Alison Chi

I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh's ILCC supervised by Emily Allaway. My current research focuses on how we express and interpret implied meaning in language, and to what extent language models can reason about this.

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Background

I received a Master's in computer science from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, where I worked on controlled paraphrasing and was supervised by Jason S. Chang. As an undergraduate, I studied both linguistics and computer science at Macalester College in the United States and was supervised by Shilad Sen.

Publications

Learning to Paraphrase Sentences to Different Complexity Levels Alison Chi, Li-Kuang Chen, Yi-Chen Chang, Shu-Hui Lee, Jason S. Chang Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2023.
BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification Tannon Kew, Alison Chi, Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez, Sweta Agrawal, Dennis Aumiller, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Matthew Shardlow Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2023.