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Publications: Refereed Journal Papers, Refereed Conferences and Symposia, Book Chapters, Technical Reports, Other Publications, Invited talks

Refereed Journal Papers

  1. Diesner J, Tamabyong L, Carley KM (accepted) Mapping socio-cultural networks of Sudan from open-source, large-scale text data. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT)
  2. Dabbish L, Towne B, Diesner J, Herbsleb J (2011) Construction of association networks from communication in teams working on complex projects. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (SAM), special issue: Networks, 4(5), 547-563.
  3. Chang Y, Diesner J, Carley KM (2011) Automated Definition Acquisition from Operations Law Documents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, part C 41(4).
  4. Diesner J, Carley KM (2008) Conditional Random Fields for Entity Extraction and Ontological Text Coding. Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT), 14(3), 248 – 262.
    [full paper,The original publication, for which Science+Business Media, LLC 2008 owns the copyright, is available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/yk2227932hu53745/]
  5. Carley KM, Diesner J, Reminga J, Tsvetovat M (2007) Toward an interoperable dynamic network analysis toolkit. Decision Support Systems (DSS), 43(4), 1324-1347. [abstract]
  6. Diesner J, Frantz T, Carley KM (2005) Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus "It's Always About the People Enron is no Different”. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT), 11(3), 201-228. [abstract]

Peer reviewed Conferences (full paper)

  1. Diesner J, Carley KM (2010) A methodology for integrating network theory and topic modeling and its application to innovation diffusion. IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocComp), Workshop on Finding Synergies Between Texts and Networks, Minneapolis, MN, August 2010.
  2. Diesner J, Tamabyong L, Carley KM (2010) Mapping socio-cultural networks of Sudan from open-source, large-scale text data. Presentation at 29th Annual Conference of the Sudan Studies Association (SSA), West Lafayette, IN, May 2010. [abstract]
  3. Diesner J, Carley KM (2009) He says, she says. Pat says, Tricia says. How much reference resolution matters for entity extraction, relation extraction, and social network analysis. Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (CISDA), Ottawa, Canada, July 2009.
  4. Landwehr P, Diesner J, Carley KM (2009) Words of Warcraft: a relational text analysis of quests in an MMORPG. Proceedings Digital Games Research Assoc. Conference (DiGRA), London, UK, Sept. 2009.
  5. Diesner J, Carley KM (2007) Conditional Random Fields for Entity Extraction and Ontological Text Coding. Proceedings North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science Conference (NAACSOS), Atlanta, GA, July 2007. Best Student Paper Award.
  6. Lecy J, Diesner J, Carley KM (2006) Identification of Knowledge Groups from the Enron Email Corpus. 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Dresden, Germany, June 2006. [abstract]
  7. Diesner J, Kumaraguru P, Carley KM (2005) Mental Models of Data Privacy and Security Extracted from Interviews with Indians. 55th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), New York, NY, May 2005. [abstract]
  8. Diesner J, Carley KM (2005) Exploration of Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus. Proceedings Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) International Conference on Data Mining, pg. 3- 14, Newport Beach, CA, April 2005.
  9. Diesner J, Carley KM (2004) Using Network Text Analysis to Detect the Organizational Structure of Covert Networks. Proceedings North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science Conference (NAACSOS), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2004.
  10. Carley KM, Diesner J, Reminga J, Tsvetovat M (2004) An Integrated Approach to the Collection and Analysis of Network Data. Proceedings North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science Conference (NAACSOS), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2004.
  11. Lewis ET, Diesner J, Carley KM (2001) Using Automated Text Analysis to Study Self-Presentation Strategies. Proceedings Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems Conference (CASOS), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2001.

