Su Lin Blodgett
Scholar

Su Lin Blodgett

Google Scholar ID: 8jbAkOUAAAAJ
Microsoft Research Montréal
Natural Language ProcessingResponsible AIComputational Social Science
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,928
 
H-index
20
 
i10-index
31
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
23
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • May 2024: Two papers accepted to ACL 2024 (led by Yu Lu Liu) and Findings of ACL (led by Jay Cunningham).
  • Mar. 2024: Two papers accepted to NAACL 2024 on fair NLG behaviors (Lucy Li) and evolving practices around disagreement in data labeling.
  • Oct. 2023: Paper on responsible AI in text summarization (Yu Lu Liu) accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2023.
  • July 2023: Keynote at WOAH workshop at ACL 2023.
  • June 2023: Keynote at Workshop on Algorithmic Injustice (University of Amsterdam) and panel at SPUI25.
  • May 2023: Three papers accepted to ACL/Findings of ACL on fairness harms in generation (Eve Fleisig), NLP task conceptualizations (Arjun Subramonian), and prompt-based bias measurement.
  • Nov. 2022: Paper on representational harms in image tagging accepted to AAAI 2023.
  • June 2022: Keynotes at workshops on Language Technology for EDI and Perspectivist NLP.
  • May 2022: Ethics co-chair for ACL 2022; co-organized CHI panel on responsible language technologies; paper on NLG evaluation practices (Kaitlyn Zhou) accepted to NAACL 2022.
  • Dec. 2021: Named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2022.
  • Co-organizing the third HCI-NLP bridging workshop at NAACL 2024.
  • Co-organizing a tutorial on human-centered evaluation of language technologies at EMNLP 2024.
Background
  • Senior researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) group at Microsoft Research Montréal.
  • Broadly interested in the social and ethical implications of natural language processing (NLP) technologies.
  • Develops approaches to anticipate, measure, and mitigate harms from language technologies, with a focus on the complexities of language in social contexts.
  • Supports NLP practitioners in ethical work.
  • Has also worked on computational sociolinguistics, e.g., modeling language variation on social media.