Lara J. Martin

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Applying and improving #NLP/#AI but in a safe way. Teaching computers to tell stories, play D&D, and help people talk (accessibility). Assistant Prof in CSEE @ UMBC. 🏳️‍🌈♿ https://laramartin.net

Diagram of Representation Alignment evaluation. Four different emotion representations are passed to an LLM, along with keywords (e.g., wake, cat, morning). Each of these sentences are shown to the user, who has to pick the best-fitting sentence to the emotion representation they see.

Cover art for Sierra's old game. Space Quest V: Roger Wilco - The Next Mutation. Roger is holding a mop and surrounded by all sorts of aliens all standing waist-high in green goo

A diagram of one of the experiments in the paper:
An LLM gets an emotion representation and some keywords and a human picks the best generated sentence that matches that emotion.

Statue of UMBC's mascot True Grit, a dog. People put pennies in front of it and it's wearing a cowboy hat

Bloom's Taxonomy for teaching, image from the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. At the bottom is "remember" followed by "understand", "apply", "analyze", "evaluate", and with "create" at the top.

Students present posters to their peers and visitors.