We do research on natural language processing, machine learning and combining vision and language. We work on information and semantic extraction from language. We investigate methodologies to interplay between learning and reasoning and develop techniques to include declarative and procedural world knowledge in statistical/neural learning. We develop research software and build prototypes to facilitate designing AI systems. We also aim to apply our techniques and tools on real world-problems and conduct multi-disciplinary research to impact the society for making the world a better place to live.
Congratulations to Tanawan Premsri! His paper 'FoREST: Frame of Reference Evaluation in Spatial Reasoning Tasks' won the Senior Area Chair Highlight award, at EMNLP2025!
October 25th 2025
Excited to share that Dr. Parisa’s talk, 'Complex Reasoning over Vision and Language — Leveraging Neurosymbolic AI', has been accepted for the Senior Member Presentation Track at AAAI 2026.
October 25th 2025Thrilled to announce that we have two papers accepted to the main conference of AACL 2025! 'Don't Take it Literally! Idiom-aware Vietnamese Translation via In-context Learning', first-authored by Luan Thanh Nguyen and 'Referring Expressions as a Lens into Spatial Language Grounding in Vision-Language Models' first authored by Akshar Tumu.
October 11st 2025Congratulations to Juan for his paper, 'Modeling Language Learning in Corrective Feedback Interactions', accepted at *SEM conference (The 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics)
August 20th 2025Two Papers from Our HLR Lab Accepted at EMNLP 2025 main conference! 🎉 'FoREST: Frame of Reference Evaluation in Spatial Reasoning Tasks', led by Tanawan. Second: 'Vision-and-Language Navigation with Analogical Textual Descriptions in LLMs', led by Joslin. Many congratulations to HLR team!
July 15th 2025Dr. Parisa is co-organizing a workshop on Space in Vision, Language, and Embodied AI accepted for NeurIPS-2025. For the workshop, feel free to sign up to review: https://space-in-vision-language-embodied-ai.github.io/ .
July 15th 2025Congratulations to Sania, for the paper A Comparative Analysis of NeSy Frameworks and What’s Next accepted for Nesy-2025 conference.
May 9th 2025Many congratulations to Tianyi for 2025 Engineering Graduate Symposium Best Poster Award.
April 19th 2025A great and very special news: Darius’s NAACL 2025 paper got Outstanding Paper Award 'Learning vs Retrieval: The Role of In-Context Examples in Regression with Large Language Models'. Only 10 papers got this from the main conference papers. Many congratulations to Darius for the excellent hard work and dedication!
