Scholar
Lara J. Martin
Google Scholar ID: YjiWURYAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Citations & Impact
Citations
868
H-index
15
i10-index
16
Publications
20
Co-authors
32
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- ['Paper "CALYPSO: LLMs as Dungeon Master's Assistants" presented at AIIDE 2023', 'Two papers published at ACL 2023: main conference paper "FIREBALL" and Findings of ACL paper "CoRRPUS"', 'Demo paper "Human-in-the-Loop Schema Induction" published at ACL 2023', 'Paper "BERALL" (a RAG-based interactive fiction generation system) accepted to Wordplay Workshop at ACL 2024', 'Guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Games special issue on Large Language Models and Games', "Student Arya Honraopatil won best presentation award at CSEE Department's Research Day", 'Supervised successful MS thesis defenses by Naren Sivakumar and Shadab Choudhury', 'Student papers accepted to Wordplay Workshop at EMNLP 2025']
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at UMBC
- Principal investigator of the LARA Lab
- Member of the Interactive Robotics and Language Lab (IRAL)
- Collaborating with Foad Hamidi on a project titled "Investigating the Social and Affective Aspects of Large-Language Model-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems"
- Founded the language technologies seminar series LaTeSS
- Co-organizer of the Wordplay Workshop
Background
- Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
- Research interests include Human-Centered AI, Neurosymbolic NLP, Automated Story Generation, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), and Dungeons and Dragons AI
- Develops systems to improve how people communicate with computers and through computers with each other
- Working toward building an AI Dungeon Master
- Affiliate in the Information Systems Department and member of UMBC's Center for AI
- Runs the LARA Lab and is a member of the Interactive Robotics and Language Lab (IRAL)
- Pronouns: she/they
