Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
Learning to Decompose: Hypothetical Question Decomposition Based on Comparable Texts
Explicit decomposition modeling, which involves breaking down complex tasks into more straightforward and often more interpretable sub-tasks, has long been a central theme in developing robust and…
FeedLens: Polymorphic Lenses for Personalizing Exploratory Search over Knowledge Graphs
The vast scale and open-ended nature of knowledge graphs (KGs) make exploratory search over them cognitively demanding for users. We introduce a new technique, polymorphic lenses , that improves…
Threddy: An Interactive System for Personalized Thread-based Exploration and Organization of Scientific Literature
Reviewing the literature to understand relevant threads of past work is a critical part of research and vehicle for learning. However, as the scientific literature grows the challenges for users to…
Just-DREAM-about-it: Figurative Language Understanding with DREAM-FLUTE
Figurative language (e.g., “he flew like the wind”) is challenging to understand, as it is hard to tell what implicit information is being conveyed from the surface form alone. We hypothesize that…
Referee: Reference-Free Sentence Summarization with Sharper Controllability through Symbolic Knowledge Distillation
We present Referee, a novel framework for sentence summarization that can be trained reference-free (i.e., requiring no gold summaries for supervision), while allowing direct control for compression…
SciFact-Open: Towards open-domain scientific claim verification
While research on scientific claim verification has led to the development of powerful systems that appear to approach human performance, these approaches have yet to be tested in a realistic…
Webly Supervised Concept Expansion for General Purpose Vision Models
General purpose vision (GPV) systems [25] are models that are designed to solve a wide array of visual tasks without requiring architectural changes. Today, GPVs primarily learn both skills and…
Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs
Social intelligence and Theory of Mind (T O M), i.e., the ability to reason about the different mental states, intents, and reactions of all people involved, allow humans to effectively navigate and…
A Dataset of Alt Texts from HCI Publications
Figures in scientifc publications contain important information and results, and alt text is needed for blind and low vision readers to engage with their content. We conduct a study to characterize…
The Abduction of Sherlock Holmes: A Dataset for Visual Abductive Reasoning
Humans have remarkable capacity to reason abductively and hypothesize about what lies beyond the literal content of an image. By identifying concrete visual clues scattered throughout a scene, we…