I’m a Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh.
My teaching and research focus on data science, natural language processing, and computational social science. My work generally applies computational text analysis and other quantitative approaches to study social interaction, including how identities and ideologies are expressed. I’m also interested in the social and ethical implications of data science and computational technologies.
Before joining Pitt, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaboratory Against Hate and IDeaS Center at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Kathleen M. Carley and David West Brown. I completed a PhD at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Carolyn Penstein Rosé.
Publications
The “chanification” of white supremacist extremism
Michael Miller Yoder, David West Brown, Kathleen M. Carley
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 2024.
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Misogyny Surfaces as Top Issue in Survey of In-game Experiences
Michael Miller Yoder, Eleanor Young, Jasmin Narisetty, Sam Kulikowski, Will Flanagan, Claire Schuler, Caroline Guo, Zachary Yang
Collaboratory Against Hate. 2024.
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A Fairness Analysis of Human and AI-Generated Student Reflection Summaries
Bhiman Kumar Baghel, Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan, Michael Miller Yoder
Proceedings of the Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP). 2024.
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Pandemic Personas: Analyzing Identity Signals in COVID-19 Discourse on Twitter
Scott Leo Renshaw, Samantha C. Phillips, Michael Miller Yoder, Kathleen M. Carley
Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS). 2023.
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A Weakly Supervised Classifier and Dataset of White Supremacist Language
Michael Miller Yoder, Ahmad Diab, David West Brown, Kathleen M. Carley
Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2023.
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Identity Construction in a Misogynist Incels Forum
Michael Miller Yoder, Chloe Perry, David West Brown, Kathleen M. Carley, Meredith L. Pruden
Proceedings of the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH). 2023.
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Online to Offline Crossover of White Supremacist Propaganda
Ahmad Diab, Bolor-Erdene Jagdagdorj, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Yu-Ru Lin, Michael Miller Yoder
International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2023), Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference. 2023.
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The Relationship Between Antisemitism and COVID-19 Conspiracy on Twitter
Grace Garner, Madeleine McGrann, Daniel Klug, Rachel Kranson, Michael Miller Yoder
International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Toronto, Canada, 2023.
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How Hate Speech Varies by Target Identity: A Computational Analysis
Michael Miller Yoder, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, David West Brown, Kathleen M. Carley
Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). 2022.
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An empirical analysis of high school students’ practices of modelling with unstructured data
Shiyan Jiang, Amato Nocera, Cansu Tatar, Michael Miller Yoder, Jie Chao, Kenia Wiedemann, William Finzer, Carolyn P. Rosé
British Journal of Educational Technology. 2022.
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Research Needs for Countering Extremist Hate
Michael Miller Yoder, Hana Habib
Collaboratory Against Hate. 2022.
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StoryQ: A Web-Based Machine Learning and Text Mining Tool for K-12 Students
Jie Chao, Bill Finzer, Carolyn P. Rosé, Shiyan Jiang, Michael Miller Yoder, James Fiacco, Chas Murray, Cansu Tatar, Kenia Wiedemann
SIGCSE 2022: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2. 2022.
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Computational models of identity presentation in language
Michael Miller Yoder
PhD dissertation, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 2021.
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FanfictionNLP: A Text Processing Pipeline for Fanfiction
Michael Miller Yoder, Sopan Khosla, Qinlan Shen, Aakanksha Naik, Huiming Jin, Hariharan Muralidharan, Carolyn Rosé
Proceedings of the Workshop on Narrative Understanding. 2021.
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Modeling Unstructured Data: Teachers as Learners and Designers of Technology-enhanced Artificial Intelligence Curriculum
Cansu Tatar, Michael Miller Yoder, Madeleline Coven, Kenia Wiedemann, Jie Chao, William Finzer, Shiyan Jiang, Carolyn Rosé
Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). 2021.
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Phans, Stans and Cishets: Self-Presentation Effects on Content Propagation in Tumblr
Michael Miller Yoder, Qinlan Shen, Yansen Wang, Alex Coda, Yunseok Jang, Yale Song, Kapil Thadani, Carolyn P. Rosé
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci). 2020.
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Perceptions of Censorship and Moderation Bias in Political Debate Forums
Qinlan Shen, Michael Miller Yoder, Yohan Jo, Carolyn P. Rosé
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 2018.
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Unpacking a political icon: “Bike lanes” and orders of indexicality
Michael Miller Yoder, Barbara Johnstone
Discourse & Communication. 2018.
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Roles and Success in Wikipedia Talk Pages: Identifying Latent Patterns of Behavior
Keith Maki, Michael Miller Yoder, Yohan Jo, Carolyn P. Rosé
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP). 2017.
Best Student Paper Award.
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Modeling Dialogue Acts with Content Word Filtering and Speaker Preferences
Yohan Jo, Michael Miller Yoder, Hyeju Jang, Carolyn P. Rosé
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2017.
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Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of Arabic Wikipedia Talk Pages
Michael Miller Yoder, Shruti Rijhwani, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Lori Levin
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. 2017.
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Metaphor Detection with Topic Transition, Emotion and Cognition in Context
Hyeju Jang, Yohan Jo, Qinlan Shen, Michael Miller, Shane Moon, Carolyn P. Rosé
Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2016.
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Press and writing
- Addressing the spread of online hate speech will require more than just tech
Atiya Irvin-Mitchell, Technical.ly, 2023. - From computer science to social science: new approaches to track and mitigate online hate speech
Michael Miller Yoder, Collaboratory Against Hate blog post, 2023.