Friday, May 22, 2020

Papers at IWPT 2020

A long paper by Han He, a 2nd-year Ph.D student, along with 7 other authors, and a shared task paper by Han he are accepted International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT):
  • Adaptation of Multilingual Transformer Encoder for Robust Enhanced Universal Dependency Parsing. Han He and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parsing Technologies: Shared Task on Enhanced Universal Dependencies, IWPT'20, 2020.
  • Analysis of the Penn Korean Universal Dependency Treebank (PKT-UD): Manual Revision to Build Robust Parsing Model in Korean. Tae Hwan Oh, Ji Yoon Han, Hyonsu Choe, Seokwon Park, Han He, Jinho D. Choi, Na-Rae Han, Jena D. Hwang, and Hansaem Kim. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parsing Technologies, IWPT'20. 2020.
Han also won the 3rd place for the IWPT'20 shared task on parsing enriched universal dependencies.

Monday, May 18, 2020

Best Student Paper Candidate at FLAIRS 2020

A long paper written by Han He is nominated as the best student paper by the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS):

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Papers at SIGDIAL 2020

A long paper by Sarah Finch, a 2nd-year Ph.D student, and a demo paper by James Finch, a 2nd-year Ph.D student, are accepted to the Annual Conference of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL):
  • Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols. Sarah E. Finch and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL'20, 2020.
  • Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development. James Finch and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue: System Demonstrations, SIGDIAL'20, 2020.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Paper at BioNLP 2020

A long paper by Liyan Xu, a 2nd-year Ph.D student, is accepted to the ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing:
  • Noise Pollution in Hospital Readmission Prediction:Long Document Classification with Reinforcement Learning. Liyan Xu, Julien Hogan, Rachel Patzer, and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP'20, 2020.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Shared Task on Sarcasm Detection

Xiangjue Dong, a member of Emory NLP pursuing MS in Computer Science and Informatics, has won the 2nd and 3rd places for the Reddit and Twitter datasets respectively at the Shared Task on Sarcasm Detection, hosted by the ACL Workshop on Figurative Language Processing 2020.

Friday, April 3, 2020

Paper at ACL'20

A paper written by Changmao Li is accepted to the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL):
  • Transformers to Learn Hierarchical Contexts in Multiparty Dialogue for Span-based Question Answering. Changmao Li and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL'20, 2020.

Haoqi's Defense

Haoqi Gu, a member of Emory NLP pursing BS in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, successfully defended his thesis with the high honor.


Haoqi (top-left), Jinho (top-right), Dr. Ettinger (bottom-left), Dr. Xi (bottom-right)

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Chloe's Defense

Chloe Lee, a member of Emory NLP pursing BS in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, successfully defended her thesis with the highest honor.


Dr. Ettinger (top-left), Jinho (top-right), Dr. Jacobson (bottom-left), Chloe (bottom-right)

Albert's Defense

Albert Li, a member of Emory NLP pursing BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, successfully defended his thesis with the highest honor.

Dr. Grigni (top-left), Jinho (top-right), Dr. Maxim (bottom-left), Albert (bottom-right)

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Ruixiang's Defense

Ruixiang Qi, a member of Emory NLP pursing BS in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, successfully defended his thesis with the highest honor.

Dr. Fossati (top-left), Jinho (top-right), Dr. Nagy (bottom-left), Ruixiang (bottom-right)