
Diane Litman
Professor @ University of Pittsburgh
argument mining
evaluation
legal text
summarization
long-form summarization
factuality
extractive summarization
multimodal learning
benchmarking
interpretability
controllability
corpus annotation
discourse analysis
human evaluation
vision and language
16
presentations
12
number of views
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citations
SHORT BIO
Diane Litman is a Professor of Computer Science and a Senior Scientist with the Learning Research and Development Center. From 2010-2020, she served as Faculty (Co-)Director of the Graduate Program in Intelligent Systems. Dr. Litman’s current research focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of educational technology through the use of spoken and natural language processing techniques such as argument mining, summarization, and dialogue systems. Dr. Litman is a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, has twice been elected Chair of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, has co-authored multiple papers winning best paper awards, and has been awarded Senior Member status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Presentations

Discourse-Driven Evaluation: Unveiling Factual Inconsistency in Long Document Summarization
Yang Zhong and 1 other author

eRevise+RF: A Writing Evaluation System for Assessing Student Essay Revisions and Providing Formative Feedback
Zhexiong Liu and 6 other authors

Persuasiveness of Generated Free-Text Rationales in Subjective Decisions: A Case Study on Pairwise Argument Ranking
Mohamed Elaraby and 3 other authors

Using Large Language Models to Assess Young Students' Writing Revisions
Tianwen Li and 5 other authors

Predicting the Quality of Revisions in Argumentative Writing
Zhexiong Liu and 4 other authors

Towards Argument-Aware Abstractive Summarization of Long Legal Opinions with Summary Reranking
Diane Litman and 2 other authors

Predicting Desirable Revisions of Evidence and Reasoning in Argumentative Writing
Tazin Afrin and 1 other author

Computing and Exploiting Document Structure to Improve Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Decisions
Yang Zhong and 1 other author

ImageArg: A Multi-modal Tweet Dataset for Image Persuasiveness Mining
Zhexiong Liu and 3 other authors

ArgLegalSumm: Improving Abstractive Summarization of Legal Documents with Argument Mining
Mohamed Elaraby and 1 other author

Exploring Multitask Learning for Low-Resource Abstractive Summarization
Ahmed Magooda and 2 other authors

Mitigating Data Scarceness through Data Synthesis, Augmentation and Curriculum for Abstractive Summarization
Ahmed Magooda and 1 other author

Exploring Multitask Learning for Low-Resource Abstractive Summarization
Ahmed Magooda and 2 other authors

Mitigating Data Scarceness through Data Synthesis, Augmentation and Curriculum for Abstractive Summarization
Ahmed Magooda and 1 other author

Contextual Argument Component Classification for Class Discussions
Luca Lugini and 1 other author

Discussion Tracker: Supporting Teacher Learning about Students' Collaborative Argumentation in High School Classrooms
Luca Lugini and 4 other authors