Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
S2AND: A Benchmark and Evaluation System for Author Name Disambiguation
Author Name Disambiguation (AND) is the task of resolving which author mentions in a bibliographic database refer to the same real-world person, and is a critical ingredient of digital library…
Explaining Relationships Between Scientific Documents
We address the task of explaining relationships between two scientific documents using natural language text. This task requires modeling the complex content of long technical documents, deducing a…
PAWLS: PDF Annotation With Labels and Structure
Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular way of distributing view-only documents with a rich visual markup. This presents a challenge to NLP practitioners who wish to use the information…
MultiCite: Modeling realistic citations requires moving beyond the single-sentence single-label setting
Citation context analysis (CCA) is an important task in natural language processing that studies how and why scholars discuss each others’ work. Despite being studied for decades, traditional…
ParsiNLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian
Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like…
Overview and Insights from the SciVer Shared Task on Scientific Claim Verification
We present an overview of the SCIVER shared task, presented at the 2nd Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop at NAACL 2021. In this shared task, systems were provided a scientific claim and a…
A Dataset of Information-Seeking Questions and Answers Anchored in Research Papers
Readers of academic research papers often read with the goal of answering specific questions. Question Answering systems that can answer those questions can make consumption of the content much more…
Extracting a Knowledge Base of Mechanisms from COVID-19 Papers
The urgency of mitigating COVID-19 has spawned a large and diverse body of scientific literature that is challenging for researchers to navigate. This explosion of information has stimulated…
Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets
Managing the data for Information Retrieval (IR) experiments can be challenging. Dataset documentation is scattered across the Internet and once one obtains a copy of the data, there are numerous…
Augmenting Scientific Papers with Just-in-Time, Position-Sensitive Definitions of Terms and Symbols
Despite the central importance of research papers to scientific progress, they can be difficult to read. Comprehension is often stymied when the information needed to understand a passage resides…