Omar Florez — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Alt-Text with Context: Improving Accessibility for Images on Twitter

Nikita Srivatsan, Sofia Samaniego, Omar Florez, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

ICLR 2024poster

In this work we present an approach for generating alternative text (or alt-text) descriptions for images shared on social media, specifically Twitter. More than just a special case of image captioning, alt-text is both more literally descriptive and context-specific. Also critically, images posted…

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2023

Simple Temporal Adaptation to Changing Label Sets: Hashtag Prediction via Dense KNN

Niloofar Mireshghallah, Nikolai Vogler, Junxian He, Omar Florez, Ahmed El-Kishky, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

EMNLP 2023short main

User-generated social media data is constantly changing as new trends influence online discussion and personal information is deleted due to privacy concerns. However, traditional NLP models rely on fixed training datasets, which means they are unable to adapt to temporal change---both test distribu…

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