128 - Dynamic Benchmarking, with Douwe Kiela
We discussed adversarial dataset construction and dynamic benchmarking in this episode with Douwe Kiela, a research scientist at Facebook AI Research who has been working on a dynamic benchmarking pla...
19 Jun 202147min
127 - Masakhane and Participatory Research for African Languages, with Tosin Adewumi and Perez Ogayo
We invited members of Masakhane, Tosin Adewumi and Perez Ogayo, to talk about their EMNLP Findings paper that discusses why typical research is limited for low-resourced NLP and how participatory rese...
8 Jun 202147min
126 - Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation, with Lisa Li
We invited Lisa Li to talk about her recent work, Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation. Prefix tuning is a lightweight alternative to finetuning, and the idea is to tune only a ...
24 Mai 202147min
125 - VQA for Real Users, with Danna Gurari
How can we build Visual Question Answering systems for real users? For this episode, we chatted with Danna Gurari, about her work in building datasets and models towards VQA for people who are blind. ...
4 Mai 202142min
124 - Semantic Machines and Task-Oriented Dialog, with Jayant Krishnamurthy and Hao Fang
We invited Jayant Krishnamurthy and Hao Fang, researchers at Microsoft Semantic Machines to discuss their platform for building task-oriented dialog systems, and their recent TACL paper on the topic. ...
14 Apr 202145min
123 - Robust NLP, with Robin Jia
In this episode, Robin Jia talks about how to build robust NLP systems. We discuss the different senses in which a system can be robust, reasons to care about system robustness, and the challenges inv...
5 Apr 202147min
122 - Statutory Reasoning in Tax Law, with Nils Holzenberger
We invited Nils Holzenberger, a PhD student at JHU to talk about a dataset involving statutory reasoning in tax law Holzenberger et al. released recently. This dataset includes difficult textual entai...
12 Nov 202046min
121 - Language and the Brain, with Alona Fyshe
We invited Alona Fyshe to talk about the link between NLP and the human brain. We began by talking about what we currently know about the connection between representations used in NLP and representat...
30 Okt 202042min
