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2024

A Digital Cohort Approach for Social Media Monitoring: A Cohort Study of People Who Vape E-Cigarettes. John W Ayers, Adam Poliak, Nikolas T Beros, Michael Paul, Mark Dredze, Michael Hogarth, Davey M Smith.. American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) 2024. BibTex

2023

E-commerce licensing loopholes: a case study of online shopping for tobacco products following a statewide sales restriction on flavoured tobacco in California. Eric C Leas, Tomas Mejorado, Raquel Harati, Shannon Ellis, Nora Satybaldiyeva, Nicolas Morales, Adam Poliak. Tobacco Control 2023. Abstract BibTex
News Coverage: [US News] [Yahoo]
Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Responses to Public Health Questions. John W Ayers, Zechariah Zhu, Adam Poliak, Eric C Leas, Mark Dredze, Michael Hogarth, Davey M Smith. 2023. BibTex
News Coverage: [CNN] [NY Post]
Evaluating Paraphrastic Robustness in Textual Entailment Models. Dhruv Verma, Yash Kumar Lal, Shreyashee Sinha, Benjamin Van Durme and Adam Poliak. ACL 2023. Abstract Data Code BibTex
Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum. John W Ayers, Adam Poliak, Mark Dredze, Eric C Leas, Zechariah Zhu, Jessica B Kelley, Dennis J Faix, Aaron M Goodman, Christopher A Longhurst, Michael Hogarth, Davey M Smith. JAMA Internal Medicine 2023. Data BibTex
News Coverage: [The Hill] [The Wall Street Journal] [US News] [Jerusalem Post]
Automated Discovery of Perceived Health-related Concerns about E-cigarettes from Reddit. Alexandra DeLucia, Adam Poliak, Zechariah Zhu, Stephanie R Pitts, Mario Navarro, Sharareh Shojaie, John W Ayers, Mark Dredze. Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2023. BibTex

2022

Internet Searches for Abortion Medications Following the Leaked SCOTUS Draft Ruling. Adam Poliak, Nora Satybaldiyeva, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Eric C. Leas, Ramesh Rao, Davey Smith, John W. Ayers. JAMA Internal Medicine 2022. Abstract BibTex
News Coverage: [Philadelphia Inquirer] [The Guardian] [Daily Mail] [Politico] [Insider] [Yahoo] [ABC News] [Today] [CNN]
On Gender Biases in Offensive Language Classification Models. Sanjana Marcé, Adam Poliak. Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing @ NAACL 2022. Abstract BibTex
A Machine Learning Approach For Discovering Tobacco Brands, Products, and Manufacturers in the United States. Adam Poliak, Paiheng Xu, Eric Leas, Mario Navarro, Stephanie Pitts, Andie Malterud, John W Ayers, Mark Dredze. Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2022. BibTex

2021

Characterizing Test Anxiety on Social Media. Esha Julka, Olivia Kowalishin, Jalisha B. Jenifer, Adam Poliak. WiNLP 2021.
Discovering Changes in Birthing Narratives During COVID-19. Daphna Spira, Noreen Mayat, Caitlin Dreisbach, Adam Poliak. WiNLP 2021.
Figurative Language in Recognizing Textual Entailment. Tuhin Chakrabarty, Debanjan Ghosh, Adam Poliak, Smaranda Muresan. Findings of ACL 2021. Abstract Code BibTex
Fine-tuning Transformers for Identifying Self-Reporting Potential Cases and Symptoms of COVID-19 in Tweets. Max Fleming, Priyanka Dondeti, Caitlin Dreisbach, Adam Poliak. Social Media Mining for Health Applications 2021 (Shared Task) 2021. Abstract Code BibTex
An Immersive Computational Text Analysis Course for Non-Computer Science Students at Barnard College. Adam Poliak, Jalisha Jenifer. Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP @ NAACL 2021 2021. Abstract BibTex
Suicide-Related Internet Searches During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US. John W. Ayers, Adam Poliak, Derek C. Johnson, Eric C. Leas, Mark Dredze, Theodore Caputi, Alicia L. Nobles. JAMA Network Open 2021. Abstract BibTex
News Coverage: [NYTimes] [Healio]

2020

Revisiting Recognizing Textual Entailment for Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems. Adam Poliak. PhD Thesis, Johns Hopkins University 2020. Abstract BibTex
A Survey on Recognizing Textual Entailment as an NLP Evaluation. Adam Poliak. Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems (Eval4NLP) 2020. Abstract Video BibTex
Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language Inference. Siddharth Vashishtha, Adam Poliak, Yash Kumar Lal, Benjamin Van Durme, Aaron Steven White. Findings of EMNLP 2020. Abstract Code BibTex
Quantifying Public Interest in Police Reforms by Mining Internet Search Data Following George Floyd's Death. John W Ayers, Benjamin M Althouse, Adam Poliak, Eric C Leas, Alicia L Nobles, Mark Dredze, Davey Smith. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 2020. Abstract BibTex
News Coverage: [Breitbart]
Internet Searches for Acute Anxiety During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic. John W Ayers, Eric C Leas, Derek C Johnson, Adam Poliak, Benjamin M Althouse, Mark Dredze, Alicia L Nobles. JAMA Internal Medicine 2020. Abstract BibTex
News Coverage: [CNN] [CNBC] [The Hill] [Forbes] [Yahoo] [New York Post] [Sky News (Italian)]
Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs. Adam Poliak, Max Fleming, Cash Costello, Kenton W Murray, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Shivani Pandya, Darius Irani, Milind Agarwal, Udit Sharma, Shuo Sun, Nicola Ivanov, Lingxi Shang, Kaushik Srinivasan, Seolhwa Lee, Xu Han, Smisha Agarwal, João Sedoc. NLP COVID-19 Workshop @EMNLP 2020. Abstract Data Code BibTex
Probing Neural Language Models for Human Tacit Assumptions. Nathaniel Weir, Adam Poliak, Benjamin Van Durme. CogSci 2020. Abstract Video BibTex
Uncertain Natural Language Inference. Tongfei Chen*, Zhengping Jiang*, Adam Poliak, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Benjamin Van Durme. ACL 2020. Abstract Data Code BibTex

