Deb Roy

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Contact Information:

dkroy@media.mit.edu

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AudienceView: AI-Assisted Interpretation of Audience Feedback in Journalism

William Brannon, Doug Beeferman, Hang Jiang, Andrew Heyward, & Deb Roy (2024). AudienceView: AI-Assisted Interpretation of Audience Feedback in Journalism. In Proceedings of CSCW. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12613

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CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models

Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, Brandon Roy, and Deb Roy. 2022. CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 6818–6826, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.

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Exploring aspects of similarity between spoken personal narratives by disentangling them into narrative clause types

Saldias, B., & Roy, D. (July, 2020) Exploring aspects of similarity between spoken personal narratives by disentangling them into narrative clause types. Proceedings of the 2020 ACL Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE). ACL.

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RadioTalk: a large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts

Doug Beeferman, William Brannon, and Deb Roy. (2019). RadioTalk: A large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts. In Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2019). Graz, Austria.

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Context is Key: New Approaches to Neural Coherence Modeling

McClure, David, Shayne O’Brien, and Deb Roy. “Context Is Key: New Approaches to Neural Coherence Modeling.” ArXiv:1812.04722 [Cs, Stat], December 5, 2018. http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04722.

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The Spread of True and False News Online

S. Vosoughi, D. Roy, S. Aral. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science. Vol 359, Iss 6380. Mar 09 2018.

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Tweet2Vec: Learning Tweet Embeddings using Character-level CNN-LSTM Encoder-Decoder

Soroush Vosoughi*, Prashanth Vijayaraghavan*, Deb Roy

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DeepStance at SemEval-2016 Task 6: Detecting Stance in Tweets Using Character and Word-Level CNNs

Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Ivan Sysoev, Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

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A Semi-automatic Method for Efficient Detection of Stories on Social Media

Soroush Vosough, Deb Roy

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Tweet Acts: A Speech Act Classifier for Twitter

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

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Automatic Detection and Categorization of Election-Related Tweets

Prashanth Vijayaraghavan*, Soroush Vosoughi*, Deb Roy

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Dense Data Collection Through the Speechome Recorder Better Reveals Developmental Trajectories

Iris Chin, Soroush Vosoughi, Mathew Goodwin, Deb Roy, Letitia Naigles

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Digital Stylometry: Linking Profiles Across Social Networks

Soroush Vosoughi, Helen Zhou, Deb Roy

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A Human-Machine Collaborative System for Identifying Rumors on Twitter

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

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Enhanced Twitter Sentiment Classification Using Contextual Information

Soroush Vosoughi, Helen Zhou, Deb Roy

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Predicting the Birth of a Spoken Word.

Brandon C. Roy, Michael C. Frank, Philip DeCamp, Matthew Miller, Deb Roy

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How the Speechome Recorder can change our understanding of developmental trajectories

Iris Chin, Soroush Vosoughi, Mathew Goodwin, Deb Roy, Letitia Naigles

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Verb use in a child previously diagnosed with ASD: Dense recordings reveal typical and atypical development

Iris Chin, Soroush Vosoughi, Emily Potrzeba, Mathew Goodwin, Deb Roy, Letitia Naigles

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The Birth of a Word

Roy, B. "The Birth of a Word"

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Data Visualization in the First Person

DeCamp, P. "Data Visualization in the First Person"

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Collective Artificial Intelligence: Simulated Role-Playing from Crowdsourced Data

Orkin, J. "Collective Artificial Intelligence: Simulated Role-Playing from Crowdsourced Data"

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Understanding Speech in Interactive Narratives with Crowdsourced Data

Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy

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Dense Recordings of Naturalistic Interactions Reveal both Typical and Atypical Speech in One Child with ASD

Iris Chin, Devin Rubin, Andrea Tovar, Soroush Vosoughi, Michelle Cheng, Emily Potrzeba, Mathew Goodwin, Deb Roy, Letitia Naigles

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A longitudinal study of prosodic exaggeration in child-directed speech

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

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An Automatic Child-Directed Speech Detector for the Study of Child Language Development

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

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Semantic Spaces: Behavior, Language and Word Learning in the Human Speechome Corpus

Miller, M. "Semantic Spaces: Behavior, Language and Word Learning in the Human Speechome Corpus"

