Alexandra DeLucia

@Google intern Summer 2024. @Sony intern Fall 2023. Computer Science PhD Student at @jhuclsp in the @mdredze group. @rollinscollege alum.

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

So excited to have our work with the FDA advertised!

TL;DR we gathered health concerns surrounding vaping electronic cigarettes from Reddit

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

Check out coverage from @HubJHU featuring my PhD student Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563 on using AI to analyze social media to understand perspectives about vaping.

https://t.co/9PDYCgN7KZ

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

@deliprao @mdredze @kevinduh @kentonmurray Thank you! I'll be sure to send you the final version! Now is the time for edits ✍️

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

Super fitting to have Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" premiere on the same day mine finished! 🎓 I couldn't have done it without my advisor and Mentor @mdredze, and the wonderful @jhuclsp @HopkinsDSAI community.

And a special thanks to my committee @kentonmurray and @kevinduh

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

Congratulations to my PhD student @Alexir563 who successfully defended her thesis! "Domain-Specific Failures of Automatic Evaluation in Natural Language Generation." Thanks to committee members @kevinduh @kentonmurray

[Heyuan Huang@EMNLP2026 @YuanCosette]

How to evaluate the factuality of open-ended long-form medical answers when there are no gold doctor answers for reference? I'll present MedScore at #ACL2026 Main Conference Poster Session E, July 6th, 11 AM to 12:30PM. Catch me also at GEM workshop 11AM-3PM & CLPsych&Meta event.

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

I think my students are trying to send me a message.

The message? We want more LLM API credits. Or else.

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

Huge congratulations to my PhD student @isabelcachola on defending her thesis, "Methods for the generation and evaluation of user-centric scientific summarization"! 🎓🎉🍾

Impressively, she created a jacket for the event made entirely from fabric posters of her work! 🧵🧥📄✨

[Suzanna Sia @suzyahyah]

With AI coding assistants, everybody is wrong. Everybody is using it either too much, or too little. Except you, goldilocks. Only you are using it just right.

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

Apparently, my students have brought binoculars to their office to bird watch during the day. The advantages of our new beautiful @HopkinsDSAI office space. 🦜🦆🕊️

Should I be worried about productivity?

[Heyuan Huang@EMNLP2026 @YuanCosette]

I will present MedExpert, a clinician-annotated Factuality and Completeness dataset with Severity levels for Medical Chatbot Evaluation at ML4H in San Diego today. Happy to chat from Dec 1 to 3! See paper at: https://t.co/wMYQWuaULS
@mdredze @Alexir563 @jhuclsp @SonalSSJ

[Heyuan Huang@EMNLP2026 @YuanCosette]

1/6🤖🩺 Medical answers are context-dependent, hypothetical, and subjective (If pain gets worse, see a doctor). Existing systems break here: they generate invalid claims or omit these sentences. MedScore solves this with context-aware claims and verifies against trusted sources.

[MASC-ALL Conference @MASC_Conference]

🎤Invited Talks at MASC!
@Roger_Beaty Beyond Generation: Language Models as Creativity Evaluators
@xiang_lorraine - Every Opinion Matters: Distributional and Long-tail Evaluation for LLMs
@daphneipp – Troubles with Training Data for Large Language Models
#NLP #MASC2025

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

MASC is a great opportunity to interact with fellow NLP/Speech/AI researchers, please consider hosting at your university!

[MASC-ALL Conference @MASC_Conference]

📢 Want to host MASC 2025?

The 12th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium is a one day event bringing together students, faculty and researchers from universities/industry in the Mid-Atlantic.

Please submit this very short form if you are interested in hosting! Deadline January 6th

[Carlos Aguirre Pocasangre @pocaguirre]

PhDone! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who was there along the way, family, friends, colleagues and advisors! Yes, I am a doctor now. Yes, I got a sword now (thanks friends!) Yes, we got @mdredze to knight me. What a nice finishing touch for this era!

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

Congratulations to Carlos Aguirre @pocaguirre on successfully defending his PhD thesis: Improving the Fairness in Language Models for Decision-Making!

Next stop? @amazon
https://t.co/2hBaUlqmWb

[Isabel Cachola @isabelcachola]

I’m presenting my Microsoft internship work today at #EMNLP2024! I’ll be in Riverfront from 2-3:30. Come say hi and chat about structured document generation and evaluation!

TLDR: We unify the generation and evaluation of templatic views of documents.
https://t.co/XLquke2qEk

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

Me, pushing off everything until "after the ARR deadline" @ReviewAcl

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

I will be at #COLM2024 on Mon and Tue. Find me or my other @jhuclsp colleagues to talk about opportunities at @HopkinsEngineer. We have faculty, postdoc and PhD positions.
@ben_vandurme @DanielKhashabi

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

At what point in my CS PhD do I magically stop running into the `install package > run script > package not found > install package …` loop? 🙃

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

If you write a paper review and provide a list of weaknesses, and the author's response addresses those weaknesses, raise your score. Otherwise, you need to better explain your concerns.

[Niyati Bafna @BafnaNiyati]

‼️Can we predict LLM performance on an unseen language if we know its linguistic relationships with a seen language? What makes an LRL difficult for an LLM?‼️
We present a study of LLM performance degradation as a function of linguistic distances...
https://t.co/JB7OrGfpUu

[Michael Saxon @m2saxon]

NAACL goes from Mexico to New Mexico!