Laura Biester

Assistant Professor, Middlebury College

Joined

June 2020

Names

Laura Biester (Preferred)

Emails

****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

****@pinterest.com

****@carleton.edu

****@middlebury.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Middlebury College (middlebury.edu)

2023 – Present

PhD student

University of Michigan (umich.edu)

2018 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Rada Mihalcea

2018 – 2023

Expertise

NLP

Present

Computational Social Science

Present

Publications

Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models
Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Artem Abzaliev, Laura Biester, Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Xinyi Gao, Aylin Ece Gunal, Jacky He, Ashkan Kazemi, Muhammad Khalifa, Nam Ho Koh, Andrew Lee, Siyang Liu, Do June Min, Shinka Mori, Joan Nwatu, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Zekun Wang et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- LREC-COLING 202
- Readers: Everyone
Emotional and cognitive changes surrounding online depression identity claims
Laura Biester, James Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea
- 08 Jun 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Mental Health Classifier Generalization with Pre-diagnosis Data
Yujian Liu, Laura Biester, Rada Mihalcea
- 08 Jun 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Lexical Measurement of Teaching Qualities
Laura Biester, Ian Stewart, Laura Hirshfield, Rada Mihalcea, Sara Pozzi
- 08 Jun 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
We Are in This Together: Quantifying Community Subjective Wellbeing and Resilience
MeiXing Dong, Ruixuan Sun, Laura Biester, Rada Mihalcea
- 24 Aug 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Analyzing the Effects of Annotator Gender across NLP Tasks
Laura Biester, Vanita Sharma, Ashkan Kazemi, Naihao Deng, Steven R. Wilson, Rada Mihalcea
- 24 Aug 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Building Location Embeddings from Physical Trajectories and Textual Representations
Laura Biester, Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea
- 15 Oct 2021
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Mental Health Forums
Laura Biester, Katie Matton, Janarthanan Rajendran, Emily Mower Provost, Rada Mihalcea
- 15 Oct 2021
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums
Laura Biester, Katie Matton, Janarthanan Rajendran, Emily Mower, Rada Mihalcea
- Published: 05 Jul 2022, Last Modified: 24 May 2023
- NLP-COVID19-EMNLP Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums
Laura Biester, Katie Matton, Janarthanan Rajendran, Emily Mower, Rada Mihalcea
- 30 Jun 2020 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- Submitted to NLP-COVID-2020
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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