• Improving Human Needs Categorization of Events with Semantic Classification
  Haibo Ding, Ellen Riloff, Zhe Feng, In Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019)

• Human Needs Categorization of Affective Events Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data
  Haibo Ding, Ellen Riloff, In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2018)
  

• Weakly Supervised Induction of Affective Events by Optimizing Semantic Consistency
  Haibo Ding, Ellen Riloff, In Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018)
  

• Why is an Event Affective? Classifying Affective Events based on Human Needs
  Haibo Ding, Tianyu Jiang, and Ellen Riloff, the AAAI-18 Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AFFCON 2018)

• Acquiring Knowledge of Affective Events from Blogs using Label Propagation
  Haibo Ding, Ellen Riloff, In Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016)

• Sarcasm as Contrast between a Positive Sentiment and Negative Situation
  Ellen Riloff, Ashequl Qadir, Prafulla Surve, Lalindra De Silva, Nathan Gilbert and Ruihong Huang, In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013)

• A Computational Model for Plot Units
  Goyal, Amit and Riloff, Ellen and Daumé III, Hal, Computational Intelligence, Volume 29, Issue 3, August 2013

• Automatically Producing Plot Unit Representations for Narrative Text
  Goyal, Amit and Riloff, Ellen and Daumé III, Hal, In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010)