64 - Neural Network Models for Sentence Pair Tasks, with Wuwei Lan and Wei Xu
Best reproduction paper at COLING 2018, by Wuwei Lan and Wei Xu. This paper takes a bunch of models for sentence pair classification (including paraphrase identification, semantic textual similarity,...
8 Aug 201836min
63 - Neural Lattice Language Models, with Jacob Buckman
TACL 2018 paper by Jacob Buckman and Graham Neubig. Jacob tells us about marginalizing over latent structure in a sentence by doing a clever parameterization of a lattice with a model kind of like a...
2 Aug 201830min
62 - Sounding Board: A User-Centric and Content-Driven Social Chatbot, with Hao Fang
NAACL 2018 demo paper, by Hao Fang, Hao Cheng, Maarten Sap, Elizabeth Clark, Ari Holtzman, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, and Mari Ostendorf Sounding Board was the system that won the 2017 Amazon Alexa ...
30 Jul 201831min
61 - Neural Text Generation in Stories, with Elizabeth Clark and Yangfeng Ji
NAACL 2018 Outstanding Paper by Elizabeth Clark, Yangfeng Ji, and Noah A. Smith Both Elizabeth and Yangfeng come on the podcast to tell us about their work. This paper is an extension of an EMNLP 20...
23 Jul 201830min
60 - FEVER: a large-scale dataset for Fact Extraction and VERification, with James Thorne
NAACL 2018 paper by James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Christos Christodoulopoulos, and Arpit Mittal James tells us about his paper, where they created a dataset for fact checking. We talk about how thi...
28 Jun 201828min
59 - Weakly Supervised Semantic Parsing With Abstract Examples, with Omer Goldman
ACL 2018 paper by Omer Goldman, Veronica Latcinnik, Udi Naveh, Amir Globerson, and Jonathan Berant Omer comes on to tell us about a class project (done mostly by undergraduates!) that made it into AC...
12 Jun 201835min
58 - Learning What’s Easy: Fully Differentiable Neural Easy-First Taggers, with André Martins
EMNLP 2017 paper by André F. T. Martins and Julia Kreutzer André comes on the podcast to talk to us the paper. We spend the bulk of the time talking about the two main contributions of the paper: ho...
8 Jun 201847min
57 - A Survey Of Cross-lingual Word Embedding Models, with Sebastian Ruder
Upcoming JAIR paper by Sebastian Ruder, Ivan Vulić, and Anders Søgaard. Sebastian comes on to tell us about his survey. He creates a typology of cross-lingual word embedding methods, and we discuss ...
5 Jun 201831min
