96 - Question Answering as an Annotation Format, with Luke Zettlemoyer
In this episode, we chat with Luke Zettlemoyer about Question Answering as a format for crowdsourcing annotations of various semantic phenomena in text. We start by talking about QA-SRL and QAMR, two ...
12 Nov 201929min
95 - Common sense reasoning, with Yejin Choi
In this episode, we invite Yejin Choi to talk about common sense knowledge and reasoning, a growing area in NLP. We start by discussing a working definition of “common sense” and the practical utilit...
7 Okt 201935min
94 - Decompositional Semantics, with Aaron White
In this episode, Aaron White tells us about the decompositional semantics initiative (Decomp), an attempt to re-think the prototypical approach to semantic representation and annotation. The basic ide...
30 Sep 201927min
93 - NLP/ML for clinical data, with Alistair Johnson
In this episode, we invite Alistair Johnson to discuss the main challenge in applying NLP/ML to clinical domains: the lack of data. We discuss privacy concerns, de-identification, synthesizing records...
22 Jul 201937min
92 - Computational Humanities, with David Bamman
In this episode, we invite David Bamman to give an overview of computational humanities. We discuss examples of questions studied in computational humanities (e.g., characterizing fictionality, assess...
5 Jul 201933min
91 - (Executable) Semantic Parsing, with Jonathan Berant
In this episode, we invite Jonathan Berant to talk about executable semantic parsing. We discuss what executable semantic parsing is and how it differs from related tasks such as semantic dependency p...
26 Jun 201942min
90 - Research in Academia versus Industry, with Philip Resnik and Jason Baldridge
How is it like to do research in academia vs. industry? In this episode, we invite Jason Baldridge (UT Austin => Google) and Philip Resnik (Sun Microsystems => UMD) to discuss some of the aspects one ...
31 Mai 201954min
89 - Dialog Systems, with Zhou Yu
In this episode, we invite Zhou Yu to give an overview of dialogue systems. We discuss different types of dialogue systems (task-oriented vs. non-task-oriented), the main building blocks and how they ...
31 Mai 201937min
