I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, with a joint appointment at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). I am a member of the CLIP lab.
My research aims to advance Human-Centered Natural Language Processing to help people communicate no matter what language they speak.
Recent News
- 09/25 I am excited to join the ALMAnaCH team at INRIA in Paris as a visiting researcher this year!
- 09/24 I am incredibly proud of Dr Eleftheria Briakou for receiving the first ever Best Thesis Award from AMTA, the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
- 07/24 We are kicking off "Lost in Translation" a study of trust in Machine Translation at the Planet Word Museum in Washington DC! This is a big team effort made possible by the TRAILS Institute on Trustworthy AI at the University of Maryland, with Ge Gao, Charlotte Vaughn, Yimin Xiao, Calvin Bao, Zoey Ki, Yongle Zhang, and Marianna Martindale.
- 12/23 We received an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2023 for "Physician Detection of Clinical Harm in Machine Translation: Quality Estimation Aids in Reliance and Backtranslation Identifies Critical Errors". Congratulations to Nikita Mehandru, Sweta Agrawal, Elaine Khoong, Niloufar Salehi for making this interdisciplinary collaboration a success!
- 12/23 We are presenting 8 papers at EMNLP 2023. Key themes: reliance and trust, explainability, building common ground across cultural differences, measuring harms.
- 07/22 I am a program co-chair of NAACL 2022 with Marie Catherine de Marneffe and Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
Contact
Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Maryland
Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
8125 Paint Branch Dr.
College Park, MD 20742
Office: IRB 4130
Email: marine@umd.edu