Steve Wilson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Steve ϵ CoCoA Lab ⊂ CIT ⊂ UM-Flint ⊂ University of Michigan
I study online communication using Natural Language Processing methods with a focus on understanding and incorporating the social context of text data and the people who create it. Some of my current interests are information literacy, social media narratives, social norms, and educational applications of NLP.
PhD, University of Michigan, LIT Lab. 〽️ Go Blue!
Postdoc, SMASH group, University of Edinburgh 🏰
Formerly, Assistant Prof at Oakland University 🐻
Prospective graduate students: I am not accepting new PhD students for Fall 2025.
News
📰 [Mar-12-25]
"Representing and Clustering Errors in Offensive Language Detection" by Jood Otey, Laura Biester, and Steven Wilson will appear at the NAACL 2025 Student Research Workshop
🧑🏫 [Jan-8-25]
Teaching a new course at UM-Flint for Winter 2025: Natural Language Processing!
📰 [Nov-29-24]
"Cross-Domain Classification of Education Talk-Turns" by Achyut Ganti, Steven Wilson, and Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie will appear at COLING 2025
📰 [Oct-22-24]
"How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behaviour" by Rada Mihalcea, Laura Biester, Ryan L. Boyd, Zhijing Jin, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Steven Wilson & James W. Pennebaker published in Nature Human Behavior
🚀 [Oct-01-24]
CRII: Discovery, generation, and impact of social media user framing of current events awarded by NSF!
Publications
See Google Scholar for a mostly up-to-date list of publications.
Teaching
I usually teach NLP, ML, and related courses. See my department profile for current/past courses taught at UM-Flint or my CV for a full list of courses taught throughout my career.