I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of California Santa Cruz since September 2012. I work under supervision of Prof. Marilyn A. Walker at Natural Language and Dialogue Systems (NLDS) Lab.
Utilizing computers to understand and process human languages is what I find most appealing and most practically useful in computer science. Probabilistic and machine learning approaches to process and mine meaning from natural languages especially in text format is my major interest of research. I am currently exploring different narrative discourse theories and new ways of automatically learning higher level structures and patterns from different narrative sources.
I completed my undergraduate studies at Sharif University of Technology and received my M.Sc from the University of Tehran, both in Computer Software Engineering.
Research Interests:
Natural Language Processing, Narrative Discourse Analysis, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Crowdsourcing
EXPERIENCE
Elahe Rahimtoroghi
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
University of California Santa Cruz
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PUBLICATIONS
Apple Inc.
Localization and Release Engineering Team
Project: Natural Language Processing and Language Modeling.
Jan - Mar 2017
PhD Intern
Jul - Sep 2016
Tech Intern III
Yahoo
Yahoo Mail Anti-Spam and Delivery Team
Project: Unsupervised Topic Modeling and Advanced Machine Learning Models to Enhance Spam Detection in Emails.
Adobe
Imagination Lab
Project: Automatic Data Storytelling - Natural Language Generation for Analytics Question-Answering.
Jun - Sep 2015
Data Scientist Intern
University of Southern California
Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)
Project: Information Extraction from Online Blogs
Jun - Sep 2014
Visiting Researcher Intern
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Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand and Marilyn A Walker, "Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative", Proceedings of 18th Annual SIGDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialouge (SIGDial 2017), Saarbrücken, Germany, 2017.
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Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandes and Marilyn A Walker, "Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events", Proceedings of 17th Annual SIGDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialouge (SIGDial 2016), Los Angeles, USA, 2016. (Best Paper Award)
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Swanson, R., Rahimtoroghi, E., Corcoran, T., Walker, M. A., "Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories", Proceedings of the 15th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2014), Philadelphia, PA, June 2014. (Best Paper Award)
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Rahimtoroghi, E., Corcoran, T., Swanson, R., Walker, M. A., Sagae, K., Gordon, A. S., "Minimal Narrative Annotation Schemes and Their Applications", Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT7), Milwaukee, WI, June 2014.
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Swanson, R., Rahimtoroghi, E., Corcoran, T., Walker, M. A., "Identifying Simple Narrative Structure in Personal Narratives", The Northwest NLP Workshop (NW-NLP 2014), Redmond, WA, April 2014. [pdf]
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Hu, Z., Rahimtoroghi, E. , Munishkina, L., Swanson, R., and Walker, M. A., "Unsupervised Induction of Contingent Event Pairs from Film Scenes", Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013), Seattle, WA, October 2013, Association for Computational Linguistics. [pdf]
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Rahimtoroghi, E., Swanson, R., Walker, M. A., and Corcoran, T., "Evaluation, Orientation, and Action in Interactive StoryTelling", Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT6), Boston, MA, October 2013.
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Rahimtoroghi, E. and Shakery, A., "Wikipedia-Based Smoothing for Enhancing Text Clustering", Proceedingos of 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS), pp. 327-339, Dubai, UAE, December 2011.
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Rahimtoroghi, E., Faili, H., and Shakery, A., "A Structural Rule-Based Stemmer for Persian", Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST), pp. 574-578, Tehran, Iran, December 2010.
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