Seminars

Weekly talks, proposals, defenses, and guest seminars. Use the year range, semester, and search box to narrow results.

Spring 2026
- Steerability Mapping in Persona-Vector Space: Single-Trait and Pairwise Analysis Across Open-Weight LLMs
  
  Winston Zeng · Apr 17, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- PersonaGen
  
  Noah Sturgill · Apr 10, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue
  
  Harry Jeon · Apr 3, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- From Long-Term Dialogue Memory to Personality Profiling: A Research Trajectory of Repeated Contraction
  
  Chunyao Zhao · Mar 27, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Stress Testing Instruction Following in Large Language Models
  
  Noah Reicin · Mar 20, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Beyond Text: LLM-Based Dimensional Emotion Evaluation in Multimodal Dialogue
  
  Yutong Hu · Feb 27, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data
  
  Henry Gao · Feb 20, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- LLM-Based Conversation Agent for Trauma Understanding and Structured Assessments
  
  Sichang Tu · Feb 13, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- CRADLE BENCH: A Clinician-Annotated Benchmark for Multi-Faceted Mental Health Crisis and Safety Risk Detection
  
  Grace Byun · Feb 6, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- DYCP: Dynamic Context Pruning for Long-Form Dialogue with LLMs
  
  Nayoung Choi · Jan 23, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- TBD
  
  Benjamin Ascoli · Jan 16, 2026
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
Fall 2025
- Designing and Evaluating a Conversational Agent for Early Detection of Dementia
  
  Noah Sturgill · Nov 7, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- TRUST: An LLM-Based Dialogue System for Trauma Understanding and Structured Assessments
  
  Winston Zeng · Oct 31, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Leveraging Large Language Models for Loneliness Detection and Analysis
  
  Michelle Kim · Oct 24, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Evaluating Instruction Following In Multistep Prompt Structures
  
  Noah Reicin · Oct 17, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Emotion Intensity in Multimodal Dialogue Datasets
  
  Yutong Hu · Oct 10, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Instructing LLM to Learn Human Behavior through Dialogue
  
  Henry Gao · Oct 3, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Cuddles ANC: Real-Time, Screen-Free Conversation in a Plush Form
  
  Harry Jeon · Sep 26, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Early Steps Toward Defining Facts and Events for LLM Memory
  
  Chunyao Zhao · Sep 19, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Measuring Sycophancy of Language Models in Multi-turn Dialogues
  
  Grace Byun · Sep 12, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Question Answering, Domain Expert System
  
  Nayoung Choi · Sep 5, 2025
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
Spring 2025
- Interactive Storytelling Framework for Early Childhood Narrative Development and AI Literacy
  
  Nayoung Choi · Apr 25, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Automatic Distractor Generation and Evaluation for Reliable Assessment of Generative Models
  
  Grace Byun · Apr 11, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Exploring the Potential of African American Dialect and Voice Generation for Chatbots
  
  Ellie Paek · Apr 4, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Advancing Conversational Text-to-SQL with Weight Averaging
  
  Benjamin Ascoli · Mar 28, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Speaker Diarization
  
  Mutian Li · Mar 21, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Human-AI Collaboration in Scientific Research
  
  Jinho Choi · Mar 7, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Reducing Cognitive Load in Digital Reading
  
  Molly Han · Feb 21, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Low-Resource RAG
  
  Andrew Chung · Feb 14, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Streaming Inference of Task-Oriented Dialogue Structure
  
  James Finch · Feb 7, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- PPT Slides to Answers: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Question Answering Systems
  
  Nayoung Choi , Grace Byun , Andrew Chung , Shinsun Lee · Jan 30, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Mental Disorder Diagnostics with LLMs
  
  Darin Kishore · Jan 24, 2025
  
  2:00 - 3:00 PM · White Hall 100
Fall 2024
- LLM Evaluation
  
  Grace Byun · Nov 22, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Tangible Book with AI: Interactive Story Generation
  
  Nayoung Choi · Nov 8, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Speaker Diarization
  
  Mutian Li · Oct 18, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- RAG for Vehicle Crash Collision Safety Tests
  
  Andrew Chung , Ellie Paek · Oct 4, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Clinical Interviews with LLMs
  
  James Finch · Sep 27, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- ESM+: Modern Insights into Perspective on Text-to-SQL Evaluation in the Age of Large Language Models
  
  Benjamin Ascoli · Sep 20, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Literature Reviews 2
  
  Grace Byun , Nayoung Choi , Ellie Paek · Sep 13, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
- Literature Reviews 1
  
  James Finch , Sichang Tu , Benjamin Ascoli · Sep 6, 2024
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · White Hall 100
Spring 2024
- Leveraging Diverse Data Generation for Domain-Adaptable Dialogue State Tracking
  
  James Finch · Mar 29, 2024
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC W303
- Enriching Open-Domain Dialogue Models with Predictive Social Commonsense
  
  Sarah Finch · Mar 22, 2024
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC W303
- Impact of Data Analysis on Nascent Natural Language Processing Tasks
  
  Zinc Zhao · Mar 8, 2024
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC W303
- Revolutionizing Administrative Tasks and Chatbot Evaluation: Emora Assistant Bot
  
  Ellie Paek · Mar 1, 2024
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC W303
- Automating PTSD Diagnostics in Clinical Interviews: Leveraging Large Language Models for Trauma Assessments
  
  Sichang Tu · Feb 23, 2024
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC W303
Fall 2023
- Beyond Audio: Advancing Speaker Diarization with Text-based Methodologies and Comprehensive Evaluation
  
  Peilin Wu · Nov 17, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Religious Text Training in Large Language Models
  
