2016–
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Data Science & Computer Science
Co-PI, ML² Group & CILVR Lab
New York University
2011–2016
PhD Student
NLP Group, Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Advisors: Chris Manning & Chris Potts
I study artificial neural network models for natural language understanding, with a focus on building and evaluating reusable sentence encoders and on applications of artificial neural network models to scientific questions in syntax and semantics.
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News
- I joined the Department of Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute as an associated faculty member, in addition to my primary appointment in Linguistics and Data Science.
- In a new draft manuscript by Jason Phang et al., we've found impressive results from the use of English intermediate-task training on the cross-lingual transfer tasks in the XTREME benchmark.
- Alex Warstadt will be presenting our work "Do self-supervised neural networks acquire a bias towards structural linguistic generalizations?" at CogSci this summer.
- My group presented two papers at ACL: a broad survey of when intermediate-task transfer learning helps for NLU tasks, and a demonstration paper explaining our open-source jiant tool.
- I have a new manuscript online covering some crowdsourcing methods design experiments I conducted with collaborators at Google in NYC.
- Alex Warstadt and Alicia Parrish presented ongoing work from my group on the BLiMP benchmark for sentence acceptability at SCiL, co-located with the LSA annual meeting in January.
- My group had two papers accepted at NeurIPS: A paper describing the new SuperGLUE benchmark (with a spotlight talk!), and an analysis paper with Nishant Subramani on language model latent spaces.
- An analysis paper by my fifteen-person NYU Linguistics seminar was accepted to EMNLP. tl;dr: Don't be too confident about the big-picture points that you conclude from any single model analysis experiment.
- A paper with Najoung Kim et al. from our JSALT 2018 collaboration won best paper at *SEM.