CAROLYNN JIMENEZ PRESENTING AT INT6

Carolynn Jimenez is pursuing a joint major in Computer Science and Linguistics at UCSC, planning to graduate in 2014. She is also a UC LEADS Scholar and is this year’s Chapter President of the UCSC Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

This week Carolynn will be traveling to the INT6 Workshop (Intelligent Narrative Technologies) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta to present a paper: Dammit to Jotunheim: Increasing Author Leverage with Expressive Natural Language Generation . Carolynn is one of six co-authors of the paper (the others being her advisor Marilyn Walker, along with Jennifer Sawyer, Grace Lin, Elena Rishes and Noah Wardrip-Fruin).

Carolynn says about the paper she will present: I’ve been doing research with Marilyn Walker and the Natural Language Dialogue Systems Lab for a little over a year through a state funded fellowship (UC LEADS). This project comes from work we did for an NSF funded project called Character Creator. The paper itself grows out of a user study where we had expert and non-expert authors evaluate algorithmically generated dialogue with quantitative and qualitative methods.