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Shruti Rijhwani Google Scholar
[email protected]

Education
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Ph.D. in Language Technologies, School of Computer Science 2018 – May 2022 (expected)
– Advisor: Graham Neubig
– Research Focus: Natural Language Processing
∗ Deep learning for multilingual and low-resource information extraction and sequence-to-sequence tasks.
∗ Select publications: TACL 2021 [1], EMNLP 2020 [6], ACL 2020 [7], TACL 2020 [9], AAAI 2019 [14]
– Awards: Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science 2022 [link]; Bloomberg Ph.D. Fellowship

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

M.S. in Language Technologies, School of Computer Science 2016 – 2018

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Pilani, India

B.S. in Computer Science 2011 – 2015

WoRK ExpeRience
Bloomberg AI New York, NY
Research Intern (Mentors: Jing Wang, Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro, Anju Kambadur) May – August 2020
– Project: Multilingual named entity recognition for noisy text outputs from OCR systems.
– Skills: Python, PyTorch

Bloomberg AI New York, NY

Research Intern (Mentor: Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro) May – August 2019
– Project: Temporally-aware named entity recognition.
– Created a temporally distributed dataset and improved state-of-the-art neural network models for NER on Twitter
data by incorporating temporal features; published at ACL 2020 [8]. Skills: Python, PyTorch

Microsoft Research India

Research Fellow (Mentors: Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali) August 2015 – July 2016
– Project: Code-switched language processing.
– Word-level language identification, sentiment analysis, and speech synthesis of code-switched texts; published at
ACL 2017 [18], EMNLP 2016 [21], and SSW 2016 [22]. Skills: C++, Python, C#

Google Summer of Code, MIT Media Lab Virtual

Software Developer May – July 2015
– Implemented features for MIT App Inventor, an open-source visual programming environment.
– Skills: Java, JavaScript

Microsoft Research India

Research Intern (Applied Sciences) January – May 2015
– Developed scalable fuzzy search software for retrieval and deduplication of millions of misspelled entities.
Microsoft India
Software Development Intern (Bing Ads) May – August 2014
– Part-of-speech tagging for search queries using weakly-supervised Conditional Random Fields.
– Skills: C#, Python

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AwaRds and HonoRs
• Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science [link] 2022
• Bloomberg Ph.D. Fellowship 2018–2021
• Honorable Mention, Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Essay Prize (awarded for [11]) 2021
• Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Research Fellowship 2016–2018
• Best Presentation Award, Student Research Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University 2018
• Best Poster Award, Machine Learning Project Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University 2016

Invited TalKs
• AI4Bharat Talk Series 2022
“No Language Left Behind: Unlocking Text Data for Under-Resourced Languages”
• Microsoft Research India NLP Talk Series 2022
“No Language Left Behind: Unlocking Text Data for Under-Resourced Languages”
• NeuralSpace Platform Launch Event 2022
“Cross-lingual Transfer for Low-Resource NLP”
• Featured Session, Grace Hopper Conference 2021
“Digitizing Endangered Language Texts: How NLP Can Help Language Revitalization”
• SIGTYP Lecture Series 2021
“Cross-Lingual Entity Linking for Low-Resource Languages” [video]
• George Mason NLP Research Group 2021
“OCR Post-Correction for Endangered Language Texts”
• Language Technologies Institute Colloquium at Carnegie Mellon University 2020
“Zero-shot Neural Transfer for Cross-lingual Entity Linking” [video]
• University of Utah Data Science Seminar 2020
“Entity Linking for Low-Resource Languages” [video]
• Microsoft Research India Podcast 2020
“Building a Career in Research Through the MSR India Research Fellow Program” [podcast]
• Natural Language, Dialog, and Speech Symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences 2019
“Temporally-Aware Named Entity Recognition”

ReseaRch MentoRing
Masters Students
• Adithya Pratapa
Project: Morphosyntactic Evaluation of Generated Texts; published at EMNLP 2021 [3].
• Rosaline Su
Project: Dependency Induction with Visual Perception; published at CoNLL 2021 [4].
• Shuyan Zhou
Project: Entity Linking for Low-Resource Languages; published at TACL 2020 [9] and DeepLo 2019 [16].
• Aman Madaan
Project: Practical Comparable Data Collection for Low-Resource Languages via Images; published at PML4DC [13].
• Yu-Hsiang Lin, Chian-Yu Chen, Jean Lee, Zirui Li, Yuyan Zhang
Project: Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning; published at ACL 2019 [15].
Undergraduate Students
• Lindia Tjuatja
Project: Transfer Learning for OCR Post-Correction; published at WiNLP 2021 [5].

