Isidora Tourni
I'm a Research Scientist in Natural Language Processing.
My research interests span across machine translation, multilingual learning, and applications of AI. I have worked extensively on improving neural machine translation systems for low-resource language pairs through techniques like unsupervised learning and multimodal approaches. I'm particularly interested in developing methods that can help democratize access to language technologies for underserved languages and communities.
Recently, I've been exploring ways to leverage large language models for multilingual information retrieval and question answering tasks across diverse languages. I'm also passionate about making AI systems more interpretable and understanding how they process information across different modalities like text and images. My work aims to develop more robust and transparent AI systems that can effectively handle linguistic diversity while being explainable to users.
In the past, I have worked extensively on multilingual and multimodal machine learning applications. I also did research at Boston University working with Dr. Derry Wijaya on machine translation and explainable AI. My work focused on making machine translation more accessible for low-resource languages and developing explainable AI methods for natural language processing tasks.
Publications
Detecting Frames in News Headlines and Lead Images in U.S. Gun Violence Coverage
Isidora Chara Tourni, Lei Guo, T. Daryanto, Fabian Zhafransyah, Edward Edberg Halim, Mona Jalal, Boqi Chen, Shan-Ching Lai, Hengchang Hu, Margrit Betke, P. Ishwar, Derry Tanti Wijaya
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2024
Cultural and Geographical Influences on Image Translatability of Words across Languages
Nikzad Khani, Isidora Chara Tourni, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Chris Callison-Burch, Derry Tanti Wijaya
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2021
Machine learning techniques in categorical time seriesanalysis of manufacturing process
Χαράλαμπος Μιχαηλίδης, Ισιδώρα Χαρά Τουρνή, C. Michailidis, Isidora Chara Tourni
Low-Resource Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages: Leveraging Comparable Data, Code-Switching and Compute Resources
Garry Kuwanto, Afra Feyza Akyurek, Isidora Chara Tourni, Siyang Li, Derry Tanti Wijaya
arXiv.org 2021