Lawrence Birnbaum

According to our database, Lawrence Birnbaum authored at least 79 papers between 1979 and 2025.

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2025

A Flash in the Pan: Better Prompting Strategies to Deploy Out-of-the-Box LLMs as Conversational Recommendation Systems.

Gustavo Adolpho Lucas de Carvalho, Simon Ben Igeri, Jennifer Healey, Victor S. Bursztyn, David Demeter, Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025

2024

Can Nuanced Language Lead to More Actionable Insights? Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Analytical Narrative Structure.

Vidya Setlur, Larry Birnbaum

CoRR, 2024

MARG: Multi-Agent Review Generation for Scientific Papers.

Mike D'Arcy, Tom Hope, Larry Birnbaum, Doug Downey

CoRR, 2024

2022

Learning to Perform Complex Tasks through Compositional Fine-Tuning of Language Models.

Victor S. Bursztyn, David Demeter, Doug Downey, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

2021

Developing a Conversational Recommendation System for Navigating Limited Options.

Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Eunyee Koh, Nedim Lipka, Larry Birnbaum

CoRR, 2021

"It doesn't look good for a date": Transforming Critiques into Preferences for Conversational Recommendation Systems.

Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Nedim Lipka, Eunyee Koh, Doug Downey, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Developing a Conversational Recommendation Systemfor Navigating Limited Options.

Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Eunyee Koh, Nedim Lipka, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2019

Identifying "horse race" stories in election news.

Miriam L. Boon, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces: Companion, 2019

HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions.

Tanja Aitamurto, Mike Ananny, Chris W. Anderson, Larry Birnbaum, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Matilda Hanson, Jessica Hullman, Nick Ritchie

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

Thousands of small, constant rallies: a large-scale analysis of partisan WhatsApp groups.

Victor S. Bursztyn, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the ASONAM '19: International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2019

2018

Who is the Hero, the Villain, and the Victim?: Detection of Roles in News Articles using Natural Language Techniques.

Diego Gómez-Zará, Miriam L. Boon, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2018

Extracting Commonsense Properties from Embeddings with Limited Human Guidance.

Yiben Yang, Larry Birnbaum, Ji-Ping Wang, Doug Downey

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017

Ranking Content based on Semantic Dimensions: A Multi-objective Approach.

Jason Cohn, Siddharth Muthukumaran, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017, Sydney, Australia, July 31, 2017

Definition Modeling: Learning to Define Word Embeddings in Natural Language.

Thanapon Noraset, Chen Liang, Larry Birnbaum, Doug Downey

Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2015

The News Context Project.

Larry Birnbaum, Miriam L. Boon, Scott Bradley, Jennifer Wilson

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion, 2015

AttitudeBuzz: Using Social Media Data to Localize Complex Attitudes.

Jason Cohn, Alex Kuntz, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2015

2013

Finding the local angle in national news.

Shawn O'Banion, Larry Birnbaum, Scott Bradley

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2013

Using explicit linguistic expressions of preference in social media to predict voting behavior.

Shawn O'Banion, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2013, 2013

2012

Information Finding with Robust Entity Detection: The Case of an Online News Reader.

Francisco Iacobelli, Nathan D. Nichols, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective, 2012

Social media-driven news personalization.

Shawn O'Banion, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the 4th ACM RecSys workshop on Recommender systems and the social web, 2012

2010

Tell me more, not just "more of the same".

Francisco Iacobelli, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2010

Finding New Information Via Robust Entity Detection.

Francisco Iacobelli, Nathan D. Nichols, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the Proactive Assistant Agents, 2010

StatsMonkey: A Data-Driven Sports Narrative Writer.

Nicholas D. Allen, John R. Templon, Patrick Summerhays McNally, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the Computational Models of Narrative, 2010

2009

Modeling multiple-event situations across news articles.

Earl J. Wagner, Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2009), 2009

Rich interfaces for reading news on the web.

Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2009

Spectrum: Retrieving Different Points of View from the Blogosphere.

Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Bryan Pardo

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2009

MakeMyPage: Social Media Meets Automatic Content Generation.

Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2009

2008

LocalSavvy: aggregating local points of view about news issues.

Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Location and the Web, 2008

What do they think?: aggregating local views about news events and topics.

Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2008

Categorizing blogger's interests based on short snippets of blog posts.

Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Bryan Pardo

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2008

2007

Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories.

Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2007

Measuring Semantic Similarity between Named Entities by Searching the Web Directory.

Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2007

Learning to gesture: applying appropriate animations to spoken text.

Nathan D. Nichols, Jiahui Liu, Bryan Pardo, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Multimedia 2007, 2007

TagAssist: Automatic Tag Suggestion for Blog Posts.

Sanjay Sood, Sara Owsley, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2007

A Prototype System that Learns by Reading Simplified Texts.

Kenneth D. Forbus, Christopher Riesbeck, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kevin Livingston, Abhishek B. Sharma, Leo C. Ureel

Proceedings of the Machine Reading, 2007

Integrating Natural Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Analogical Processing to Learn by Reading.

Kenneth D. Forbus, Christopher Riesbeck, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kevin Livingston, Abhishek B. Sharma, Leo C. Ureel II

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007

2006

Tracking Quantity Fluctuations Using STT.

Robert C. Kahlert, Benjamin Rode, David Baxter, Michael Witbrock, Kenneth D. Forbus, Larry Birnbaum, Purvesh Shah, Dave Schneider, Kathy Panton, Alan Belasco, David Crabbe

Proceedings of the Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection, 2006

2005

Task aware information access for diagnosis of manufacturing problems.

Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Iravani, Kevin Livingston, Biying Shou, Thomas M. Tirpak

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2005

Analogy, Intelligent IR, and Knowledge Integration for Intelligence Analysis.

Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus, Earl J. Wagner, James Baker, Michael Witbrock

Proceedings of the AI Technologies for Homeland Security, 2005

2004

Low-fidelity location based information systems.

Sanjay Sood, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2004

2003

Beyond broadcast: a demo.

Kevin Livingston, Mark Dredze, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2003

Beyond broadcast.

Kevin Livingston, Mark Dredze, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2003

2002

Themometers and themostats: characterizing and controlling thematic attributes of information.

Marko Krema, Larry Birnbaum, Jay Budzik, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2002

mpME!: music recommendation and exploration.

Jared Dunne, Louis Lapat, Marc Flury, Mustafa Shabib, Tom Warner, Kristian J. Hammond, Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2002

The interactive chef: a task-sensitive assistant.

Leonard Chen, Sandra Cheng, Larry Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2002

2001

Information access in context.

Jay Budzik, Kristian J. Hammond, Lawrence Birnbaum

Knowl. Based Syst., 2001

An integrated interface for proactive, experience-based design support.

David B. Leake, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Cameron Marlow, Hao Yang

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2001

XLibris: an automated library research assistant.

Andrew Crossen, Jay Budzik, Mason Warner, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2001

Improved Performance Support through an Integrated Task-Based Video Case Library.

Christopher Johnson, Larry Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs

Proceedings of the Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, 2001

2000

War stories: harnessing organizational memories to support task performance.

Christopher Johnson, Larry Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs

Intell., 2000

1999

Bridging Science and Applications (Panel).

Jude W. Shavlik, Lawrence Birnbaum, William R. Swartout, Eric Horvitz, Barbara Hayes-Roth

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 1999

Integrating Organizational Memory and Performance Support.

Christopher Johnson, Lawrence Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 1999

Integrating Information Resources: A Case Study of Engineering Design Support.

David B. Leake, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kristian J. Hammond, Cameron Marlow, Hao Yang

Proceedings of the Case-Based Reasoning and Development, Third International Conference, 1999

1998

Interface Design Based on Standardized Task Models.

