Allie Lahnala

About Me

PhD Candidate

I’m advised by Prof. Rada Mihalcea in the Language & Information Technologies lab.
We are part of the Artificial Intelligence lab in the Computer Science & Engineering department
at University of Michigan.

Research

Interests

Conversational Behavior
Argumentation
Dialogue

Projects

Motivational Interviewing
Counselor Behavior on Reddit
Sound of Text
Polarity in Climate Change Discourse

Publications

**Chord Embeddings: Analyzing What They Capture and Their Role for Next Chord Prediction and Artist Attribute Prediction
**Received an EvoStar Outstanding Student Mention
Allison Lahnala, Gauri Kambhatla, Jiajun Peng, Matthew Whitehead, Gillian Minnehan, Eric Guldan, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Anıl Çamcı and Rada Mihalcea.
In Proceedings of Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design – 10th International Conference, EvoMUSART (2021).

Expressive Interviewing: A Conversational System for Coping with COVID-19. [Website]
Charlie Welch, Allison Lahnala, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Sarah Seraj, Larry An, Kenneth Resnicow, James Pennebaker, & Rada Mihalcea.
In NLP COVID-19 Workshop Part 2 at EMNLP 2020.

Presentations

Sound of Text
Climate Polarity

Activities

Explore CS Research

I am an organizer for ExploreCSR, a research mentorship program for undergraduates.

AI Blog Editor

I am an editor for the Artificial Intelligence Lab’s blog.

Music

I am a violinist, playing solo in my apartment during the pandemic. In regular times, I play with the Life Sciences Orchestra and with Campus Philharmonia Orchestra as principal second violinist.