainty in Shallow Discourse Parsing

Katherine Atwell, Remi Choi, Junyi Jessy Li, and Malihe Alikhani. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022.

Appdia: A discourse-aware transformer-based style transfer model for offensive social media conversations

Katherine Atwell, Sabit Hassan, and Malihe Alikhani. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022.

PAC-bayesian domain adaptation bounds for multiclass learners

Anthony Sicilia, Katherine Atwell, Malihe Alikhani, Seong Hwang. In the proceedings of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2022.

Studying the effect of moderator biases on the diversity of online discussions: A computational cross-linguistic study

Sabit Hassan, Katherine Atwell, and Malihe Alikhani. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022.

Political ideology and polarization: A multi-dimensional approach

Barea Sinno, Bernardo Oviedo, Katherine Atwell, Malihe Alikhani, and Junyi Jessy Li. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022.

The change that matters in discourse parsing: Estimating the impact of domain shift on parser error

Katherine Atwell, Anthony Sicilia, Seong Hwang, and Malihe Alikhani. In the proceedings of Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022.

Where are we in discourse relation recognition?

Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, and Malihe Alikhani. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021.

Developing an Optimized UI for Traffic Incident Managers

Andrina Helgerson, Jamiahus Walton, Celia Loya, Christopher Kawell, Katherine Atwell, Quinn Monaghan, Lakshay Ahuja, Hesham Hassan, Stephen Gilbert, and Anuj Sharma. In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2018.