Text Machine Lab

The Text Machine Lab at UMass Lowell conducts research in deep learning for for natural language processing, with a focus on representation learning and model interpretability. Our current and past projects span the following research areas:

  • model interpretability and representation learning
  • text-based temporal reasoning, conversational agents, argument mining
  • clinical natural language processing, including information extraction, and predictive modeling using clinical patient records.
  • NLP for educational applications, digital knowledge and sentiment tracking for digital humanities and social science.
  • News

    The second New England NLP Meetup NENLP Meetup was held in April 2023 at UMass Lowell.

    The first New England NLP Meetup NENLP Meetup was held in April 2022 at MIT.

    We orgnized the Clinial NLP Workshop at NAACL 2022 Clinial NLP Workshop 2022 .

    We conducted the Insights from Negative results from NLP workshop 2022 Insights from Negative results from NLP workshop at ACL 2022.

    Anna Rumshisky served as Program Chair for NAACL 2021.

    All news prior to 2019 can be found in our Archived News page.