Conference and Journal Publications
mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced LanguagesHellina Hailu Nigatu, Min Li, Maartje ter Hoeve , Saloni Potdar, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of Findings of the Association of Computational Lingustics (ACL Findings) (ACL '25)
Programming by NavigationJustin Lubin, Parker Ziegler, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Vol. 9, Issue PLDI • 2025
Fast Direct Manipulation Programming with Patch-Reconciliation CorrespondenceParker Ziegler, Justin Lubin, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Vol. 9, Issue PLDI • 2025
Pagebreaks: Multi-Cell Scopes in Computational NotebooksEric Rawn and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)
Reimagining Misuse as Creative Practice: Impressions and Implications of Usage Norms on Digital ArtistsIsabel Li, Ace Chen, Eric Rawn, Shm Garanganao Almeda, Bjoern Hartmann, and Jingyi Li
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25)
Cognate Detection for Historical Language Reconstruction of Proto-Sabean Languages: the Case of Ge’ez, Tigrinya, and AmharicElleni Sisay Temesgen, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, and Fitsum Assamnew Andargie
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '25)
Flow with FlorDB: Incremental Context Maintenance for the Machine Learning LifecycleRolando Garcia, Pragya Kallanagoudar, Chithra Anand, Sarah E. Chasins, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Erin M.T. Kerrison, and Aditya G. Parameswaran
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '25)
The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ LanguagesHellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Benjamin Rosman, Thamar Solorio, and Monojit Choudhury
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '24)
Equivalence by Canonicalization for Synthesis-Backed RefactoringJustin Lubin, Jeremy Ferguson*, Kevin Ye*, Jacob Yim*, and Sarah E. Chasins (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Vol. 8, Issue PLDI • 2024
Syntactic Code Search with Sequence-to-Tree MatchingGabriel Matute, Wode Ni, Titus Barik, Alvin Cheung, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Vol. 8, Issue PLDI • 2024
“I Searched for a Religious Song in Amharic and Got Sexual Content Instead’’: Investigating Online Harm in Low-Resourced Languages on YouTube.Hellina Hailu Nigatu and Inioluwa Deborah Raji
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '24)
Low-resourced Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding StudyHellina Hailu Nigatu, John Canny, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24)
The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual ModelsHellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, and Jugal Kalita
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP '23)
A Need Finding Study with Low-Resourced Language Content CreatorsHellina Hailu Nigatu, John Canny, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the 4th ACM African Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI '23)
How Domain Experts Use an Embedded DSLLisa Rennels and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA '23)
Co-Designing for Transparency: Lessons from Building a Document Organization Tool in the Criminal Justice DomainHellina Hailu Nigatu, Lisa Pickoff-White, John Canny, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '23)
A Need-Finding Study with Users of Geospatial DataParker Ziegler and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)
Understanding Version Control as Material Interaction with QuickposeEric Rawn, Jingyi Li, Eric Paulos, and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)
Exploring the Learnability of Program Synthesizers by Novice ProgrammersDhayna Jayagopal*, Justin Lubin*, and Sarah E. Chasins (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22)
Bolt-on, Compact, and Rapid Program Slicing for NotebooksShreya Shankar*, Stephen Macke*, Sarah E. Chasins, Andrew Head, and Aditya Parameswaran (* equal contribution)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (VLDB '22)
Informing Housing Policy through Web Automation: Lessons for Designing Programming Tools for Domain ExpertsChris Hess and Sarah E. Chasins
Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22)
Infrastructure for rapid open knowledge network developmentMichael Cafarella, Michael Anderson, Iz Beltagy, Arie Cattan, Sarah E. Chasins, Ido Dagan, Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, Sergey Feldman, Tian Gao, Tom Hope, Kexin Huang, Sophie Johnson, Daniel King, Kyle Lo, Yuze Lou, Matthew Shapiro, Dinghao Shen, Shivashankar Subramanian, Lucy Lu Wang, Yuning Wang, Yitong Wang, Daniel S. Weld, Jenny Vo-Phamhi, Anna Zeng, and Jiayun Zou
AI Magazine, Vol. 43, Issue 1 • 2022
Building a Shared Conceptual Model of Complex, Heterogeneous Data Systems: A DemonstrationMichael R. Anderson, Yuze Lou, Jiayun Zou, Michael J. Cafarella, Sarah E. Chasins, Doug Downey, Tian Gao, Kexin Huang, Dinghao Shen, Jenny M. Vo-Phamhi, Yitong Wang, Yuning Wang, and Anna Zeng
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '22)
How Statically-Typed Functional Programmers Write CodeJustin Lubin and Sarah E. Chasins
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA '21)
PL and HCI: Better TogetherSarah E. Chasins, Elena Glassman, and Joshua Sunshine
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 64, Issue 8 • 2021
Workshop Publications
Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASRHellina Hailu Nigatu and Hanan Aldarmaki
6th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP '25)
HiLT: A Library for Generating Human-in-the-Loop Data Transformation GUIsSora Kanosue, Xiaorui Liu, Parker Ziegler, and Sarah E. Chasins
15th Annual Workshop on the Intersection of HCI and PL (PLATEAU '25)
Exploitation All the Way Down: Calling out the Root Cause of Bad Online Experiences for Users of the "Majority World"Hellina Hailu Nigatu and Zeerak Talat
Chapter in Official Outcome of the UN IGF Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance Coalition report on AI from the Global Majoirty '24
A Capabilities Approach to Studying Bias and Harm in Language TechnologiesHellina Hailu Nigatu and Zeerak Talat
Workshop on New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology '24
Quilt: Custom UIs for Linking Unstructured Documents to Structured DatasetsPragya Kallanagoudar, Chithra Anand, Rolando Garcia, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Eunice Jun, and Sarah E. Chasins:
Adjunct to the Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '24)
Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation for Low-Resource LanguagesWalelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Gashaw Kidanu, Zewdie Mossie, Hussien Seid, Eshete Derb, and Seid Muhie Yimam
5th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP '24)
Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual ModelsAtnafu Lambebo Tonja, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Olga Kolesnikova, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh, and Jugal Kalita
Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas '23
Searching for Incidental SpecificationsJeremy Ferguson*, Kevin Ye*, Jacob Yim*, and Justin Lubin (* equal contribution)
PLATEAU '23
The African Stopwords Project: Curating Stopwords for African LanguagesChris Chinenye Emezue, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Cynthia Thinwa, Lerato Louis, Idris Abdulmumin, Samuel Gbenga Oyerinde, Benjamin Ayoade Ajibade, Helper Zhou, Emeka Felix Onwuegbuzia, Handel Chiagozie Emezue, Ifeoluwatayo Adeseye Ige, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, and Olanrewaju Samuel
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on African Natural Language Processing '22