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A Taxonomy of Situated Language in Natural Contexts

Shaw, G. "A Taxonomy of Situated Language in Natural Contexts"

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Extracting aspects of determiner meaning from dialogue in a virtual world environment

Hilke Reckman, Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy

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Grounding Spatial Language for Video Search

Stefanie Tellex, Thomas Kollar, George Shaw, Nicholas Roy, Deb Roy

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Natural Language Command of an Autonomous Micro-Air Vehicle

Albert Huang, Stefanie Tellex, Abraham Bachrach, Thomas Kollar, Deb Roy, Nick Roy

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An Immersive System for Browsing and Visualizing Surveillance Video

Philip DeCamp, George Shaw, Rony Kubat, Deb Roy

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Learning meanings of words and constructions, grounded in a virtual game

Hilke Reckman, Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy

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Investigating Prosodic Correlates of Child Emotion in the Speechome Corpus

Yuditskaya, S. "Investigating Prosodic Correlates of Child Emotion in the Speechome Corpus"

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On Effects of Caregiver Speech on Early Child Language Acquisition Using a Naturalistic, Dense and Longitudinal Corpus

Vosoughi, S. "On Effects of Caregiver Speech on Early Child Language Acquisition Using a Naturalistic, Dense and Longitudinal Corpus"

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Natural Language and Spatial Reasoning

Tellex, S. "Natural Language and Spatial Reasoning"

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Parameter Search in an Agent-Based Model of Pedestrian Movement in Retail Environments

Jitapunkul, T. "Parameter Search in an Agent-Based Model of Pedestrian Movement in Retail Environments"

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CVGA : (Computational Visual Grounded Accelerometers) A Visual Method for Word Comprehension Onset Analysis

Tsourides, K. "CVGA : (Computational Visual Grounded Accelerometers) A Visual Method for Word Comprehension Onset Analysis"

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Assessing Behavioral and Computational Approaches to Naturalistic Action Segmentation

Meredith Meyer, Philip DeCamp, Bridgette Hard, Dare Baldwin, Deb Roy

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Semi-Automatic Task Recognition for Interactive Narratives with EAT & RUN

Jeff Orkin, Tynan Smith, Hilke Reckman, Deb Roy

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Connected Strangers: Manipulating Social Perceptions to Study Trust

Pao, S-Y. "Connected Strangers: Manipulating Social Perceptions to Study Trust"

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Semi-Automated Dialogue Act Classification for Situated Social Agents in Games

Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy

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Toward Understanding Natural Language Directions

Thomas Kollar, Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy, Nick Roy

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Grounding Spatial Prepositions for Video Search

Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy

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New Horizons in the Study of Child Language Acquisition

Deb Roy

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A Human-Machine Collaborative Approach to Tracking Human Movement in Multi-Camera Video

Philip DeCamp, Deb Roy

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Towards Surveillance Video Search by Natural Language Query

Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy

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Semantic context effects on color categorization

Rony Kubat, Daniel Mirman, Deb Roy

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Automatic Learning and Generation of Social Behavior from Collective Human Gameplay

Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy

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Object Schemas for Grounding Language in a Responsive Robot

Kai-yuh Hsiao, Stefanie Tellex, Soroush Vosoughi, Rony Kubat, Deb Roy

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A Mechanistic Model of Three Facets of Meaning

Deb Roy

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Graspables: Grasp Recognition as a User Interface

Taylor, B. "Graspables: Grasp Recognition as a User Interface"

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Object Schemas for Responsive Robotic Language Use

Kai-yuh Hsiao, Soroush Vosoughi, Stefanie Tellex, Rony Kubat, Deb Roy

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HeadLock: Wide-Range Head Pose Estimation for Low Resolution Video

DeCamp, P. "HeadLock: Wide-Range Head Pose Estimation for Low Resolution Video"

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Grounded Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sports Video

Michael Fleischman, Deb Roy

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The Restaurant Game: Learning Social Behavior and Language from Thousands of Players Online

Jeff Orkin, Deb Roy

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TotalRecall: Visualization and Semi-Automatic Annotation of Very Large Audio-Visual Corpora

Rony Kubat, Philip DeCamp, Brandon Roy, Deb Roy

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Temporal Feature Induction for Baseball Highlight Classification

Michael Fleischman, Brandon Roy, Deb Roy