hi , i am
Aida Amini .

PhD Student
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

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about me

I am a fifth year PhD Student at university of Washington. I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Hannaneh Hajishirzi. My main focus in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. In particular, I am interested in question answering, language grounding and semnatic parsing.

education

2015 - Present

PhD of Computer Science

University of Washington

Seattle, WA, USA

My current focus is Natural Language Processing. I am working on Question Answering, Semantic parsing and Language Grounding problems.

2010 - 2015

bachelor of Computer Engineering

university of Tehran

Tehran, Iran

My main focus was software engineering.

Publications

  • Extracting a knowledge base of mechanisms from COVID-19 papers[PDF]

    2020

    Amini, Aida, et al. " Extracting a knowledge base of mechanisms from COVID-19 papers" arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03824 (2020).

  • Procedural Reading Comprehension with Attribute-Aware Context Flow [PDF]

    2020

    Amini, Aida, et al. "Procedural Reading Comprehension with Attribute-Aware Context Flow", Runner-up prize winner, AKBC 2020

  • MathQA: Towards Interpretable Math Word Problem Solving with Operation-Based Formalisms [PDF]

    2019

    Amini, Aida, et al. "MathQA: Towards Interpretable Math Word Problem Solving with Operation-Based Formalisms." Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2019.

  • Cross-lingual Subjectivity Detection for Resource Lean Languages [PDF]

    2019

    Amini, Ida, Samane Karimi, and Azadeh Shakery. "Cross-lingual Subjectivity Detection for Resource Lean Languages." Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis. 2019.

  • Expressing Coherent Personality with Incremental Acquisition of Multimodal Behaviors [PDF]

    2018

    Mota, Pedro, et al. "Expressing Coherent Personality with Incremental Acquisition of Multimodal Behaviors." 2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE, 2018.

  • MAWPS: A math word problem repository [PDF]

    2016

    Koncel-Kedziorski, Rik, et al. "MAWPS: A math word problem repository." Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2016.

experience

  • Summer 2019

    Microsoft Research

    Research Intern

    Seattle, WA, USA
  • Summer 2017

    Disney Research Inc.

    Research Intern

    Pittsbubrgh, PA, USA
  • Summer 2015

    Google

    Software Engineering Intern

    Zurich, Switzerland
  • Summer 2014

    EPFL

    Summer Intern

    Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Summer 2013

    EPFL

    Summer Intern

    Lausanne, Switzerland

contact me

Aida Amini

phone

425-829-9719

email

amini91@cs.washington.edu