MeiXing Dong
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan |
- About
- I am a PhD candidate in the Language and Information Technologies (LIT) group at the University of Michigan, working with Rada Mihalcea, focusing on natural language processing and computational social science. I'm interested in studying people's attitudes and subsequent behavior using linguistic analysis.
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- April 2021: Paper accepted to the SocialNLP Workshop @ NAACL 2021 on characteristics of those who pursue self improvement! Come find me at NAACL. :)
- February 2021: Completed my thesis proposal!!
- October 2020: Attending and presenting a poster at Social Informatics (SocInfo) 2020.
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Room to Grow: Understanding Personal Characteristics Behind Self Improvement Using Social Media
MeiXing Dong, Xueming Xu, Yiwei Zhang, Ian Stewart, and Rada Mihalcea.
SocialNLP Workshop @ NAACL 2021.
[pdf] [poster] [slides (forthcoming)]Extending Sparse Text with Induced Domain-Specific Lexicons and Embeddings: A Case Study on Predicting Donations
MeiXing Dong, Rada Mihalcea, and Dragomir Radev.
Computer Speech & Language, 2020.
[pdf]Perceptions of Social Roles Across Cultures
MeiXing Dong, David Jurgens, Carmen Banea, and Rada Mihalcea.
Proceedings of Social Informatics (SocInfo), 2019.
(long paper, acceptance rate: 24%)
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Nominated for Best Paper
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Honorable Mention, 2017
Google Scholarship - Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2017
Rackham Merit Fellowship, 2015
RPI Founders Award of Excellence, 2014
Tau Beta Pi - Stabile Scholarship, 2014