Publications

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2019

Ben Hutchinson and Margaret Mitchell. 50 Years of Test (Un)fairness: Lessons for Machine Learning. FAT* '19: Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

2018

I have turned my research largely corporation-internal, serving to help lead the direction of some of Google's internal fairness and ethics work. More public research to follow once the effort it well-integrated throughout Google's products and services.


Ryu, H. and Adam, H. and Mitchell, M. (2018) InclusiveFaceNet: Improving Face Attribute Detection with Race and Gender Diversity. Proceedings of FAT/ML 2018.


Zhang, B. and Lemoine, H. and Mitchell, M. (2018) Mitigating Unwanted Biases with Adversarial Learning. Proceedings of AIES 2018.

2017

Benton, A. and Mitchell, M. and Hovy, D. (2017) Multi-Task Learning for Mental Health using Social Media Text. Proceedings of EACL 2017. [blurb]

2016

Mostafazadeh, N. and Misra, I. and Devlin, J. and Zitnick, C. L. and Mitchell, M. and He, X. and Vanderwende, L. (2016). Generating Natural Questions About an Image. Proceedings of ACL 2016.

Huang, T.-H. and Ferraro, F. and Mostafazadeh, N. and Misra, I. and Agrawal, A. and Devlin, J. and Girshick, R. and He, X. and Kohli, P. and Batra, D. and Zitnick, C. L. and Parikh, D. and Vanderwende, L. and Galley, M. and Mitchell, M. (2016). Visual Storytelling. Proceedings of NAACL 2016. [bibtex]

Misra, I. and Zitnick, C. L. and Mitchell, M. and Girshick, R. (2016). Seeing through the Human Reporting Bias: Visual Classifiers from Noisy Human-Centric Labels. Proceedings of CVPR 2016. [poster]

Mason, R. and Gaska, B. and Van Durme, B. and Choudhury, P. and Hart, T. and Dolan, B. and Toutanova, K. and Mitchell, M. (2016). Microsummarization of Online Reviews: An Experimental Study. Proceedings of AAAI 2016.

2015

Antol, S. and Agrawal, A. and Lu, J. and Mitchell, M. and Batra, D. and Zitnick, C. L. and Parikh, D. (2015). VQA: Visual Question Answering. Proceedings of ICCV 2015. [website]

Ferraro, F. and Mostafazadeh, N. and Huang, T. and Vanderwende, L. and Devlin, J. and Galley, M. and Mitchell, M. (2015). A Survey of Current Datasets for Vision and Language Research. Proceedings of EMNLP 2015. [bibtex] [website]

Devlin, J. and Cheng, H. and Fang, H. and Gupta, S. and Deng, L. and He, X. and Zweig, G. and Mitchell, M. (2015). Language Models for Image Captioning: The Quirks and What Works. Proceedings of ACL 2015. [bibtex]

Galley, M. and Brockett, C. and Sordoni, A. and Ji, Y. and Auli, M. and Quirk, C. and Mitchell, M. and Gao, J. and Dolan, B. (2015). deltaBLEU: A Discriminative Metric for Generation Tasks with Intrinsically Diverse Targets. Proceedings of ACL 2015. [bibtex]

Devlin, J. and Gupta, S. and Girshick, R. and Mitchell, M. and Zitnick, C. L. (2015). Exploring Nearest Neighbor Approaches for Image Captioning. ArXiv print.

Sordoni, A. and Galley, M. and Auli, M. and Brockett, C. and Ji, Y. and Mitchell, M. and Nie, J. and Gao, J. and Dolan, B.. (2015). A Neural Network Approach to Context-Sensitive Generation of Conversational Responses. Proceedings of NAACL 2015. [bibtex]

Mitchell, M. and Hollingshead, K. and Coppersmith G. (2015). Quantifying the Language of Schizophrenia in Social Media. Proceedings of the 2nd CLPsych Workshop, NAACL 2015. [bibtex]

Coppersmith, G. and Dredze, M. and Harman, C. and Hollingshead, K. and Mitchell, M. (2015). CLPsych 2015 Shared Task: Depression and PTSD on Twitter. Proceedings of the 2nd CLPsych Workshop, NAACL 2015. [bibtex]

Fang, H. and Gupta, S. and Iandola, F. and Srivastava, Rupesh K. and Deng, L. and Dollar, P. and Gao, J. and He, X. and Mitchell, M. and Platt, J. C. and Zitnick, L. and Zweig, G. (2015). From Captions to Visual Concepts and Back. Proceedings of CVPR 2015. [bibtex]

2014

Mitchell, M. and Bohus, D. and Kamar, E. (2014). Crowdsourcing Language Generation Templates for Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of INLG and SigDial 2014. [bibtex]

