18 March 2021 Congratulations to Tunazzina Islam for her ICWSM paper!
Her work, Analysis of Twitter Users Lifestyle Choices using Joint Embedding Model, analyzes Twitter users’ lifestyle choices and their motivation using a joint social-linguistic embedding model.
15 March 2021 Congratulations to I-Ta Lee and Maria Pacheco for their NAACL paper!
Their work, Modeling Human Mental States with an Entity-based Narrative Graph, uses narrative-contextualized event embedding to analyze characters’ mental states and their transitions.
1 January 2021 NSF CAREER proposal recommended for funding!
My proposal, titled Understanding Opinions by Reasoning over Socially Grounded Language was recommended for funding.
18 December 2020 Congratulations to Manuel Widmoser and Maria Pacheco for their EACL paper!
Their paper Randomized Deep Structured Prediction for Discourse-Level Processing explores deep structured prediction using randomized inference, applied to several arugmentation mining tasks.
25 November 2020 I-Ta defends his PhD!
Congratulations to I-Ta Lee! He will join Facebook as a research scientist!</a>
15 October 2020 Congratulations to Maria Pacheco for her TACL paper!
Her work intoduces DRaiL, a declarative Neuro-Symbolic framework for deep relational learning. Take a look at her work here
18 September 2020 Congratulations to Shamik Roy for his EMNLP paper!
His work studies nuanced political framing on news media, obtained with minimal human supervision. Take a look at his work here
18 September 2020 Congratulations to I-Ta Lee and Maria Pacheco for their EMNLP findings paper!
Their work suggests a model for Narrative-contextualized event embedding. Take a look at their work here
3 April 2020 Congratulations to Maryam Davoodi for her ACL paper!
Her work analyzes legislative texts according to agreement patterns across different demographic groups. Take a look at her work here
26 March 2020 Xiao Zhang defends his PhD!
Congratulations to Xiao Zhang! He will join Amazon in the Summer!
31 May 2019 Kristen defends her PhD!
Congratulations to Kristen Johnson! She will join CS@MSU in the fall!
31 May 2019 Kristen defends her PhD!
Congratulations to Kristen Johnson! She will join CS@MSU in the fall!
13 May 2019 3 papers accepted to ACL by Purde NLPers!
Congratulations to Xiao Zhang, Chang Li and I-Ta Lee! Take a look at their papers here
23 Feb 2019 2 short papers accepted to NAACL by Purde NLPers!
Congratulations to Rajkumar Pujari and Nikhil Mehta! Take a look at their papers here
4 Dec 2018 Some thoughts about NLP and AI on Purdue’s Giant Leaps blog
1 Sep 2018 Our NSF proposal on Protocol Validation using Minimally Supervised Semantic Interpretation of Text was funded!
6 Aug 2018 Our Data Science initative on forecasting which bills will get passed was funded!