SEBASTIN
SANTY
ssanty@cs.washington.edu

I am a PhD student at the University of Washington, advised by Sewoong Oh. I'm inspired by what makes human and machine intelligence unique, how they interact with each other, and the new forms of intelligence that emerge from this interaction.

RESEARCH

When Incentives Backfire, Data Stops Being Human
Sebastin Santy, Prasanta Bhattacharya, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kelsey Allen, Sewoong Oh
Position Paper at ICML 2025 VISUAL● PDF● ABS

From English to the World

Multilingual Diversity Improves Vision-Language Representations
Thao Nguyen, Matthew Wallingford, Sebastin Santy, Wei-Chiu Ma, Sewoong Oh, Ludwig Schmidt,
Pang Wei Koh, Ranjay Krishna
NeurIPS 2024  SPOTLIGHT PDF● ABS
Semantic and Expressive Variations in Image Captions Across Languages
Andre Ye, Sebastin Santy, Jena D. Hwang, Amy X. Zhang, Ranjay Krishna
CVPR 2025 PDF● ABS
Characterizing Design Biases of Datasets and Models
Sebastin Santy*, Jenny Liang*, Ronan Le Bras, Katharina Reinecke, Maarten Sap
ACL 2023  OUTSTANDING PAPER ◦ CMU ML Blog WEB● PDF● ABS
State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World
Pratik Joshi*, Sebastin Santy*, Amar Budhiraja*, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury
ACL 2020◦ US FTC◦ NLP News◦ NLP Beyond English◦ Quartz◦ Underrated ML WEB● TALK● PDF● ABS

Low Resource Language Systems

Language Translation as a Socio-Technical System
Sebastin Santy, Kalika Bali, Monojit Choudhury, Sandipan Dandapat, Tanuja Ganu, Anurag Shukla,
Jahanvi Shah, Vivek Seshadri
COMPASS 2021◦ Mint Lounge SLIDES● PDF● ABS
Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language
Devansh Mehta*, Sebastin Santy*, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava,
Alok Sharma, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, Venkanna U, Amit Sharma, Kalika Bali
LREC 2020◦ The Caravan◦ Times of India◦ Hindustan Times◦ ETV PDF● ABS
Unsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for LRL Communities
Pratik Joshi, Christain Barnes, Sebastin Santy, Simran Khanuja, Sanket Shah, Anirudh Srinivasan,
Satwik Bhattamishra, Sunayana Sitaram, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali
ICON 2019◦ Indian Express◦ Microsoft Stories SLIDES● PDF● ABS

Interfaces for x People

BLIP: Facilitating the Exploration of Undesirable Consequences of Digital Technologies
Rock Yuren Pang, Sebastin Santy, René Just, Katharina Reinecke
CHI 2024 ⁕ x = Journalistic PDF● ABS
INMT: Interactive Neural Machine Translation
Sebastin Santy, Sandipan Dandapat, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali
EMNLP 2019 Demo◦ Slate ⁕ x = Translators WEB● CODE● POSTER● PDF● ABS
CoSSAT: Code-Switched Speech Annotation Tool
Sanket Shah, Pratik Joshi, Sebastin Santy, Sunayana Sitaram
AnnoNLP @ EMNLP 2019 ⁕ x = Annotators SLIDES● PDF● ABS
BERTologiCoMix: How does Code-Mixing interact with Multilingual BERT?
Sebastin Santy*, Anirudh Srinivasan*, Monojit Choudhury
AdaptNLP@EACL 2021 POSTER● PDF● ABS
Towards Task Understanding in Visual Settings
Sebastin Santy, Wazeer Zulfikar, Rishabh Mehrotra, Emine Yilmaz
AAAI 2019 (Student Abstract) POSTER● PDF● ABS
TALKS
Designing, Evaluating, and Learning from Humans Interacting with NLP Models
Sherry Tongshuang Wu, Diyi Yang, Sebastin Santy
EMNLP 2023 ⫻ Singapore
WEB● SLIDES