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An Experiment in Document Exploration

The Stanford Dissertation Browser is an experimental interface for document collections that enables richer interaction than search. Stanford's PhD dissertation abstracts from 1993-2008 are presented through the lens of a text model that distills high-level similarity and word usage patterns in the data. You'll see each Stanford department as a circle, colored by school and sized by the number of PhD students graduating from that department.

When you click a department, it becomes the focus of the browser and every other department moves to show its relative similarity to the centered department. The similarity scores are computed using a supervised mixture model based on Labeled LDA : every dissertation is taken as a weighted mixture of a unigram language model associated with every Stanford department. This lets us infer, that, say, dissertation X is 60% computer science, 20% physics, and so on. These scores are averaged within a department to compute department-level statistics (the similarities shown), and need not be symmetric. For instance, Economics dissertations at Stanford use more words from Political Science than vice versa. Essentially, the visualization shows word overlap between departments measured by letting the dissertations in one department borrow words from another department. Which departments borrow the most words from which others? The statistics are computed for each year in the data.

When you zoom in two-levels (click on a department twice), individual dissertations are plotted on a line between each dissertation's home department and its next highest scoring department, in proportion to how much that dissertation uses words from each of those two departments. The relative position of two dissertations is only meaningful when they are on the same radial line. Dissertations from other departments that have a high score for the central, focused department are also shown, colored. For instance, take a look at Computer Science in 2005. You'll see three dissertations along the radial line to Linguistics - those are the three students that graduated from the Stanford NLP group that year. There are plenty of other places you find similar things that work, and a few places that don't. In particular, small departments have less data and so are more susceptible to noise.

Our experience building this browser emphasized the ways that good interactive visualizations can improve text modeling, and vice versa. For instance, the visualization allowed us to experiment with many model variations (LDA, tf-idf, etc.) to see how well each matched our intuitions, and the contours of the models informed our choices in presentation. The model and visualization shown are our best so far, but both leave plenty of room for improvement.

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Ilya R. Segal

Department of Economics Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6072 Tel. (650) 724-4905 [email protected]     http://www.stanford.edu/~isegal/

Academic Positions

· 2002 – present:    Roy and Betty Anderson Professor in the Humanities and Sciences , Department of Economics, Stanford University (Courtesy appointment, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2004-present)

· 1999 – 2002:        Associate Professor of Economics , Stanford University

· 1995 – 1998:        Assistant Professor of Economics , University of California at Berkeley

Visiting Positions

· Visiting Researcher , Microsoft Research Silicon Valley , Summer 2008       

· Member , The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton , 2002-2003

· John Stauffer National Fellow in Public Policy , Hoover Institution, 1998 – 1999

· Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Fall 1995

· Pew Foundation Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 1991-92

· Harvard University , Ph.D., Economics, 1995. Advisors: Eric Maskin , Oliver Hart , Andrei Shleifer

· Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , M.S., Applied Mathematics, 1991

Honors, Awards, Grants

· 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science , as part of an interdisciplinary team designing the F.C.C.’s Incentive Auction

· American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, elected in 2017

· Emerald Publishing Citation of Excellence for “the most highly cited and influential papers” (joint with Alessandro Pavan and Juuso Toikka ), 2017

· Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Fellow, elected in 2013

· Compass Lexecon Prize for “the most significant contribution to the understanding and implementation of competition policy” (joint with Michael Whinston ), 2008

· Toulouse Network on Information Technology , Member, 2005-2017

· Econometric Society Fellow, elected in 2003

· John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship , 2002-2003

· Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship , 1999-2001

· National Science Foundation Research Grants 1998-2000 , 2000-2002 , 2002-2004 , 2004-2005 , 2004-2006 , 2010-2012

· Review of Economic Studies European Tour , 1995

· Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1994-95

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles   

• “ Clock   Auctions and Radio Spectrum Reallocation ,” with Paul Milgrom , Journal of Political Economy , forthcoming
• “ Robustly Optimal Auctions with Unknown Resale Opportunities ,” with Gabriel Carroll , Review of Economic Studies , forthcoming
• “ Economics and Computer Science of a Radio Spectrum Reallocation ,” with Kevin Leyton-Brown and Paul Milgrom , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 114 (28), 2017, pp. 7202–7209
• “ Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining ,” with Michael Whinston , Journal of European Economic Association , 14(6), 2016, pp. 1287–1328
• “ What Makes them Click: Empirical Analysis of Consumer Demand for Internet Search Advertising ,” with Przemyslaw Jeziorski , American Economic Journal: Microeconomics , 7(3), 2015, pp. 24-53.
• “ Dynamic Mechanism Design: A Myersonian Approach ,” with Alessandro Pavan and Juuso Toikka , Econometrica 82(2), 2014, pp. 601–653.
• “ An Efficient Dynamic Mechanism ,” with Susan Athey , Econometrica , 81(6) , 2013 , pp.2463–2485
• “ A Simple Status Quo that Ensures Participation (with Application to Efficient Bargaining) ,” with Michael Whinston , Theoretical Economics 6(1), 2011, pp. 109-125
• “ Optimal Information Disclosure ,” with Luis Rayo , Journal of Political Economy 118(5), 2010, pp. 949-987
•   “ Nash Implementation with Little Communication ,” Theoretical Economics 5(1), 2010, pp.51-71
• “ The Communication Cost of Selfishness ,” with Ronald Fadel, Journal of Economic Theory 144, 2009, pp. 1895-920
•   “ Antitrust in Innovative Industries ,” with Michael Whinston , American Economic Review 97(5), 2007, pp. 1703-1730
• “ The Communication Requirements of Social Choice Rules and Supporting Budget Sets , ” Journal of Economic Theory 136, September 2007, pp. 341-378
• “ Auctions with Severely Bounded Communication ,” with Liad Blumrosen and Noam   Nisan , Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 28, March 2007, pp. 233-266
• “ The Communication Requirements of Efficient Allocations and Supporting Prices , ” with Noam Nisan , Journal of Economic Theory 129(1), July 2006, pp. 192-224