  Jacob Choi · Nov 10, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Revolutionizing Administrative Tasks: Emora Assistant Bot
  
  Ellie Paek · Nov 3, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Resume Classification and Dialogue State Tracking
  
  Zinc Zhao · Oct 27, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Robust Dialogue State Tracking via Diverse Data Generation
  
  James Finch · Oct 20, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Enriching Dialogue Agents with Enhanced Experience Understanding through Social Commonsense Integration
  
  Sarah Finch · Oct 13, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Semantic Structures
  
  Elias Stengel-Eskin · Oct 6, 2023
  
  10:00 - 11:00 AM · MSC W201
- Emory InfoBot: A Centralized AI Information System designed for Emory Students
  
  Darren Ni , Aaron Zaiman · Sep 29, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Trauma Carebot
  
  Sichang Tu · Sep 22, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Predicting Brain Age through Entity-Centric Analysis of Narratives in Picture Description
  
  Benjamin Ascoli · Sep 15, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Dialogue Analysis
  
  Sarah Finch , Ellie Paek · Sep 8, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
- Controllable AI: Lessons from the Past & The Future of Conversational AI
  
  Jinho Choi · Sep 1, 2023
  
  3:30 - 4:30 PM · MSC E306
Spring 2023
- Developing a Context-Sensitive Customer Service Chatbot in the Medical Domain
  
  Benjamin Ascoli · Mar 31, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
- Empathetic Conversational AI: Assessing and Supporting Trauma and PTSD
  
  Sichang Tu · Mar 24, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
- Computational Structures as Neural Symbolic Representation
  
  Han He · Mar 17, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
- Contextual Embedding Representations for Retrieval-Based and Generation-Based Dialogue Systems
  
  Zihao Wang · Mar 3, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
- Facilitate Document Understanding by Leveraging Language Structures
  
  Liyan Xu · Feb 24, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
- Designing Methodologies for ICPC Training
  
  Alexandru Rudi · Feb 17, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
- The Emora College Companion: A Socialbot for College Students
  
  Camila Calviño · Feb 10, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
- Diarize From Text: Text-based Speaker Diarization with Adaptive Metrics
  
  Chen Gong · Feb 3, 2023
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · MSC W301
Fall 2022
- Language Guided Localization and Navigation
  
  Meera Hahn · Dec 2, 2022
  
  1:00 - 2:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/98352727203
- Exploring Group Symmetry for Human Evaluation of Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems
  
  Sarah Finch · Nov 18, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Contextual Embedding Representations for Dialogue Systems
  
  Zihao Wang · Nov 11, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Computational Structures as Neural Symbolic Representation
  
  Han He · Nov 4, 2022
  
  5:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Document-Level Information Extraction w/ Global Inference and Challenging Domains
  
  Liyan Xu · Oct 21, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- A Caring Companion Chatbot Catered for College
  
  James Finch , Talyn Fan , Camila Calviño · Sep 30, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Summer Internship Experience
  
  Chen Gong , Alexandru Rudi · Sep 23, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Summer Internship Experience
  
  Han He , Sarah Finch , Liyan Xu · Sep 16, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Evaluation Methodology of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
  
  Sarah Finch , James Finch · Sep 9, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
Spring 2022
- Modeling Joint Information Extraction
  
  Liyan Xu · Apr 8, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Core NLP as Generative Prompting
  
  Han He · Apr 1, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- An Investigation of Human Evaluation Methods on State-of-the-Art Chatbots
  
  Sarah Finch , James Finch · Mar 18, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Emotion Analysis of College-Related Reddit Posts
  
  Sophy Huang · Mar 4, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Automatic Generation of Multi-Turn Dialogue
  
  Daniil Huryn · Feb 25, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Assembling Multi-Turn Dialogues from Reddit Data
  
  Mack Hutsell · Feb 18, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Speaker Diarization on Interview Dialogues
  
  Zihao Wang · Feb 11, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Annotating Temporal Relations in Different Types of Text
  
  Yingying Chen · Feb 4, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Causal Relations in Discourse for Pragmatic Inference
  
  Angela Cao · Jan 28, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Enriching and Evaluating Meaning Representations
  
  Jessica Ji · Jan 21, 2022
  
  4:00 - 5:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
Fall 2021
- Multi-Layered Meaning Representations
  
  Gregor Williamson · Dec 3, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Evaluating Dialogue Assembly Models
  
  Mack Hutsell · Nov 19, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Extraction of Emotional Information from Discussion Forums
  
  Sophy Huang · Nov 12, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Conversation Data Generation from Discussion Forums
  
  Daniil Huryn · Nov 5, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Extraction of Diagnostic Information from Social Media
  
  Sichang Tu · Oct 29, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- NL-Augmenter : Task-specific Natural Language Transformations
  
  Kaustubh Dhole · Oct 22, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Towards Understanding the Impact of Commonsense Knowledge on Dialogue Response Generation
  
  Sarah Finch · Oct 15, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- ReDD: Framework for Reasoning Driven Dialogue
  
  James Finch · Oct 8, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Encode Linguistic Structures into Pre-trained Seq2seq Transformers
  
  Han He · Oct 1, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Document-level Relation Extraction
  
  Liyan Xu · Oct 1, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Building an InterviewBot for Foreign Students
  
  Zihao Wang · Oct 1, 2021
  
  3:00 - 4:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/99364825782
- Toward Robust Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization and Information Consolidation
  
  Fei Liu · Sep 10, 2021
  
  1:00 - 2:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/98352727203
- Automatically Measuring Emotion from Speech: New Methods to Move from the Lab to the Real World
  
  Emily Mower Provost · Sep 3, 2021
  
  1:00 - 2:00 PM · https://emory.zoom.us/j/98352727203