Dr. Dasgupta's Visit

Dr. Sourish Dasgupta, the founder of Rygbee Inc. and an assistant professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, visited us to present their research assistant platform called RAx.

Jinho and Dr. Dasgupta.

Alexa Prize 2019

The Emory NLP/IR team, Emora, is selected as one of 10 teams for the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3.  This selection, among 375 competing applications from 15 countries this year, comes with $250K grant and device support, to possibly become the socialbot technology in future Alexa devices.

Han, Liyan, Sarah, Zihan, Chenxi, James, Ruixiang, Jake, Jinho.

Paper at DMR 2019

A paper written by Kate Li is accepted to the ACL Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR).

• Meta-Semantic Representation for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease. Jinho D. Choi, Mengmei Li, Felicia Goldstein, Ihab Hajjar, I. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, DMR'19, 2019.

Graduation 2019

Six students from Emory NLP graduated:

Masters

• Gary Lai: MS in Computer Science
• Jose Coves: BS/MS in Computer Science and Mathematics
• Shen Gao: BS/MS in Computer Science and Mathematics

Bachelors

• Xinyi Jiang: BS in Computer Science
• Kate (Mengmei) Li: BS in Computer Science and Mathematics
• Jack (Zhengzhe) Yang: BS in Computer Science

Kate, Jack, Jinho, Xinyi, Shen.

Jose and Jinho.

Shen and Jinho.

Jack and Jinho.

Gary.

Paper at IJCAI 2019

A paper written by Bonggun Shin is accepted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

• The Pupil Has Become the Master: Teacher-Student Model-Based Word Embedding Distillation with Ensemble Learning. Bonggun Shin, Hao Yang, and Jinho D. Choi. In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'19, 2019.

Georgia CTSA Pilot Grant

Dr. Choi received a pilot grant of $40K from the Georiga Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (CTSA).

Awards 2019

Two students from Emory NLP received departmental awards:

• Jose Coves: Outstanding Student Award.
• Jack (Zhengzhe) Yang: Academic Excellence Award.

Jack, Jinh, Jose.

Dinner at Nakato

Emory NLP went out for a dinner at Nakato.

Changmao, Han, Liyan, Kate, Xinyi, Zilu, Jinho, Shen, Jack, Ruixiang, Albert, Yuchun, Sarah, James, Gary.

Honors 2019

Five students from Emory NLP received honors:

• Jose Coves: highest honor.
• Shen Gao: highest honor.
• Xinyi Jiang: highest honor.
• Kate (Mengmei) Li: honor.
• Jack (Zhengzhe) Yang: highest honor.

Jinho, Jose, Dr. James Lu

Dr. Michael Carr, Dr. Shun Yan Cheung, Shen, Jinho, Dr. Ken Mandelburg

Dr. Justin Burton, Jinho, Xinyi, Dr. Davide Fossati

Dr. Jed Brody, Dr. Shun Yan Cheung, Jinho, Jack.

Paper at BHI 2019

A paper written by Bonggun Shin is accepted to the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).

• Multimodal Ensemble Approach to Incorporate Various Types of Clinical Notes for Predicting Readmission. Bonggun Shin, Julien Hogan, Adams Andrew B., Raymond J. Lynch, Rachel E. Patzer, and Jinho D. Choi. In Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI'19, 2019.