Allie Lahnala

Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 6
53115 Bonn Germany
Looking for post-docs starting after July 2024! I’m interested in a collaboration with social psychologists and others with related expertise on conversation modeling.
I am a natural language processing (NLP) researcher focusing on computational social science and conversation dynamics in goal-oriented settings and interpersonal interactions involving particular social intents, such as persuasion and offering support. I work with various domains and contexts, such as online forums for supportive and opinionated interactions, and clinical conversations, in which I investigate stance dynamics and empathetic interactions, and transfer learning to better model social NLP tasks. I am also interested in developing theory-driven empathy research approaches for NLP that consider the complex affective and cognitive processes and social factors that influence empathetic expression and perception.
I am final year (yay!) Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Lucie Flek at the University of Bonn, Germany in the Conversational AI and Social Analytics (CAISA) lab, studying natural language processing (NLP). I began my Ph.D. studies at the University of Michigan with Prof. Rada Mihalcea in the LIT lab.
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Sep 5, 2023 | Giving a talk Modeling empathy in NLP for Support-Oriented Interactions at University of Michigan CSE. |
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Sep 4, 2023 | Fabian Lechner is presenting our paper Challenges of GPT‑3‑based Conversational Agents for Healthcare at RANLP 2023. |
Aug 24, 2023 | Just wrapped up a successful 2-week interdisciplinary Social Natural Language Processing workshop at Stony Brook University with Lucie Flek & Ryan Boyd. Feel free to reach out if you’d like access to the materials. |
Aug 18, 2023 | Giving a talk Social NLP for Discourse & Conversation at Stony Brook Department of Computer Science on my PhD research. |
Jul 24, 2023 | I started a summer research internship in the Human Language Analysis Beings (HLAB) at Stony Brook University. |