🧑‍🔬 Shomir Wilson

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Pennsylvania State UniversityState College · United States2018–2026 · 46 papersEmployment since 2018 · Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technologycurrent🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States2011–2018 · 11 papersEmployment 2011–2016 · Postdoctoral Fellow / Lecturer / et al., School of Computer Science🎓University of CincinnatiCincinnati · United States2016–2018 · 4 papersEmployment 2016–2018 · Assistant Professor, EECS Department🎓University of Maryland, College ParkCollege Park · United States2008–2013 · 4 papers🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh · United Kingdom2013–2014Employment 2013–2014 · NSF International Research Fellow, School of Informatics

🏛️University of MarylandCollege Park · United States2005–2011Education 2005–2011 · Ph.D., Computer ScienceEducation 2005–2008 · M.S., Computer Science

🎓Virginia TechBlacksburg · United States2000–2005Education 2000–2005 · B.S., MathematicsEducation 2000–2005 · B.A., PhilosophyEducation 2000–2005 · B.S., Computer Science

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

🧭 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📅 Works by year

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus (2016 · 336 citations)
   Website privacy policies are legally binding, yet most users neither read nor understand them, and regulators cannot review them at scale.
2. Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives (2019 · 163 citations)
   Privacy policies legally govern how apps handle personal data, but almost nobody reads them. This paper addresses that gap by framing policy comprehension as a question answering task. The authors build PrivacyQA, a corpus containing 1750 questions that ask about what 35 mobile apps state in their privacy policies…

All works

11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy CorpusAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, et al.2016 · 336 citations
2. Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal PerspectivesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Abhilasha Ravichander, Alan W Black, Shomir Wilson, et al.2019 · 163 citations
3. Identifying the Provision of Choices in Privacy Policy TextProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yetKanthashree Mysore Sathyendra et al.2017 · 100 citations
4. Privacy at Scale: Introducing the PrivaSeer Corpus of Web Privacy PoliciesProceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yetMukund Srinath, Shomir Wilson, C Lee Giles2021 · 47 citations
5. Sociodemographic Bias in Language Models: A Survey and Forward PatharXiv:2306.08158 · original ↗ · no summary yetVipul Gupta et al.2023 · 40 citations
6. From Prescription to Description: Mapping the GDPR to a Privacy Policy Corpus Annotation SchemeJURIX 2020 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) · original ↗ · no summary yetEllen Poplavska et al.2020 · 23 citations
7. The Creation of a Corpus of English MetalanguageProceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yetWilson, Shomir2012 · 19 citations
8. Toward Automatic Processing of English MetalanguageProceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yetWilson, Shomir2013 · 10 citations
9. A Tale of Two Regulatory Regimes: Creation and Analysis of a Bilingual Privacy Policy CorpusProceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · original ↗ · no summary yetSiddhant Arora et al.2022 · 7 citations
10. Creation and Analysis of an International Corpus of Privacy LawsProceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · original ↗ · no summary yetSonu Gupta et al.2024 · 6 citations
11. From Conventional Web Privacy to Agentic Disclosure: How Tool Schemas May Invite LLM OversharingProceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yetShahriar Shayesteh, Shomir Wilson2026 · 1 citation

🤝 Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Thomas Norton ×2
• Abhilasha Ravichander
• Alan W Black
• Eduard Hovy
• Frederick Liu
• Norman Sadeh

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) ×2: ACL 2016
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ×2: EMNLP 2019
• JURIX 2020 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA)
• Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
• Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
• Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing
• Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
• Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 219 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 8 citing papers with a page here →.

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