News
- Wrote some notes about research skills for new students: "the art of doing good research".
- UIUC got two NSF AI Institutes funded: AI for Molecular Synthesis and AI for Agriculture. My team's contributions will be knowledge extraction from scientific literature and knowledge-driven natural language generation for robots.
- Launched KBP2020!.
- I'm hiring! research faculty members, research scientists, post-docs, PhD/master/undergraduate RAs, program managers and software engineers. Drop me a CV if interested.
- PhD students on 2020 job market: Xiaoman Pan and Ying Lin.
- Congratulations Manling and my AIDA team (collaborations with Prof. Shih-Fu Chang's team at Columbia University) on winning the ACL2020 Best Demo Paper Award on our cross-media knowledge extraction project!
- Upcoming talks: keynote speech on event understanding at NeurIPS2020 workshop on knowledge graphs, keynote on language acquisition at EMNLP2020 workshop on efficient and simple NLP.
- Gave a controversial speech "Call me a leader, not a woman leader" and its Chinese translation.
- Been at news quite often lately for some reason: 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.
- A team of brilliant students from my group and Shih-Fu Chang's group have built a multimedia structured common semantic space.
- The best Ying Lin has developed a single joint neural model for end-to-end IE and made it publicly available as docker containers, from his ACL2020 paper.
- We are sharing our biomedical knowledge extraction results from 40K+ papers about corona virus. Public post, please feel free to share and do something cool on top of it: http://blender.cs.illinois.edu/covid19/