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:

Pleased to announce that our grant proposal to NSF’s RETTL program, An AI Tutoring System for Pollinator Conservation Community Science Training, has been awarded, for $849,890!

At the end of the semester, time to take stock of lab activity:

Congratulations to Aniket Tomar on successfully defending his Master’s thesis!

SIGNAL Lab Ph.D. student Sadaf Ghaffari presented Detecting and Accommodating Novel Types and Concepts in an Embodied Simulation Environment at the Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems at George Mason University in Arlington, VA. In this paper, we explore techniques to imbue neural networks with the capability to expand...