Emory NLP

Dr. Wei Xu, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, gave a talk at our CS seminar series and visited EmoryNLP.

Interview with Sarah Finch, James, Finch, and Dr. Choi about the win of Alexa Prize 2020.

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2020/08/er_alexa_prize/campus.html

Emory students win Amazon’s Alexa Prize for artificial intelligence ‘social companion’ A team of Emory students won Amazon’s 2020 Alexa Prize, a global competition to create the most engaging chatbot to advance the field of artificial intelligence. The team earned $500,000 for taking first place with their chatbot named Emora.

Our team Emora has won the Alexa Prize 2020. Our final average rating was 3.81 compared to 3.17 and 3.14 achieved by the 2nd and 3rd-place winners, Stanford University and Czech Technical University, respectively. This prize comes with a $500,000 cash award. All credits are due to the students who have put an incredible amount of efforts to make this accomplishment:

- Sarah Fillwock (3rd year PhD student; team lead)
- James Finch (3rd year PhD student)
- Ali Ahmadvand (5th year PhD student)
- Zihao Wang (5th year PhD student)
- Harsh*ta Sahiwani (4th year PhD student)
- Sergey Volokhin (3rd year PhD student)
- Han He (3rd year PhD student)
- Jiaying Lu (2nd year PhD student)
- Liyan Xu (2nd year PhD student)
- Jason Choi (MS, graduated in Summer 2020)
- Xiangjue D**g (2nd year MS student)
- Zihan Wang (BS/MS student)
- Chenxi Xu (BS/MS student)
- Ruixiang Qi (BS, graduated in Spring 2020)