Shomir Wilson

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Shomir Wilson

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1235-3754
    20072025

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    My research brings together natural language processing (NLP), privacy, and artificial intelligence.

    I am interested in solving problems to enable computers to do meaningful work with large volumes of natural language text. My lab develops new methods for NLP and applies them to a variety of domains, including privacy, online social networks, web science, and digital libraries. I am particularly interested in breaking down technology's "walls of text", i.e., situations where a human user or decision-maker is expected to consume a large quantity of text to take action while lacking sufficient resources (time, expertise) to properly understand what they have been given. I have applied this paradigm to privacy policies, scholarly manuscripts, documents from the world wide web, and historical texts, and I am always interested in new domains to work with.

    Personal profile

    I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, where I lead the Human Language Technologies Lab. I am also a Faculty Affiliate of Penn State's Institute for CyberScience and a member of the Social Data Analytics graduate faculty.

    From 2016 until 2018 I was an Assistant Professor in the EECS Department at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to that I was a postdoc and a lecturer in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and an NSF International Research Fellow in the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2011.

    Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

    • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

    Education/Academic qualification

    Computer Science, PhD, University of Maryland

    Award Date: May 1 2011

    Computer Science, M.S., University of Maryland

    Award Date: May 1 2008

    Computer Science, B.S., Virginia Tech

    Award Date: May 1 2005

    Mathematics, B.S, Virginia Tech

    Award Date: May 1 2005

    Philosophy, B.A., Virginia Tech

    Award Date: May 1 2005

    Researcher Defined Keywords

    • natural language processing
    • computational linguistics
    • privacy
    • artificial intelligence

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    • Incorporating Taxonomic Reasoning and Regulatory Knowledge into Automated Privacy Question Answering

      Ravichander, A., Yang, I., Chen, R., Wilson, S., Norton, T. & Sadeh, N., 2025, Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2024 - 25th International Conference, Proceedings. Barhamgi, M., Wang, H. & Wang, X. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 444-460 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15436 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    • Automated Detection and Analysis of Data Practices Using A Real-World Corpus

      Srinath, M., Venkit, P., Badillo, M., Schaub, F., Giles, C. L. & Wilson, S., 2024, 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024 - Proceedings of the Conference. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 4567-4574 8 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    • Creation and Analysis of an International Corpus of Privacy Laws

      Gupta, S., Gopi, G., Balaji, H., Poplavska, E., O'Toole, N., Arora, S., Norton, T., Sadeh, N. & Wilson, S., 2024, 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 4092-4105 14 p. (2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    • Documenting the Unwritten Curriculum of Student Research

      Wilson, S., 2024, TeachNLP 2024 - 6th Workshop on Teaching NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop. Al-azzawi, S., Biester, L., Kovacs, G., Marasovic, A., Mathur, L., Mieskes, M. & Weissweiler, L. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1-3 3 p. (TeachNLP 2024 - 6th Workshop on Teaching NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    • Race and Privacy in Broadcast Police Communications

      Narayanan Venkit, P., Graziul, C., Goodman, M. A., Kenny, S. N. & Wilson, S., Nov 8 2024, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8, CSCW2, 382.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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