Language and Interaction Resesarch [LAIR]

August 15, 2016: Started a new project funded by NSF to investigate causality modeling for concrete action verbs .
May 3, 2016: Congratulations to Lanbo for passing his comprehensive exam!
August 15, 2015: Great to have Sari Saba Sadiya, a Fulbright scholar, join our group!
June 29, 2015: LAIR has started a new project on integrating language and vision. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu and his group at UCLA and funded by a DARPA subcontract from UCLA.
December 9, 2014: Changsong Liu successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on "Referential Grounding Towards Mediating Shared Perceptual Basis in Situated Dialogue." Congratulations Changsong!
November 1, 2014: Welcome Qiaozi Gao to the LAIR group!
October 27, 2014: Rui Fang successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on "Referring Expression Generation Towards Mediating Shared Perceptual Basis in Situated Dialogue". Congratulations Rui!
August 16, 2013: Welcome Shaohua Yang and Malcolm Doering to the LAIR group.
October 1, 2012: LAIR started a new project funded by the National Robotics Initiative program from the National Science Foundation. The objective of the project is to develop a novel framework that tightly integrates high level language and dialogue processing with low level sensing and control systems and contextually grounds the collaborative discourse to mediate shared basis in human robot dialogue. This is a collaborative project with Professor Ning Xi from the Robotics and Automation laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MSU.
August 10, 2012: Tyler Baldwin successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on "Online Adaptation for Mobile Device Text Input Personalization". Congratulations Tyler!
April 25, 2011: Matt Gerber successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on "Semantic Role Labeling of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates". Congratulations Matt!
January 1, 2011: LAIR started a new project on interpreting vague language descriptions in situated dialogue. This project is funded by Office of Naval Research.
Septebmer 1, 2010: LAIR started a new research project funded by National Science Foundation on shared gaze in collaborative referring in situated dialogue.
July 14, 2010: Matt and Joyce received the Best Long Paper Award at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), held in Uppsala Sweden, July 11-16, 2010. Their paper, titled "Beyond Nombank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates", examines a novel problem of recovering implicit arguments for nominal predicates from textual discourse. Matt gave the plenary presentation at the conference.
April 26, 2010: Zahar Prasov successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on "Eye Gaze for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces". Congratulations Zahar!
March 3, 2010: Chen Zhang successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on "From Textual Entailment to Conversation Entailment". Congratulations Chen!
March 1, 2010: Joyce received a new grant from NSF to develop a research infrastructure for studying multimodal language processing in situated human robot dialogue.
August 15, 2009: Welcome Brian Romanowski and Changsong Liu to the LAIR Group.
May 4, 2009: Congratulations to Matt for passing his comprehensive exam!
Feb 25, 2009: Shaolin Qu successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on "Incorporating Non-verbal Modalities in Spoken Language Understanding or Multimodal Conversational Systems". Congratulations Shaolin!

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