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🤗 Hey! My name is Abe, which is short for “Abraham” (not the Japanese or Amharic “Abe”). It was given at my birth by my mother who thought it sounded like my Chinese name Bohan Hou (侯博瀚). I am an incoming PhD (and JD?) student in Computer Science in Fall 2025, doing stuff on the intersection of NLP and Law/Policy. Currently, I am a senior undergraduate at Johns Hopkins, majoring in Computer Science and Pure Math.

🧩 I am interested in Legal NLP and Generative Social Simulation to inform law and public policy in various ways. I aim to make direct social impacts while understanding and improving the underlying technologies.

Social Simulation

Can A Society of Generative Agents Simulate Human Behavior and Inform Public Health Policy? A Case Study on Vaccine Hesitancy

Abe Bohan Hou, Hongru Du, Yichen Wang, Jingyu Zhang, Zixiao Wang, Paul Pu Liang, Daniel Khashabi, Lauren Gardner, Tianxing He.

In submission.

Legal NLP Publications

Gaps or Hallucinations? Gazing into Machine-Generated Legal Analysis for Fine-grained Text Evaluations.

Abe Bohan Hou, William Jurayj, Nils Holzengerber, Andrew Blair-Stanek, Benjamin Van Durme.

Accepted to NLLP 2024 (EMNLP).

CLERC: A Dataset for Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation.

Abe Bohan Hou, Orion Weller, Guanghui Qin, Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, Nils Holzenberger, Andrew Blair-Stanek, Benjamin Van Durme