Some papers I cannot put online due to copyright regulations. Email me if you need a copy.

Publications: Refereed Journal Papers, Refereed Conference Papers, Book Chapters, Technical Reports, Non-Refereed Publications, Invited talks

Refereed Journal Papers

Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2008). Conditional Random Fields for Entity Extraction and Ontological Text Coding. Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 14, 248 - 262. DOI 10.1007/s10588-008-9029-z.
[author produced version of the paper. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com. The original publication, for which Science+Business Media, LLC 2008 owns the copyright, is available at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/yk2227932hu53745/]

Carley, K. M., Diesner, J., Reminga, J., & Tsvetovat, M. (2007). Toward an interoperable dynamic network analysis toolkit. Decision Support Systems, 43(4), 1324-1347. [paper]

Diesner, J., Frantz, T. L., & Carley, K. M. (2005). Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus “It's Always About the People. Enron is no Different”. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 11(3), 201-228. [paper]

Refereed Conference Papers

Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2009). He says, she says. Pat says, Tricia says. How much reference resolution matters for entity extraction, relation extraction, and social network analysis. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (CISDA), Ottawa, Canada, July 2009. [abstract]

Landwehr, P., Diesner, J., & Carley, K.M. (2009). The Words of Warcraft: a relational text analysis of quests in an MMORPG. Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference, London, UK, September 2009. [paper]

Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (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]

Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2007). Conditional Random Fields for Entity Extraction and Ontological Text Coding. North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, Atlanta, GA, July 2007. [abstract] [paper]

Lecy, J., Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2006). Identification of Knowledge Groups from the Enron Email Corpus. Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Dresden, Germany, June 2006.[abstract]

Carley, K. M., Frantz, T., & Diesner, J. (2006). Social and Knowledge Networks from Large Scale Databases. 56th Annual Conference of the ICA, Dresden, Germany, June 2006. [abstract]

Diesner, J., Kumaraguru, P., & Carley, K. M. (2005). Mental Models of Data Privacy and Security Extracted from Interviews with Indians. Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), New York, NY, May 2005.[abstract] [.pdf]

Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2005). Exploration of Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus. Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security, pg. 3- 14, Newport Beach, CA, April 2005. [abstract] [.pdf] [.ps]

Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2004). Using Network Text Analysis to Detect the Organizational Structure of Covert Networks. Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2004. [abstract] [.pdf]

Carley, K. M., Diesner, J., Reminga, J., & Tsvetovat, M. (2004). An Integrated Approach to the Collection and Analysis of Network Data. Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science Conference (NAACSOS), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2004. [abstract] [.pdf]

Lewis, E. T., Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2001). Using Automated Text Analysis to Study Self-Presentation Strategies. Proceedings of the Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems Conference (CASOS), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2001.[abstract] [.pdf]

Book Chapters

Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (forthcoming). Relation Extraction from Texts (in German, title: Extraktion relationaler Daten aus Texten). In C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Eds.), Handbook Network Research (Handbuch Netzwerkforschung). Vs Verlag.

Diesner, J., & Carley, K.M. (forthcoming). Relational methods in law enforcement (in German, title: Relationale Verfahren in der kriminologischen und kriminalistischen Forschung, Prävention und Ermittlung). In C. Stegbauer & R. Häußling (Eds.), Handbook Network Research (Handbuch Netzwerkforschung). Vs Verlag.

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. Aldershot: Ashgate.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Non-Refereed Conferences Papers and Presentations

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]

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.

McConville, E., Diesner, J., & Carley, K. M. (2008). Software demonstration of AutoMap. Poster at XXVIII Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St. Pete, FL, January 2008.

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.

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.

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 presented at the Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium San Diego, CA, June 2006.[abstract]

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]

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]      

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]

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.

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 02. [abstract]

Invited talks

NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany: Natural Language Processing and Network Analysis for Mapping and Understanding Covert Networks  (October 15, 2009)

vm-people GmbH, Berlin, Germany: Transforming linear data into relational data (August 15, 2008)

Deutsche Welle, Berlin, Germany: Mapping Politics: From Words to Knowledge, with P. Ueschner (August 01, 2008)

Chemnitz Art Museum, Chemnitz, Germany: Finding Relations, with  C. Stützer (July 24, 2008)

Complexity Workshop, Mittweida Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany: System Dynamics: Approach to Computational Modeling and Simulation (March 13, 2008)

Complexity Workshop, Univ. of Applied Sciences, Mittweida, Germany: Data Collection online: Feasible does not have to mean legal (January 03, 2008)

Age of Simulation Conference, Linz, Austria: Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus (January 12, 2006)

FAS.research, Inc. Vienna, Austria: Computer-supported Network Text Analysis (May 19, 2005)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, D.C.: Extraction of the Social Structure of Covert Networks from Texts (January 28, 2005)


very basic updates...

I am co-teaching an interdisciplinary, undergrad course on Social Networks @ CMU in Spring '10, poster

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