Publications & Patents

Selected peer-reviewed papers and patent activity. The full, itemized list (including filing dates and application numbers) is in my CV.

In preparation

From Multimodal LLMs to Lightweight Classifiers

When Bypassing the Language Model Improves Speech Intent Detection · Technical report, Intuit AI, 2026

In preparation for external submission. See Projects for a summary.

Selected peer-reviewed papers

Mitigating Hallucination in Fictional Character Role-Play

Nafis Sadeq et al. (incl. B. Kang) · Findings of EMNLP, 2024

ACL Anthology →

Unsupervised Improvement of Factual Knowledge in Language Models

Nafis Sadeq et al. (incl. B. Kang) · EACL, 2023

ACL Anthology →

A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Explanations for Product Reviews

B. Kang, S. Nakajima, T. Höllerer, J. O'Donovan · ACM RecSys, 2016

What am I not seeing? An Interactive Approach to Social Content Discovery in Microblogs

B. Kang, N. Tintarev, T. Höllerer, J. O'Donovan · SocInfo, 2016

The Full Story: Automatic Detection of Unique News Content in Microblogs

B. Kang, T. Höllerer, J. O'Donovan · IEEE/ACM ASONAM, 2015

Believe It or Not? Analyzing Information Credibility in Microblogs

B. Kang, T. Höllerer, J. O'Donovan · IEEE/ACM ASONAM, 2015

TweetProbe: A Real-Time Microblog Stream Visualization Framework

B. Kang, G. Legrady, T. Höllerer · IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), 2013

Understanding Information Credibility on Twitter

S. Sikdar, B. Kang, J. O'Donovan, T. Höllerer, S. Adalı · IEEE/ASE SocialCom, 2013 — Best Paper

Modeling Topic Specific Credibility in Twitter

B. Kang, J. O'Donovan, T. Höllerer · ACM IUI, 2012

Full list of 15+ peer-reviewed papers, workshop papers, and posters (2011–2016) in the CV.

Patents

16US patent applications filed
5granted

Dynamically Extracting N-grams for Automated Vocabulary Updates

US Patent 11,907,657 · granted Feb 2024

Methods and Systems for Automatic Call Data Generation

US Patent 11,941,144 · granted 2024

Automated Search and Presentation Computing System

US Patent 12,067,976 · granted Aug 2024

Guidance Deduplication Service for Real-Time Interactions

US Application 19/760,993 (IPR-2614542US) · filed Jul 2026

Additional filed applications cover query augmentation, response synthesis, framework-agnostic summarization, context-specific generative answers, anomaly prediction, and abandonment-behavior detection. Full itemized list with filing dates in the CV.