CV

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Brandeis University, (in progress)
• M.S. in Computational Linguistics with High Honors, Brandeis University, 2024
• B.A. in Linguistics with Honors and Chinese Language and Literature, Boston University, 2022

Awards

• Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research and Teaching by a Computational Linguistics MS Student, 2024
• Barbara Argote Senior Award in Chinese Language and Literature, 2022
• Barbara Argote Junior Award in Linguistics, 2021

Publications

ProPara-CRTS: Canonical Referent Tracking for Reliable Evaluation of Entity State Tracking in Process Narratives

Bingyang Ye, Timothy Obiso, Jingxuan Tu, and James Pustejovsky. 2025. Dynamic Epistemic Friction in Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025), Vienna. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Dynamic Epistemic Friction in Dialogue

Timothy Obiso, Kenneth Lai, Abhijnan Nath, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, and James Pustejovsky. 2025. Dynamic Epistemic Friction in Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2025), Vienna. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Semantically Enriched Text Generation for QA through Dense Paraphrasing

Timothy Obiso, Bingyang Ye, Kyeongmin Rim, and James Pustejovsky. 2024. Semantically Enriched Text Generation for QA through Dense Paraphrasing. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2024), pages 279–286, Trento. Association for Computational Linguistics.

HaRMoNEE at SemEval-2024 Task 6: Tuning-based Approaches to Hallucination Recognition

Timothy Obiso, Jingxuan Tu, and James Pustejovsky. 2024. HaRMoNEE at SemEval-2024 Task 6: Tuning-based Approaches to Hallucination Recognition. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 1322–1331, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.

GLAMR: Augmenting AMR with GL-VerbNet Event Structure

Jingxuan Tu, Timothy Obiso, Bingyang Ye, Kyeongmin Rim, Keer Xu, Liulu Yue, Susan Windisch Brown, Martha Palmer, and James Pustejovsky. 2024. GLAMR: Augmenting AMR with GL-VerbNet Event Structure. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 7746–7759, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.

Holographic Embeddings for Text and Graphs

Timothy Obiso. 2024. Holographic Embeddings for Text and Graphs. In Brandeis University 2024.

Teaching

Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing II - COSI 115

Modal, Spatial and Temporal Logic for Language Modeling - COSI 112

Computational Semantics - COSI 135

Semantics I - LING 130