2019

Adversarial Learning for Robust Emergency Need Discovery in Low Resource Settings. Adam Poliak, Benjamin Van Durme. West Coast NLP (WeCNLP) 2019. BibTex
Don’t Take the Premise for Granted: Mitigating Artifacts in Natural Language Inference . Yonatan Belinkov*, Adam Poliak*, Stuart M. Shieber, Benjamin Van Durme, Alexander Rush. ACL 2019. Abstract Code Video BibTex
On Adversarial Removal of Hypothesis-only Bias in Natural Language Inference. Yonatan Belinkov*, Adam Poliak*, Stuart M. Shieber, Benjamin Van Durme, Alexander Rush. StarSem 2019. Abstract Code BibTex
Probing what different NLP tasks teach machines about function word comprehension. Best Paper Award. Najoung Kim, Roma Patel, Adam Poliak, Patrick Xia, Alex Wang, R. Thomas Mccoy, Ian Tenney, Alexis Ross, Tal Linzen, Benjamin Van Durme, Samuel Bowman, Ellie Pavlick. StarSem 2019. Abstract Data BibTex
What do you learn from context? Probing for sentence structure in contextualized word representations. Ian Tenney, Patrick Xia, Berlin Chen, Alex Wang, Adam Poliak, R. Thomas McCoy, Najoung Kim, Benjamin Van Durme, Samuel R. Bowman, Dipanjan Das, Ellie Pavlick. ICLR 2019. Abstract BibTex

2018

Collecting Diverse Natural Language Inference Problems for Sentence Representation Evaluation. Adam Poliak, Aparajita Haldar, Rachel Rudinger, J. Edward Hu, Ellie Pavlick, Aaron Steven White, Benjamin Van Durme. EMNLP 2018. Abstract Data Slides Video BibTex
Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language Inference. Best Paper Award. Adam Poliak, Jason Naradowsky, Aparajita Haldar, Rachel Rudinger, Benjamin Van Durme. StarSem 2018. Abstract Code Slides BibTex
On the Evaluation of Semantic Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation Using Natural Language Inference. Adam Poliak, Yonatan Belinkov, Jim Glass, Benjamin Van Durme. NAACL 2018. Abstract Code BibTex
Neural Variational Entity Set Expansion for Automatically Populated Knowledge Graphs. Pushpendre Rastogi, Adam Poliak, Vince Lyzinski, and Benjamin Van Durme.. Information Retrieval Journal 2018. Abstract Code Video BibTex

2017

CADET: Computer Assisted Discovery Extraction and Translation . Benjamin Van Durme, Tom Lippincott, Kevin Duh, Deana Burchfield, Adam Poliak, Cash Costello, Tim Finin, Scott Miller, James Mayfield, Philipp Koehn, Craig Harman, Dawn Lawrie, Chandler May, Max Thomas, Annabelle Carrell, Julianne Chaloux, Tongfei Chen, Alex Comerford, Mark Dredze, Benjamin Glass, Shudong Hao, Patrick Martin, Pushpendre Rastogi, Rashmi Sankepally, Travis Wolfe, Ying-Ying Tran and Ted Zhang. IJCNLP 2017. Abstract Code BibTex
Frame-Based Continuous Lexical Semantics through Exponential Family Tensor Factorization and Semantic Proto-Roles. Francis Ferraro, Adam Poliak, Ryan Cotterell and Benjamin Van Durme. StarSem 2017. Abstract Code BibTex
Efficient, Compositional, Order-sensitive n-gram Embeddings. Adam Poliak*, Pushpendre Rastogi*, M. Patrick Martin and Benjamin Van Durme. EACL 2017. Abstract Data Code BibTex
Explaining and Generalizing Skip-Gram through Exponential Family Principal Component Analysis. Ryan Cotterell, Adam Poliak, Benjamin Van Durme and Jason Eisner. EACL 2017. Abstract Code BibTex
Semantic Proto-Role Labeling. Adam Teichert, Adam Poliak, Benjamin Van Durme, Matthew R. Gormley. AAAI 2017. Abstract BibTex
Training Relation Embeddings under Logical Constraints. Pushpendre Rastogi, Adam Poliak, Benjamin Van Durme. KG4IR 2017. Abstract BibTex
Generating Automatic Pseudo-entailments from AMR Parses. Adam Poliak and Benjamin Van Durme. MASC-SLL 2017. Abstract BibTex