Lara J. Martin

laramar@sigmoid.social

Assistant Professor at UMBC working on story generation, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AAC</a>, and an <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/DnD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DnD</a> dungeon master. ♿💗💜💙♾️Here's more hashtags: <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NLP</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NLProc</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLG" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NLG</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="ta

Posts

Post #1771792
I made the mistake of going on Twitter a couple days ago. 😩 I think I&#39;m quitting for good.
Post #1771790
Oh, yup. There&#39;s the final nail in the coffin for me, folks. #LGBwithTheT
Post #1771789
I know I&#39;m a little late to the party, but I wrote a blog post about the recent writers&#39; strike and my opinion about it as someone who researches story generation AI. https://laramartin.net/2023/07/01/writers-strike.html #ChatGPT #AI #AIethics #creativity #research #GPT
Post #1771787
@tastytronic it&#39;s a They Might Be Giants shirt that parodies the Satan is Real album
Post #1771786
In a couple weeks (on 10/4 to be exact), I&#39;ll be giving a talk at UMD&#39;s CLIP colloquium! I&#39;m super excited to visit UMBC&#39;s sister school near DC and meet all the great faculty (&amp; future collaborators?!) there. More details to come.
Post #1771785
Looking for a tenure-track faculty position in CS? UMBC&#39;s CSEE department is hiring!! https://apply.interfolio.com/133579 UMBC is an amazing school that is actually dedicated to an inclusive culture that supports diversity. Plus, we became an R1 last year, so exciting things are happening! #academicmastodon #JobPosting
Post #1771784
Do you do AI research in story generation or interactive fiction playing generation? Do you have a cool narrative system that you want to show off but don&#39;t know how to? Submit to the Wordplay Workshop @ ACL 2024! https://wordplay-workshop.github.io/ #acl2024nlp #interactivefiction #nlproc #chatgpt
Post #1771783
Very excited to finally put out my work on #AAC (communication accessibility) devices for #AutisticAdults. Working with masters student Malathy Nagalakshmi during my postdoc at Penn, we did a deep dive into how AAC can be improved from both society &amp; technology/#NLProc perspectives. You can find the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17730
Post #1771782
Happy to share that I just put our D&amp;D FIREBALL (https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.229/) data up on HuggingFace🤗! https://huggingface.co/datasets/lara-martin/FIREBALL It&#39;s a cool dataset that I&#39;d love to see more people using. It contains structured state information and narrative to help make D&amp;D-playing AI!
Post #1771781
Wow. I just had a 10-year-old paper of mine get its first citation. I guess someone read it after all! 🙏
Post #1771780
IEEE Transaction on Games (ToG) is having a special issue on #LLMs and #Games, which I am a guest editor for! Papers are due December 1! More information here: https://transactions.games/special-issue/special-issue-on-large-language-models-and-games #ChatGPT #procgen
Post #1532912
I&#39;ll do my #introduction now! Hi, I&#39;m Lara. I am a #CIFellows postdoc at UPenn working with Chris Callison-Burch. I do automated story generation mostly (#NLProc and #DnD research!) but am branching out into Augmentative and Alternative Communication #AAC. I&#39;m currently looking for tenure track faculty positions! If you follow me, in addition to tech &amp; academia, I&#39;ll probably toot about gaming, queer stuff, and dogs.