ZIJIAN WANG

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zijwang [at] cs.stanford.edu

I am a second-year research master student in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. My research focuses on Natural Language Processing, with an emphasis on Computational Social Science, Computational Pragmatics, and Algorithmic Fairness. I am advised by Prof. Chris Potts and funded by an RA-ship.

Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, where I worked with Prof. David Jurgens and Prof. Kevyn Collins-Thompson. Earlier, I attended Shanghai Jiao Tong University, before transferring to Michigan through the dual degree program.

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Education

M.S. in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University

2018 - 2020

B.S. in Computer Science, minor in Linguistics, University of Michigan

2016 - 2018

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2014 - 2016

Publications

2019

TalkDown: A corpus for condescension detection in context.

Zijian Wang and Christopher Potts.

EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019

[paper] [arxiv] [code] [data]

Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions Through Iterative Query Generation.

Peng Qi, Xiaowen Lin*, Leo Mehr*, Zijian Wang*, and Christopher D. Manning.

EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019

[paper] [arxiv] [code]

Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data.

Zijian Wang, Scott Hale, David Adelani, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Timo Hartmann, Fabian Flöck, and David Jurgens.

WWW 2019 Best Poster Presentation Award

[paper] [arxiv] [code] [demo] [poster]

2018

It's going to be okay: Measuring Access to Support in Online Communities.

Zijian Wang and David Jurgens.

EMNLP 2018

[paper] [code] [data]

2017

Social work in the classroom? A tool to evaluate topical relevance in student writing.

Heeryung Choi, Zijian Wang, Christopher Brooks, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Beth Glover Reed, and Dale Fitch.

EDM 2017