LREC-COLING Hat Trick and Other Stories

We are delighted to be 3 for 3 on submissions to LREC-COLING 2024, the first Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Evaluation! The accepted papers are:

• Nath, A., Jamil, H., Ahmed, S. R., Baker, G., Ghosh, R., Martin, J. H., Blanchard, N., and Krishnaswamy, N. (2024). Multimodal Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution Using Linear Semantic Transfer and Mixed-Modality Ensembles. In Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING). ACL. (In collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder.)

• Khebour, I., Lai, K., Bradford, M., Zhu, Y., Brutti, R., Tam, C., Tu, J., Ibarra, B., Blanchard, N., Krishnaswamy, N., and Pustejovsky, J. (2024). Common Ground Tracking in Multimodal Dialogue. In Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING). ACL. (In collaboration with Brandeis University.)

• Manafi, S. and Krishnaswamy, N. (2024). Cross-Lingual Transfer Robustness to Lower-Resource Languages on Adversarial Datasets. In Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING). ACL.

The conference will be held in Turin, Italy, in late May. Congratulations to SIGNAL Lab graduate students Abhijnan, Ibrahim, Mariah, and Shadi (and all affiliated students/external collaborators)!

Additionally, Sheikh Mannan and Sadaf Ghaffari have a publication each at AAAI Spring Symposia, to be held at Stanford University in March:

• Ghaffari, S. and Krishnaswamy, N. (2024). Exploring Failure Cases in Multimodal Reasoning About Physical Dynamics. In AAAI Spring Symposium: Empowering Machine Learning and Large Language Models with Domain and Commonsense Knowledge (MAKE). AAAI.

• Mannan, S., Vimal, V. P., DiZio, P., and Krishnaswamy, N. (2024). Embodying Human-Like Modes of Balance Control Through Human-in-the-Loop Dyadic Learning. In AAAI Spring Symposium: Symposium on Human-Like Learning (HLL). AAAI. (In collaboration with Brandeis University.)

Last but not least, another hat trick (+1 bonus poster) at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, to be held in Washington, DC, in June/July:

• VanderHoeven, H., Bradford, M., Jung, C., Khebour, I., Lai, K., Pustejovsky, J., Krishnaswamy, N., and Blanchard, N. (2024). Multimodal Design for Interactive Collaborative Problem Solving Support. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Springer. (In collaboration with Brandeis University.)

• Zhu, Y., VanderHoeven, H., Lai, K., Bradford, M., Tam, C., Khebour, I., Brutti, R., Krishnaswamy, N., and Pustejovsky, J. (2024). Modeling Theory of Mind in Multimodal HCI. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Springer. (In collaboration with Brandeis University.)

• VanderHoeven, H., Blanchard, N., and Krishnaswamy, N. (2024). Point Target Detection for Multimodal Communication. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Springer.

Congratulations to Hannah (x3), Mariah, and Ibrahim again!

And the poster:

• Seefried, E., Bradford, M., Aich, S., Siebert, C., Krishnaswamy, N., and Blanchard, N. (2024). Learning Foreign Language Vocabulary Through Task-Based Virtual Reality Immersion. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Springer.