Peer reviewed Conferences (abstract)

  1. Diesner J, Carley KM (2010) Extension of supervised conditional machine learning system to extract socio-technical networks from open source text data about the Sudan. Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop in conjunction with NIPS, Vancouver, Canada.
  2. Diesner J, Carley KM (2009) WYSIWII - What You See Is What It Is: Informed Approximation of Relational Data from Texts. Presentation at General Online Research (GOR) Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2009. [abstract]
  3. Carley KM, Frantz T, Diesner J (2006) Social and Knowledge Networks from Large Scale Databases. 56th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Dresden, Germany, June 2006. [abstract]

Book Chapters

  1. Diesner, J., Mergel, I., Carley, K. M. (2011): Network Analysis Software. In G. Barnett (Ed), Encyclopedia of Social Networking, (pp. 595-598). Sage Publications.
  2. Diesner, J., Carley, K. M. (2011): Semantic Networks. In G. Barnett (Ed), Encyclopedia of Social Networking, (pp. 595-598). Sage Publications.
  3. Diesner, J., Carley, K. M. (2011): Words and Networks. In G. Barnett (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Networking, (pp. 958-961). Sage Publications.
  4. Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2010). Relation Extraction from Texts (in German, title: Extraktion relationaler Daten aus Texten). In C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Eds.), Handbook Network Research (Handbuch Netzwerkforschung) (pp. 507-521). Vs Verlag.
  5. Diesner, J., & Carley, K.M. (2010). Relational methods for analyzing and preventing crime (in German, title: Relationale Verfahren in der Erforschung, Ermittlung und Prävention von Kriminalität). In C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Eds.), Handbook Network Research (Handbuch Netzwerkforschung) (pp. 725-738). Vs Verlag.
  6. Weil, S. A., Foster, P., Freeman, J., Carley, K., Diesner, J., et al. (2008). Converging Approaches to Automated Communications-based Assessment of Team Situation Awareness. In M. P. Letsky, N. W. Warner, S. M. Flore & C. A. P. Smith (Eds.), Macrocognition in Teams. Theories and Methodologies (pp. 277–304). Aldershot: Ashgate.
  7. Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2005). Revealing Social Structure from Texts: Meta-Matrix Text Analysis as a novel method for Network Text Analysis. In V. K. Narayanan & D. J. Armstrong (Eds.), Causal Mapping for Information Systems and Technology Research (pp. 81-108). Harrisburg, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Technical Reports

  1. Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2008). Looking under the hood of stochastic part of speech taggers (Technical Report CMU-ISR-08-131R): Carnegie Mellon Univ., School of Computer Science, Inst. Software Research.
  2. Frantz, T. L., Carley, K. M., & Diesner, J. (2005). An Automated Methodology for Conducting a Social Network Study of a University Faculty (Technical Report CMU ISRI-05-106): Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International.
  3. Tsvetovat, M., Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2004). NetIntel: A Database for Manipulation of Rich Social Network Data (Technical Report CMU-ISRI-04-135): Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International.
  4. Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2004). AutoMap1.2 - Extract, analyze, represent, and compare mental models from texts (Technical Report CMU-ISRI-04-100): Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International.

Other Conferences Papers and Presentations (non peer reviewed)

