Status
I am on leave for the Academic Year of 2020-2021, serving as a
Program Director at the National Science Foundation.
Research Interests
Natural language processing, machine learning,
artificial intelligence, and human computer interaction.
Recent Publications
Meiqi Guo, Rebecca Hwa, Yu-Ru Lin and Wen-Ting Chung. 2020. Inflating Topic Relevance with Ideology: A Case Study
of Political Ideology Bias in Social Topic Detection Models. To appear
in The Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics (COLING-2020).
Omid Kashefi and Rebecca Hwa. 2020. Quantifying the Evaluation of Heuristic Methods for Textual Data Augmentation. To appear in The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT).
Mingda Zhang, Keren Ye, Rebecca Hwa, Adriana Kovashka. 2020. Story Completion with Explicit Modeling of Commonsense Knowledge. Presented at Minds vs. Machines: How far are we from the common sense of a toddler?, CVPR Workshop.
Muheng Yan, Yu-Ru Lin, Rebecca Hwa, Ali Mert Ertugrul, Meiqi Guo, and Wen-Ting Chung. 2020. MimicProp: Learning to Incorporate Lexicon Knowledge into Distributed Word Representation for Social Media Analysis. In the Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2020).
Omid Kashefi and Rebecca Hwa. 2020. Quantifying the Evaluation of Heuristic Methods for Textual Data Augmentation. To appear in The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT).
Mingda Zhang, Keren Ye, Rebecca Hwa, Adriana Kovashka. 2020. Story Completion with Explicit Modeling of Commonsense Knowledge. Presented at Minds vs. Machines: How far are we from the common sense of a toddler?, CVPR Workshop.
Muheng Yan, Yu-Ru Lin, Rebecca Hwa, Ali Mert Ertugrul, Meiqi Guo, and Wen-Ting Chung. 2020. MimicProp: Learning to Incorporate Lexicon Knowledge into Distributed Word Representation for Social Media Analysis. In the Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2020).
Advising
PhD Students
- Meiqi Guo
- Omid Kashefi
- Mingda Zhang (Co-Advising with Prof. Adriana Kovashka)
- Changsheng Liu (2019) Now at Facebook.
- Homa B. Hashemi (2017) Now at Microsoft.
- Huichao Xue (2015) Now at LinkedIn.
- Behrang Mohit (2009) Now at Apple Siri-Search.