Gormley, M., and Mitchell, M., and Van Durme, B., and Dredze, M. (2014). Low Resource Semantic Role Labeling. Proceedings of ACL 2014. [bibtex]

Beller, C., and Knowles, R., and Harman, C., and Bergsma, S., and Mitchell, M., and Van Durme, B. (2014). I'm a Belieber: Social Roles via Self-identification and Conceptual Attributes. Proceedings of ACL 2014. [bibtex]

2013

Mitchell, M., and Aguilar, J., and Wilson, T., and Van Durme, B. (2013). Open Domain Targeted Sentiment. Proceedings of EMNLP 2013. [bibtex]

Mitchell, M., and van Deemter, K., and Reiter, E. (2013). Attributes in Visual Reference. Proceedings of PRE-CogSci 2013. [bibtex]

Viethen, J., and Mitchell, M., and Krahmer, E. (2013). Graphs and Spatial Relations in the Generation of Referring Expressions. Proceedings of ENLG 2013. [bibtex]

Mitchell, M. and Reiter, E., and van Deemter, K. (2013). Typicality and Object Reference. Proceedings of CogSci 2013. [bibtex]

Mitchell, M. and van Deemter, K., and Reiter, E. (2013). Generating Expressions that Refer to Visible Objects. Proceedings of NAACL 2013. [bibtex]

Mitchell, M. Generating Reference to Visible Objects. Doctoral Thesis.

2012

Mitchell, M. and Sproat, R. (2012). Discourse-Based Modeling for AAC. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT).

Mitchell, M., Han, X., and Hayes, J. (2012). Midge: Generating Descriptions of Images. Proceedings of INLG 2012. System demo.

Dodge, J., Goyal, A., Han, X., Stratos, K., Mensch, A., Mitchell, M., Yamaguchi, K., Choi, Y., Daume III, H., Berg, A., and Berg, T. L. (2012). Detecting Visual Text. Proceedings of NAACL 2012.

Berg, A., Berg, T. L., Daume III, H., Dodge, J., Goyal, A., Han, X., Mensch, A., Mitchell, M., Sood, A., Stratos, K., Yamaguchi, K. (2012). Understanding and Predicting Importance in Images. Proceedings of CVPR 2012.

Mitchell, M., Dodge, J., Goyal, A., Yamaguchi, K., Stratos, K., Han, X., Mensch, A., Berg, A., and Berg, T. L., Daume III, H. (2012). Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections. Proceedings of EACL 2012. [bibtex]

2011

Mitchell, M., van Deemter, K., and Reiter, E. (2011). Two Approaches for Generating Size Modifiers. Proceedings of ENLG 2011.

Mitchell, M. (2011). From an Image to a Description. Vision and Language Workshop 2011.

Mitchell, M., van Deemter, K., and Reiter, E. (2011). Applying Machine Learning to the Choice of Size Modifiers. Proceedings of PRE-CogSci 2011.

Mitchell, M., Dunlop, A., and Roark, B. (2011). Semi-Supervised Modeling for Prenominal Modifier Ordering. Proceedings of ACL 2011.

Mitchell, M., van Deemter, K., and Reiter, E. (2011). On the Use of Size Modifiers When Referring to Visible Objects. Proceedings of CogSci 2011.

Prud'hommeaux, E. T., Mitchell, M., and Roark, B. (2011). Using Patterns of Narrative Recall for Improved Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Proceedings of FICCDAT 2011.

Roark, B., Mitchell, M., Hosom, J., Hollingshead, K., and Kaye, J. (2011). Spoken Language Derived Measures for Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

2010

Mitchell, M., van Deemter, K., and Reiter, E. (2010). Natural Reference to Objects in a Visual Domain. Proceedings of INLG 2010.

Mitchell, M. (2010). Natural Reference to Objects in a Visual Domain. Presentation at MOG 2010.

Mitchell, M. (2010). A Flexible Approach to Class-Based Ordering of Prenominal Modifiers. In Krahmer, E. and Theune, M., editors, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation, volume 5980 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg.

Dunlop, A., Mitchell, M., and Roark, B. (2010). Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment. Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010.

van Santen, J., Prud'hommeaux, E. T., Black, L., and Mitchell, M. (2010). Computational prosodic markers for autism. Autism. 14:3.

2009

Mitchell, M. (2009). Class-Based Ordering of Prenominal Modifiers. Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), Athens, Greece, March 2009.

2008

Mitchell, M. (2008). Towards the Generation of Natural Reference. Master's Thesis, University of Washington, 2008.

2007

Roark, B., Mitchell, M., and Hollingshead, K. (2007). Syntactic Complexity Measures for Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment. Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), Prague, June 2007.

Roark, B., Hosom, P., Mitchell, M., and Kaye, J. (2007). Automatically Derived Spoken Language Markers for Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Aging (ICTA), Toronto, June 2007.