Selected Publications

Gaudí: Conversational Interactions with Deep Representations to Generate Image Collections.

Published in NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, 2021

A more comprehensive version of the methods in this paper has been submitted as a patent application.

Recommended citation: Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, and Vishwa Vinay. 2021. Gaudí: Conversational Interactions with Deep Representations to Generate Image Collections. In the 2021 NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design. https://neuripscreativityworkshop.github.io/2021/accepted/ncw_104.pdf

“It doesn’t look good for a date”: Transforming Critiques into Preferences for Conversational Recommendation Systems.

Published in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Acceptance rate of 17.9%. Paper also invited for oral presentation.

Recommended citation: Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Nedim Lipka, Eunyee Koh, Doug Downey, and Larry Birnbaum. 2021. “It doesn’t look good for a date”: Transforming Critiques into Preferences for Conversational Recommendation Systems. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1913–1918, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.145/

Developing a Conversational Recommendation System for Navigating Limited Options

Published in Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Acceptance rate of 39%. Presentation publicly available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97NOZQPrQr4

Recommended citation: Victor S. Bursztyn, Jennifer Healey, Eunyee Koh, Nedim Lipka, and Larry Birnbaum. 2021. Developing a Conversational Recommendation System for Navigating Limited Options. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 309, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451596 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3411763.3451596

How Brazilian Congressmen Connect: Homophily and Cohesion in Voting and Donation Networks

Published in Journal of Complex Networks (Oxford University Press), 2020

Recommended citation: Victor S. Bursztyn, Marcelo G. Nunes, and Daniel R. Figueiredo. 2020. How Brazilian Congressmen Connect: Homophily and Cohesion in Voting and Donation Networks, Journal of Complex Networks, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2020, cnaa006, https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnaa006 https://academic.oup.com/comnet/article-abstract/8/1/cnaa006/5770925

Thousands of Small, Constant Rallies: A Large-Scale Analysis of Partisan WhatsApp Groups

Published in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2020

Acceptance rate of 15%.

Recommended citation: Victor S. Bursztyn and Larry Birnbaum. 2019. Thousands of small, constant rallies: a large-scale analysis of partisan WhatsApp groups. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 484–488. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3341161.3342905 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3341161.3342905