Cornelia Caragea
Professor
Science and Engineering Offices
Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607, USA
ude.ciu@ailenroc
I am currently serving as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Please connect with me at vog.fsn@aegaracc.
My research interests are in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and information retrieval.
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Several Research Assistantships Available: I am currently looking for smart and highly motivated PhD students. If you are a student interested in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning, and would like to work as a research assistant with me, please send me an email at ude.ciu@ailenroc.
Check out our NeurIPS 2023 papers on "Efficient Beam Tree Recursion." and "Recursion in Recursion: Two-Level Nested Recursion for Length Generalization with Scalability." Congratulations, Jishnu!
Check out our ICML 2023 papers on "Beam Tree Recursive Cells" and "Monotonic Location Attention for Length Generalization" Congratulations, Jishnu!
Check out our CVPR 2023 paper on "MarginMatch: Improving Semi-Supervised Learning with Pseudo-Margins." Congratulations, Tiberiu!
Check out our EMNLP 2023 papers on "JointMatch: A Unified Approach for Diverse and Collaborative Pseudo-Labeling to Semi-Supervised Text Classification." and "Multi-Task Knowledge Distillation with Embedding Constraints for Scholarly Keyphrase Boundary Classification." Congratulations, Henry and Seo Yeon!
Check out our 7 papers accepted at ACL and ACL-Findings 2023! Congratulations to my wonderful students!
Check out our 7 papers accepted at EMNLP and EMNLP-Findings 2022! Congratulations to my wonderful students!
Also check us on csrankings.org.
Selected Publications
Jishnu Ray Chowdhury and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "Efficient Beam Tree Recursion." In: Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023). New Orleans, Louisiana. [pdf]
Jishnu Ray Chowdhury and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "Recursion in Recursion: Two-Level Nested Recursion for Length Generalization with Scalability." In: Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023). New Orleans, Louisiana. [pdf]
Henry Peng Zou and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "JointMatch: A Unified Approach for Diverse and Collaborative Pseudo-Labeling to Semi-Supervised Text Classification." In: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023). Singapore. [pdf]
Seo Yeon Park and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "Multi-Task Knowledge Distillation with Embedding Constraints for Scholarly Keyphrase Boundary Classification." In: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023). Singapore. [pdf]
Henry Peng Zou, Yue Zhou, Weizhi Zhang, and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "DeCrisisMB: Debiased Semi-Supervised Learning for Crisis Tweet Classification via Memory Bank." In: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (EMNLP-Findings 2023). Singapore. [pdf]
Jishnu Ray Chowdhury and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "Beam Tree Recursive Cells." In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023). Honolulu, Hawaii. [pdf]
Jishnu Ray Chowdhury and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "Monotonic Location Attention for Length Generalization." In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023). Honolulu, Hawaii. [pdf]
Tiberiu Sosea and Cornelia Caragea. (2023) "MarginMatch: Improving Semi-Supervised Learning with Pseudo-Margins." In: Proceedings of The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023), Vancouver, Canada. [pdf]
Chenye Zhao, Yingjie Li, and Cornelia Caragea. (2023). "C-STANCE: A Large Dataset for Chinese Zero-Shot Stance Detection." In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). Toronto, Canada.
Yingjie Li, Krishna Garg, and Cornelia Caragea. (2023). "A New Direction in Stance Detection: Target-Stance Extraction in the Wild." In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). Toronto, Canada.
Shweta Yadav, Cornelia Caragea, Chenye Zhao, Naincy Kumari, Marvin Solberg, Tanmay Sharma. (2023). "Towards Identifying Fine-Grained Depression Symptoms from Memes." In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). Toronto, Canada.
Tiberiu Sosea, Hongli Zhan, Jessy Junyi Li, and Cornelia Caragea. "Unsupervised Summarization of Emotion Triggers Using Emotion-Biased PageRank." In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). Toronto, Canada.
Krishna Garg, Jishnu Ray Chowdhury, and Cornelia Caragea (2023). "Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Keyphrase Generation." In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings (ACL-Findings 2023). Toronto, Canada.
Mahshid Hosseini and Cornelia Caragea. (2023). "Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation for Emotion-related Tasks." In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings (ACL-Findings 2023). Toronto, Canada.
Yingjie Li and Cornelia Caragea. (2023). "Distilling Calibrated Knowledge for Stance Detection." In: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings (ACL-Findings 2023). Toronto, Canada.
