Scholar
Erica Cai
Google Scholar ID: xYzo4Q4AAAAJ
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
23
H-index
2
i10-index
1
Publications
11
Co-authors
0
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper accepted at Journal of Law and Courts; paper accepted at ACL (Findings); published a paper on low-resource information extraction and identification of influential nodes in knowledge graphs in Complex Networks XV (Springer Nature); presented research on zero-shot event extraction methods at multiple academic conferences.
Research Experience
- Worked part-time at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from Fall 2023 through Spring 2025, where she also interned during the summers. Presented talks and posters at various academic conferences, such as the International Conference of Complex Networks (Exeter, UK), NeurIPS Instruction Tuning and Instruction Following Workshop (New Orleans), Text as Data (Amherst), and more.
Education
- PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, advised by Prof. Brendan T. O'Connor. Worked with Prof. David Jensen on causal structure learning, causal inference, and explainable artificial intelligence. Prior to graduate school, worked with Prof. Eric Allender in computational complexity theory and with Prof. Janne Lindqvist on developing methods to explore the privacy and security of ephemeral messages.
Background
- Research interests span knowledge graphs, natural language processing, and computational social science. Member of UMass NLP and the Statistical Social Language Analysis lab.
Miscellany
- In her free time, she plays tennis and the piano, and likes to travel.
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