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20122021
most citedEmpath: Understanding Topic Signals in Large-Scale Text

368 citations · 448 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CR2021

Improving security for users of decentralized exchanges through multiparty computation

Robert Annessi, Ethan Fast

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges offer compelling security benefits over centralized exchanges: users control their funds and avoid the risk of an exchange hack or malicious…

cs.HC2017★ 14 cited

Iris: A Conversational Agent for Complex Tasks

Ethan Fast, Binbin Chen, Julia Mendelsohn +2

Today's conversational agents are restricted to simple standalone commands. In this paper, we present Iris, an agent that draws on human conversational strategies to combine comman…

cs.CL2016★ 14 cited

Long-Term Trends in the Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence

Ethan Fast, Eric Horvitz

Analyses of text corpora over time can reveal trends in beliefs, interest, and sentiment about a topic. We focus on views expressed about artificial intelligence (AI) in the New Yo…

cs.CL2016

Identifying Dogmatism in Social Media: Signals and Models

Ethan Fast, Eric Horvitz

We explore linguistic and behavioral features of dogmatism in social media and construct statistical models that can identify dogmatic comments. Our model is based on a corpus of R…

cs.CL2016★ 21 cited

Shirtless and Dangerous: Quantifying Linguistic Signals of Gender Bias in an Online Fiction Writing Community

Ethan Fast, Tina Vachovsky, Michael S. Bernstein

Imagine a princess asleep in a castle, waiting for her prince to slay the dragon and rescue her. Tales like the famous Sleeping Beauty clearly divide up gender roles. But what abou…

cs.HC2016★ 29 cited

Augur: Mining Human Behaviors from Fiction to Power Interactive Systems

Ethan Fast, William McGrath, Pranav Rajpurkar +1

From smart homes that prepare coffee when we wake, to phones that know not to interrupt us during important conversations, our collective visions of HCI imagine a future in which c…