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Kathleen McKeown

Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, New York, NY, USA

24 papers at tracked venues · 11 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

EMNLP ×8ACL ×5NAACL ×4AAAI ×2ICML ×2EACL ×1ICLR ×1NeurIPS ×1

Frequent coauthors

Nicholas Deas
×5
Zhou Yu
×5
Zachary Horvitz
×4
Amith Ananthram
×3
Melanie Subbiah
×3
Ajay Patel
×3
Chris Callison-Burch
×3
Iván Pérez Mejía
×2
Vishal Anand
×2
Milad Alshomary
×2
Smaranda Muresan
×2
Akankshya Mishra
×2

Papers

  1. Characterizing and Evaluating Working Emotion Vocabularies in Multilingual Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Nicholas Deas
    ,
    Iván Ernesto Pérez Mejía
    ,
    Ellie Yang
    , Kathleen McKeown
  2. iBERT: Interpretable Embeddings via Sense Decomposition
    EACL 2026 ·
    Vishal Anand
    ,
    Milad Alshomary
    , Kathleen McKeown
  3. A General Framework for Inference-time Scaling and Steering of Diffusion Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Raghav Singhal
    ,
    Zachary Horvitz
    ,
    Ryan Teehan
    ,
    Mengye Ren
    ,
    Zhou Yu
    , Kathleen McKeown,
    Rajesh Ranganath
  4. Artificial Impressions: Evaluating Large Language Model Behavior Through the Lens of Trait Impressions
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Nicholas Deas
    , Kathleen McKeown
  5. Data Caricatures: On the Representation of African American Language in Pretraining Corpora
    ACL 2025 ·
    Nicholas Deas
    ,
    Blake Vente
    ,
    Amith Ananthram
    ,
    Jessica Grieser
    ,
    Desmond Upton Patton
    ,
    Shana Kleiner
    ,
    James R. Shepard III
    , Kathleen McKeown
  6. Enhancing Multimodal Affective Analysis with Learned Live Comment Features
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Zhaoyuan Deng
    ,
    Amith Ananthram
    , Kathleen McKeown
  7. Evaluating Defeasible Reasoning in LLMs with DEFREASING
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Emily Allaway
    , Kathleen McKeown
  8. Exploring Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Steerable Pluralistic Alignment
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yunfan Zhang
    , Kathleen McKeown,
    Smaranda Muresan
  9. Guiding LLM Decision-Making with Fairness Reward Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zara Hall
    ,
    Melanie Subbiah
    ,
    Thomas P. Zollo
    , Kathleen McKeown,
    Richard S. Zemel
  10. Is the Top Still Spinning? Evaluating Subjectivity in Narrative Understanding
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Melanie Subbiah
    ,
    Akankshya Mishra
    ,
    Grace Kim
    ,
    Liyan Tang
    ,
    Greg Durrett
    , Kathleen McKeown
  11. Layered Insights: Generalizable Analysis of Human Authorial Style by Leveraging All Transformer Layers
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Milad Alshomary
    ,
    Nikhil Reddy Varimalla
    ,
    Vishal Anand
    ,
    Smaranda Muresan
    , Kathleen McKeown
  12. ModelingAgent: Bridging LLMs and Mathematical Modeling for Real-World Challenges
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Cheng Qian
    ,
    Hongyi Du
    ,
    Hongru Wang
    ,
    Xiusi Chen
    ,
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Avirup Sil
    ,
    ChengXiang Zhai
    , Kathleen McKeown,
    Heng Ji
  13. Reranking-based Generation for Unbiased Perspective Summarization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Narutatsu Ri
    ,
    Nicholas Deas
    , Kathleen McKeown
  14. See It from My Perspective: How Language Affects Cultural Bias in Image Understanding
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Amith Ananthram
    ,
    Elias Stengel-Eskin
    ,
    Mohit Bansal
    , Kathleen McKeown
  15. StyleDistance: Stronger Content-Independent Style Embeddings with Synthetic Parallel Examples
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Ajay Patel
    ,
    Jiacheng Zhu
    ,
    Justin Qiu
    ,
    Zachary Horvitz
    ,
    Marianna Apidianaki
    , Kathleen McKeown,
    Chris Callison-Burch
  16. The Law of Knowledge Overshadowing: Towards Understanding, Predicting and Preventing LLM Hallucination
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yuji Zhang
    ,
    Sha Li
    ,
    Cheng Qian
    ,
    Jiateng Liu
    ,
    Pengfei Yu
    ,
    Chi Han
    ,
    Yi R. Fung
    , Kathleen McKeown,
    ChengXiang Zhai
    ,
    Manling Li
    ,
    Heng Ji
  17. Do Models Explain Themselves? Counterfactual Simulatability of Natural Language Explanations
    ICML 2024 ·
    Yanda Chen
    ,
    Ruiqi Zhong
    ,
    Narutatsu Ri
    ,
    Chen Zhao
    ,
    He He
    ,
    Jacob Steinhardt
    ,
    Zhou Yu
    , Kathleen R. McKeown
  18. Fair Abstractive Summarization of Diverse Perspectives
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Yusen Zhang
    ,
    Nan Zhang
    ,
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Alexander R. Fabbri
    ,
    Junru Liu
    ,
    Ryo Kamoi
    ,
    Xiaoxin Lu
    ,
    Caiming Xiong
    ,
    Jieyu Zhao
    ,
    Dragomir Radev
    , Kathleen R. McKeown,
    Rui Zhang
  19. MASIVE: Open-Ended Affective State Identification in English and Spanish
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Nicholas Deas
    ,
    Elsbeth Turcan
    ,
    Iván Pérez Mejía
    , Kathleen R. McKeown
  20. ParaGuide: Guided Diffusion Paraphrasers for Plug-and-Play Textual Style Transfer
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zachary Horvitz
    ,
    Ajay Patel
    ,
    Chris Callison-Burch
    ,
    Zhou Yu
    , Kathleen R. McKeown
  21. Parallel Structures in Pre-training Data Yield In-Context Learning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yanda Chen
    ,
    Chen Zhao
    ,
    Zhou Yu
    , Kathleen R. McKeown,
    He He
  22. STORYSUMM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Story Summarization
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Melanie Subbiah
    ,
    Faisal Ladhak
    ,
    Akankshya Mishra
    ,
    Griffin Adams
    ,
    Lydia B. Chilton
    , Kathleen R. McKeown
  23. TinyStyler: Efficient Few-Shot Text Style Transfer with Authorship Embeddings
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zachary Horvitz
    ,
    Ajay Patel
    ,
    Kanishk Singh
    ,
    Chris Callison-Burch
    , Kathleen R. McKeown,
    Zhou Yu
  24. TofuEval: Evaluating Hallucinations of LLMs on Topic-Focused Dialogue Summarization
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Liyan Tang
    ,
    Igor Shalyminov
    ,
    Amy Wing-mei Wong
    ,
    Jon Burnsky
    ,
    Jake W. Vincent
    ,
    Yuan Yang
    ,
    Siffi Singh
    ,
    Song Feng
    ,
    Hwanjun Song
    ,
    Hang Su
    ,
    Lijia Sun
    ,
    Yi Zhang
    ,
    Saab Mansour
    , Kathleen McKeown