About
Hello! I’m a fifth year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Northeastern University, conducting research with Malihe Alikhani. I am passionate about using NLP tools for good, and am currently studying bias in language through a sociolinguistic lens. I am also conducting research in the ethics space, and recently published a book chapter on ethics in signed languages. I have published at venues including ACL, NAACL, EACL, SIGDIAL, COLING, and COGSCI, and won a best paper award for our work at UAI 2022. Last year, I was part of a university team that placed third in the Amazon Alexa Prize Taskbot Competition!
In my free time, I enjoy bouldering, playing the piano, singing (catch our concerts at Cambridge Chamber Singers!), working out, and spending time outdoors!
Please email me at atwell.ka at northeastern.edu if you have any questions, or are interested in collaborating!
News
- 11.12.24: Our work, "Studying and Mitigating Biases in Sign Language Understanding Models", was published at EMNLP 2024
- 06.16.24: Our work, "Generating Signed Language Instructions in Large-Scale Dialogue Systems", was published at NAACL 2024
- 05.20.24: Our work, "Combining Discourse Coherence with Large Language Models for More Inclusive, Equitable, and Robust Task-Oriented Dialogue", was published at LREC-COLING 2024
- 02.08.24: I gave a talk at Bilkent University called "Responsible Artificial Intelligence and Marginalized Communities"
- 09.23.23: Our work, "Multilingual Content Moderation: A Case Study on Reddit", was published at EACL 2023