Yingjie Li, Chenye Zhao and Cornelia Caragea. (2023) "TTS: A Target-based Teacher-Student Framework for Zero-Shot Stance Detection." In: Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW 2023), Austin, TX.
Mahshid Hosseini and Cornelia Caragea. (2023). Feature Normalization and Cartography-based Demonstrations for Prompt-based Fine-tuning on Emotion-related Tasks. In: Proceedings of The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023), Washington, DC.
Mobashir Sadat and Cornelia Caragea. (2022). “Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification of Scientific Documents.” In: Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi.
Mahshid Hosseini and Cornelia Caragea. (2022). “Calibrating Student Models for Emotion-related Tasks.” In: Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi.
Hongli Zhan, Tiberiu Sosea, Cornelia Caragea, and Junyi Jessy Li. (2022) “Why Do You Feel This Way? Summarizing Triggers of Emotions in Social Media Posts.” In: Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi.
Mobashir Sadat and Cornelia Caragea. (2022). “Learning to Infer from Unlabeled Data: A Semi-supervised Learning Approach for Robust Natural Language Inference.” In: Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (EMNLP Findings 2022), Abu Dhabi.
Tiberiu Sosea and Cornelia Caragea. (2022). “Leveraging Training Dynamics and Self-Training for Text Classification.” In: Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (EMNLP Findings 2022), Abu Dhabi.
Jishnu Ray Chowdhury, Seoyeon Park, Tuhin Kundu, and Cornelia Caragea. (2022) “KPDrop: Improving Absent Keyphrase Generation.” In: Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (EMNLP Findings 2022), Abu Dhabi.
Krishna Garg, Jishnu Ray Chowdhury, and Cornelia Caragea. (2022) “Keyphrase Generation Beyond the Boundaries of Title and Abstract.” In: Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings (EMNLP Findings 2022), Abu Dhabi.
Seo Yeon Park and Cornelia Caragea. (2022). "On the Calibration of Pre-trained Language Models using Mixup Guided by Area Under the Margin and Saliency." In: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022). Dublin, Ireland. [pdf]
Mobashir Sadat and Cornelia Caragea. (2022). "SciNLI: A Corpus for Natural Language Inference on Scientific Text." In: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022). Dublin, Ireland. [pdf]
Jishnu Ray Chowdhury and Cornelia Caragea. (2021). “Modeling Hierarchical Structures with Continuous Recursive Neural Networks.” In: Proceedings of The Thirty-eighth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), Online.
Tiberiu Sosea and Cornelia Caragea. (2021). “eMLM: A New Pre-training Objective for Emotion Related Tasks.” In: Proceedings of The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), Online.
Yingjie Li and Cornelia Caragea. (2021). “Target-Aware Data Augmentation for Stance Detection.” In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2021), Online.
Mahshid Hosseini and Cornelia Caragea. “It Takes Two to Empathize: One to Seek and One to Provide.” In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021), Online, February 2021.
Tiberiu Sosea and Cornelia Caragea. “CancerEmo: A Dataset for Fine-Grained Emotion Detection.” In: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020), Virtual conference, November 2020.
Seo Yeon Park and Cornelia Caragea. “Scientific Keyphrase Identification and Classification by Pre-Trained Language Models Intermediate Task Transfer Learning.” In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), Barcelona, Spain, December 2020. [
Jishnu Ray Chowdhury, Cornelia Caragea, Doina Caragea. "On Identifying Hashtags in Disaster Twitter Data." In: Proceedings of the 34th American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), New York, USA, 2020.
Yingjie Li and Cornelia Caragea. "Multi-Task Stance Detection with Sentiment and Stance Lexicons." In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019), Hong Kong, 2019.
Cornelia Caragea, Ana Sabina Uban, and Liviu P. Dinu. "The Myth of Double-Blind Review Revisited: ACL vs. EMNLP." In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019), Hong Kong, 2019.
Corina Florescu and Cornelia Caragea. "PositionRank: An Unsupervised Approach to Keyphrase Extraction from Scholarly Documents." In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017), Vancouver, Canada, 2017.
Cornelia Caragea, Florin Bulgarov, and Rada Mihalcea. "Co-Training for Topic Classification of Scholarly Data." In: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
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Cornelia Caragea, Florin Bulgarov, Andreea Godea, and Sujatha Das Gollapalli. "Citation-Enhanced Keyphrase Extraction from Research Papers: A Supervised Approach." In: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar, 2014.
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Cornelia Caragea, Adrian Silvescu, and Prasenjit Mitra. "Combining Hashing and Abstraction in Sparse High Dimensional Feature Spaces." In: Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012.