David Jurgens
Associate Professor, EECS – Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Professor, School of Information
Studies natural language processing and computational social science, including how generative AI models social interaction and crowdsourced language data.
David Jurgens's lab at Michigan works on language & society, generative & foundation models and computational social science. 47 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly ACL and EMNLP. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 12/ year
- at T1 venues
- 32%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 21 papers2025 · T1 12
- 12 papers2024 · T1 2
- 9 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, EMNLP, Findings of ACL, Findings of EMNLP, WWW
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Language & society12 papers
- Computational social science10 papers
- social9 papers
- Generative & foundation models7 papers
- crowdsourced0 papers
Paper list
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20265 papers
- Findings of ACLInterpreting Style Representations via Style-Eliciting Prompts (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Modeling Annotator Disagreement with Demographic-Aware Experts and Synthetic Perspectives (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACL System DemonstrationsPotato 2.0: A Comprehensive Annotation Platform with AI-in-the-Loop Support (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLReal or Robotic? Assessing Whether LLMs Accurately Simulate Qualities of Human Responses in Human-LLM Dialogue (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).SPRIG: Improving Large Language Model Performance by System Prompt Optimization. (opens in a new tab)
202521 papers
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).Aligning with Whom? Large Language Models Have Gender and Racial Biases in Subjective NLP Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Are Economists Always More Introverted? Analyzing Consistency in Persona-Assigned LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Are Rules Meant to be Broken? Understanding Multilingual Moral Reasoning as a Computational Pipeline with UniMoral (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals' Subjective Text Perceptions (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).Causally Modeling the Linguistic and Social Factors that Predict Email Response (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Coordinating Chaos: A Structured Review of Linguistic Coordination Methodologies. (opens in a new tab)
- The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaDigital Diasporas: How Origin Characteristics and Host-Native Distance Shape Immigrants' Online Cultural Retention (opens in a new tab)
- AI Lab WhitepaperEvaluation Framework for AI Systems in "the Wild" (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Leveraging Multilingual Training for Authorship Representation: Enhancing Generalization across Languages and Domains (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Mapping the Podcast Ecosystem with the Structured Podcast Research Corpus. (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)NUTMEG: Separating Signal From Noise in Annotator Disagreement (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Structured Moral Reasoning in Language Models: A Value-Grounded Evaluation Framework (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).A Multilingual Similarity Dataset for News Article Frame (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Can Large Language Model Agents Simulate Human Trust Behaviors? (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING).Finding Educationally Supportive Contexts for Vocabulary Learning with Attention-Based Models (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)Global News Synchrony During the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPIs "A Helpful Assistant" the Best Role for Large Language Models? A Systematic Evaluation of Social Roles in System Prompts (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.Modeling Empathetic Alignment in Conversation (opens in a new tab)
- npj Complexity. .Networks and Identity Drive Geographic Properties of the Diffusion of Linguistic Innovation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.Social Meme-ing: Measuring Linguistic Variation in Memes (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPTab2Text - A framework for deep learning with tabular data (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPThe Language of Trauma: Modeling Traumatic Event Descriptions Across Domains with Explainable AI (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPValueScope: Unveiling Implicit Norms and Values via Return Potential Model of Social Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.You don't need a personality test to know these models are unreliable: Assessing the Reliability of Large Language Models on Psychometric Instruments (opens in a new tab)
20239 papers
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). .Analyzing the Engagement of Social Relationships During Life Event Shocks in Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). .Bridging Nations: Quantifying the Role of Multilinguals in Communication on Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- The Gerontologist gnae015. .Characteristics of and variation in suicide mortality related to retirement during the Great Recession: perspectives from the National Violent Death Reporting System. (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). .Do LLMs Understand Social Knowledge? Evaluating the Sociability of Large Language Models with SocKET Benchmark (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) at ACL. .Exploring Linguistic Style Matching in Online Communities: The Role of Social Context and Conversation Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval).SemEval 2023 Task 9: Multilingual Tweet Intimacy Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII) at ACL. .When Do Annotator Demographics Matter? Measuring The Influence of Annotator Demographics with the POPQUORN Dataset (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). .When it Rains, it Pours: Modeling Media Storms and the News Ecosystem (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). .Your spouse needs professional help: Determining the Contextual Appropriateness of Messages through Modeling Social Relationships (opens in a new tab)
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