Dinner at Golden Buddha

Emory NLP went out for a dinner at Golden Buddha.

Left: Xiangjue, Zahara, James, Sarah, Yuting, Thiago, Zhexiong, Jiaying, Shaun
Right: Han, Changmao, Albert, Ruixiang, Jinho, Rita, Sonny, Haoqi, Liyan

Papers at AAAI:SAP 2020

Two abstracts written by Hang Jiang, Xinyi Jiang, and Zhengzhe (Jack) Yang, are accepted to the AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program:

• Automatic Text-based Personality Recognition on Monologues and Multiparty Dialogues Using Attentive Networks and Contextual Embeddings. Hang Jiang, Xianzhe Zhang, Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Student Abstract and Poster Program, AAAI:SAP'20, 2020.
• Incremental Sense Weight Training for In-depth Interpretation of Contextualized Word Embeddings. Xinyi Jiang, Zhengzhe Yang, and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Student Abstract and Poster Program, AAAI:SAP'20, 2020.

Invited Talk at CU

Dr. Choi gave an invited talk to the Computer Science Colloquium at the University of Colorado Boulder about the Character Mining project.

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Emora Team Photo

The Emora team gathered to take the group photo.

Jason, Ali, Ruixiang, Jinho, Xiangjue, Zihan, Sarah, Harshita, Sergey, Zihao, James, Chenxi.

Bloomberg AI Day

Dr. Choi was invited to the Bloomberg AI Day collocated at Data For Good Exchange 2019.

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Alexa Prize Bootcamp 2019

Sarah Fillwock, James Finch, Harshita Sahijwani and Dr. Choi attended the Alexa Prize Bootcamp 2019.

Jessica, Sarah, James, and Jinho.

ACL 2019

Dr. Choi presented a long paper at the ACL Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR).

Sangah Lee (SNU), Jinho, Dr. Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins), and Yunmee Baek (SNU).

Paper at SIGDIAL 2019

A paper written by Zhengzhe (Jack) Yang is accepted to the Annual Conference of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL).

• FriendsQA: Open-Domain Question Answering on TV Show Transcripts. Zhengzhe Yang, and Jinho D. Choi. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL'19, 2019.

AWS ML Research Award

Dr. Choi received the AWS Machine Learning Research Award (MLRA) that comes with $50K grant in cash and another $50K grant in AWS credits.  This is the second consecutive that Dr. Choi has won this award.

Bowling Night at Comet Pub & Lanes

Emory NLP went out for bowling at the Comet Pub & Lanes.

ZIhan, Ruixiang, Haoqi, Sarah, Han, Zhexiong, Changmao, Chenxi, James, Jinho

ZIhan, Ruixiang, Haoqi, Sarah, Han, Zhexiong, Changmao, Chenxi, James, Jinho