I am an associate professor in the University of Maryland Computer Science Department (tenure home), Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, iSchool, and Language Science Center. Previously, I was an assistant professor at Colorado's Department of Computer Science (tenure granted in 2017). I was a graduate student at Princeton with David Blei.

My research focuses on making machine learning more useful, more interpretable, and able to learn and interact from humans. This helps users sift through decades of documents; discover when individuals lie, reframe, or change the topic in a conversation; or to compete against humans in games that are based in natural language.

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Recent Publications

• Chen Zhao, Chenyan Xiong, Xin Qian, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Complex Factoid Question Answering with a Free-Text Knowledge Graph. The Web Conference, 2020. [Video] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Zhao:Xiong:Qian:Boyd-Graber-2020,
  	Title = {Complex Factoid Question Answering with a Free-Text Knowledge Graph},
  	Author = {Chen Zhao and Chenyan Xiong and Xin Qian and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Booktitle = {The Web Conference},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Location = {Taipei, Taiwan},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_www_delft.pdf},
  }
  

  
  
• Fenfei Guo, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Mohit Iyyer, and Leah Findlater. Which Evaluations Uncover Sense Representations that Actually Make Sense?. Linguistic Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020. [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Guo:Boyd-Graber:Iyyer:Findlater-2020,
  	Author = {Fenfei Guo and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Mohit Iyyer and Leah Findlater},
  	Location = {France (but only in dreams)},
  	Booktitle = {Linguistic Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_lrec_sense.pdf},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Title = {Which Evaluations Uncover Sense Representations that Actually Make Sense?},
  }
  

• Alison Smith, Varun Kumar, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Kevin Seppi, and Leah Findlater. Digging into User Control: Perceptions of Adherence and Instability in Transparent Models. Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020. [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Smith:Kumar:Boyd-Graber:Seppi:Findlater-2020,
  	Author = {Alison Smith and Varun Kumar and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Kevin Seppi and Leah Findlater},
  	Booktitle = {Intelligent User Interfaces},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_iui_control.pdf},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Title = {Digging into User Control: Perceptions of Adherence and
  Instability in Transparent Models},
  }
  

• Tianze Shi, Chen Zhao, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé III, and Lillian Lee. On the Potential of Lexico-logical Alignments for Semantic Parsing to SQL Queries. Findings of EMNLP, 2020. [Data] [Preprint] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Shi:Zhao:Boyd-Graber:Daume-III:Lee-2020,
  	Title = {On the Potential of Lexico-logical Alignments for Semantic Parsing to SQL Queries},
  	Author = {Tianze Shi and Chen Zhao and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Hal {Daum\'{e} III} and Lillian Lee},
  	Booktitle = {Findings of EMNLP},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_findings_qalign.pdf},
  }
  

• Wenyan Li, Alvin Grissom II, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. An Attentive Recurrent Model for Incremental Prediction of Sentence-final Verbs. Findings of EMNLP, 2020. [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Li:Grissom-II:Boyd-Graber-2020,
  	Title = {An Attentive Recurrent Model for Incremental Prediction of Sentence-final Verbs},
  	Author = {Wenyan Li and Alvin {Grissom II} and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Booktitle = {Findings of EMNLP},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_findings_verbs.pdf},
  }
  

• Michelle Yuan, Mozhi Zhang, Benjamin Van Durme, Leah Findlater, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Interactive Refinement of Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020. [Audio of Paper Readthrough] [Video of Paper Readthrough] [Code] [Conference Talk] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Yuan:Zhang:Van-Durme:Findlater:Boyd-Graber-2020,
  	Title = {Interactive Refinement of Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings},
  	Author = {Michelle Yuan and Mozhi Zhang and Benjamin {Van Durme} and Leah Findlater and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Booktitle = {Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Location = {The Cyberverse Simulacrum of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_emnlp_clime.pdf},
  }
  

  
  
• Michelle Yuan, Hsuan-Tien Lin, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Cold-start Active Learning through Self-Supervised Language Modeling. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020. [Video] [Code] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Yuan:Lin:Boyd-Graber-2020,
  	Title = {Cold-start Active Learning through Self-Supervised Language Modeling},
  	Author = {Michelle Yuan and Hsuan-Tien Lin and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Booktitle = {Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Location = {The Cyberverse Simulacrum of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_emnlp_alps.pdf},
  }
  

  
  
