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.

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):

• Establishing Strong Baselines for the New Decade: Sequence Tagging, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing with BERT. Han He and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the 33rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS'20, 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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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)

Zhexiong's Defense

Zhexiong Liu, a member of Emory NLP pursuing MS in Computer Science, successfully defended his MS thesis.

Dr. Grigni (top-left), Jinho (top-right), Dr. Cheung (bottom-left), Zhexiong (bottom-right)

Changmao's Defense

Changmao Li, a member of Emory NLP pursuing MS in Computer Science, successfully defended his MS thesis.

Jinho, Changmao, Dr. Cheung, Dr. Grigni

NLP Rankings Website

One of the honors students from Emory NLP, Chole Lee, developed a responsive website called NLP Rankings that shows comprehensive rankings of academic institutions and faculty members in US with respect to NLP research.

• Ranking U.S. Universities for NLP Research Part 1: Data Collection
• Ranking U.S. Universities for NLP Research Part 2: Scoring Mechanism

http://nlprankings.org

ICPC North America Championship 2020

Two members of Emory NLP, Sonny Xu and Yusen Zhang, make it to the ICPC North America Championship 2020.

Yusen Zhang, Alexandru Rudi, Chenxi (Sonny) Xu

Emora Demonstration: Episode 5

Sports Component

Emora: Visit from Alexa Prize

Yang Liu from Alexa AI visited the team Emora to review the progress on the Alexa Prize.

AAAI 2020

Xinyi Jiang, Zhengzhe (Jack) Yang, and Hang Jiang, alumni of Emory NLP, presented student research papers at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Xinyi Jiang

Zhengzhe (Jack) Yang

CONFLUENCE 2020

Dr. Choi gave a keynote speech at the International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (CONFLUENCE) hosted by Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.  Dr. Choi also won the guest of honor award at the conference.

Dr. Choi gave a keynote speech and won the guest of honor award at CONFLUENCE'20.

Central Library at Amity University.

Trip to Taj Mahal.

NACLO 2020

Emory NLP hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition.  Ten students from several high schools in Georgia participated in this open competition.

Paper at FLAIRS 2020

A long paper written by Han He is accepted to the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference:

• Establishing Strong Baselines for the New Decade: Sequence Tagging, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing with BERT. Han He and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the 33rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS'20, 2020.