2021

• [11/03/2021] I gave a keynote talk at the International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology.
• [11/03/2021] I gave a talk at the Emory Board of Visitors meeting.
• [10/21/2021] I gave a podcast at the Emory 2036 campaign with two of my students, James Finch and Sarah Finch.
• [10/20/2021] I gave a talk at the Global AI Forum hosted by Ministry of Science and ICT in South Korea.
• [09/20/2021] The vision of our Emora project was published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
• [09/01/2021] I got promoted to a tenured associate professor at Emory University.
• [08/16/2021] I gave a seminar to the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at Pohang University of Science and Technology.
• [08/01/2021] I received appreciation from the ACL-IJCNLP 2021 for serving as a Senior Area Chair of the Theme Track.
• [07/19/2021] The Emora team made it to the Finals of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4.
• [07/08/2021] I gave a talk at the NSF Future Directions Workshop on the Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog (AED).
• [06/01/2021] A paper by Han He is accepted to the International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT).
• [05/26/2021] I started a podcast channel called "Into the University".
• [05/21/2021] I gave a seminar to the Linguistics Department Colloquium at Seoul National University.
• [05/10/2021] A paper by Jing Zhang is accepted to the European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS).
• [04/30/2021] I was invited to give a talk and join a panel discussion at Emory QTM DataBlitz 2021.
• [04/20/2021] Five of my students, Ran Xu, Lydia Feng, Xinman Zhang, Daniil Huryn, and Mack Hutsell, receive CS departmental awards.
• [04/15/2021] I was invited to join a panel discussion at the Emory ProgramHers.
• [04/10/2021] Five of my students, Xiangjue Dong, Chenxi Xu, Lydia Feng, Ran Xu, and Xinman Zhang, successfully defended their theses.
• [03/18/2021] I gave a seminar to the Data Science & Engineering team at Kaiser Permanente.
• [03/26/2021] Our team won the bronze medal at the International Collegiate Programming Contest Southeast USA Regional (ICPC).
• [03/18/2021] I gave a seminar to the GluonNLP team at Amazon.
• [03/19/2021] A paper by Jiaying Lu is accepted to the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS).
• [01/06/2021] I gave a podcast to the Inside the Lab hosted by the Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture.
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2020

• [12/18/2020] I gave a podcast to Humanitarian AI with two of my students, James Finch and Sarah Finch.
• [11/03/2020] Our team, Emora, is selected to complete for the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4.
• [10/26/2020] I am one of the senior area chairs for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
• [10/13/2020] Our team received the Venture Development Award from the Georgia Research Alliance.
• [10/09/2020] I gave a seminar at Carnegie Mellon University.
• [09/15/2020] Two papers by Changmao Li and Liyan Xu are accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP).
• [09/11/2020] A paper by Renxuan Li is accepted to the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL).
• [08/27/2020] I give a talk at the Geek Panel: Aging with Technology.
• [08/26/2020] Our team receives the GRA Venture Development Award.
• [08/07/2020] I receive the Professor of the Year Award from the Department of Computer Science at Emory University.
• [08/04/2020] Our team Emora wins the Alexa Prize 2020 with the $500K cash award.
• [05/22/2020] Two papers are accepted to the International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT).
• [05/18/2020] A paper from my Ph.D student, Han He, is nominated for the best student paper by the FLARIS 2020.
• [04/30/2020] Two of my undergraduate students, Albert Li and Ruixiang Qi, win the Academic Excellence Award.
• [04/30/2020] Two of my graduate students, Sarah Finch and Changmao Li, win the Schoettle Research Award.
• [04/28/2020] Two papers are accepted to the Annual Conference of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL).
• [04/28/2020] A paper is accepted to the ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP).
• [04/16/2020] Emory NLP wins the 2nd place at the Shared Task on Sarcasm Detection.
• [04/03/2020] A paper is accepted to the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
• [04/03/2019] Three of my students, Chloe Lee, Albert Li, and Ruixiang Qi, receive the highest honor and one, Haoqi Gu, receives the high honor.
• [03/27/2019] Two of my students, Changmao Li and Zhexiong Liu, successfully defend their MS Theses.
• [03/26/2020] I am one of the area chairs for the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL).
• [02/25/2020] We present the NLP Rankings website that show rankings of academic institutions and faculty members for NLP research.
• [02/22/2020] Two students from Emory NLP, Sonny Xu, and Yusen Zhang, make it to the ICPC North America Championship 2020.
• [02/07/2020] Two papers are presented at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
• [01/29/2020] I give a keynote speech at the International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (CONFLUENCE).
• [01/23/2020] I host the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO).
• [01/20/2020] A paper is accepted to the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS).

2019

• [11/29/2019] I give a seminar at Samsung Research.
• [11/28/2019] I give a seminar at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).
• [11/27/2019] I give a seminar at Yonsei University.
• [11/26/2019] I give a seminar at Seoul National University.
• [11/25/2019] I give a seminar at Hongik University.
• [10/25/2019] Two abstracts are accepted to the AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program.
• [10/17/2019] I give a talk to the Computer Science Colloquium at the University of Colorado Boulder.
• [09/16/2019] I am invited to the Bloomberg AI Day collocated at Data For Good Exchange 2019.
• [07/18/2019] I give a talk to the data science team at Home Depot.
• [07/05/2019] A paper is accepted to the Annual Conference of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL'19).
• [07/03/2019] I receive the AWS Machine Learning Research Award.
• [06/05/2019] Our team, Emora, is selected as one of 10 teams for the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3.
• [05/25/2019] A paper is accepted to the ACL Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR'19).
• [05/12/2019] Four of my students, Jose Coves, Shen Gao, Xinyi Jiang, and Jack Yang, receive the highest honor and one, Kate Li, receives an honor.
• [05/10/2019] A paper is accepted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19).
• [05/01/2019] I receive a pilot grant from the Georiga Clinical & Translational Science Alliance. (GA-CTSA).
• [02/25/2019] A paper is accepted to the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI'19).
• [01/07/2019] I am one of the area chairs for the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'19).

