I am a PhD candidate in my final year at Columbia University, working with Prof. Kathy McKeown. I am interested in Natural Language Processing, specifically in reasoning and understanding implicit meaning. I have been an intern at AI2 on the MOSAIC team, working with Jena Hwang and Chandra Bhagavatula. I have also been an intern at Amazon Science, working with Miguel Ballesteros and Shuai Wang.
My CV is here.
I did my candidacy exam on "Domain Adaptation and Stance Detection", my slides are here.
Before coming to Columbia, I was an undergraduate researcher at the University of Washington with Prof. Yejin Choi, working on commonsense knowledge. I majored in computer science and mathematics, with a minor in Ancient Greek.
I orgnaize the NLP seminar at Columbia.
Contact: eallaway@cs.columbia.edu
* denotes equal contribution
As an undergraduate student, I had wonderful graduate students as mentors and collaborators (Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap) and I am happy to work with dedicated undergraduate and masters students.
Past students:
In my spare time I like to travel, play music, and have recently started ballroom dancing.