Franck Dernoncourt
Senior Researcher
Seattle, WA
Franck is an NLP researcher at Adobe Research. He received his PhD in machine learning from MIT, co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed research publications, filed over 100 patents and received 4 best paper awards. His research interests include neural networks and natural language processing. His service includes acting as the EMNLP Industry Chair, coordinating the AAAI SDU workshop series and organizing several SemEval shared tasks.
For more details:
– Google Scholar
– Personal website
Strong NLP PhD students are welcome to contact him at dernonco@adobe.com regarding internships anytime in the year. Internships typically result in publications and patents. Collaborations often continue after the internship.
Publications
A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations
Spotlight paper (top 5%)
Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Learning for Event Detection
Best paper runner-up
Joint Summarization-Entailment Optimization for Consumer Health Question Understanding
Best Student Paper Award
MIT at SemEval-2017 Task 10: Relation Extraction with Convolutional Neural Networks
Ranked first in the SemEval-2017 task
Feature-Augmented Neural Networks for Patient Note De-identification
Best Student Paper Award
News
Adobe Research Wins Best Paper Award for Helping Readers Understand Acronyms
In our award-winning paper at EACL 2021, we introduced a new system that helps readers better understand acronyms - the shorter form of a longer phrase. This is valuable to people reading a wide range of texts, such as scientific papers.
June 25, 2021Interns Find Freedom to Innovate at Adobe Research
Why do Adobe Research interns come back year after year? The answer comes down to one critical word: Freedom.
October 10, 2019