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AI2 NEWSLETTER | JULY
2020
In this
edition:
Best Paper
Honourable
Mention at ACL
2020, taming the
tidal wave of
COVID-19
research with
AI-powered
tools, the
release of
AllenNLP v1.0,
and more.
Best Paper
Honourable
Mention at
ACL 2020
AI2
researchers Suchin
Gururangan, Ana
Marasović,
Swabha
Swayamdipta,
Kyle Lo, Iz
Beltagy, Doug
Downey, and Noah
A. Smith
received an
Honourable
Mention in the
Overall Best
Paper category
for their paper
Don’t Stop
Pretraining:
Adapt
Language
Models to
Domains and
Tasks
at this year's
ACL
Conference. Check out the
paper to learn
how multi-phase
adaptive
pretraining
offers large
gains in
language model
performance.
The COVID-19 pandemic is
ongoing, and the tidal wave of
related research is growing by
the day. AI2 is using our
comprehensive
CORD-19 resource to power a collection of
AI-based tools for researchers
to easily explore and mine
insights from the latest science
about the virus.
SciSight
– Visually explore
connections between
concepts in CORD-19 and
discover what groups are
working on what research
directions.
SciFact
– Find out whether
published scientific
research supports or
contradicts claims about
COVID-19.
SPIKE-CORD
– A powerful new
sentence-level,
context-aware, and
linguistically informed
extractive search system
over CORD-19.
AllenNLP is our free,
open-source natural language
processing platform that allows
researchers to easily build
state-of-the-art models by
providing abstractions and APIs
that relate to concepts familiar
to researchers, as well as a
suite of reference
implementations. AllenNLP 1.0
unveils new models, better
performance, and fresh resources
for the community. Learn
more: Announcing AllenNLP 1.0
How has the
pandemic
impacted
scientific
publishing?
Maybe not how
you'd expect –
learn more in
this
timely
analysis
by AI2's Daniel
Khashabi and
Oren Etzioni.
Why we’re
joining the
Open COVID
Pledge
Open and free
access to
patents,
emerging and
historical
scientific
research, and
other
intellectual
property is a
critical factor
in accelerating
the scientific
breakthroughs
required to
fight COVID-19 –
learn
more.
ALFRED
Challenge at
ECCV 2020
We're excited
about the
upcoming ALFRED
challenge!
ALFRED is a
natural language
benchmark for
teaching an AI
agent to perform
interactive,
visual tasks
involving
objects, tools,
and appliances.
Learn more at
the
ALFRED
Challenge
website. The deadline
for
participation is
August 5th.
2020 Allen
AI
Outstanding
Engineer
Scholarship
AI2 offers this
scholarship to
one outstanding
engineering
student each
year as part of
our ongoing
efforts to
encourage
diversity and
equity across AI
disciplines and
career levels –
learn more about
this year's
recipient
Jenny
Liang.