·          “ Robust Predictions for Bilateral Contracting with Externalities ,” with Michael Whinston , Econometrica , 71(3) 2003, pp. 757-791

·      “ Optimal Pricing Mechanisms with Unknown Demand ,” American Economic Review 93(3), 2003, pp. 509-529

·     “ Collusion, Exclusion, and Inclusion in Random-Order Bargaining ,” Review of Economic Studies 70(2), 2003, pp. 439-460

·     “ Coordination and Discrimination in Contracting with Externalities: Divide and Conquer? ” Journal of Economic Theory 113(2), 2003, pp. 147-181

·     “ Communication Complexity and Coordination by Authority ,” Advances in Theoretical Economics , forthcoming

·     “ Envelope Theorems for Arbitrary Choice Sets ,” with Paul Milgrom , Econometrica 70(2), 2002, pp. 583-601

·     “ The Mirrlees Approach to Mechanism Design with Renegotiation (with Applications to Hold-Up and Risk Sharing) ,” with Michael Whinston , Econometrica 70(1), 2002, pp. 1-45

·     “ Exclusive Contracts and Protection of Investments ,” with Michael Whinston , RAND Journal of Economics 31(4), 2000, pp. 603-633

·     “ Naked Exclusion: Comment ,” with Michael Whinston , American Economic Review 90(1), 2000, pp. 296-309

·     “ Contracting with Externalities ,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 114(2), 1999, pp. 337-388

·     “ Complexity and Renegotiation: A Foundation for Incomplete Contracts ,” Review of Economic Studies 66(1) , 1999, pp. 57-82

·     “ Monopoly and Soft Budget Constraint ,” RAND Journal of Economics 29(3), Autumn 1998, pp. 596-609

Refereed Conference Proceedings

·          “ Exponential Communication Inefficiency of Demand Queries ," with Noam Nisan , Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge X, June 2005, pp. 158-164

·     “ The Communication Cost of Selfishness: Ex Post Implementation ,” with Ronald Fadel, Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge X, June 2005, pp. 165-76

·          “ Multi-Player and Multi-Round Auctions with Severely Bounded Communication ," with Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan , European Symposium on Algorithms , September 2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2832 Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-20064-9

Invited Contributions

•   “ The Efficiency of Bargaining under Divided Entitlements ,” with Michael Whinston , University of Chicago Law Review 81(1), 2014
• “ Property Rights ,” with Michael Whinston , Handbook of Organizational Economics , ed. by R. Gibbons and J. Roberts, Princeton University Press, 2012

·    Designing Efficient Dynamic Mechanisms for Dynamic Bilateral Trading Games , with Susan Athey , American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings , 97(2), May 2007, pp. 131-6

·    Communication in Economic Mechanisms, in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Application, Ninth World Congress (Econometric Society Monographs), ed. by Richard Blundell, Whitney K. Newey, and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University Press, 2006

·      Communication Requirements of Combinatorial Allocation Problems , in Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham, and Richard Steinberg (eds.), Combinatorial Auctions, MIT Press, 2006

Other Publications

·     “Public vs. Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law: A Survey” (with Michael Whinston ), European Competition Law Review , 2007, 323-32

·     Solutions Manual for “Microeconomic Theory” by Mas- Colell , Whinston, and Green , 1996, with Chiaki Hara and Steve Tadelis, Oxford University Press

Selected Invited Lectures

· Alfred Marshall Lecture , European Economic Association Meetings , Mannheim, 2015

· Keynote Speaker , Econometric Society Australasian Meetings (Hobart), 2014, Southern California Symposium on Network and Game Theory , 2012

· Plenary Speaker , Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Meetings, Ann Arbor, Fall 2013

· Semi-Plenary Speaker , 4 th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Istanbul, 2012

· Lecturer , Summer Schools in Economic Theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007, 2012

· Invited Speaker , North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society (Evanston 2012 ), Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society (Rio de Janeiro 2008 ), 9 th World Congress of the Econometric Society (London 2005 )

Professional Service

· Editor-in-Chief , ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation , April 2017-present

· Associate Editor , Econometrica , 2015-present

· Foreign Editor , Review of Economic Studies , 2010-2016

· Associate Editor , Journal of Economic Theory , 2013-2015

· Co-Organizer , Program on Economics and Computation , Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Fall 2015

· National Science Foundation Economics Panel, 2008-2010

· Program Committee , Bay Algorithmic Game Theory Symposia, BAGT1-BAGT6 , 2006-2009

· B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics , Founding Editor, 1999-2005

· American Economic Review , Editorial Board, 2002-2005

· RAND Journal of Economics , Associate Editor, 1998-2006

· Director , Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics , 2003-2005

· Program Committee , North American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Winter 2002 , Winter 2004 , Summer 2004 ; 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society ( August 2000 ); ACM Conference on Economics and Computation ( 2003 , 2008 , 2012 , 2015, 2017), Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge IX (2003)

· Workshop Organizer , Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics ( 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2004 ); European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory, Gerzensee , July 2000

· Director of Graduate Studies, Economics Department, 2005-2011

· Stanford University Committee on Libraries, 2004-2007

· Chair of Graduate Admissions, Economics Department, Stanford University, 2004-2005

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