Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
SWAG: A Large-Scale Adversarial Dataset for Grounded Commonsense Inference
Given a partial description like"she opened the hood of the car,"humans can reason about the situation and anticipate what might come next ("then, she examined the engine"). In this paper, we…
Syntactic Scaffolds for Semantic Structures
We introduce the syntactic scaffold, an approach to incorporating syntactic information into semantic tasks. Syntactic scaffolds avoid expensive syntactic processing at runtime, only making use of a…
AllenNLP: A Deep Semantic Natural Language Processing Platform
This paper describes AllenNLP, a platform for research on deep learning methods in natural language understanding. AllenNLP is designed to support researchers who want to build novel language…
Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions
We investigate a new commonsense inference task: given an event described in a short free-form text (“X drinks coffee in the morning”), a system reasons about the likely intents (“X wants to stay…
Extending a Parser to Distant Domains Using a Few Dozen Partially Annotated Examples
We revisit domain adaptation for parsers in the neural era. First we show that recent advances in word representations greatly diminish the need for domain adaptation when the target domain is…
LSTMs Exploit Linguistic Attributes of Data
While recurrent neural networks have found success in a variety of natural language processing applications, they are general models of sequential data. We investigate how the properties of natural…
Simple and Effective Multi-Paragraph Reading Comprehension
We consider the problem of adapting neural paragraph-level question answering models to the case where entire documents are given as input. Our proposed solution trains models to produce well…
Ultra-Fine Entity Typing
We introduce a new entity typing task: given a sentence with an entity mention, the goal is to predict a set of free-form phrases (e.g. skyscraper, songwriter, or criminal) that describe appropriate…
A Dataset of Peer Reviews (PeerRead): Collection, Insights and NLP Applications
Peer reviewing is a central component in the scientific publishing process. We present the first public dataset of scientific peer reviews available for research pur- poses (PeerRead v1), providing…
Annotation Artifacts in Natural Language Inference Data
Large-scale datasets for natural language inference are created by presenting crowd workers with a sentence (premise), and asking them to generate three new sentences (hypotheses) that it entails,…