Publications

2025

“Controllable Clustering with LLM-driven Embeddings”. Kerria Pang-Naylor, Shivani Manivasagan, Amy Zhong, Mehak Garg, Nicholas Mondello, Blake Buckner, Jonathan P. Chang, Khyati Mahajan, Masoud Hashemi, and Fabio Casati. Proceedings of EMNLP 2025 (Industry Track). [PDF]

“Conversations Gone Awry, But Then? Evaluating Conversational Forecasting Models”. Son Quoc Tran, Tushaar Gangavarapu, Nicholas Chernogor, Jonathan P. Chang, and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19470. 2025.

2022

“Thread With Caution: Proactively Helping Users Assess and Deescalate Tension in Their Online Discussions”. Jonathan P. Chang, Charlotte Schluger and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Proceedings of CSCW 2022. [PDF] [Talk]

“Proactive Moderation of Online Discussions: Existing Practices and the Potential for Algorithmic Support”. Charlotte Schluger, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Karen Levy. Proceedings of CSCW 2022. [PDF] [Talk]

2020

“ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations”. Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, Andrew Wang, Justine Zhang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2020 (System Demos). [PDF] [ConvoKit Github] [Talk]

“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Comparing Intentions and Perceptions in Online Discussions”. Jonathan P. Chang, Justin Cheng, and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW) 2020. [PDF] [Code] [Talk]

2019

“Trouble on the Horizon: Forecasting the Derailment of Online Conversations as they Develop”. Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Proceedings of EMNLP 2019. [PDF] [Data: Wikipedia Talk Pages and Reddit CMV]

“Trajectories of Blocked Community Members: Redemption, Recidivism and Departure”. Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW) 2019. [PDF]

“Inferring Advice-Seeking Intentions From Personal Narratives: A Cloze Test Formulation”. Liye Fu, Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil. Proceedings of NAACL 2019. [PDF] [Data]

2018

“Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure”. Justine Zhang, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lucas Dixon, Yiqing Hua, Nithum Thain, Dario Taraborelli. Proceedings of ACL 2018. [PDF] [Data and Code] [Talk (Wikimedia Foundation, June 2018)] [Conversational Forecasting follow-ups tracker]