
72 - The Anatomy Question Answering Task, with Jordan Boyd-Graber
Our first episode in a new format: broader surveys of areas, instead of specific discussions on individual papers. In this episode, we talk with Jordan Boyd-Graber about question answering. Matt sta...
16 Okt 201843min

71 - DuoRC: Complex Language Understanding with Paraphrased Reading Comprehension, with Amrita Saha
ACL 2018 paper by Amrita Saha, Rahul Aralikatte, Mitesh M. Khapra, Karthik Sankaranarayanan Amrita and colleagues at IBM Research introduced a harder dataset for "reading comprehension", where you ha...
12 Okt 201833min

70 - Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames, with David Jurgens
TACL 2018 paper (presented at ACL 2018) by David Jurgens, Srijan Kumar, Raine Hoover, Daniel A. McFarland, and Daniel Jurafsky David comes on the podcast to talk to us about citation frames. We disc...
18 Sep 201840min

69 - Second language acquisition modeling, with Burr Settles
A shared task held in conjunction with a NAACL 2018 workshop, organized by Burr Settles and collaborators at Duolingo. Burr tells us about the shared task. The goal of the task was to predict errors...
10 Sep 201834min

68 - Neural models of factuality, with Rachel Rudinger
NAACL 2018 paper, by Rachel Rudinger, Aaron Steven White, and Benjamin Van Durme Rachel comes on to the podcast, telling us about what factuality is (did an event happen?), what datasets exist for do...
4 Sep 201836min

67 - GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform, with Sam Bowman
Paper by Alex Wang, Amanpreet Singh, Julian Michael, Felix Hill, Omer Levy, and Samuel R. Bowman. Sam comes on to tell us about GLUE. We talk about the motivation behind setting up a benchmark frame...
27 Aug 201839min

66 - Gender Bias in Coreference Resolution: Evaluation and Debiasing Methods, with Jieyu Zhao
NACL 2018 paper, by Jieyu Zhao, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez, and Kai-Wei Chang. Jieyu comes on the podcast to talk about bias in coreference resolution models. This bias makes models ...
20 Aug 201826min

65 - Event Representations with Tensor-based Compositions, with Niranjan Balasubramanian
AAAI 2018 paper by Noah Weber, Niranjan Balasubramanian, and Nathanael Chambers Niranjan joins us on the podcast to tell us about his latest contribution in a line of work going back to Shank's scrip...
13 Aug 201838min


















