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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations to Jason Eisner, @ghadfield.bsky.social, @danielkhashabi.bsky.social, @tom-lippincott.bsky.social, Benjamin Van Durme, and @ziangxiao.bsky.social on their Discovery Awards!

CS faculty receive 2025 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards

Winning projects—chosen from 274 proposals—include 150 individuals from across the university.

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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · Aug 8

Johns Hopkins researchers including @victor-antony.bsky.social and @ziangxiao.bsky.social‬ have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions—a breakthrough for areas like health care and education where natural conversation is crucial.

Talking robots learn to manage human interruptions

Johns Hopkins computer scientists designed an interruption-handling system to facilitate more natural conversations with social robots

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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · Aug 18

Learn more about @ziangxiao.bsky.social’s research in our new Q&A!

New faculty Q&A: Ziang Xiao

Get to know Ziang Xiao, who joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of computer science.

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Ziang Xiao @ziangxiao.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Aug 8th deadline is only a few days away! If you have awesome HCI+NLP work to share, submit it to our workshop! sites.google.com/view/hciandnlp

Siyan Sylvia Li ✨ @siyan-li-sparkle.bsky.social · Jul 7

🎉 Excited to announce that the 4th HCI+NLP workshop will be co-located with @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social in Suzhou, China! 🌍📍 Join us to explore the intersection of human-computer interaction and NLP. 🧵

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Ziang Xiao @ziangxiao.bsky.social · Apr 25

We are excited to kick off the 2nd HEAL workshop tomorrow at #CHI2025. Dr. Su Lin Blodgett and Dr. Gagan Bansal from MSR will be our keynote speakers!

Welcome new and old friends! See you at G221!

All accepted papers: tinyurl.com/bdfpjcr4

Dr. Su Lin Blodgett and Dr. Gagan Bansal will be the keynote speakers of the 2nd HEAL workshop @CHI25

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Nikhil Sharma ༗ @nikhilsksharma.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thrilled that our paper Faux Polyglot has been accepted to #NAACL2025 main! 🚀
We show that multilingual RAG creates language-specific information cocoons and amplifies perspectives and facts in the dominant language, especially when handling knowledge conflicts.
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2407.05502

Faux Polyglot: A Study on Information Disparity in Multilingual Large Language Models

With Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Models (LLMs) are playing a pivotal role in information search and are being adopted globally. Although the multilingual capability of LLMs of...

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Ziang Xiao @ziangxiao.bsky.social · Dec 17

Glad to organize HEAL again at CHI2025 with a special theme of "Mind the Context"!

Yu Lu Liu @liuyulu.bsky.social · Dec 16

An awesome team of organizers: @wesleydeng.bsky.social, @mlam.bsky.social, @juhokim.bsky.social, @qveraliao.bsky.social, @cocoweixu.bsky.social, @ziangxiao.bsky.social, Motahhare Eslami, and Jekaterina Novikova!

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Vera Liao @qveraliao.bsky.social · Nov 26

Had a lot of fun teaching a tutorial on Human-Centered Evaluation of Language Technologies at #EMNLP2024, w/ @ziangxiao.bsky.social, Su Lin Blodgett, and Jackie Cheung

We just posted the slides on our tutorial website: human-centered-eval.github.io

Human-Centered Eval@EMNLP24

human-centered-eval.github.io

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