August 2024:
July 2024:
Very grateful and honoured to present at the MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory my work on Inclusive Representations for Language-Vision Models. Check out the presentation!
Co-organizing not one but two workshops! Submit your papers to NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI) @EMNLP2024 and Scaling Up Multilingual & Multi-Cultural Evaluation (SUMEval) @COLING2025.
June 2024:
Co-host for the monthly ACL Mentorship, moderating the AI global mentoring session on Practical guide of how to start coding with transformer models and build your first research project. Check out the recordings!
Thrilled to be a panelist at Friday Night AI, discussing AI and the Future of Creative Expressions at Ann Arbor District Library. Great community event! Check out the recording!
May 2024:
Traveled to splendid Italy to present at COLING two papers: "Annotations on a budged" and "NLP in the LLM era".
A PhD Student's Perspective on Research in NLP in the Era of Very Large Language Models

  Oana Ignat*, Zhijing Jin*, {...}, Rada Mihalcea
  COLING 2024

Cross-cultural Inspiration Detection and Analysis in Real and LLM-generated Social Media Data

  Oana Ignat*, Gayathri Ganesh Lakshmy*, Rada Mihalcea
  Under Review

Detecting Inspiring Content on Social Media

  Oana Ignat, Y-Lan Boureau, Jane A. Yu, Alon Halevy
  ACII 2021

CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark

  David Romero, Chenyang Lyu, {...} Joan Nwatu, Oana Ignat, Rada Mihalcea, Thamar Solorio, Alham Fikri Aji
  Under Review

Uplifting Lower-Income Data: Strategies for Socioeconomic Perspective Shifts in Vision-Language Models

  Joan Nwatu, Oana Ignat, Rada Mihalcea
  Under Review

Bridging the Digital Divide: Performance Variation across Socio-Economic Factors in Vision-Language Models

  Joan Nwatu*, Oana Ignat*, Rada Mihalcea
  EMNLP 2023

Annotations on a Budget: Leveraging Geo-Data Similarity to Balance Model Performance and Annotation Cost

  Oana Ignat, Longju Bai, Joan Nwatu, Rada Mihalcea
  COLING 2024

MAiDE-up: Multilingual Deception Detection of GPT-generated Hotel Reviews

  Oana Ignat, Xiaomeng Xu, Rada Mihalcea
  Under Review

OCR Improves Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages

  Oana Ignat, Jean Maillard, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán
  Findings ACL 2022

Scalable Performance Analysis for Vision-Language Models

  Santiago Castro*, Oana Ignat*, Rada Mihalcea
  *SEM 2023

Fill-in-the-Blank: A Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework

  Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang, Ian Stewart, Oana Ignat, Nan Liu, Jonathan C. Stroud, Rada Mihalcea
  ACL 2022

When did it happen? Duration-informed Temporal Localization of Narrated Actions in Vlogs

  Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Yuhang Zhou, Jiajun Bao, Dandan Shan, Rada Mihalcea
  TOMM 2022

WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs

  Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Hanwen Miao, Weiji Li, Rada Mihalcea
  EMNLP 2021

Identifying Visible actions in Lifestyle Vlogs

  Oana Ignat, Laura Burdick, Jia Deng, Rada Mihalcea
  ACL 2019

Disparity image segmentation for free-space detection

  Oana Ignat, Cosmin Lazar
  ICCP 2016