About Me
Jimena is a Research Associate at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, an independent research center associated with Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She recently graduated from the JHU Whiting School of Engineering with a Bachelors of Science and a Masters of Science in Engeering. While at JHU, Jimena majored in computer Science, with an emphasis in Natural Language Processing, and minored in Linguistics. Before starting her current position as a Research Associate, Jimena was a Research Assistant at the JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing, where she was advised by Professor Benjamin Van Durme. Her primary research interest is using natural language processing and computational semantics techniques to solve complex problems in multimodal settings.
Publications
1. Kriz, R., Sanders, K., Etter, D., Murray, K., Carpenter, C., Ochten, K.V., Recknor, H., Guallar-Blasco, J., Martin, A., Colaianni, R., King, N., Yang, E., & Van Durme, B. "MultiVENT 2.0: A Massive Multilingual Benchmark for Event-Centric Video Retrieval", arXiv, 2024.
2. Stengel-Eskin, E., Guallar-Blasco, J., Zhou, Y., & Van Durme, B. “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.
3. Guallar-Blasco, J., Stengel-Eskin, E., & Van Durme, B., “Analyzing Question Ambiguity in Why-Questions” (2023), Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2023) ∗Abstract
4. Stengel-Eskin, E., Guallar-Blasco, J., & Van Durme, B. “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.
5. Stengel-Eskin, E., Guallar-Blasco, J., & Van Durme, B. “Exploring Human-Model Divergence Through Vagueness”, Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 2021, *Abstract.