Collaborative CS/linguistics project underway!

The Hariri Computing Institute has generously granted seed funding to start a project entitled “Bridging linguistic and visual knowledge through Visual Genome”. The PIs are Elizabeth Coppock (Linguistics) and Derry Wijaya (Computer Science). Three students will be working on the project this summer:

• Danielle Dionne, Linguistics Ph.D. student
• Elias Ganem, BA in Linguistics ’19
• Nathanial Graham, rising junior in International Relations (and linguistics genius)

As a first step, we aim to apply Rational Speech Acts models of referring expression generation to the Visual Genome corpus. Wish us luck!