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Welcome to USC NLP

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USC NLP

The rapidly growing Natural Language Processing community at the University of Southern California. Our labs span a wide range of research areas. We invite you to explore the different labs to learn about us, our work, and how you can get involved.

Research Labs

INK Lab

PI: Xiang Ren

Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery Lab is a group of reseachers working on next-generation machine intelligence techniques for label-efficient machine learning, knowledge-guided natural language processing and knowledge reasoning. Our research spans across machine learning, natural language processing and data mining, with a focus on weak-supervision methods for modeling natural-language text data and graph-structured data.

GLAMOR Lab

PI: Jesse Thomason

We bring together natural language processing and robotics to connect language to the world (RoboNLP). Our lab is broadly interested in connecting language to agent perception and action, and lifelong learning through interaction.

Allegro Lab

PI: Robin Jia

The AI, Language, Learning, Generalization, and Robustness (ALLeGRo) Lab studies natural language processing and machine learning with a focus building reliable NLP systems for a wide range of scenarios. We aim for a deeper understanding of how NLP systems work, when they fail, and how they can be improved.

DILL Lab

PI: Swabha Swayamdipta

DILL is a lab dedicated to the study of Data, Interpretability, Language and Learning. DILL is focused on automatically estimating the difficulty of datasets for models, efficient pretraining, and semi-automatically building datasets that help models learn better. We also emphasize on measuring how interpretable model decisions are to human users.

tamagotchi lab

PI: Dani Yogatama

Our lab studies machine learning approaches to advance the frontiers of artificial intelligence. We use techniques from deep learning, reinforcement learning, probabilistic graphical models, information theory and (sometimes) take inspirations from cognitive science and neuroscience to achieve this goal.

Affliated Groups

People

Faculty

Robin Jia
Assistant Professor
Xiang Ren
Assistant Professor
Swabha Swayamdipta
Assistant Professor
Jesse Thomason
Assistant Professor
Dani Yogatama
Assistant Professor
Jieyu Zhao
Assistant Professor (Incoming Fall 2023)
PI, TBD

PhD Students

INK Lab w/ Galstyan
INK Lab w/ May
INK Lab
tamagotchi
INK Lab
GLAMOR
INK Lab
tamagotchi
Allegro
Allegro & INK Lab
INK Lab
INK Lab
INK Lab w/ Pujara
Allegro & GLAMOR