A team of researchers of NOVA LINCS, led by Diogo Silva, who is an Affiliated Ph.D. student in Language Technologies at NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), presented their research papers at the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, held on November 12-16, in Miami, US.
In addition to CMU Portugal Ph.D. student Diogo Silva, were part of the team Rafael Ferreira (Ph.D.) and Afonso Simplicio (MSc) who also presented at the conference. João Magalhães, coordinator of the Multimodal Systems Group at NOVA LINCS and CMU Portugal National co-director supported the students at the event.
You can read Diogo Silva’s paper “Show and Guide: Instructional-Plan Grounded Vision and Language Model”, on designing multimodal LLMs to follow instructional-plans, here.