About
I am a second year PhD student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst advised by Mohit Iyyer and a member of UMass NLP.
I'm broadly interested in applying NLP methods to the literary texts.
Previously, I was an undergraduate at Rutgers University where I majored in Math, English, and Computer Science. Before transferring to Rutgers, I spent one semester at the University of Edinburgh.
I've participated in 4 NSF REUs and done research in cool places like Hong Kong and the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
My other interests include the color purple, skating, dogs (small huskies in particular), Kazuo Ishiguro, teaching/mentoring high school students, makeup/skincare, karaoke, and very specific Spotify playlists.
In my spare time, I assist historian David Greenberg with his current project, a biography of the late Congressman John Lewis.
Publications
Exploring Document-Level Literary Machine Translation with Parallel Paragraphs from World Literature
Katherine Thai*, Marzena Karpinska*, Kalpesh Krishna, Moira Inghilleri,
John Wieting, and Mohit Iyyer
EMNLP 2022
🌾 DEMETR:
Diagnosing Evaluation Metrics for Translation
Marzena Karpinska, Nishant Raj, Katherine Thai, Yixiao Song,
Ankita Gupta, and Mohit Iyyer
EMNLP 2022
RELiC:
Retrieving Evidence for Literary Claims
ChapterBreak: A Challenge Dataset
for Long-Range Language Models
Teaching
I was a teaching assistant for CS685 Advanced Natural Language Processing (Fall 2021) at UMass Amherst.
As an undergraduate, I was a tutor/mentor for Rutgers University's Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences (ODASIS). I taught weekly Saturday classes to 20+ high school juniors and seniors in Algebra, English Composition, and SAT prep.
During the summer of 2016, I was a teaching assistant for Upperline Code in New York City.