Emory NLP

Dr. Choi gave a seminar to the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Dr. Choi's team received the Venture Development Award from the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA). Dr. Elaine Fisher is the PI of this award.

EmoryNLP published 21 research papers in 2020 to various venues including ACL, EMNLP, and AACL.

A long paper by Changmao Li, a MS student who graduated in Spring 2020, is accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP):

Competence-Level Prediction and Resume-Job_Description Matching Using Context-Aware Transformer Models. Changmao Li, Elaine Fisher, Rebecca Thomas, Steve Pittard, Vicki Hertzberg and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP'20, 2020.

https://2020.emnlp.org

Sarah Finch and James Finch, both 3rd-year Ph.D students, gave an invited talk about Emora at the International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD) 2020:

[Emora] An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You Emora won the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 2020: https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/amazon-announces-2020-alexa-prize-winner-emory-university Th...

A paper by Liyan Xu, a 2nd-year Ph.D student, is accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP):

Revealing the Myth of Higher-Order Inference in Coreference Resolution. Liyan Xu and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

https://2020.emnlp.org

Dr. Wei Xu, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, gave a talk at our CS seminar series and visited EmoryNLP.

A paper by Renxuan (Albert) Li, a BS student who graduated in Spring 2020, is accepted to the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL):

Analysis of Hierarchical Multi-Content Text Classification Model on B-SHARP Dataset for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease. Renxuan A. Li, Ihab Hajjar, Felicia Goldstein, and Jinho D. Choi. Proceedings of the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, AACL'20, 2020.

http://aacl2020.org

Dr. Choi gave a short talk to "The Geek Panel: Aging with Technology" about how Emora can help seniors get over with loneliness and isolation:

Dr. Choi has received the "Professor of the Year" award from the Computer Science department at Emory University.

Interview with Sarah Finch, James, Finch, and Dr. Choi about the win of Alexa Prize 2020.

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2020/08/er_alexa_prize/campus.html

Emory students win Amazon’s Alexa Prize for artificial intelligence ‘social companion’ A team of Emory students won Amazon’s 2020 Alexa Prize, a global competition to create the most engaging chatbot to advance the field of artificial intelligence. The team earned $500,000 for taking first place with their chatbot named Emora.

Our team Emora has won the Alexa Prize 2020. Our final average rating was 3.81 compared to 3.17 and 3.14 achieved by the 2nd and 3rd-place winners, Stanford University and Czech Technical University, respectively. This prize comes with a $500,000 cash award. All credits are due to the students who have put an incredible amount of efforts to make this accomplishment:

- Sarah Fillwock (3rd year PhD student; team lead)
- James Finch (3rd year PhD student)
- Ali Ahmadvand (5th year PhD student)
- Zihao Wang (5th year PhD student)
- Harsh*ta Sahiwani (4th year PhD student)
- Sergey Volokhin (3rd year PhD student)
- Han He (3rd year PhD student)
- Jiaying Lu (2nd year PhD student)
- Liyan Xu (2nd year PhD student)
- Jason Choi (MS, graduated in Summer 2020)
- Xiangjue D**g (2nd year MS student)
- Zihan Wang (BS/MS student)
- Chenxi Xu (BS/MS student)
- Ruixiang Qi (BS, graduated in Spring 2020)