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Attend EMNLP 2023
Dec 2023
Attend Empirical Methods in NLP 2023 conference in Singapore.
Intern at Sony, Tokyo
Fall 2023
Sony Global Intern in Tokyo on the Speech and Language AI Team.
Giving a talk at CPDD
17 June 2023
Giving a talk at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence 2023 as part of the r/AskAcademia: Special Considerations in the Practice of Using Reddit for Substance Use Research workshop. Specifically, I will be talking about r/AskAComputerScientist: Processing Reddit Data for the Social Sciences.
Attended MASC-SLL at George Mason University in Arlington, VA
22 April 2023
Attended the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning at George Mason University in Arlington, VA.
We had a great time at the 10th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2023). Thank you @GeorgeMasonU @GMUCompSci for hosting! #mascsllhttps://t.co/EVL45sxuMz
Here’s some of the work we presented 🧵 pic.twitter.com/80Wa3GPkpd— JHU CLSP (@jhuclsp) April 28, 2023Attended SRNT in San Antonio, TX
March 2023
I am excited to present "Automated Discovery of Perceived Health-related Outcomes about E-cigarettes from Reddit" at #SRNT2023 in San Antonio!
I am presenting on behalf of my collaborators Adam Poliak (@azpoliak), Mark Dredze (@mdredze), John W. Ayers, and others from the FDA pic.twitter.com/NKg4McXCeB— Alexandra DeLucia (@Alexir563) March 1, 2023Attended EMNLP in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Presented "Bernice: A Multilingual Pre-trained Encoder for Twitter" at Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2023.
Introducing Bernice: A Multilingual Pre-trained Encoder for Twitter
Work by Alexandra DeLucia (me, @alexir563), Shijie Wu @EzraWu, Aaron Mueller @amuuueller, Carlos Aguirre @pocaguirre, Mark Dredze @mdredze, and Philip Resnik @psresnik
Model: https://t.co/f1u9QZuFpW https://t.co/x6mEeJackT— Alexandra DeLucia (@Alexir563) October 13, 2022November 2022
Attended MASC-SLL at Temple University
Attended the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
We are proud of our JHU CLSP turnout for the 9th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2022). Thank you @TempleUniv for hosting! #masc-sll See 👇 for some of our students’ work presented at the event. pic.twitter.com/WZzQe2YRPX— JHU CLSP (@jhuclsp) May 5, 2022
30 April 2022
Attended EMNLP in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
My Master's and undergraduate collaborators, Abhinav and Jingyu, presented a poster at the Noisy User Generated Text workshop.
Do you study civil unrest on Twitter? Curious about prevalence of event signal?
Come check out “Study of Manifestation of Civil Unrest on Twitter” by @abnv15 @jackjingyuzhang me @mdredze and Anna Buczak on GatherTown at 1PM EThttps://t.co/GO5BWnyYNC— Alexandra DeLucia (@Alexir563) November 11, 2021November 2021
Presented poster at GEM@ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Decoding Methods for Neural Narrative Generation at Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM).
6 August 2021
Work presented at INDE2021 by co-author
LANL-AML program work Automated Detection and Characterization of Pathological Online Behavior presented at Beyond Misinformation: Towards a Research Agenda for Information Ecosystems, Network Dynamics and Emergent Epistemologies by Lissa Moore.
5 August 2021
Interned at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) Applied Machine Learning (AML) Summer program under Lissa Moore.
Summer 2021
Attended 2021 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women
23-24 April 2021
Attended EMNLP 2020
19 November 2020
My undergraduate collaborator Justin Sech presented a poster Civil Unrest on Twitter (CUT): A Dataset of Tweets to Support Research on Civil Unrest at the Noisy User Generated Text workshop.
Presented at MLCS 2020
13 November 2020
Presented a talk for Early Prediction of High Performance Computing Job Outcomes via Modeling System Text Logs accepted to the 2nd Machine Learning for Computing Systems (MLCS) at Supercomputing 2020
Talk at ACAI2020
23 July 2020
Presented my work on interactive narrative generation at the Animal Crossing Artificial Intelligence Workshop 2020. The presentation video is here. I also hosted the Computational Creativity coffee break island!
Started a PhD program at Johns Hopkins
29 August 2019
Began my PhD in Computer Science in the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) under Mark Dredze.
Poster presentation at WiML
3 December 2018
Presented my LANL research at Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop at NeurIPS 2018.
Poster presentation at CLSAC
31 October 2018
Presented my LANL research at Chesapeake Large-Scale Analytics Conference (CLSAC) poster session.
Started Post-bacc at Los Alamos National Lab
16 July 2018
Returned to Los Alamos National Lab on the High Performance Computing Design team as a post-bacc intern. My work focused on applying machine learning and natural language processing techniques to system log analysis. More information about my work at the Ultrascale Research Center at Los Alamos National Lab
Graduated from Rollins College
13 May 2018
Graduated from Rollins College (Winter Park, FL) summa cum laude with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics
Miscellaneous Mentions
Johns Hopkins Hub story about my joint project with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on mining health concerns surrounding electronic cigarettes from Reddit
Spotlight in the Los Alamos Daily Post for volunteering at the Los Alamos Makerspace
An article about my involvement in a Google IgniteCS project in Orlando elementary schools
A Summer Spotlight Rollins College did on my internship at Los Alamos National Lab
A Rollins College Sandspur article about my role organizing Rollins’ participation in Orlando’s March for Science 2017
A featured post about me on ReigningIt blog
A petition I wrote promoting staff diversity at Rollins College