About Me
I am combined master/undergraduate student at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Whiting School of Engineering studying computer science with a concentration in Natural Language Processing. I am also a student researcher at the JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing, advised by Benjamin Van Durme, and at the JHU Political Science Department, advised by Nicolas Jabko. My primary research interests are computational semantics and question answering, especially in ambigous and multi-modal settings.
Current Research
I have recently been working on several projects at the JHU CLSP and at the JHU Department of Political Science. At the CLSP I am working on computationally oriented analysis of why-question ambiguity as well as a video oriented question-answering dataset. In the Political Science Depermant, I am developing a method to determine and extract moments of contention from political documents.
Publications
1. E. Stengel-Eskin, J. Guallar-Blasco, Y. Zhou, and B. Van Durme, “Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Rephrasing and Analyzing Ambiguous Questions in VQA”, Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.
2. J. Guallar-Blasco, E. Stengel-Eskin, B. Van Durme, “Analyzing Question Ambiguity in Why-Questions” (2023), Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2023) ∗Abstract
3. E. Stengel-Eskin, J. Guallar-Blasco, and B. Van Durme, “Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness”, in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language, Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.
4. E. Stengel-Eskin, J. Guallar-Blasco, and B. Van Durme, “Exploring Human-Model Divergence Through Vagueness”, Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 2021, *Abstract.