Hello guys,

This is a reminder than our HCI meeting starts tommorrow (March 29th) in the DGP lab at 12:30. Lunch will be provided as always.

We have two brainstorming sessions lined up for this week, so bring be prepared to share your brilliant ideas!!

Our first presenter is* Caleb Lu*. His abstract is as follows:

In this brainstorm, I would like to explore the opportunities in which HCI intersects with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to enable people, especially in writing. Writing research paper can be extremely challenging for novice researchers and non-native speakers, due to lack of knowledge about academic English. There have been some useful apps to assist users in writing such as Grammarly and Linggle, and some interactive machine translation systems. Researchers in NLP field have also built many systems with better accuracy and performance. However, the user interface and interaction of such systems haven’t been explored much. Such intelligent writing support system needs new interfaces so that users can write efficiently and correctly without interruptions and focus on expressing their ideas. We will try to figure out what kinds of assistance are needed for such systems, and discuss how to design the interaction to assist people in academic writing.

Our second presenter is *Nicole Sultanum. *The title of her brainstorm is: Navigating stories in a narrative corpus. The abstract of her brainstorming session is:

A narrative corpus (my own defined term) is a collection of text documents (structured or not) that convey a story somehow; examples include twitter conversations, a collection of news about a certain topic and medical patient records. Getting a gist of its underlying story and navigating its several layers of meaning can be very challenging, given the heterogeneity, unstructuredness and potentially large size of such corpora. In this session, I would like to brainstorm ways to represent and navigate these various levels of meaning (from the higher abstraction levels to the lower-level snippets of text), allowing users to obtain adequate awareness on the corpus stories in a quicker and more intuitive way.

It's going to be a packed meeting!! I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Regards,

Candice Lin