• Alison Smith, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Ron Fan, Melissa Birchfield, Tongshuang Wu, Dan Weld, and Leah Findlater. No Explainability without Accountability: An Empirical Study of Explanations and Feedback in Interactive ML. Computer-Human Interaction, 2020. [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Smith:Boyd-Graber:Fan:Birchfield:Wu:Weld:Findlater-2020,
  	Author = {Alison Smith and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Ron Fan and Melissa Birchfield and Tongshuang Wu and Dan Weld and Leah Findlater},
  	Booktitle = {Computer-Human Interaction},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_chi_explanation.pdf},
  	Title = {No Explainability without Accountability: An Empirical Study of Explanations and Feedback in Interactive ML},
  }
  

• Mozhi Zhang, Yoshinari Fujinuma, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Exploiting Cross-Lingual Subword Similarities in Low-Resource Document Classification. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020. [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Zhang:Fujinuma:Boyd-Graber-2020,
  	Title = {Exploiting Cross-Lingual Subword Similarities in Low-Resource Document Classification},
  	Author = {Mozhi Zhang and Yoshinari Fujinuma and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Booktitle = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Location = {New York, New York},
  	Url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09617},
  }
  

• Mozhi Zhang, Yoshinari Fujinuma, Michael J. Paul, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Why Overfitting Isn't Always Bad: Retrofitting Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings to Dictionaries. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. [Preprint] [Video] [Code] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Zhang:Fujinuma:Paul:Boyd-Graber-2020,
  	Author = {Mozhi Zhang and Yoshinari Fujinuma and Michael J. Paul and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Title = {Why Overfitting Isn't Always Bad: Retrofitting Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings to Dictionaries},
  	Booktitle = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Location = {The Cyberverse Simulacrum of Seattle},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_acl_refine.pdf},
  }
  

  
  
• Jordan Boyd-Graber and Benjamin Börschinger. What Question Answering can Learn from Trivia Nerds. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. [Preprint] [Audio of Paper Readthrough] [Video of Paper Readthrough] [ACL Presentation] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Boyd-Graber:B\"orschinger-2020,
  	Title = {What Question Answering can Learn from Trivia Nerds},
  	Author = {Jordan Boyd-Graber and Benjamin B\"orschinger},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_acl_trivia.pdf},
  	Location = {The Cyberverse Simulacrum of Seattle},
  	Booktitle = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  }
  

  
  
• Denis Peskov, Benny Cheng, Ahmed Elgohary, Joe Barrow, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. It Takes Two to Lie: One to Lie and One to Listen. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. [Video] [Podcast] [Data and Code] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @inproceedings{Peskov:Cheng:Elgohary:Barrow:Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil:Boyd-Graber-2020,
  	Title = {It Takes Two to Lie: One to Lie and One to Listen},
  	Author = {Denis Peskov and Benny Cheng and Ahmed Elgohary and Joe Barrow and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Booktitle = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  	Year = {2020},
  	Location = {The Cyberverse Simulacrum of Seattle},
  	Url = {http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2020_acl_diplomacy.pdf},
  }
  

  
  
• Benjamin Börschinger, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Christian Buck, Jannis Bulian, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Michelle Chen Huebscher, Wojciech Gajewski, Yannic Kilcher, Rodrigo Nogueira, and Lierni Sestorain Saralegu. Meta Answering for Machine Reading. ArXiv, Preprint. [Preprint] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @article{B\"orschinger:Boyd-Graber:Buck:Bulian:Ciaramita:Huebscher:Gajewski:Kilcher:Nogueira:Saralegu-Preprint,
  	Title = {Meta Answering for Machine Reading},
  	Author = {Benjamin B\"orschinger and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Christian Buck and Jannis Bulian and Massimiliano Ciaramita and Michelle Chen Huebscher and Wojciech Gajewski and Yannic Kilcher and Rodrigo Nogueira and Lierni Sestorain Saralegu},
  	Journal = {ArXiv},
  	Year = {Preprint},
  	Url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04156},
  }
  

• Pedro Rodriguez, Shi Feng, Mohit Iyyer, He He, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Quizbowl: The Case for Incremental Question Answering. ArXiv, Preprint. [Webpage] [Bibtex]
  
  

  @article{Rodriguez:Feng:Iyyer:He:Boyd-Graber-Preprint,
  	Title = {Quizbowl: The Case for Incremental Question Answering},
  	Author = {Pedro Rodriguez and Shi Feng and Mohit Iyyer and He He and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Journal = {ArXiv},
  	Year = {Preprint},
  	Url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04792},
  }