Publications

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Book2Dial: Generating Teacher Student Interactions from Textbooks for Cost-Effective Development of Educational Chatbots

Published in ACL Findings, 2024

We propose a framework for generating synthetic teacher-student interactions grounded in a set of textbooks and build a dataset based on it.

Recommended citation: Junling Wang, Jakub Macina, Nico Daheim, Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Mrinmaya Sachan. (2024). "Book2Dial: Generating Teacher Student Interactions from Textbooks for Cost-Effective Development of Educational Chatbots." arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03307 (2024). https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.578/

How has academia responded to the urgent needs created by COVID-19? A multi-level global, regional and national analysis

Published in Journal of Information Science, 2024

This paper analyzes global academic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, examining publication patterns, research focus, and scientific collaborations, and highlights the dynamic, country-specific responses and the importance of a diverse knowledge base in addressing pandemic-related challenges.

Recommended citation: Wenjing Zhao, Lin Zhang, Junling Wang, Lili Wang. (2010). "How has academia responded to the urgent needs created by COVID-19? A multi-level global, regional and national analysis." JJournal of Information Science.. 50.1 (2024): 162-188. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01655515221084646

On the legitimacy of voting methods

Published in SSRN, 2023

This study examines how different voting rules affect citizens’ perception of legitimacy in a democratic government, underscoring the importance of how preferences are expressed and considered in political decision-making.

Recommended citation: Carina Ines Hausladen, Regula Hänggli, Dirk Helbing, Renato Kunz, Junling Wang, Evangelos Pournaras. "On the Legitimacy of Voting Methods." Available at SSRN 4372245 .2023. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4372245

Analyzing international relations from British parliamentary debates

Published in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020, 2020

This study examines how different voting rules affect citizens’ perception of legitimacy in a democratic government, underscoring the importance of how preferences are expressed and considered in political decision-making.

Recommended citation: Junling Wang, Yuehan Zhang, Jiani Huang, Jiayu Shen, Yiyang Wang, Jiamin Wang, Jiming Hu, Wei Lu. (2015). "Analyzing international relations from British parliamentary debates." Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020. 2020. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3383583