🧑‍🔬 Allison Lahnala

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓McMaster UniversityHamilton · Canada2025–2026 · 7 papersEmployment since 2025 · Assistant Professor, Computing and Softwarecurrent🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of TorontoToronto · Canada2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓Philipps University of MarburgMarburg · Germany2021–2025 · 8 papersEmployment 2021–2023 · PhD Student, Mathematik und Informatik🎓University of MichiganAnn Arbor · United States2018–2021 · 4 papersEducation until 2020 · Master's, Computer Science & EngineeringEducation until 2017 · Bachelor's, Computer Science & EngineeringEmployment 2018–2021 · PhD Student, Computer Science & Engineering🎓University of BonnBonn · Germany2023–2025 · 3 papersEducation until 2024 · Doctorate, Computer ScienceEmployment 2023–2024 · PhD Student, Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it)🔬National Institute on Drug AbuseBethesda · United States2024–2025 · 1 paperEmployment 2024–2025 · Postdoctoral Fellow, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch🎓Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook · United States2023Employment 2023 · Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. McMasters of Change: Predicting Well-Being States and Transitions from Longitudinal Language (2026 · 1 citation)
   Most mental-health NLP treats social media posts one at a time and ignores how a person's state unfolds over a timeline.
2. McMaster NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 2: A Lightweight Multi-Feature System for Predicting Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time (2026)
   SemEval-2026 Task 2, Subtask 1 asks systems to estimate continuous valence and arousal scores for texts that the same people wrote repeatedly over time.

All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. McMasters of Change: Predicting Well-Being States and Transitions from Longitudinal LanguageWorkshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical PsychologyHongyi Zhang, Derron Li, Scarlett Cleary, et al.2026 · 1 citation
2. McMaster NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 2: A Lightweight Multi-Feature System for Predicting Emotional Valence and Arousal over TimeInternational Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)Hongyi Zhang, Daniel Hu, Allison Lahnala2026
3. LeadEmpathy: An Expert Annotated German Dataset of Empathy in Written Leadership Communication ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetDidem Sedefoglu et al.2024

🤝 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Hongyi Zhang ×2
• Charles Welch
• Vasudha Varadarajan

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology 2026
• International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval): SemEval 2026
• Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read).

Updated 2 November 2026

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