Each edition of Research Bytes showcases the scholarly and professional achievements of Drexel School of Computer and Information Sciences (SCIS) faculty and students.
SCIS Research in Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science Accepted to Leading Conferences and Journals
Faculty and students in Drexel’s School of Computer and Information Sciences (SCIS) continue to make significant contributions to the fields of natural language processing (NLP) and computational social science. Their latest research, spanning areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science, has been accepted to the 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026), the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), and the 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) this spring. In addition, several papers have been accepted by top-tier journals, highlighting SCIS’s contributions to the study of language, data and society.
*SCIS Faculty and student in bold font
Los Angeles, California hosted the 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media during May 27-29, 2026, and participants’ work expanded on the theme of “Understanding the World Through the Web.”
SCIS accepted papers
- Mattia Samory, Diana Pamfile, Andrew To, and Shruti Phadke. “Asking For It: Question-Answering for Predicting Rule Infractions in Online Content Moderation.”
- Shayan Alipour, Shruti Phadke, Seyed Shahabeddin Mousavi, Amirhossein Afsharrad, Morteza Zihayat, and Mattia Samory. “The Gray Area: Characterizing Moderator Disagreement on Reddit.”
- Aria Pessianzadeh, Alexander H. Poole, and Rezvaneh Rezapour. “Reddit after Roe: A Computational Analysis of Abortion Narratives and Barriers in the Wake of Dobbs.”
The Association for Computational Linguistics will host its 64th Annual Meeting later this summer in San Diego, California from July 2 to 7.
SCIS accepted papers
- Cassie Huang, Stuti Mohan, Ziyi Yang, Stefanie Tellex and Li Zhang. “Language Model as Planner and Formalizer under Constraints.” In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Elham Aghakhani and Rezvaneh Rezapour. “Like a therapist, but not: Reddit Narratives of AI in Mental Health Contexts.” In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Liancheng Gong, Wang Zhu, Jesse Thomason and Li Zhang. “Iterative Formalization and Planning in Partially Observable Environments.” In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Prabhu Prakash Kagitha, Bo Sun, Ishan Desai, Andrew Zhu, Cassie Huang, Manling Li, Ziyang Li and Li Zhang. “Unifying Inference-Time Planning Language Generation.” In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will occur in Burlington, Vermont over July 28-31, 2026.
SCIS extended abstracts
- Elham Aghakhani and Rezvaneh Rezapour. “Understanding User Narratives of AI for Mental Health Support on Reddit.”
- Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani, and Rezvaneh Rezapour. “Phenotypes of Stigma Expressed by People Who Use Drugs on Reddit.”
Journals
Finally, several SCIS scholars will have research published in upcoming editions of the journals Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), Scientometrics, Language Resources and Evaluation, and AI & Society.
- Aria Pessianzadeh, Naima Sultana, Hildegarde Van den Bulck, David Gefen, Shahin Jabbari, and Rezvaneh Rezapour. “In Generative AI We (Dis)trust? Computational Analysis of Trust and Distrust in Reddit Discussions.” To appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL). (Invited for presentation ACL 2026).
- Yasaman Asgari, Hongyu Zhou, Özgür Kadir Özer, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Mary Ellen Sloane, and Alexandre Bovet. "Arab Spring’s Impact on Science Through the Lens of Scholarly Attention, Funding, and Migration.” To appear in Scientometrics.
- Maria Becker, Kanyao Han, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Jana Diesner, and Andreas Witt. “Impact Classification Within and Beyond Academia: Domain-robust Annotation and the Capacity of Large Language Models.” To appear in Language Resources and Evaluation.
- John S. Seberger, Sanonda D. Gupta, Afsaneh Razi, and Rezvaneh Rezapour, “Communicative Surrogates and the Ethics of LLM-Mediated Communication.” To appear in AI & Society.