Kemal Kurniawan

I am a Research Fellow in the Natural Language Processing group at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. My research interests include structured prediction, transfer learning, Indonesian NLP, and incorporating annotator disagreements in model training and evaluation. Recently, I am also excited about neurosymbolic methods and their potential to reduce the energy cost of NLP models. I have published in top conferences such as ACL, NAACL, and EACL. In my postdoctoral work, I collaborate with Justice Connect, a legal non-profit delivering free legal services to Australians. A legal area classifier I developed has enabled JC to deliver more legal services to seniors in FY24 and contributed to JC winning the Not-for-Profit Technology Innovator of the Year (2024) award in the Infoxchange Australian Not-for-Profit Technology Awards. My work has been recognised with a Best Paper award in ALTA 2024 and an Outstanding Paper award in EACL 2023.

I am NOT accepting students nor interns. Emails asking for such positions will be ignored.

News

  • [28/04/25] I am selected as a DAAD AInet Fellow.
  • [04/12/24] Our paper “Generating bilingual example sentences with large language models as lexicography assistants” is selected as Best Paper at ALTA 2024!
  • [25/06/24] Our paper “To Aggregate or Not to Aggregate. That is the Question: A Case Study on Annotation Subjectivity in Span Prediction” is accepted to WASSA 2024!
  • [08/11/23] I completed my PhD, with no corrections! My thesis is available online.
  • [28/08/23] I’m starting as a postdoc at Unimelb until 2025!
  • [22/01/23] Our paper “NusaX: Multilingual Parallel Sentiment Dataset for 10 Indonesian Local Languages” is accepted to EACL 2023!
  • [08/04/22] Our paper “Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Transfer of Structured Predictors without Source Data” is accepted to NAACL 2022!
  • [21/03/22] I’m joining Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern here in Melbourne!
  • [24/02/22] Our paper “One Country, 700+ Languages: NLP Challenges for Underrepresented Languages and Dialects in Indonesia” is accepted to ACL 2022!
  • [20/04/21] We moved to a new building, Melbourne Connect, at 700 Swanston street. See photos by Jey Han.
  • [30/03/21] Our paper is accepted to SemEval-2021 Task 10: Source-Free Domain Adaptation for Semantic Processing.

Contact

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