Lawrence Birnbaum, Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs, Christopher Johnson

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 1998

1997

Compelling Intelligent User Interfaces - How Much AI?

Lawrence Birnbaum, Eric Horvitz, David Kurlander, Henry Lieberman, Joe Marks, Steven F. Roth

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 1997

1996

An interface design tool based on explicit task models.

Tom Hinrichs, Ray Bareiss, Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins

Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Common Ground, 1996

1995

Causal Scene Understanding.

Paul R. Cooper, Lawrence Birnbaum, Matthew Brand

Comput. Vis. Image Underst., 1995

Determining What to Learn Through Component-Task Modeling.

Bruce Krulwich, Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1995

1994

Divided We Fall: Resolving Occlusions using Causal Reasoning.

Paul R. Cooper, Lawrence Birnbaum, Daniel Halabe, Matthew Brand, Peter N. Prokopowicz

Proceedings of the Computer Vision, 1994

1993

Retrospective on "The Organization of Expert Systems, a Tutorial".

Mark Stefik, Janice S. Aikins, Robert Balzer, John Benoit, Lawrence Birnbaum, Frederick Hayes-Roth, Earl D. Sacerdoti

Artif. Intell., 1993

Looking for trouble: Using causal semantics to direct focus of attention.

Lawrence Birnbaum, Matthew Brand, Paul R. Cooper

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision, 1993

Ask how it works: an intelligent interactive manual for devices.

Smadar Kedar, Catherine Baudin, Lawrence Birnbaum, Richard Osgood, Ray Bareiss

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 1993

Sensible Scenes: Visual Understanding of Complex Structures through Causal Analysis.

Matthew Brand, Lawrence Birnbaum, Paul R. Cooper

Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Washington, 1993

1991

Model-Based Integration of Planning and Learning.

Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bruce Krulwich, Michael Freed

SIGART Bull., 1991

Rigor Mortis: A Response to Nilsson's "Logic and Artificial Intelligence".

Lawrence Birnbaum

Artif. Intell., 1991

Plan Debugging in an Intentional System.

Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bruce Krulwich, Michael Freed

Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Sydney, 1991

1990

Model-Based Diagnosis of Planning Failures.

Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins, Michael Freed, Bruce Krulwich

Proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 29, 1990

1989

An Adaptive Model of Decision-Making in Planning.

Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum, Bruce Krulwich

Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Detroit, 1989

Improving Decision-Making on the Basis of Experience.

Bruce Krulwich, Gregg Collins, Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning (ML 1989), 1989

Issues in the Justification-Based Diagnosis of Planning Failures.

Lawrence Birnbaum, Gregg Collins, Bruce Krulwich

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning (ML 1989), 1989

1987

Let's Put the AI Back in NLP.

Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing 3, 1987

1985

Lexical Ambiguity as a Touchstone for Theories of Language Analysis.

Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, 1985

A Short Note on Opportunistic Planning and Memory in Arguments.

Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, 1985

1982

The Organization of Expert Systems, A Tutorial.

Mark Stefik, Jan Aikins, Robert Balzer, John Benoit, Lawrence Birnbaum, Frederick Hayes-Roth, Earl D. Sacerdoti

Artif. Intell., 1982

Argument Molecules: A Functional Representation of Argument Structure.

Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982

1981

Opportunistic Processing in Arguments.

Rod McGuire, Lawrence Birnbaum, Margot Flowers

Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981

1980

An Integrated Understander.

Roger C. Schank, Michael Lebowitz, Lawrence Birnbaum

Am. J. Comput. Linguistics, 1980

Towards an AI Model of Argumentation.

Lawrence Birnbaum, Margot Flowers, Rod McGuire

Proceedings of the 1st Annual National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1980

1979

Parsing Directly into Knowledge Structures.

Roger C. Schank, Michael Lebowitz, Lawrence Birnbaum

Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1979