Payam Karisani

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Urbana, IL, USA

I am a researcher in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. I work on large language models and their deficiencies.
My previous research was on training models for low-data regime, I have published papers on Domain Adaptation, Active Learning, and Semi-Supervised Learning—my supervisor is Dr. Heng Ji.

Selected academic activities (the list will not be updated anymore): pc-member for ICML 2020–2024, ICLR 2021–2024, NIPS 2021–2023, AAAI 2021–2023.

Selected Publications

8. Fact Checking Beyond Training Set
Venue: NAACL 2024 (full paper at the main research track, acceptance rate: ? (~20%))
Authors: P. K., H. J.
Link | Code (soon)

7. Named Entity Recognition Under Domain Shift via Metric Learning for Life Sciences
Venue: NAACL 2024 (full paper at the main research track, acceptance rate: ? (~20%))
Authors: H. L., Q. W., P. K., H. J.
Link

6. Neural Networks Against (and For) Self-Training: Classification with Small Labeled and Large Unlabeled Sets
Venue: ACL 2023 (full paper at the Findigs research track, acceptance rate: ? (~30%))
Authors: P. K.
Link | Code

5. Multi-View Active Learning for Short Text Classification in User-Generated Data
Venue: EMNLP 2022 (full paper at the Findigs research track, acceptance rate: ? (~30%))
Authors: P. K., N. K., L. X.
Link | Data

4. Multiple-Source Domain Adaptation via Coordinated Domain Encoders and Paired Classifiers
Venue: AAAI 2022 (full paper at the main research track, acceptance rate: 15.0% out of 9020 papers) [Oral]
Authors: P. K.
Link | Code

3. Semi-Supervised Text Classification via Self-Pretraining
Venue: WSDM 2021 (full paper at the main research track, acceptance rate: 18.6% out of 603 papers) [Oral]
Authors: P. K., N. K.
Link | Code

2. Domain-Guided Task Decomposition with Self-Training for Detecting Personal Events in Social Media
Venue: WWW 2020 (full paper at the main research track, acceptance rate: 19.2% out of 1129 papers) [Oral]
Authors: P. K., J. H., E. A.
Link

1. Did You Really Just Have a Heart Attack? Towards Robust Detection of Personal Health Mentions in Social Media
Venue: WWW 2018 (full paper at the main research track, acceptance rate: 15.0% out of 1140 papers. Best Paper Runner-Up.) [Oral]
Authors: P. K., E. A.
Link | Code | Data


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