William B. Held

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Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?
Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Omar Shaikh, Jiaao Chen +2 more
2023International Conference on Computational Logic664 citations Open access
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On Second Thought, Let’s Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning
Omar Shaikh, Hongxin Zhang, William B. Held, Michael Bernstein +1 more
2022Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics293 citations Open access
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Unintended Impacts of LLM Alignment on Global Representation
Michael Joseph Ryan, William B. Held, Diyi Yang
2024Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics84 citations
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Multi-VALUE: A Framework for Cross-Dialectal English NLP
Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Jingfeng Yang, J. Dhamala +2 more
2022Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics78 citations Open access
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Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant Without Instruction Training Data
William B. Held, Ella Li, Michael Joseph Ryan, Weiyan Shi +2 more
2024arXiv.org49 citations
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SynthesizeMe! Inducing Persona-Guided Prompts for Personalized Reward Models in LLMs
Michael J. Ryan, Omar Shaikh, Aditri Bhagirath, Daniel Frees +2 more
2025Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics45 citations
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AudioJudge: Understanding What Works in Large Audio Model Based Speech Evaluation
Potsawee Manakul, Woody Haosheng Gan, Michael J. Ryan, A. Khan +4 more
2025Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics29 citations
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Modeling Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Inference with Codenames Duet
Omar Shaikh, Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Aryan Pariani +2 more
2023Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics29 citations Open access
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Focus on what matters: Applying Discourse Coherence Theory to Cross Document Coreference
William B. Held, Dan Iter, Dan Jurafsky
2021Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing29 citations Open access
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A Material Lens on Coloniality in NLP
William B. Held, Camille Harris, Michael Best, Diyi Yang
2023arXiv.org27 citations
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Social Skill Training With Large Language Models
Di-Yi Yang, Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Omar Shaikh +2 more
2024IEEE Intelligent Systems23 citations Open access
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TADA: Task-Agnostic Dialect Adapters for English
William B. Held, Caleb Ziems, Di-Yi Yang
2023Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics19 citations Open access
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The Effectiveness of Simple Hybrid Systems for Hypernym Discovery
William B. Held, Nizar Habash
2019Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics17 citations Open access
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DADA: Dialect Adaptation via Dynamic Aggregation of Linguistic Rules
Yanchen Liu, William B. Held, Di-Yi Yang
2023Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing16 citations Open access
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Optimizing Pretraining Data Mixtures with LLM-Estimated Utility
William B. Held, Bhargavi Paranjape, Punit Singh Koura, Mike Lewis +2 more
2025arXiv.org15 citations
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Task-Agnostic Low-Rank Adapters for Unseen English Dialects
Zedian Xiao, William B. Held, Yanchen Liu, Diyi Yang
2023Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing15 citations
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Shapley Head Pruning: Identifying and Removing Interference in Multilingual Transformers
William B. Held, Di-Yi Yang
2022Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics14 citations Open access
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Measuring and Addressing Indexical Bias in Information Retrieval
Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Di-Yi Yang
2024Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics11 citations
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Mind the Gap! Static and Interactive Evaluations of Large Audio Models
Min-Zhi Li, William B. Held, Michael J. Ryan, Kunat Pipatanakul +3 more
2025arXiv.org8 citations
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Perceptions of Language Technology Failures from South Asian English Speakers
Faye Holt, William B. Held, Diyi Yang
2024Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics8 citations Open access
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Relative Scaling Laws for LLMs
William B. Held, D. Hall, Percy Liang, Diyi Yang
2025arXiv.org7 citations
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Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant Without Instruction Training Data
William B. Held, Yanzhe Zhang, Weiyan Shi, Min-Zhi Li +2 more
2025Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics5 citations Open access
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Scaling Open Discrete Audio Foundation Models with Interleaved Semantic, Acoustic, and Text Tokens
Potsawee Manakul, Woody Haosheng Gan, Martijn Bartelds, Guangzhi Sun +2 more
2026arXiv.org4 citations
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DAMP: Doubly Aligned Multilingual Parser for Task-Oriented Dialogue
William B. Held, Christopher Hidey, Fei Liu, Eric Zhu +3 more
2022Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics4 citations Open access
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Culture Cartography: Mapping the Landscape of Cultural Knowledge
Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Jane Yu, Amir Goldberg +2 more
2025Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing2 citations Open access
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Will Scaling Improve Social Simulation with LLMs?
Caleb Ziems, William B. Held, Şura Karaca, David Grusky +2 more
2026arXiv.org1 citations
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Putting HUMANS first: Efficient LAM Evaluation with Human Preference Alignment
Woody Haosheng Gan, William B. Held, Diyi Yang
2026Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics0 citations Open access
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Mixture of Virtual Prompts: Efficient Fine-tuning with Virtual Prompts for Natural Language Understanding
Jiaao Chen, William B. Held, Diyi Yang
20230 citations
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