2018

• [12/05/2018] I have a radio interview about my NLP research with This Week in Machine Learning & AI.
• [11/28/2018] I give a chalk talk at AWS re:Invent.
• [11/27/2018] I am one of the leading researchers at the AI Summit Builders Fair.
• [11/26/2018] I have a live interview about the ELIT project with Twitch.
• [09/17/2018] My second son, John Choi, is born!
• [08/18/2018] A paper is accepted to the EMNLP Workshop on Universal Dependencies.
• [08/08/2018] I receive a research grant from Kyndi Inc.
• [06/05/2018] I present a task summary at the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation.
• [05/17/2018] A paper is accepted to the International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
• [05/13/2018] Five of my students, Jayeol Chun, Lindsay Hexter, Hang Jiang, Kaixin Ma, and Ethan Zhou, receive the highest honor.
• [04/30/2018] I pass the pre-tenure review.
• [03/01/2018] I give a talk at Georgia Tech University.
• [02/14/2018] I become a research consultant at Emtelligent.
• [02/03/2018] A paper is accepted to the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• [01/28/2018] I receive the AWS Machine Learning Research Award.

2017

• [12/13/2017] A paper is accepted to the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.
• [11/13/2017] A paper is accepted to the AAAI Workshop on Affective Content Analysis.
• [11/10/2017] The ELTI project is published on the AWS AI Blog.
• [09/26/2017] I am invited to the Take a Professor to Lunch.
• [07/12/2017] Three papers are accepted to the EMNLP workshops.
• [07/03/2017] A paper is accepted to the International Conference on Social Informatics.
• [06/12/2017] Two of my students, Henry Chen and Tarrek Shaban, receive the highest honor.
• [06/05/2017] A proposal is accepted to the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation.
• [05/29/2017] A paper is accepted to the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning.
• [05/24/2017] I give a seminar at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.
• [05/23/2017] I give a seminar at Seoul National University.
• [05/17/2017] I give a seminar at Korea University.
• [05/19/2017] A paper is accepted to the ACL Student Research Workshop.
• [02/23/2017] I receive a research grant from Alfresco Software Inc.
• [02/15/2017] I receive the AWS Cloud Credits for Research.
• [02/03/2017] A paper is accepted to the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
• [01/20/2017] A paper is presented at the International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories.

2016

• [11/19/2016] A paper is accepted to the International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories.
• [11/15/2016] I give a talk to the Emory Undergraduate Mathematics Majors Association.
• [10/26/2016] I am invited to Professors at Kaldi’s Getting Coffee.
• [10/20/2016] I receive a research grant from Kyndi Inc.
• [09/22/2016] My son, Samuel Choi, is born!
• [08/23/2016] A paper is accepted to the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.
• [07/26/2016] An abstract is accepted to the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
• [06/30/2016] A paper is accepted to the Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.
• [06/13/2016] A paper is presented at the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• [05/26/2016] A paper is accepted to the ACL Student Research Workshop.
• [04/12/2016] Two of my students, Meera Hahn and Andrew Kilgore, receive the highest honor.
• [03/14/2016] We get the Comparative Effectiveness Award from the Foundation of the American Society of Neuroradiology.
• [03/13/2016] I give a talk at the Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference.
• [03/02/2016] A paper is accepted to the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• [02/15/2016] A paper is presented to the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• [01/08/2016] I receive the Microsoft Azure in Education Grant.

2015

• [11/06/2015] A paper is accepted to the AAAI student program.
• [09/02/2015] I receive the Microsoft Azure in Education Grant.
• [08/08/2015] I am married!
• [07/27/2015] I present a paper at the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• [05/22/2015] I give a talk to the UMMS BioNLP group.
• [05/07/2015] A student of mine, Austin Blodgett, receives the highest honor.
• [04/24/2015] A paper is accepted to the Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
• [04/15/2015] A paper is accepted to the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship.
• [04/13/2015] I receive the University Research Committee (URC) Award.
• [03/31/2015] Two papers are accepted to the NAACL student research workshop.
• [03/15/2015] The ClearNLP version 3.0.0 is released.
• [01/29/2015] I am the local organizer of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
• [01/20/2015] I become an NLP advisor for EduSync.

2014

• [12/19/2014] A paper is accepted to the Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
• [11/21/2014] I give a talk at the Computational Social Science Workshop.
• [11/11/2014] I receive the IPsoft Development Enhancement Achievement (IDEA) Grant.
• [10/15/2014] I receive the AWS in Education Grant.
• [10/09/2014] I am one of the panels for the Data Science ATL meetup.
• [09/28/2014] I give a talk at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
• [09/28/2014] My quotes on Amelia are published on the Wall Street Journal and Crain's New York Business.
• [09/26/2014] I receive the Yahoo Academic Career Enhancement (ACE) Award.
• [08/06/2014] I join Emory University as an assistant professor :-)