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NLP Highlights

NLP Highlights

Welcome to the NLP highlights podcast, where we invite researchers to talk about their work in various areas in natural language processing. The hosts are the members of the AllenNLP team at...

Episodes

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Are LLMs safe?

Curious about the safety of LLMs? 🤔 Join us for an insightful new episode featuring Suchin Gururangan, Young Investigator at Allen Institut...

00:42:15Feb 29, 2024

"Imaginative AI" with Mohamed Elhoseiny

This podcast episode features Dr. Mohamed Elhoseiny, a true luminary in the realm of computer vision with over a decade of groundbreaking re...

00:23:19Jan 8, 2024

142 - Science Of Science, with Kyle Lo

Our first guest with this new format is Kyle Lo, the most senior lead scientist in the Semantic Scholar team at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)...

00:48:57Dec 28, 2023

141 - Building an open source LM, with Iz Beltagy and Dirk Groeneveld

In this special episode of NLP Highlights, we discussed building and open sourcing language models. What is the usual recipe for building la...

00:29:36Jun 29, 2023

140 - Generative AI and Copyright, with Chris Callison-Burch

In this special episode, we chatted with Chris Callison-Burch about his testimony in the recent U.S. Congress Hearing on the Interoperabilit...

00:51:28Jun 6, 2023

139 - Coherent Long Story Generation, with Kevin Yang

How can we generate coherent long stories from language models? Ensuring that the generated story has long range consistency and that it con...

00:45:18Mar 24, 2023

138 - Compositional Generalization in Neural Networks, with Najoung Kim

Compositional generalization refers to the capability of models to generalize to out-of-distribution instances by composing information obta...

00:48:22Jan 20, 2023

137 - Nearest Neighbor Language Modeling and Machine Translation, with Urvashi Khandelwal

We invited Urvashi Khandelwal, a research scientist at Google Brain to talk about nearest neighbor language and machine translation models....

00:35:56Jan 13, 2023

136 - Including Signed Languages in NLP, with Kayo Yin and Malihe Alikhani

In this episode, we talk with Kayo Yin, an incoming PhD at Berkeley, and Malihe Alikhani, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsb...

01:02:15May 19, 2022

135 - PhD Application Series: After Submitting Applications

This episode is the third in our current series on PhD applications. We talk about what the PhD application process looks like after applica...

00:36:53Mar 2, 2022

134 - PhD Application Series: PhDs in Europe versus the US, with Barbara Plank and Gonçalo Correia

This episode is the second in our current series on PhD applications. How do PhD programs in Europe differ from PhD programs in the US, and...

00:38:29Oct 19, 2021

133 - PhD Application Series: Preparing Application Materials, with Nathan Schneider and Roma Patel

This episode is the first in our current series on PhD applications. How should people prepare their applications to PhD programs in NLP? In...

00:43:54Oct 6, 2021

132 - Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge and Alquist 4.0, with Petr Marek

In this episode, we discussed the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge and this year's winning submission, Alquist 4.0, with Petr Marek, a...

00:41:43Sep 27, 2021

131 - Opportunities and Barriers between HCI and NLP, with Nanna Inie and Leon Derczynski

What can NLP researchers learn from Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research? We chatted with Nanna Inie and Leon Derczynski to find out. W...

00:46:54Aug 20, 2021

130 - Linking human cognitive patterns to NLP Models, with Lisa Beinborn

In this episode, we talk with Lisa Beinborn, an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, about how to use human cognitive signal...

00:44:02Aug 9, 2021

129 - Transformers and Hierarchical Structure, with Shunyu Yao

In this episode, we talk to Shunyu Yao about recent insights into how transformers can represent hierarchical structure in language. Bounded...

00:35:43Jul 2, 2021

128 - Dynamic Benchmarking, with Douwe Kiela

We discussed adversarial dataset construction and dynamic benchmarking in this episode with Douwe Kiela, a research scientist at Facebook AI...

00:47:00Jun 19, 2021

127 - Masakhane and Participatory Research for African Languages, with Tosin Adewumi and Perez Ogayo

We invited members of Masakhane, Tosin Adewumi and Perez Ogayo, to talk about their EMNLP Findings paper that discusses why typical research...

00:47:17Jun 8, 2021

126 - Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation, with Lisa Li

We invited Lisa Li to talk about her recent work, Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation. Prefix tuning is a lightweigh...

00:47:38May 24, 2021

125 - VQA for Real Users, with Danna Gurari

How can we build Visual Question Answering systems for real users? For this episode, we chatted with Danna Gurari, about her work in buildin...

00:42:10May 4, 2021