Applied Scientist at Amazon
I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Square in Salt Lake City, UT. Previously, I was an Applied Scientist at Amazon Alexa AI in Cambridge, MA. I received my PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University, where I conducted natural language processing and computational social science research with David Smith.
Ansel MacLaughlin*, Shaobin Xu*, and David A Smith. Recovering Lexically and Semantically Reused Texts. In Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2021
Ansel MacLaughlin, Tao Chen, Burcu Karagol Ayan, and Dan Roth. Context-Based Quotation Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’21), 2021
Ansel MacLaughlin and David A Smith. Content-based Models of Quotation. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers (EACL-21), 2021. [Data]
Ansel MacLaughlin, Jwala Dhamala, Anoop Kumar, Sriram Venkatapathy, Ragav Venkatesan and Rahul Gupta. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Efficient Neural Architecture Search for Sentence-Pair Tasks. In Proceedings of the 2020 EMNLP Workshop: Insights from Negative Results in NLP, 2020
Ansel MacLaughlin, John Wihbey, Aleszu Bajak, and David A Smith. Source Attribution: Recovering the Press Releases Behind Health Science News. In Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’20), 2020
Ansel MacLaughlin, John Wihbey, and David A Smith. Modeling the Propagation of Science News. Presented at Text as Data, University of Washington, 2018
Ansel MacLaughlin, John Wihbey, and David A Smith. Predicting News Coverage of Scientific Articles. In Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’18), 2018
Preston Tunnell Wilson, William Kalescky, Ansel MacLaughlin, and Betsy Williams. VR locomotion: Walking > Walking in Place > Arm Swinging In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, 2016
Preston Tunnell Wilson, Ansel MacLaughlin, William Kalescky, and Betsy Williams. Utilizing myo armbands for various locomotion methods. Utilizing Myo Armbands for Various Locomotion Methods. Research Demo at IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 2016