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Eric Yang

3 accepted papers

2025

Sleepless Nights, Sugary Days: Creating Synthetic Users with Health Conditions for Realistic Coaching Agent Interactions

ACL 2025finding

We present an end-to-end framework for generating synthetic users for evaluating interactive agents designed to encourage positive behavior changes, such as in health and lifestyle coaching. The synthetic users are grounded in health and lifestyle conditions, specifically sleep and diabetes manageme…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

What Can Youth Learn About Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in One Hour? Examining How Hour of Code Activities Address the Five Big Ideas of AI

AAAI 2025technical

The prominence of artificial intelligence and machine learning in everyday life has led to efforts to foster AI literacy for all K–12 students. In this paper, we review how Hour of Code activities engage with the five big ideas of AI, in particular with machine learning and societal impact. We found…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Event Detection from Social Media for Epidemic Prediction

NAACL 2024long

Social media is an easy-to-access platform providing timely updates about societal trends and events. Discussions regarding epidemic-related events such as infections, symptoms, and social interactions can be crucial for informing policymaking during epidemic outbreaks. In our work, we pioneer explo…