  1. Diesner J, Carley KM (2012) Impact of methods for relation extraction from text data on network analysis results. Presentation at XXXII International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, March 2012. [abstract]
  2. Diesner J, Carley KM (2011) Extraction and validation of socio-technical network data about the Sudan from text corpora. Presentation at XXXI International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St. Pete, FL, Feb 2011. [abstract]
  3. Diesner J, Carley KM (2010) Computational integration of network theory and topic modeling for investigating the relationship between socio-technical networks, funding, and innovation in the European Union. Presentation at XXX Internal. Sunbelt Social Network Conf., Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2010. [abstract]
  4. Mergel I, Diesner J, Carley KM (2010) Attention Networks among Members of Congress. Presentation at XXX International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2010. [abstract]
  5. Stuetzer C, Diesner J, Carley KM, Koehler T, Thiem G (2010) Identifying and integrating social roles and structural for the case of collaborative e-learning environments. Presentation at XXX International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2010. [abstract]
  6. Diesner, J. (chair), Gadeib, A., Lüttschwager, F., Sassinot-Uny, L. (2009). Roundtable: Data Collection online: Can do, must (not) do, Should do. General Online Research (GOR) Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 09. [abstract]
  7. Diesner, J. (2008). Computer Science in Numbers: Diversity and Employment. Talk at Computation, Organizations, Society (COS) Seminar Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. [slides]
  8. Diesner, J., Carley, K. M., & Katzmair, H. (2008). He Says, She Says - Identity and Polarization in Communication Networks of an Organization in Crisis. XXVIII Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St. Pete, FL, January 2008.
  9. McConville, E., Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2008). Software demonstration of AutoMap. Poster at XXVIII Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St. Pete, FL, January 2008. [poster]
  10. Carley, K.M., Diesner, J., McCulloh, I., Frantz, Martin, M. & Kunkel, F. (2008). Technologies for Distilling and Investigating Relational Data from Unstructured Text Data. Poster at Advanced Decision Architectures Consortium meeting of the U. S. Army Research Laboratory. Boulder, CO, February 2008.
  11. Diesner, J., Carley, K. M., & Katzmair, H. (2007). The morphology of a breakdown. How the semantics and mechanics of communication networks from an organization in crisis relate. XXVII Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Corfu, Greece, May 2007..[abstract]
  12. Weil, S. A., Carley, K. M., Diesner, J., Freeman, J., & Cooke, N. J. (2006). Measuring Situational Awareness Through Analysis of Communications: A Preliminary Exercise. Paper at the Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium San Diego, CA, June 2006. (full paper)
  13. Diesner, J., Pfeffer, J., & Katzmair, H. (2006). Evaluating Scientific Classification Systems by Bottom-Up Clustering of Abstracts Using Semantic Network Analysis. XXVI Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 2006. [abstract]
  14. Carley, K. M., Frantz, T., Diesner, J., & Davis, G. (2005). Groups: Surface And Deep Structure. XXV Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, February 2005.[abstract]      
  15. Diesner, J., & Carley, K.M. (2005). Revealing and Comparing the Organizational Structure of Covert Networks with Network Text Analysis. XXV Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, February 16-20, 2005. [abstract]
  16. Lewis, E. T., Carley, K. M., & Diesner, J. (2003). Concept Networks In Organizational Language: Consensus or Creativity? XXIII Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Cancun, Mexico, February 2003.
  17. Lewis, E. T., Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2002). Using Network Analysis to Extract and Analyze Self-Presentation Strategies in Texts. XXII Sunbelt Social Network Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2002. [abstract]

Invited talks

  1. IT Defense Conference, Germany: “Data Mining Methods for Knowledge Discovery from Digital Trace Data.” (February 2012) [link]
  2. German Armed Forces Command and Staff College (Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr), Hamburg, Germany: Network analysis and data mining methods for examining covert networks (Sept 2011)
  3. European Research Center for Information Systems at University of Münster, Germany: Words and Networks: Considering the Substance of Information for Constructing and Analyzing Socio-Technical Networks (April 2011) [link]
  4. IT Defense Conference, Germany: “Combining text analysis and dynamic network analysis for mapping and examining the structure, function, and evolution of covert socio-technical networks” (February 2011) [link]
  5. Syracuse University, School of Information: Words and Networks: Utilizing the substance of information to construct and analyze socio-technical networks. (January 2011)
  6. Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education Conference, Mars, PA: Encouraging the Participation of Girls and Women in Computer Science: Research and Action. atwith B. Cheng, C. Frieze (April 2010)
  7. German Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Hamburg, Germany: Dynamic Network Analysis (March 2010)
  8. Dresden University of Technology, Education Sciences Department, Dresden, Germany: Dynamic Network Analysis and Relational Text Mining (Oct 2009)
  9. NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany: Natural Language Processing and Network Analysis for Mapping and Understanding Covert Networks. at Bulletproof Hosting and Botnet Conf. (October 2009)
  10. vm-people corporation, Berlin, Germany: Transforming linear data into relational data (August 2008)
  11. Deutsche Welle, Berlin, Germany: Mapping Politics: From Words to Knowledge. with P. Ueschner (August 2008)
  12. Chemnitz Art Museum, Chemnitz, Germany: Finding Relations. with C. Stuetzer (July 2008)
  13. University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany: System Dynamics: Approach to Computational Modeling and Simulation. at Complexity Workshop (March 2008)
  14. University of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany: Data Collection online: Feasible does not have to mean legal. Complexity Workshop (January 2008)
  15. Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria: Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus. at Age of Simulation Conference (January 2006)
  16. FAS.research, Inc., Vienna, Austria: Computer-supported Network Text Analysis. (May 2005)
  17. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, D.C.: Extraction of the Social Structure of Covert Networks from Texts (January 2005)