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Position: Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment

Hua Shen, Tiffany Knearem, Reshmi Ghosh, Kenan Alkiek, Kundan Krishna, Yachuan Liu, Ziqiao Ma, S. Petridis, Yi-Hao Peng, Li Qiwei, Sushrita Rakshit, Chenglei Si, Yutong Xie, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Frank Bentley, Joyce Chai, Zachary C. Lipton, Qiaozhu Mei, Rada Mihalcea, Michael Terry, Diyi Yang, Meredith Ringel Morris, Paul Resnick, David Jurgens

NeurIPS 2025 | June 2024

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Measuring and shaping the nutritional environment via food sales logs: case studies of campus-wide food choice and a call to action

Kristina Gligorić, Robin Zbinden, Arnaud Chiolero, Emre Kiciman, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz, Robert West

Frontiers in Nutrition | June 2024, Vol 11

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FAccT 2024

June 3, 2024 – June 7, 2024 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Microsoft is honored to support the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT (opens in new tab)). This pivotal computer science conference has a multidisciplinary approach, uniting researchers and practitioners who are dedicated…

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“It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study

Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch

CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024

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Knowledge Distillation in Automated Annotation: Supervised Text Classification with LLM-Generated Training Labels

Nick Pangakis, Sam Wolken

Sixth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS 2024) | June 2024

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of May 27, 2024

May 29, 2024 | Tarleton Gillespie, Sami Khairy, Vishak Gopal, Francis Y. Yan, Zhixiong Niu, Ross Cutler, Sudha Rao, Weijia Xu, Chris Brockett, Nebojsa Jojic, Michael Xu, Jorge Leandro, Bill Dolan, Seth Spielman, Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, Joshua Bradley, Alex Chao, Apurva Mody, Steven Truitt, Jonathan Larson

How can generative AI tools represent less common identities and narratives; Can LLMs help players participate in game narratives; Using LLMs to improve geospatial demographic data; A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization; and more.

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Participation in the age of foundation models

Harini Suresh, Emily Tseng, Meg Young, Mary L. Gray, Emma Pierson, Karen Levy

FAccT 2024 | May 2024

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What’s Your Story: Jacki O’Neill

May 16, 2024

Jacki O’Neill saw an opportunity to expand Microsoft research efforts to Africa. She now leads Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi (formerly MARI). O’Neill talks about the choices that got her there, the lab’s impact, and how…

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Observer Effect in Social Media Use

Koustuv Saha, Pranshu Gupta, Gloria Mark, Emre Kiciman, M. D. Choudhury

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2024

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Akal Badi ya Bias: An Exploratory Study of Gender Bias in Hindi Language Technology

Rishav Hada, Safiya Husain, Varun Gumma, Harshita Diddee, Aditya Yadavalli, Agrima Seth, Nidhi Kulkarni, Ujwal Gadiraju, Aditya Vashistha, Vivek Seshadri, Kalika Bali

FAccT 2024 | May 2024