My name is Arash Ashrafzadeh, and I'm a PhD student in computer science at Heriot-Watt university. I am a member of the
Interaction Lab and
supervised by Dr. Arash Eshghi and
Prof. Oliver Lemon. Before joining Heriot-Watt, I received my BSc in Computer Science from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic).
In my PhD, I work on Natural Language Understanding (NLU) & Generation (NLG) in Dialogue
Systems. More specifically, I am interested in Incremental Semantic Parsing and Incremental NLG
from Symbolic Semantic Representations. For this end, I am using an inherently incremental grammar formalism
called
Dynamic Syntax (DS) and a symbolic semantic representation called Type Theory with Records (TTR).
You can read more about my research here [under development].
If you would like to talk research, please feel free to contact me by email on arashmath16@gmail.com.
| Aug 2023 | Our paper "Learning to generate and corr- uh I mean repair language in real-time" was accepted at SemDial 2023 (MariLogue).
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| Sep 2022 | I am TAing Artificial Intelligence (F29AI) and Praxis (F27PX) courses at Heriot-Watt. |
| Sep 2022 | I volunteered as a local chair for organising SIGdial 2022 at Heriot-Watt. Here is the link to proceedings. |
| Sep 2022 | I presented my PhD topic for the second year at Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2022. [position paper] [poster] |
| Aug 2022 | I was at the European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2022 in Galway, Ireland, took some amazing courses and met lots of amazing people! |
| May 2022 | Me and my supervisor gave two short lectures on the computational work around Dynamic Syntax at Brazilian Linguistics Association (Abralin) 2022 online. |
| Jan 2022 | I took part in the Advanced Language Processing Winter School (ALPS) 2022 presented a poster on my PhD topic, enjoyed the great lectures and met lots of amazing people! |
| July 2021 | I presented my PhD topic in my first year at Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2021. [position paper] [poster] |
| Dec 2019 | Gave a short talk on "Applications of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)". [slides] |
| Oct 2019 | Wrote my first Medium blog post on "Cholesky Decomposition for Hilbert Matrix". [link] |
