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Shomir Wilson

Shomir Wilson

Pennsylvania State University · Social Data Analytics

Active 2004–2026

h-index16
Citations1.7k
Papers8245 last 5y
Funding$1.2M1 active

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Shomir Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, where he leads the Human Language Technologies Lab. He is also a Faculty Affiliate of Penn State's Institute for CyberScience and a member of the faculty of the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School. His research spans natural language processing, privacy, and artificial intelligence, and he participates in the Usable Privacy Policy Project. Prior to his current position, he was an Assistant Professor in the EECS Department at the University of Cincinnati from 2016 to 2018. He has also held positions as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and was an NSF International Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2011.

Research topics

  • Computer science
  • Internet privacy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Natural language processing
  • Data science

Selected publications

  • Finding a Choice in a Haystack: Automatic Extraction of Opt-Out Statements from Privacy Policy Text

    2020-04-20 · 67 citations

    articleOpen access

    Website privacy policies sometimes provide users the option to opt-out of certain collections and uses of their personal data. Unfortunately, many privacy policies bury these instructions deep in their text, and few web users have the time or skill necessary to discover them. We describe a method for the automated detection of opt-out choices in privacy policy text and their presentation to users through a web browser extension. We describe the creation of two corpora of opt-out choices, which e…

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  • Nationality Bias in Text Generation

    2023-01-01 · 32 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

    Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Ruchi Panchanadikar, Ting-Hao Huang, Shomir Wilson. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2023.

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  • Do Generative AI Models Output Harm while Representing Non-Western Cultures: Evidence from A Community-Centered Approach

    Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society · 2024-10-16 · 31 citations

    article

    Our research investigates the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) models, specifically text-to-image generators (T2Is), on the representation of non-Western cultures, with a focus on Indian contexts. Despite the transformative potential of T2Is in content creation, concerns have arisen regarding biases that may lead to misrepresentations and marginalizations. Through a Non-Western community-centered approach and grounded theory analysis of 5 focus groups from diverse Indian subcul…

    PublisherDOI

  • Online Self-Disclosure, Social Support, and User Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    ACM Transactions on Social Computing · 2023-09-19 · 14 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    We investigate relationships between online self-disclosure and received social support and user engagement during the COVID-19 crisis. We crawl a total of 2,399 posts and 29,851 associated comments from the r/COVID19_support subreddit and manually extract fine-grained personal information categories and types of social support sought from each post. We develop a BERT-based ensemble classifier to automatically identify types of support offered in users’ comments. We then analyze the effect of pe…

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  • An Audit on the Perspectives and Challenges of Hallucinations in NLP

    2024-01-01 · 9 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Tatiana Chakravorti, Vipul Gupta, Heidi Biggs, Mukund Srinath, Koustava Goswami, Sarah Rajtmajer, Shomir Wilson. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.

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  • Social Data AnalyticsPI

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science

    University of Maryland

    2011

  • M.S., Computer Science

    University of Maryland

    2008

  • B.S., Mathematics

    Virginia Tech

    2005

  • B.A., Philosophy

    Virginia Tech

    2005

  • B.S., Computer Science

    Virginia Tech

    2005

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