I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Maryland. My research focuses on problems in natural language processing and machine learning. I am advised by Jordan Boyd-Graber and belong to the CLIP lab. I have also worked with Benjamin Van Durme from Johns Hopkins and Hsuan-Tien Lin from NTU.
I am interested in the intersection of transfer learning and interactive learning. How can we adapt NLP models for new domains, languages, and tasks through human feedback? How do we design algorithms and interfaces to easily bring a human into the loop?
Outside of computer science research, I am an avid mountain climber. I grew up climbing mountains with my mom and will continue to pursue this passion.
Fun fact: I have an Erdös number of 3.
I am interested in the intersection of transfer learning and interactive learning. How can we adapt NLP models for new domains, languages, and tasks through human feedback? How do we design algorithms and interfaces to easily bring a human into the loop?
Outside of computer science research, I am an avid mountain climber. I grew up climbing mountains with my mom and will continue to pursue this passion.
Fun fact: I have an Erdös number of 3.
News
05/21: Summer intern for Adobe's Document Intelligence team04/21: New preprint on active learning for coreference resolution
12/20: Passed Ph.D. preliminary exam
11/20: UMIACS article about my recent work with Jordan
11/20: Paper on active learning for pre-trained language models presented at EMNLP
11/20: Paper on interactive refinement of cross-lingual word embeddings presented at EMNLP
Preprints
- Michelle Yuan, Patrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Adaptive Active Learning for Coreference Resolution. arXiv, 2021.
[arxiv]
Publications
- Michelle Yuan, Hsuan-Tien Lin, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Cold-start Active Learning through Self-Supervised Language Modeling. Empirical Methods of Natural Language Processing (long), 2020.
[paper] [arxiv] [code] [video]
Contact
Email:
Address: Iribe Center,
8125 Paint Branch Dr,
College Park, MD, 20740
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