This is the official page of UC Santa Barbara Natural Language Processing Group.
The UC Santa Barbara NLP group studies the theoretical foundation and practical algorithms for language technologies. We tackle challenging learning and reasoning problems under uncertainty, and pursue answers via studies of machine learning, deep learning, and interdisciplinary data science.
Broadly, we are interested in designing scalable inference and learning algorithms to analyze massive datasets with complex structures. In particular, our lab concentrates in the areas of information extraction, computational social science, knowledge graph, learning to reason, dialogue systems, language & vision, summarization, statistical relational learning, reinforcement learning, structure learning, and deep learning.
[03/21/2018] Our paper "Hate Lingo: A Target-based Linguistic Analysis of Hate Speech in Social Media" was accepted to ICWSM 2018. Congrats Mai and Vivek! Preprints will be released soon. |
[03/17/2018] The NLP lab has received an Adobe Research Award for language and vision research. Thanks Adobe! |
[03/03/2018] The Brookings Institution quoted our ACL 2017 paper on automated fake news detection [LINK]. |
[02/28/2018] We have two short papers accepted to NAACL-HLT 2018 conference! Preprints will be released soon. |
[02/26/2018] We are co-organizing SoCal NLP Symposium with Prof. Sameer Singh. Welcome to join us this April! Check the details [here]. |
[02/18/2018] Our paper "Video Captioning via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning" was accepted to CVPR 2018. Congrats Xin, Wenhu, and Jiawei! [PDF] |
[02/14/2018] We are excited to share the news that 4 long papers from UCSB NLP group were accepted to the NAACL-HLT 2018 conference! Preprints will be released soon. |
[02/10/2018] Two tutorials accepted at major NLP conferences. Together with Jiwei Li (Stanford/Shannon.ai) and Xiaodong He (MSR), Prof. William Wang will present a tutorial on "Deep Reinforcement Learning for NLP" at ACL 2018. Together with Xiang Ren (USC) and Nanyun Peng (USC/ISI), Prof. William Wang will present a tutorial on Scalable Construction and Reasoning of Massive Knowledge Bases at NAACL-HLT 2018. |
[12/18/2017] Congrats NLP Lab's undergraduate researcher Ke Ni for being named the honorable mention for the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 2018! |
[11/22/2017] The NLP lab has received an unrestricted gift from Bytedance. Thanks Toutiao! |
[11/06/2017] The NLP lab has received a Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Award. Thanks Tencent! |
[11/06/2017] Prof. William Wang recently discussed challenges on dialogue research with Wired [LINK] [PDF]. |