February 19th 2024
Our paper on ‘Using Persuasive Writing Strategies to Explain and Detect Health Misinformation’ is accepted for LREC-COLING 2024. Congratulations to Daniel, Joseph et al.!
February 15th 2024
Congratulations to our great member Dr. Guangyue Xu who officially graduated today! We all wish the best for the next phase of his life!
Janurary 15th 2024
Three papers accepted at EACL 2024 Findings; “Teaching Probabilistic Logical Reasoning to Transformers”, “Consistent Joint Decision-Making with Heterogeneous Learning Models”, and “NavHint; Vision and Language Navigation Agent with a Hint Generator”. Congratulations Darius, Hossein, Joslin, et al.!
October 20th 2023
Our paper on ‘GIPCOL; Graph-Injected Soft Prompting for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning’ is accepted for WACV-2024. Congratulations to Guangyue et al.!
October 11th 2023
Our paper on ‘Syntax-Guided Transformers; Elevating Compositional Generalization and Grounding in Multimodal Environments’ is accepted for GenBench workshop at EMNLP. Congratulations to Danial et al.!
October 11th 2023
Our paper on “MetaReVision; Meta-Learning with Retrieval for Visually Grounded Compositional Concept Acquisition” is accepted for EMNLP-2023 findings. Congratulations to Guangyue et al.!
October 2nd 2023
Parisa got an accepted Tutorial on “Spatial and Temporal Language Understanding; Representation, Reasoning, and Grounding” at NAACL-2024. This will be presented with James Pustejovsky, Qiang Ning, and Marie-Francine Moens. Congratulations Parisa!
October 2nd 2023
Congratulations for the Nuclear workshop proposal accepted! Elham Barezi will be co-organizing this workshop with IBM folks! Parisa Kordjamshidi will give a Keynote talk! This will be co-located with AAAI-2024.
May 2nd 2023
Our paper on “VLN-Trans:%20Translator for the Vision and Language Navigation Agent” is accepted for ACL-2023. Congratulations to Joslin et al.!
April 19th 2023
Dr. Kordjamshidi will lead a basic research project granted by Office of Naval Research for investigation of “Neuro-Symbolic Compositional Generalization for Language and Vision Comprehension and Grounding”. The project will be in collaboration with Dr. Vishnu Boddeti and Dr.Yu Kong from MSU and, Dr. Dan Roth form UPenn. This is a $1.8M project for three years, looking forward to this great adventure for HLR research and its impactful research results!
April 19th 2023
Congratulations to Sania Sinha! our undergrad researcher at HLR for wining the first-place in Digital Humanities for UURAF (University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum). Her research project was on Visualization of Comfort Objects using textual content of human surveys.
Janurary 23rd 2023
Our paper on ‘Investigating the Role of Semantic Parsing in Understanding Procedural Text’ is accepted for EACL-2023 findings. Congratulations to Hossein et al.!
December 6th 2022
Congratulations to our great and kind member Dr. Chen Zheng who officially graduated today. We all wishes the best for the next phase of your life.
October 6th 2022
Our paper on ‘Transfer Learning with Synthetic Corpora for Spatial Semantic Role Labeling and Reasoning’ is accepted for EMNLP-2022. Congratulations to Roshanak et al.!
August 31st 2022
Lady Ada (our new GPU machine) is going to make HLR even more intelligent :-)
August 26th 2022
We got an Amazon research award for doing research on ‘Natural Language Instruction Following in Realistic Visual Environments’. This was based on a proposal that we wrote last year with a great help of Joslin. Congratulations!
August 16th 2022
Our paper on ‘Dynamic Relevance Graph Network for Knowledge-Aware Question Answering’ is accepted for COLING-2022. Congratulations to Chen et al.!
August 16th 2022
Our paper on “LOViS, Learning Orientation and Visual Signals for Vision and Language Navigation” is accepted for COLING-2022. Congratulations to Joslin et al.!
April 15th 2022
Our paper “Domiknows, A library for integration of symbolic domain knowledge in deep learning” won the “First place at Jackson award for computing and data impact” in 2022 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, held in Michigan State University. Congratulations to Hossein et al.
Aprily 15th 2022
Our poster “Spatial Reasoning in Deep Learning” won the “Best poster award” in 2022 Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, held in Michigan State University. Congratulations to Roshanak et al.
April 8th 2022
Our paper on “Explicit Object Relation Alignment for Vision and Language Navigation” is accepted for ACL SRW. Congratulations to Joslin et al.!
February 24th 2022
Our paper on ‘Relevant CommonSense Subgraphs for “What if…” Procedural Reasoning’ is accepted for ACL-2022 findings. Congratulations to Chen et al.!
August 26th 2021
Our paper on “DomiKnowS, A Library for Integration of Symbolic Domain Knowledge in Deep Learning” is accepted for EMNLP-2021 Demo track. Congratulations to Hossein Rajaby Faghihi et al.
June 2nd 2021
Our paper on “Zero-Shot Compositional Concept Learning” is accepted for ACL-2021 workshop on MetaNLP. Congratulations to Guangyue et al.
June 2nd 2021
Our paper on “Towards Navigation by Reasoning over Spatial Configurations” is accepted for ACL-2021 workshop on SpLU-RoboNLP. Congratulations to Yue et al.
May 4th 2021
Congratulations to Sushanta for his Master thesis defense and graduating!
April 29th 2021
Our paper on “Relational Gating for ‘‘What If’’ Reasoning” is accepted for IJCAI-2021. Congratulations to Chen et al.!
March 10th 2021
Our paper on “Time-Stamped Language Model, Teaching Language Models to Understand The Flow of Events” is accepted for NAACL-2021. Congratulations to Hossein et al.
March 10th 2021
Our paper on “SPARTQA, A Textual Question Answering Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning” is accepted for NAACL-2021. Congratulations to Roshanak et al.
October 30th 2020
Our poster “SPARTQA, A Textual Question Answering Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning” won the “best poster award” in 3rd Michigan AI Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Congratulations to Roshanak et al.
September 15th 2020
Our paper on “SRLGRN Semantic Role Labeling Graph Reasoning Network” is accepted for EMNLP-2020. Congratulations to Chen et al.!
April 20th 2020
Our paper on “Inference-Masked Loss for Deep Structured Output Learning” is accepted for IJCAI-2020. The acceptance rate is only 12.6%. Congratulations to Quan et al.!
April 3rd 2020
Our paper on “Cross-Modality Relevance for Reasoning on Language and Vision” is accepted for ACL-2020. Congratulations to Chen et al.!
February 27th 2020
Parisa gave a talk in dagstuhl event. The topic is “Declarative learning-based programming as an interface to AI systems”.
October 30th 2019
Parisa will serve as an area chair of ACL-2020 on Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond track.
October 25th 2019
Our tutorial on “Representation, Learning and Reasoning on Spatial Language for Downstream NLP Tasks”, is accepted for EMNLP-2020, this will be a joint work of Parisa with James Pustejovsky and Marie-Francine Moens.
October 24th 2019
Our 3rd workshop on “Spatial Language Understanding”, is accepted to be co-located with EMNLP-2020.
October 19th 2019
We are honored to announce that The paper “From Ontologies to Learning-Based Programs” has been selected as the “most impactful to AI” prize winner in the 2nd Michigan AI Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Keep up the good work and congratulations.
