Publications

1. In submission 2026
   Right Destination, Wrong Journey: Synthetic Counseling Dialogues Miss Human Interactional Dynamics Ziwei Gong, Yuchen Huang, Nicholas Deas, Melanie Subbiah, Julia Hirschberg
2. In submission 2026
   Empath: Tracing Multi-Level Emotion Dynamics in Crisis Counseling Dialogues Ziwei Gong, Yuchen Huang, Wen Liang, Nicholas Deas, Melanie Subbiah, Kathleen McKeown, Julia Hirschberg Paper
3. arXiv 2026
   Whose Story Gets Told? Positionality and Bias in LLM Summaries of Life Narratives Melanie Subbiah, Haaris Mian, Nicholas Deas, Ananya Mayukha, Dan P. McAdams, Kathleen McKeown Paper
4. In submission 2026
   On the Limits of Steering Vectors for Preference-Aligned Generation Melanie Subbiah*, Zara Hall*, Kathleen McKeown Paper
5. In submission 2026
   ToMStories: Interpreting Theory-of-Mind in Synthetic Narratives Melanie Subbiah, Chia-En Jacklyn Tsai, Kathleen McKeown Paper
6. arXiv 2026
   Computational Representations of Character Significance in Novels Haaris Mian*, Melanie Subbiah*, Sharon Marcus, Nora Shaalan, Kathleen McKeown Paper
7. AI & the Self @ NeurIPS 2026
   Ownership in AI-Assisted Everyday Tasks Megan Wei, Melanie Subbiah, Audrey Lee, Annya Dahmani, Dave Edwards, Helen Edwards, Ellie Pavlick Paper
8. NeurIPS 2025
   Guiding LLM Decision-Making with Fairness Reward Models Zara Hall, Melanie Subbiah*, Thomas Zollo*, Kathleen McKeown, Richard Zemel Paper
9. EMNLP 2025
   Is the Top Still Spinning? Evaluating Subjectivity in Narrative Understanding Melanie Subbiah, Akankshya Mishra, Grace Kim, Liyan Tang, Greg Durrett, Kathleen McKeown Paper
10. INLG 2025
    Counterfactual Simulatability of LLM Explanations for Generation Tasks Marvin Limpijankit, Yanda Chen, Melanie Subbiah, Nicholas Deas, Kathleen McKeown Paper
11. NewSumm @ EMNLP 2025
    AdvSumm: Adversarial Training for Bias Mitigation in Text Summarization Mukur Gupta, Nikhil Reddy Varimalla, Nicholas Deas, Melanie Subbiah, Kathleen McKeown Paper
12. ARP Symposium 2025
    Methodological Approaches to the Analysis of Life Story Interviews Ananya Mayukha, Melanie Subbiah, A. Guzman, S. Jitklongsub, Dan P. McAdams PDF
13. TACL 2024
    Reading Subtext: Evaluating Large Language Models on Short Story Summarization with Writers Melanie Subbiah, Sean Zhang, Lydia B. Chilton, Kathleen McKeown Best Paper AwardPaperPDF
14. EMNLP 2024
    StorySumm: Evaluating Faithfulness in Story Summarization Melanie Subbiah*, Faisal Ladhak*, Akankshya Mishra, Griffin Adams, Lydia B. Chilton, Kathleen McKeown Paper
15. ACL 2023
    Unsupervised Selective Rationalization with Noise Injection Adam Štorek, Melanie Subbiah, Kathleen McKeown Paper
16. Findings of ACL 2023
    Check-COVID: Fact-Checking COVID-19 News Claims with Scientific Evidence Gengyu Wang, Lawrence Chillrud, Kate Harwood, Amith Ananthram, Melanie Subbiah, Kathleen McKeown Paper
17. WASSA @ ACL 2023
    Detecting Harmful Agendas in News Articles Melanie Subbiah*, Amrita Bhattacharjee*, Yilun Hua, Tharindu Kumarage, Huan Liu, Kathleen McKeown Paper
18. EMNLP 2022
    SafeText: A Benchmark for Exploring Physical Safety in Language Models Sharon Levy, Emily Allaway, Melanie Subbiah, Lydia Chilton, Desmond Patton, Kathleen McKeown, William Yang Wang Paper
19. Findings of EMNLP 2022
    Mitigating Covertly Unsafe Text within Natural Language Systems Alex Mei, Anisha Kabir, Sharon Levy, Melanie Subbiah, Emily Allaway, John Judge, Desmond Patton, Bruce Bimber, Kathleen McKeown, William Yang Wang Paper
20. US Patent 11,256,958
    Training with Simulated Images Melanie Subbiah, Jamie Lesser, Nicholas Apostoloff Paper
21. IWSS @ ICWSM 2021
    Understanding Identity Signalling in Persuasive Online Text Melanie Subbiah, Kathleen McKeown PDF
22. NeurIPS 2020
    Language Models are Few-Shot Learners Tom B. Brown*, Benjamin Mann*, Nick Ryder*, Melanie Subbiah*, Jared Kaplan, Prafulla Dhariwal, Arvind Neelakantan, et al. Outstanding Paper AwardPaperPDFSlides
23. WiML @ NeurIPS 2018
    Cascaded Dataset QA M. Maher, Melanie Subbiah, Nicholas Apostoloff
24. WiML @ NeurIPS 2018
    Augmenting Training Data with Simulated Images Melanie Subbiah, Jamie Lesser, Nicholas Apostoloff
25. PLoS One 2017
    Cord blood T cell subpopulations and associations with maternal cadmium and arsenic exposures Unni C. Nygaard, Zhigang Li, Thomas Palys, Brian Jackson, Melanie Subbiah, Meena Malipatlolla, et al. PDF

* indicates equal contribution