Publications by Kristina Gligoric

Measuring and shaping the nutritional environment via food sales logs: case studies of campus-wide food choice and a call to action

Robert West, Robin Adrien Zbinden, Kristina Gligoric

Although diets influence health and the environment, measuring and changing nutrition is challenging. Traditional measurement methods face challenges, and designing and conducting behavior-changing interventions is conceptually and logistically complicated ...

Frontiers Media Sa2024

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

Robert West, Kristina Gligoric

What makes written text appealing? In this registered report, we study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website comparing multiple headline variant ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2023

Computational Approaches for Studying Dietary Behaviors with Digital Traces

Kristina Gligoric

Human nutrition and dietary habits shape our health, daily life, societies, the environment, and life on earth in general. However, it remains challenging to understand and attempt to change dietary behaviors using traditional methods due to measurement an ...

EPFL2022

Population-scale dietary interests during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert West, Kristina Gligoric

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has altered people's lives around the world. Here we document population-wide shifts in dietary interests in 18 countries in 2020, as revealed through time series of Google search volumes. We find that during the first wave of the COVI ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Laughing Heads: Can Transformers Detect What Makes a Sentence Funny?

Robert West, Maxime Jean Julien Peyrard, Kristina Gligoric, Beatriz Maria Borges Ribeiro

The automatic detection of humor poses a grand challenge for natural language processing. Transformer-based systems have recently achieved remarkable results on this task, but they usually (1) were evaluated in setups where serious vs humorous texts came f ...

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization2021

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report Protocol)

Robert West, Kristina Gligoric

What makes written text appealing? In this registered report protocol, we propose to study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website Upworthy compar ...

2021

Global maps of travel time to healthcare facilities

Kristina Gligoric

Access to healthcare is a requirement for human well-being that is constrained, in part, by the allocation of healthcare resources relative to the geographically dispersed human population(1-3). Quantifying access to care globally is challenging due to the ...

2020

Message Distortion in Information Cascades

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligoric

Information diffusion is usually modeled as a process in which immutable pieces of information propagate over a network. In reality, however, messages are not immutable, but may be morphed with every step, potentially entailing large cumulative distortions ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019