West, Robert

Auditing radicalization pathways on YouTube

Ribeiro, M. H., Ottoni, R., West, R., Almeida, V. A. F., & Meira, W. (2020) · Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Misinformation and Its ImpactsPopulism, Right-Wing Movements

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Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes

Kumar, S., West, R., & Leskovec, J. (2016) · Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Misinformation and Its ImpactsWikis in Education and Collaboration

Cited by 310

Knowledge base completion via search-based question answering

West, R., Gabrilovich, E., Murphy, K., Sun, S., Gupta, R., & Lin, D. (2014) · Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web

Topic ModelingSemantic Web and Ontologies

Cited by 305

On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Salvi, F., Ribeiro, M. H., Gallotti, R., & West, R. (2024) · Nature Human Behaviour

Ethics and Social Impacts of AIPsychology of Social Influence

Cited by 285

Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels

Horta Ribeiro, M., Jhaver, S., Zannettou, S., Blackburn, J., Stringhini, G., De Cristofaro, E., & West, R. (2021) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Hate Speech and Cyberbullying DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 124

Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels

Ribeiro, M. H., Jhaver, S., Zannettou, S., Blackburn, J., De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., & West, R. (2020) · arXiv

Hate Speech and Cyberbullying DetectionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 102

Are Anti-Feminist Communities Gateways to the Far Right? Evidence from Reddit and YouTube

Mamié, R., Horta Ribeiro, M., & West, R. (2021) · 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021

Populism, Right-Wing MovementsSocial Media and Politics

Cited by 75

Grammar-Constrained Decoding for Structured NLP Tasks without Finetuning

Geng, S., Josifoski, M., Peyrard, M., & West, R. (2023) · Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing TechniquesTopic Modeling

Cited by 74

Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks

Veselovsky, V., Ribeiro, M. H., & West, R. (2023) · arXiv

Mobile Crowdsensing and CrowdsourcingEthics and Social Impacts of AI

Cited by 73

Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks

Fourney, A., Bansal, G., Mozannar, H., Tan, C., Salinas, E., Erkang, Zhu, Niedtner, F., Proebsting, G., Bassman, G., et al. (2024) · arXiv

AI-based Problem Solving and PlanningMulti-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Cited by 17

Postmortem memory of public figures in news and social media

West, R., Leskovec, J., & Potts, C. (2021) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Memory, Trauma, and CommemorationDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Cited by 15

The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates

Latona, G. R., Ribeiro, M. H., Davidson, T. R., Veselovsky, V., & West, R. (2024) · arXiv

Academic Publishing and Open AccessPublishing and Scholarly Communication

Cited by 13

The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores and Acceptance Rates

Russo, G., Horta Ribeiro, M., Davidson, T. R., Veselovsky, V., & West, R. (2025) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Publishing and Scholarly CommunicationAcademic Publishing and Open Access

Cited by 12

A Logical Fallacy-Informed Framework for Argument Generation

Mouchel, L., Paul, D., Cui, S., West, R., Bosselut, A., & Faltings, B. (2025) · Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Linguistics and Discourse AnalysisTopic Modeling

Cited by 7

JSONSchemaBench: A Rigorous Benchmark of Structured Outputs for Language Models

Geng, S., Cooper, H., Moskal, M., Jenkins, S., Berman, J., Ranchin, N., West, R., Horvitz, E., & Nori, H. (2025) · arXiv

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 3

Cmprsr: Abstractive Token-Level Question-Agnostic Prompt Compressor

Zakazov, I., Argin, B., Gabouj, O., Charaf, K., Sharipov, A., Semiz, A., Drudi, L., Baldwin, N., & West, R. (2025) · arXiv

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

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