ACL 2023

Three papers from Emory NLP were presented at ACL 2023:

Don’t Forget Your ABC’s: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems - Sarah Finch (left), James Finch (right), and Jinho D. Choi (middle)

Unleashing the True Potential of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Sequence Tagging and Structure Parsing - Han He and Jinho D. Choi (left)

Towards Open-World Product Attribute Mining: A Lightly-Supervised Approach - Liyan Xu (left), Chenwei Zhang (right), Xian Li, Jingbo Shang, Jinho D. Choi

We had a Colorado & Emory Lunch Gathering with 24 people, including Dr. Martha Palmer (CU), Dr. James Martin (CU), Dr. Alexis Palmer (CU), Dr. Dan Jurfsky (Stanford), Dr. Dmitriy Dligach (Loyola), Dr. Sameer Pradhan (LDC), Dr. Fei Liu (Emory), and Dr. Jinho Choi (Emory).

Too bad we forgot to take photos for this wonderful event :(.

Dr. Martha Palmer won the Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr. Joakim Nivre won the Distinguished Service Award this year, who happen to be Dr. Jinho Choi's dissertation committee chair and member.

Joakim Nivre (left), Jinho Choi (middle), Martha Palmer (right)

Finally, the ACL organizing committee had a nice dinner at the Toronto CN Tower: