Noah A. Smith

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Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience

Language models (LMs) show promise as tools for communicating science to the general public by simplifying and summarizing complex language. Because models can be prompted to generate text for a specific audience (e.g., college-educated adults), LMs might be used to create multiple versions of plain language summaries…

CHI '204th AuthorCommunity Collaboration & Wikipedia +1

Explain like I am a Scientist: The Linguistic Barriers of Entry to r/science

As an online community for discussing research findings, r/science has the potential to contribute to science outreach and communication with a broad audience. Yet previous work suggests that most of the active contributors on r/science are science-educated people rather than a lay general public. One potential reason…

IUI '18CorrespondingGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Creative Writing with a Machine in the Loop: Case Studies on Slogans and Stories

As the quality of natural language generated by AI systems improves, writing interfaces can support interventions beyond grammar-checking and spell-checking, such as suggesting content to spark new ideas. To explore the possibility of machine-in-the-loop creative writing, we performed case studies using two system pro…

CSCW '184th AuthorResearch Methods

Framing Effect: Choice of Slogans Used to Advertise Online Experiments Can Boost Recruitment and Lead to Sample Biases

Online experimentation with volunteers relies on participants' non-financial motivations to complete a study, such as to altruistically support science or to compare oneself to others. Researchers rely on these motivations to attract study participants and often use incentives, like performance comparisons, to encoura…

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