News & Events

• May 2024: The paper “Figuratively Speaking: Authorship Attribution via Multi-Task Figurative Language Modeling” is accepted by ACL Findings 2024
• February 2024: Our two papers are accepted by The 2024 LREC-COLING Joint Conference
  • Uncovering Agendas: A Novel Dataset for Agenda Detection on Social Media
  • Social Convos: Capturing Agendas and Emotions on Social Media
• September 13th, 2023: Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski gave the talk “Can AI Understand Us?“
• August 2023: AFRL visited LACAI for the ATICA project
• July 2023: The paper Adapting Emotion Detection to Analyze Influence Campaigns on Social Media was presented in the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, ACL 2023
• Dec. 2022: Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski has been selected as 2022 ACL fellow for his significant contributions to computational sociolinguistics, metaphor extraction, interactive question answering, and natural language information retrieval.
• July 2022: The paper Towards a Progression-Aware Autonomous Dialogue Agent was presented in the NAACL 2022 venue.
• September 2021: AFRL visited LACAI for the ATICA project
• May 2021: Kick off meeting of LACAI reading group
• July 2020: The paper entitle Generating Ethnographic Models from Communities’ Online Data was presented in the ACL 2020 venue.
• May 2020: The paper  Active Defense Against Social Engineering: The Case for Human Language Technology was presented in the First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations: Understanding and Management.
• May 2020: The paper Adaptation of a Lexical Organization for Social Engineering Detection and Response Generation was presented in the First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations: Understanding and Management.
• May 2020: The paper Email Threat Detection Using Distinct Neural Network Approaches was presented in the First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations: Understanding and Management.
• March 2020: The Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications launch a site associated to the COVID-19 outbreak were it can be found different resources for analyzing this disease.
• December 2019: PANACEA project members  organize the  First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations (STOC-2020) at LREC 2020.
• September 2019: LACAI lab was established within the Cognitive Science Department at RPI. LACAI is a member of RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration.

LACAI Reading Group (schedule)

• Next on June 12, 2024: Jade Franklin – Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap

• Previous talks
        2024-5-29: David Yang – Where2Explore: Few-shot Affordance Learning for Unseen Novel Categories of Articulated Objects 
        2024-4-24: Peter Ly – Overview of the Authorship Verification Task at PAN 2022 + PAN Authorship Verification from 2018-2021