6 papers
Two Approaches to Building Collaborative, Task-Oriented Dialog Agents through Self-Play
Arkady Arkhangorodsky, Scot Fang, Victoria Knight +3
Task-oriented dialog systems are often trained on human/human dialogs, such as collected from Wizard-of-Oz interfaces. However, human/human corpora are frequently too small for sup…
Learning Mathematical Properties of Integers
Maria Ryskina, Kevin Knight
Embedding words in high-dimensional vector spaces has proven valuable in many natural language applications. In this work, we investigate whether similarly-trained embeddings of in…
Comparative Error Analysis in Neural and Finite-state Models for Unsupervised Character-level Transduction
Maria Ryskina, Eduard Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +1
Traditionally, character-level transduction problems have been solved with finite-state models designed to encode structural and linguistic knowledge of the underlying process, whe…
NoiseQA: Challenge Set Evaluation for User-Centric Question Answering
Abhilasha Ravichander, Siddharth Dalmia, Maria Ryskina +3
When Question-Answering (QA) systems are deployed in the real world, users query them through a variety of interfaces, such as speaking to voice assistants, typing questions into a…
Phonetic and Visual Priors for Decipherment of Informal Romanization
Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
Informal romanization is an idiosyncratic process used by humans in informal digital communication to encode non-Latin script languages into Latin character sets found on common ke…
Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods
Maria Ryskina, Ella Rabinovich, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +2
We perform statistical analysis of the phenomenon of neology, the process by which new words emerge in a language, using large diachronic corpora of English. We investigate the imp…