Context Representation in User Modeling (A Workshop Initiative)
We are organizing a workshop! Together with some of my colleagues
at the lab, we are organizing a workshop at the UMAP conference
this year on the representation of context and its impact on user
modeling. These are my thoughts.
Empathy in HCI (CHI 2023 writeup)
This blog post comes as a reflection of the past few months of my work
with empathy in conversational agents, in studying the relationship
between commonly understood words and academic demarcations of their use.
I would like to better appreciate the scope of human factors research, and
this writing exercise is an effort towards that.
The Grammar of Installation Art
This blog post is a result of ruminations resulting from my visit to the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and how much my experience there differed from
visiting museums and installations of art before this experience. Installation
art is a completely new and different creative endeavour, and I wanted to
explore the relationship between philo...
The Dream of Compositional Distributionality
In this blog post, I aim to explore, very rudimentarily, the notion of
compositional semantics, distributional semantics, the idea of compositional
distributionality, and why it is such a dream which would change interpretable
NLP systems if ever achieved…. and why it might not be achieved.
NLP, Formalisms, and the Road Ahead
Grammar formalisms are a method of formalising, understanding and representing
syntatic structures. They model the syntax and provide a rigid, comprehensive
and parsable notion of grammaticality in a given language.
A New Way to Summarize
Thank you to Dr. Manish Shrivastava (aka manshri) for this idea. I have
not had the time to implement it yet, but one of these days, I shall
try my best to find some time to try to implement this. In the meantime,
here are 2 AM thoughts.
Teaching Grice's Maxims
In a discussion with Siddharth Bhat, I whipped up a
narrative of how I wished conversation analysis in linguistics were taught to us
at an undergraduate level.