Author: NLP Program Team
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MultiModal Knowledge Extraction and Question Answering in Farming
Student Team: Brian Mak, Ignacy Tymoteusz Debicki, Juan Sebastian Reyes, and Sriram Mahesh Project Mentor: Professor Yi Zhang (UCSC), Dr. Yueqi Li (X) and Dr. Kezhen Chen (X) We propose a novel visual long-form question answering system for the farming domain, an area of research with no previous baselines or significant work. We scrape and…
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Neural Models of Supertagging for Semantic Role Labeling and Beyond
Student Team: Anusha Gouravaram, Diji Yang, and Julian Jakob Cremer Project Mentor: Dr. John Chen, Interactions Recent Transformer-type deep neural network models have shown great success in a variety of NLP tasks such as sequence labeling. One sequence tagging task for which work in Transformers is absent is supertagging, which we investigate here. Supertagging, as…
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Probing of Language Models for Code: Exploring Code Style Transfer with Neural Networks
Student team: Anish Kishor Savla, Chih-Kai Ting, Karl Shen Munson, and Serenity Wade Project Mentors: Kiran Kate, IBM Research, Dr. Kavitha Srinivas, IBM Research Style is a significant component of natural language text, able to change the tone of text while keeping the underlying information the same. Even though programming languages have strict rules on…
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UCSC Silicon Valley Campus Virtual Tour
Check out this virtual tour of the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus (SVC) created by one of our amazing NLP Student Ambassadors.
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Faculty: Jeffrey Flanigan
Jeffrey earned his Bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master’s degree in theoretical physics from Caltech. With a strong mathematical background and a great passion in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, he then pursued his dream of doing research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Carnegie Mellon…
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Faculty: Jalal Mahmud
Jalal Mahmud brings deep natural language processing (NLP) expertise to the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s been a research scientist at IBM since completing his Ph.D. in computer science at SUNY Stony Brook in 2008. Since 2014, he has been managing teams for IBM Watson group. He also holds an M.S. in computer science (’06)…
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Faculty: Dilek Hakkani-Tür
Dilek Hakkani-Tür is a distinguished visiting instructor at UC Santa Cruz and a senior principal scientist at Amazon Alexa AI. She brings deep Natural Language Processing expertise and practical experience to the program. Dr. Hakkani-Tür received an MS (1996) and later her PhD in computer engineering from Bilkent University (2000). She also holds a BS from…
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Faculty: Yi Zhang
Department: Computer Science and EngineeringGraduate Institution: Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Zhang’s career straddles two worlds. In the first, she’s an academic, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. In the second, she’s an entrepreneur, a co-founder of Rul.ai, an award-winning conversation computing platform that landed a spot on…
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Student Spotlight: Kaleen Shrestha
Department: Computer Science and EngineeringDegree Program: Natural Language Processing MSHometown: San Jose, CAUndergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzGraduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz Kaleen Shrestha is a member of the inaugural class of Baskin Engineering’s new M.S. in Natural Language Processing (NLP) program. She is also an undergraduate alumna of UC Santa Cruz, where she majored in computer…
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Student Spotlight: Adam Fidler
Degree Program: Natural Language Processing M.S.Undergraduate Institution: Brigham Young University, Utah Valley UniversityDepartment: Computer Science and EngineeringHometown: Salt Lake City, Utah Adam Fidler is a member of the inaugural class of Baskin Engineering’s new M.S. in Natural Language Processing (NLP). He spoke with us about what he likes most about the program so far and his aspirations for a…
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Student Spotlight: Angela Ramirez
Degree Program: Natural Language Processing M.S.Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Computer Science and EngineeringHometown: Atwater, California Angela Ramirez is a member of the inaugural class of Baskin Engineering’s new M.S. in Natural Language Processing (NLP). She is also an undergraduate alumna of UC Santa Cruz, where she majored in cognitive science with an emphasis in artificial intelligence…
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Student Spotlight: Cecilia Li
Degree Program: Natural Language Processing M.S.Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa CruzDepartment: Computer Science and EngineeringHometown: Chengdu, China Cecilia Li is a Baskin Engineering undergraduate alumna who is currently enrolled in UC Santa Cruz’s new M.S. program in natural language processing. She spoke with us about what she loves about computer science and her plans for the future. Why…