News
- A very creative paper by my new PhD student Xingyao Wang on using Code Generation for Structured Prediction from Natural Language.
- Check out my amazing PhD student Yi Fung's yet another wonderful work on automatically discover norms from conversations on the fly.
- Honored to be named as part of Women Leaders of Conversational AI by Project Voice.
- We have 10 papers accepted by EMNLP2022, especially proud of this paper on translation between molecules and natural language!
- PhD applicants for Fall 2023: Yes I have RA openings available. I don't have time to reply all emails, but I do read them carefully and will use them to help locate application materials. In your emails please only talk about how great you (instead of me or my papers) are.
- Spring 2023: I'm not teaching due to busy research schedule. The advanced NLP course will be taught again in Fall 2023.
- PhD graduate on Academic Job Market to start in Fall 2023: Manling Li - my absolutely best PhD graduate in my career so far, interview her before it's getting too late! She has been selected as EECS Rising Star, DARPA Riser and Microsoft PhD Fellow.
- I have many post-doc, research scientist, RAs and software engineer positions available to work on information extraction related research on news domain and scientific domain, please drop me an email if interested.
- Congratulations to Tuan Lai on receiving a full-time job offer from DeepMind!
- Fake news detectors trained from machine generated fake news don't work so well on detecting human-generated fake news. My genius student Kung-Hsiang Huang has proposed a solution in his new work "Faking Fake News for Real Fake News Detection: Propaganda-loaded Training Data Generation". This work has attracted media attention.
- Upcoming National Podcast: ``Unlikely Paths".
- Upcoming Keynote Speech: ``Few-shot Multilingual Event Argument Extraction via Natural Language or Programming Language Generation'' at EMNLP2022 Workshop on Massively Multilingual Natural Language Understanding;
- Upcoming Invited Talk "Joint Molecule and Language Learning for Scientific Discovery" at NIH.
- Upcoming Tutorials: "The Battlefront of Combating Misinformation and Coping with Media Bias" at AACL2022; "Knowledge-Driven Vision-Language Pretraining" at AAAI2023.
- Wrote some notes about research skills for new students: "the art of doing good research".
- Gave a controversial speech "Call me a leader, not a woman leader" and its Chinese translation, and its high school version.
- Been at news: fake news propagation pattern mining; Cross-cultural Understanding through Norm Discovery; NAACL2021 Best Demo Paper Award; DARPA SemaFor Project; Misinformation correction; Army Research Lab news about our work on cross-lingual structure transfer ; COVID-19 Knowledge Graph Construction and here; Feminism; DARPA KAIROS project.