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Teaching and Academic SeRvice
• Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University
Machine Translation and Sequence-to-Sequence Models (11-731) Fall 2019
Search Engines (08-710) Spring 2018
Data Mining (08-711) Spring 2018
• LTI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee at CMU, 2021-2022
• Organizer, Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages at ACL 2022
• Chair, Student Research Workshop at ACL 2020
• Organizer, CMU SCS Graduate Application Support Program, 2020
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee at NAACL 2019
• Mentoring
CMU Language Technologies Mentoring Program (for new graduate students; 2021), CMU Graduate Application
Support Mentor (2020, 2021), CMU AI Mentoring Program (for undergraduates; 2019, 2020, 2021)
• Reviewing
AAAI 2022, AAAI 2021, ARR 2021, EACL 2021, NAACL 2021, ACL 2021, AmericasNLP 2021, AAAI 2020, HAMLETS
2020, LREC 2020, EMNLP 2020, *SEM 2020, AACL SRW 2020, AfricaNLP2020, TALLIP 2019, CALCS 2018

Publications
[1] “Lexically-Aware Semi-Supervised Learning for OCR Post-Correction” [pdf]
S. Rijhwani, D. Rosenblum, A. Anastasopoulos, G. Neubig
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2021.

[2] “MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages” [pdf]

D. I. Adelani et al., including S. Rijhwani
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2021.

[3] “Evaluating the Morphosyntactic Well-formedness of Generated Texts” [pdf]

A. Pratapa, A. Anastasopoulos, S. Rijhwani, A. Chaudhary et al.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021.

[4] “Dependency Induction Through the Lens of Visual Perception” [pdf]

R. Su, S. Rijhwani, H. Zhu, J. He, X. Wang, Y. Bisk, G. Neubig
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2021.

[5] “Explorations in Transfer Learning for OCR Post-Correction”

L. Tjuatja, S. Rijhwani, G. Neubig
Fifth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP), 2021.

[6] “OCR Post-Correction for Endangered Language Texts” [pdf]

S. Rijhwani, A. Anastasopoulos, G. Neubig
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020.

[7] “Soft Gazetteers for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition” [pdf]

S. Rijhwani, S. Zhou, G. Neubig, J. Carbonell
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.

[8] “Temporally-Informed Analysis of Named Entity Recognition” [pdf]

S. Rijhwani and D. Preotiuc-Pietro
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.

[9] “Improving Candidate Generation for Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking” [pdf]
S. Zhou, S. Rijhwani, J. Wieting, J. Carbonell, G. Neubig
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2020.

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[10] “AlloVera: A Multilingual Allophone Database” [pdf]
D. R. Mortensen, X. Li, P. Littell, A. Michaud, S. Rijhwani, A. Anastasopoulos, et al.
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2020.

[11] “Damaged Type and Areopagitica’s Clandestine Printers” [pdf] [press coverage]
C. N. Warren, P. Wiliams, S. Rijhwani, M. G’Sell
Milton Studies, 2020.

[12] “A Summary of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Language Documentation and Revitalization”
[pdf]
G. Neubig, S. Rijhwani, A. Palmer, J. MacKenzie, H. Cruz, X. Li, M. Lee et al.
First Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop, 2020.

[13] “Practical Comparable Data Collection for Low-Resource Languages via Images” [pdf]
A. Madaan, S. Rijhwani, A. Anastasopoulos, Y. Yang, G. Neubig
Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries Workshop (PML4DC), 2020.

[14] “Zero-shot Neural Transfer for Cross-lingual Entity Linking” [pdf]

S. Rijhwani, J. Xie, G. Neubig, J. Carbonell
Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

[15] “Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning” [pdf]

Y. Lin, C. Chen, J. Lee, Z. Li, Y. Zhang, M. Xia, S. Rijhwani, J. He et al.
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019.

[16] “Towards Zero-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking” [pdf]

S. Zhou, S. Rijhwani, G. Neubig
Second Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo), 2019.

[17] “Parser Combinators for Tigrinya and Oromo Morphology” [pdf]

P. Littell, T. McCoy, N. Han, S. Rijhwani, Z. Sheikh, D. Mortensen, T. Mitamura, L. Levin
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2018.

[18] “Estimating Code-Switching on Twitter with a Novel Generalized Word-Level Language Detection Technique”
[pdf]
S. Rijhwani, R. Sequiera, M. Choudhury, K. Bali, C. S. Maddila
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017.

[19] “Does the Geometry of Word Embeddings Help Document Classification? A Case Study on Persistent
Homology-Based Representations” [pdf]
P. Michel∗ , A. Ravichander∗ , S. Rijhwani∗
Second Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2017.

[20] “Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of Arabic Wikipedia Talk Pages” [pdf]
M. Yoder, S. Rijhwani, C. Rosé, L. Levin
Second Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, 2017.

[21] “Understanding Language Preference for Expression of Opinion and Sentiment: What do Hindi-English Speakers
do on Twitter?” [pdf]
K. Rudra, S. Rijhwani, R. Begum, K. Bali, M. Choudhury, N. Ganguly
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2016.

[22] “Experiments with Cross-lingual Systems for Synthesis of Code-Mixed Text” [pdf]
S. Sitaram, S. K. Rallabandi, S. Rijhwani, A. W. Black
Ninth ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW), 2016.

[23] “Translating Codemixed Tweets: A Language Detection Based System”

S. Rijhwani, R. Sequiera, M. Choudhury, K. Bali
Third Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation: System Demonstrations, 2016.

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