[Colloquium] 2/11 TTIC Colloquium: Sam Bowman, New York University

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

*When:    *  Monday, February 11th at *11:00 am*



*Where:     *TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526



*Who:       *Sam Bowman, New York University

*Title:       *Task-Independent Sentence Understanding

*Abstract:* This talk deals with the goal of *task-independent language
understanding*: building machine learning models that can learn to do
most of the hard work of language understanding before they see a single
example of the language understanding task they're meant to solve, in
service of making the best of modern NLP systems both better and more
data-efficient. I'll survey the (dramatic!) progress that the NLP research
community has made toward this goal in the last year. In particular, I'll
dwell on GLUE—an open-ended shared task competition that measures progress
toward this goal for sentence understanding tasks—and I'll preview a few
recent and forthcoming analysis papers that attempt to offer a bit of
perspective on this recent progress.

*Bio: *I have been on the faculty at NYU since 2016, when I finished my PhD
with Chris Manning and Chris Potts at Stanford. At NYU, I'm a core member
of the new school-level Data Science unit, which focuses on machine
learning, and a co-PI of the CILVR machine learning lab. My research
focuses on data, evaluation techniques, and modeling techniques for
sentence understanding in natural language processing, and on applications
of machine learning to scientific questions in linguistic syntax and
semantics. I am an area chair for *SEM 2018, ICLR 2019, and NAACL 2019; I
organized a twenty-three person team at JSALT 2018; and I earned a 2015
EMNLP Best Resource Paper Award and a 2017 Google Faculty Research Award.


*Host:* Kevin Gimpel <kgimpel at ttic.edu>


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Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
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*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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