Statistics professor Taylor Arnold and digital humanities professor Lauren Tilton recently received grant funding for two data science projects. They received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project, an open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture. Arnold and Tilton have also received a nearly $325K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project to build open-source software for collecting and analyzing digital images.
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "ReSCORE: Label-free Iterative Retriever Training for Multi-hop Question Answering with Relevance-Consistency Supervision" in the Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "ArgInstruct: Specialized Instruction Fine-Tuning for Computational Argumentation" in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Melinda A. Yang, assistant professor of biology, Stephanie A. Spera, associate professor of geography, environment, & sustainability, and Beth Zizzamia, spatial analysis lab GIS operations manager, along with students Flora Yi, '27, and Elliot Delroba, '24, published "The AADR Visualizer: an ArcGIS online visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource" in the Bioinformatic Advances. The AADR Visualizer is the associated tool.
Matthew Lowder, associate professor of psychology, published "Comparing Sustained Attention Performance across Laboratory-Based versus Web-Based Settings" in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
