Elisa Ferracane

Elisa Ferracane

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Paper accepted to ACL 2024
We explore hallucinations in dialogue summarization, defining a new category of errors where there is circumstantial (but not direct) evidence for a statement. See our paper on arXiv here or chat with us in Bangkok!
Talk @ Google NLP Reading Group
Watch the video here of my talk at Google's NLP Reading Group, where I discuss my paper on subjectivity and disagreement.
Last chapter of my dissertation accepted @ NAACL 2021!
Here I examine conversation acts and intents of witnesses in U.S. Congressional hearings, but with the twist that these labels are subjective. We create a model to predict these labels, and find that taking into account the annotator's sentiment towards the witness does help, consistent with quantitative and qualitative analyses of our dataset. Our paper is here. Download the data and reproduce our experiments on our repo.
Feb. 9, 10:20-11:20am PST: Abridge research paper @ AAAI-2021 Workshop!
I'm presenting my first Abridge research collaboration at the AAAI 2021 Workshop: Trustworthy AI for Healthcare. We delve into the performance of the classifier that picks out key pieces of doctor-patient conversations for helping users stay on top of their health. We investigate how well our classifier performs across different socio-demographic groups to understand any disparities in how this benefit is being allocated. Our paper is on arvix here.
Joined Abridge!
I'm now a Research Scientist at Abridge. Excited to join a team committed to enabling patients to take control over their health care.
Paper accepted at ACL 2019!
If you're headed to Florence, come by my poster @Arsenale on Monday (10:30am-12:10pm) to chat about how you can (not) use attention to induce discourse structure. paper
06/05/2019: Talk @ NAACL 2019 DISRPT Workshop
If you're at NAACL, come see me on June 6th 11:30AM @ Nicollet D3. I'll be talking about the successes and failures of using News RST segmenters on Medical data, and presenting a small corpus. paper
12/25/2018: Summer with Google
I'll be interning with Google San Francisco, working with Praveen Paritosh.
5/21/2018: Summer Internship
I'll be spending the summer in Palo Alto, CA, as an intern at Salesforce Research, working with James Bradbury.
5/7/2018: Master's
I completed my Master's in Linguistics and am now one step closer to a PhD!

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