Niloofar Safi Samghabadi successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation Automatic Detection of Nastiness and Early Signs of Cyberbullying Incidents on Social Media on April 30. Congratulations!
Sudipta Defended His Ph.D. Dissertation
Sudipta Kar successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation Automatic Characterization of Stories on April 13. Congratulations!
Paper on “Emphasis Selection” accepted at ACL 2019
Our paper titled “Learning Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media from Crowd-Sourced Label Distributions” is accepted to ACL 2019 (The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). This conference will take place in Florence (Italy) at the ‘Fortezza da Basso’. This work is in collaboration with…
Gustavo got the 2019 Snap Inc. Research Fellowship award! See the list of winners: https://snapresearchfs.splashthat.com/
Gustavo got the 2018 Best Junior PhD Student Award from the UH CS Department
Prasha obtains the Cullen Travel Grant
Congratulations to Prasha for obtaining the Cullen Travel Grant to present her work at the EACL’17 conference. More details about the Cullen Travel Grant can be found here.
Prasha wins the PhD showcase!
Prasha secured the first position in UH CS PhD showcase with her poster titled “Convolutional Neural Networks for Authorship Attribution of Short Texts”. The poster can be accessed here.
Gustavo and Suraj get first place in The 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT)
Gustavo and Suraj have obtained the first place on the 2017 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT).This shared task focuses on identifying unusual, previously-unseen entities in the context of emerging discussions. Novel entities and surface forms are problems that many systems struggle with. Take for example the tweet “so.. kktny in…
RiTUAL receives funding from NSF to work on book discovery
In a collaboration with SkywriterRX, Solorio and other RiTUAL members are working on extracting the stylistic markers of books that will enhance the discovery process for readers in search of their next reading experience. More about this project here: http://www.cs.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2016/0202-nsf-grant.php
Paper accepted at NAACL!
Our work studying the value of linguistically oriented character n-grams will be presented at NAACL 2015!