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Alex Xijie Lu

5 accepted papers

2025

Investigating Dictionary Expansion for Video-based Sign Language Dictionaries

EMNLP 2025

Like most languages, sign languages evolve over time. It is important that sign language dictionaries’ vocabularies are updated over time to reflect these changes, such as by adding new signs. However, most dictionary retrieval methods based upon machine learning models only work with fixed vocabula

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2025

scGeneScope: A Treatment-Matched Single Cell Imaging and Transcriptomics Dataset and Benchmark for Treatment Response Modeling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Understanding cellular responses to chemical interventions is critical to the discovery of effective therapeutics. Because individual biological techniques often measure only one axis of cellular response at a time, high-quality multimodal datasets are needed to unlock a holistic understanding of ho…

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2024

ASL STEM Wiki: Dataset and Benchmark for Interpreting STEM Articles

EMNLP 2024main

Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students face significant barriers in accessing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, notably due to the scarcity of STEM resources in signed languages. To help address this, we introduce ASL STEM Wiki: a parallel corpus of 254 Wikipedia a…

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2024

Feature Reuse and Scaling: Understanding Transfer Learning with Protein Language Models

ICML 2024poster

Large pretrained protein language models (PLMs) have improved protein property and structure prediction from sequences via transfer learning, in which weights and representations from PLMs are repurposed for downstream tasks. Although PLMs have shown great promise, currently there is little understa…

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2023

ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition

NeurIPS 2023poster

Sign languages are used as a primary language by approximately 70 million D/deaf people world-wide. However, most communication technologies operate in spoken and written languages, creating inequities in access. To help tackle this problem, we release ASL Citizen, the first crowdsourced Isolated Si…

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