Kate

28 | CS PhD @Northeastern | @UMBC alum | she/her

[Kate @katwellll]

🎉 🎉 so proud to work on this with all of you, and a big thanks to @UncertaintyInAI for this honor 😊

[Malihe Alikhani @malihealikhani]

Proud advisor moments at #UAI2022 today!
My students Anthony Sicilia @asicil96 and Kate Atwell @katwellll recieved the best paper award. In this work, that's in collaboration with Seong Jae Hwang, we propose the first PAC-Bayesian adaptation bounds for multiclass learners.

[Kate @katwellll]

If anyone in your network would be interested in sharing their perspectives, we would greatly appreciate it if you could share this survey! We are hoping to represent as many voices as possible

[Kate @katwellll]

📣 Seeking Deaf Community Insights on Sign Language Technologies

@malihealikhani and I are surveying DHH individuals around the world to amplify global perspectives on sign language technologies.

🌟For each participant, we will donate $5 to the World Federation of the Deaf

[Kate @katwellll]

🔗 Survey Link: https://t.co/pZIVY4e5sS

The survey is available in multiple languages, including English, Español, Français, 中文 (繁體/简体), Türkçe, فارسی, العربية, हिन्दी, and 日本語.

[NLP for Positive Impact Workshop (ACL 2025) @NLP4PosImpact]

🚨Call for Papers!
🌍We're thrilled to announce the CFP for the 4th NLP for Positive Impact Workshop at #ACL2025!
📅ARR Deadline: Feb 15
Direct Submission: March 2
https://t.co/sM83wtkm4i
🦋We're also on BlueSky! @nlp4posimpact.bsky.social
✨Starter pack https://t.co/GxYlf5utkW

[Kate @katwellll]

@malihealikhani @DanielleKBragg Would love for people to stop by, and to connect with folks interested in social bias in NLP, accessibility, ethics, or sociolinguistics 😄 if you’re attending EMNLP and would like to meet up, feel free to reach out!! I’ll be attending the main conference and @conll_conf

[Kate @katwellll]

Looking forward to presenting our work, Studying and Mitigating Biases in Sign Language Understanding Models, @ EMNLP this Thursday at Poster Session F 📈 https://t.co/VqD1jB7Oxq 🧵

[Kate @katwellll]

This work was done in collaboration with my co-authors, @malihealikhani and @DanielleKBragg, and we conduct an in-depth analysis of bias in sign language understanding models, with a specific focus on models trained on the ASL Citizen dataset

[alex @aloomf]

the only thing america hates more than a rapist is a woman

[Khoury College of Computer Sciences @KhouryCollege]

When Malihe Alikhani joined Khoury College last year, she brought a talented team of AI researchers with her. Now, powered by its mission to design equitable language tech, that team has made its mark at an Amazon competition.

@malihealikhani @asicil96 @katwellll @Merterm

[Kate @katwellll]

@therealarushi @Merterm 🥰🥰🥰

[Kate @katwellll]

Super proud of our team for placing third, especially in our first year of the competition!! 🎊 🎉 say “Alexa, let’s work together” to try out the bots from each university team!

[Mert İnan @Merterm]

We won the third place in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Competition! 🎉🥉🕺💃 Our bot is the first multimodal task-oriented dialogue bot which has sign language instructions!! 🤟 You can try it out by saying “Alexa, open isabel bot”

[Mert İnan @Merterm]

We won the third place in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Competition! 🎉🥉🕺💃 Our bot is the first multimodal task-oriented dialogue bot which has sign language instructions!! 🤟 You can try it out by saying “Alexa, open isabel bot”

[Malihe Alikhani @malihealikhani]

We've made it to the Alexa Taskbot International Competition finals! Our team has pioneered tailored Alexa experiences for overlooked communities by innovating workflows around generative models and combining the cognitive science of language use with domain adaptation tools.

[Mira 💋 @Xmiramira]

I made this today and...

yes

[Malihe Alikhani @malihealikhani]

We're thrilled to share our progress in our passionate endeavor to democratize information access and make conversational AI more inclusive. We have made it to the semifinals of the Amazon international taskbot competition. Proud of this enthusiastic and strong team of students!

[Mert İnan @Merterm]

I’m excited to share that our team ISABEL at @SciPitt has been selected for the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2! Learn more about the challenge on the @AmazonScience website: https://t.co/FzMkIXUPeN

[Malihe Alikhani @malihealikhani]

We are excited to be part of the #AlexaPrize TaskBot Challenge 2, and we look forward to building the next generation of inclusive and collaborative multimodal conversational AI systems!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz

[cs-sop.org @cs_sop_org]

As PhD application deadlines approach, we are super excited to announce https://t.co/O5tVCtipsJ, created by @zhaofeng_wu @alexisjross @ZejiangS💻

https://t.co/O5tVCtipsJ is a platform with statements of purpose generously shared by previous applicants to CS PhD programs

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[Kate @katwellll]

A big thanks to my coauthors, @Sabit_H64 and @malihealikhani 🙌🥳 For those interested in seeing our video, it can be accessed here! https://t.co/UkCrrcJAsQ

[Kate @katwellll]

Meaning preservation under style transfer is often a challenge, and offensiveness transfer is no exception. In our #COLING2022 paper, we find that using discourse features improves content preservation by a substantial margin without increasing offensiveness

[Kate @katwellll]

For those interested in learning more, our paper, APPDIA: A Discourse-aware Transformer-based Style Transfer Model for Offensive Social Media Conversations, can be found here 🎊 https://t.co/tyzBofMvOL