Hi! My name is Arash Ashrafzadeh, and I'm a final-year PhD student in computer science at Heriot-Watt
university.
I am supervised by Dr. Arash Eshghi and
Dr. Julian Hough. Before this, I received my
BSc in Computer Science from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic).
Broadly speaking, my research topic is computational linguistics & conversational AI, and more
specifically,
I work on Real-time Dialogue Processing.
In particular, I am interested in Incremental Semantic Parsing and Incremental NLG
from Symbolic Semantic Representations.
If you would like to chat about my research, please feel free to contact me by
email on arashmath16 AT gmail.com .
| Aug 2024 | I attended UKIS 2024 in Cambridge and presented a poster on our ongoing research. [abstract] [poster] |
| Mar 2024 | I supervised a group of 8 undergrads for their Conversational Agents course project. They built a chatbot that could handle interruptions and ask clarification questions! |
| Jan 2024 | I am an enhanced TA for the Conversational Agents (F20CA) and Data Structures & Algorithms (F28DA) courses at Heriot-Watt this semester. |
| Sep 2023 | I am an enhanced TA for the Artificial Intelligence (F29AI) and Bio-Inspired Computation (F20BC) courses at Heriot-Watt this semester. |
| 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 the 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] |
