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Prof. Dr. Luciana Benotti
luciana.benotti(YOUKNOW)unc.edu.ar  


Haya de la Torre s/n - Ciudad Universitaria
Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Córdoba 5000 - Argentina

Office: 284 (2nd floor, new sector) 
Phone: (0054) 351 5353701 - Intern. 41414 or 43030 

Updates

  • November 2023. I attended the UK AI safety summit in Bletchley Park where I contributed to two working groups: one related to the risks of frontier AI and the other to what the scientific community can contribute to AI regulation. [website]
  • January 2022. I was elected as chair the exec board of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Thank you Fundación Via Libre for your support! [website]
  • November 2021. I am a candidate for chairing the exec board of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Check out my candidacy statement. [website]
  • October 2021. Paper accepted at Reinact 2021! Reinact is the Reasoning and Interaction Conference. The title is "The Impact of Answers in Referential Visual Dialog". [pdf]
  • September 2021. Paper accepted at EMNLP 2021 by my argentiean team DiVi! EMNLP is the top conference for Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. The title is "Region under Discussion for visual dialog" and my amazing co-authors are Mauricio Mazuecos, Jorge Sanchez, Franco Luque, Hernán Maina, Thomas Vadora. [video]
  • August 2021. Attending ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Area chair for the "Dialogue and Interactive Systems" track. Social media co-chair. [webpage]
  • July 2021. I joined the advisory committee for the Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS 2021) [webpage]
  • July 2021. Paper "Predicting students' difficulties from a piece of code" accepted at the Journal IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies [webpage]
  • July 2021. I joined the program committee for the Conference on Reasoning in Interaction 2021 (ReInAct) organized by the University of Gothemburg and the SIGSEM of the ACL. [webpage]
  • July 2021. Panel with Fundación Via Libre "What is the role of ethics in artificial intelligence development?" together with Laura Alonso Alemany and Laura Acion. [webpage]
  • July 2021. Social media cochair at ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Organizing live tweeting for promoting papers from underrepresented communities! [webpage]
  • July 2021. Paper "Visually Grounded Follow-up Questions: a Dataset of Spatial Questions Which Require Dialogue History" accepted at the International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics. ACL-IJCNLP 2021. [webpage]
  • June 2021. Seminar at Khipu 2021. June 16 at 5pm UTC-3 with Laura Alonso Alemany, Shakir Mohamed and Emily Denton. [webpage]
  • June 2021. Presenting at NAACL 2021 the paper "A recipe for annotating grounded clarifications". [arxiv]
  • June 2021. Looking forward to being a panelist at the Mexican NLP Summer School 2021! [webpage]
  • June 2021. Reviewing for the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021). [webpage]
  • May 2021. Reviewing for the 22nd Annual Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. [webpage]
  • May 2021. Lanzamiento oficial de los "Manuales de Ciencias de la Computación para el Aula" que realizamos junto a la Fundación Sadosky y otras Universidades Nacionales. [webpage] [video]
  • May 2021. Invited talk "Designing conversational systems in the #MeToo era" at the research group GIFT (Grupo de Investigación de Inteligencia Artificial, Filosofía y Tecnología) of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. [video]
  • May 2021. Happy to be tutorial co-chair for ACL 2022! ACL is celebrating its 60th anniversary! [info]
  • May 2021. Excited to be an Action Editor for the new ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative! [webpage]
  • April 2021. Paper on arxiv "A recipe for annotating grounded clarifications". Accepted at NAACL 2021! [arxiv]
  • April 2021. EACL 2021 presentation for the paper "Grounding as a collaborative process". [video] [paper]
  • April 2021. Co-chair for the LatinX in AI Social at EACL 2021. [webpage]
  • April 2021. Invited talk "Two types of grounding" at the Machine Learning and Friends Lunch seminar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [webpage] [video]
  • March 2021. Service at Area ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Area chair for the "Dialogue and Interactive Systems" track. Social media co-chair. Member of the Ethics Committee [webpage]