About
Hello! I’m a fifth year PhD student 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 have an upcoming 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!
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
09.23.23: Our work, "How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion", was published at EACL 2023
03.23.23: I gave a talk at University of Pittsburgh called "Coreference Resolution"
10.22.22: Our work, "The Role of Context and Uncertainty in Shallow Discourse Parsing", was published at COLING 2022
10.12.22: Our work, "Appdia: A discourse-aware transformer-based style transfer model for offensive social media conversations", was published at COLING 2022
10.04.22: I gave a talk at The University of Texas at Austin called "APPDIA: A Discourse-aware Transformer-based Style Transfer Model for Offensive Social Media Conversations"
08.01.22: Our work, "PAC-bayesian domain adaptation bounds for multiclass learners", was published at UAI 2022
07.27.22: Our work, "Studying the effect of moderator biases on the diversity of online discussions: A computational cross-linguistic study", was published at COGSCI 2022
07.10.22: Our work, "Political ideology and polarization: A multi-dimensional approach", was published at NAACL 2022
05.22.22: Our work, "The change that matters in discourse parsing: Estimating the impact of domain shift on parser error", was published at ACL 2022
07.29.21: Our work, "Where are we in discourse relation recognition?", was published at SIGDIAL 2021
09.25.18: Our work, "Developing an Optimized UI for Traffic Incident Managers", was published at HFES 2018