BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//128.220.36.25//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.clsp.jhu.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-21487@www.clsp.jhu.edu DTSTAMP:20240329T080328Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Seminars CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nEnormous amounts of ever-changing knowledge are avai lable online in diverse textual styles and diverse formats. Recent advance s in deep learning algorithms and large-scale datasets are spurring progre ss in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks\, including question an swering. Nevertheless\, these models cannot scale up when task-annotated t raining data are scarce. This talk presents my lab’s work toward building general-purpose models in NLP and how to systematically evaluate them. Fir st\, I present a general model for two known tasks of question answering i n English and multiple languages that are robust to small domain shifts. Then\, I show a meta-training approach that can solve a variety of NLP tas ks with only using a few examples and introduce a benchmark to evaluate cr oss-task generalization. Finally\, I discuss neuro-symbolic approaches to address more complex tasks by eliciting knowledge from structured data and language models.\n\nBiography\n\nHanna Hajishirzi is an Assistant Profess or in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the Un iversity of Washington and a Senior Research Manager at the Allen Institut e for AI. Her research spans different areas in NLP and AI\, focusing on d eveloping general-purpose machine learning algorithms that can solve many NLP tasks. Applications for these algorithms include question answering\, representation learning\, green AI\, knowledge extraction\, and conversati onal dialogue. Honors include the NSF CAREER Award\, Sloan Fellowship\, Al len Distinguished Investigator Award\, Intel rising star award\, best pape r and honorable mention awards\, and several industry research faculty awa rds. Hanna received her PhD from University of Illinois and spent a year a s a postdoc at Disney Research and CMU. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T131500 LOCATION:Ames Hall 234 - Presented Virtually Via Zoom https://wse.zoom.us/j /96735183473 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Hanna Hajishirzi (University of Washington & Allen Institute for AI ) “Toward Robust\, Knowledge-Rich NLP” URL:https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/events/hanna-hajishirzi-university-of-washingt on-allen-institute-for-ai-toward-robust-knowledge-rich-nlp/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
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\nModern learning architectures for natural language processing have been very successful in incorporating a huge amount of texts into their parameters. However\, by and large\, such models store and use knowledge in distributed and decentralized ways. This proves unreliable and makes the models ill-suited for knowledge-intensive tasks that require reasoning over factual information in linguistic expre ssions. In this talk\, I will give a few examples of exploring alternativ e architectures to tackle those challenges. In particular\, we can improve the performance of such (language) models by representing\, storing and a ccessing knowledge in a dedicated memory component.
\nThis talk is based on several joint works with Yury Zemlyanskiy (Goo gle Research)\, Michiel de Jong (USC and Google Research)\, William Cohen (Google Research and CMU) and our other collaborators in Google Research.< /p>\n
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\nFei is a research scientist at Google Research. Before that\, he was a Professor of Computer Science at U niversity of Southern California. His primary research interests are machi ne learning and its application to various AI problems: speech and languag e processing\, computer vision\, robotics and recently weather forecast an d climate modeling. He has a PhD (2007) from Computer and Information Sc ience from U. of Pennsylvania and B.Sc and M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering from Southeast University (Nanjing\, China).
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