About AllenNLP
The AllenNLP team envisions language-centered AI that equitably serves humanity. We work to improve NLP systems' performance and accountability, and advance scientific methodologies for evaluating and understanding those systems. We deliver high-impact research of our own and masterfully-engineered open-source tools to accelerate NLP research around the world.
Featured Software
AI2 Tango
A Python library for choreographing your machine learning research. Construct machine learning experiments out of repeatable, reusable steps.
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A natural language processing platform for building state-of-the-art models. A complete platform for solving natural language processing tasks in PyTorch.
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Continued Pretraining for Better Zero- and Few-Shot Promptability
Zhaofeng Wu, Robert L. Logan IV, Pete Walsh, Akshita Bhagia, Dirk Groeneveld, Sameer Singh, Iz BeltagyEMNLP • 2022 Recently introduced language model prompting methods can achieve high accuracy in zero-and few-shot settings while requiring few to no learned task-specific parameters. Never-theless, these methods still often trail behind full model finetuning. In this work…Exploring The Landscape of Distributional Robustness for Question Answering Models
Anas Awadalla, Mitchell Wortsman, Gabriel Ilharco, Sewon Min, Ian H. Magnusson, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ludwig SchmidtFindings of EMNLP • 2022 We conduct a large empirical evaluation to investigate the landscape of distributional robustness in question answering. Our investigation spans over 350 models and 16 question answering datasets, including a di-verse set of architectures, model sizes, and…Hyperdecoders: Instance-specific decoders for multi-task NLP
Hamish Ivison, Matthew E. PetersFindings of EMNLP • 2022 We investigate input-conditioned hypernetworks for multi-tasking in NLP, generating parameter-efficient adaptations for a decoder using a hypernetwork conditioned on the output of an encoder. This approach produces a unique decoder for every input instance…GENIE: Toward Reproducible and Standardized Human Evaluation for Text Generation
Daniel Khashabi, Gabriel Stanovsky, Jonathan Bragg, Nicholas Lourie, Jungo Kasai, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, Daniel S. WeldEMNLP • 2022 While often assumed a gold standard, effective human evaluation of text generation remains an important, open area for research. We revisit this problem with a focus on pro-ducing consistent evaluations that are reproducible —over time and across different…How Much Does Attention Actually Attend? Questioning the Importance of Attention in Pretrained Transformers
Michael Hassid, Hao Peng, Daniel Rotem, Jungo Kasai, Ivan Montero, Noah Smith, Roy SchwartzEMNLP Findings • 2022 The attention mechanism is considered the backbone of the widely-used Transformer architecture. It contextualizes the input by computing input-specific attention matrices. We find that this mechanism, while powerful and elegant, is not as important as…
Recent Datasets
Qasper
Question Answering on Research Papers
A dataset containing 1585 papers with 5049 information-seeking questions asked by regular readers of NLP papers, and answered by a separate set of NLP practitioners.
A Dataset of Incomplete Information Reading Comprehension Questions
13K reading comprehension questions on Wikipedia paragraphs that require following links in those paragraphs to other Wikipedia pages
IIRC is a crowdsourced dataset consisting of information-seeking questions requiring models to identify and then retrieve necessary information that is missing from the original context. Each original context is a paragraph from English Wikipedia and it comes with a set of links to other Wikipedia pages, and answering the questions requires finding the appropriate links to follow and retrieving relevant information from those linked pages that is missing from the original context.
ZEST: ZEroShot learning from Task descriptions
ZEST is a benchmark for zero-shot generalization to unseen NLP tasks, with 25K labeled instances across 1,251 different tasks.
ZEST tests whether NLP systems can perform unseen tasks in a zero-shot way, given a natural language description of the task. It is an instantiation of our proposed framework "learning from task descriptions". The tasks include classification, typed entity extraction and relationship extraction, and each task is paired with 20 different annotated (input, output) examples. ZEST's structure allows us to systematically test whether models can generalize in five different ways.
MOCHA
A benchmark for training and evaluating generative reading comprehension metrics.
Posing reading comprehension as a generation problem provides a great deal of flexibility, allowing for open-ended questions with few restrictions on possible answers. However, progress is impeded by existing generation metrics, which rely on token overlap and are agnostic to the nuances of reading comprehension. To address this, we introduce a benchmark for training and evaluating generative reading comprehension metrics: MOdeling Correctness with Human Annotations. MOCHA contains 40K human judgement scores on model outputs from 6 diverse question answering datasets and an additional set of minimal pairs for evaluation. Using MOCHA, we train an evaluation metric: LERC, a Learned Evaluation metric for Reading Comprehension, to mimic human judgement scores.
Recent Press
Could AI help you to write your next paper?
October 31, 2022
How to shrink AI’s ballooning carbon footprint
July 19, 2022
These simple changes can make AI research much more energy efficient
July 6, 2022
Measuring AI’s Carbon Footprint
June 26, 2022
Why Historical Language Is a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence
November 16, 2021
The curse of neural toxicity: AI2 and UW researchers help computers watch their language
March 6, 2021
Green AI
November 18, 2020
Your favorite A.I. language tool is toxic
September 29, 2020
Podcasts
NLP Highlights
NLP Highlights is AllenNLP’s podcast for discussing recent and interesting work related to natural language processing. Hosts from the AllenNLP team at AI2 offer short discussions of papers and occasionally interview authors about their work.
You can also find NLP Highlights on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PlayerFM, or Stitcher.