Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
The Risk of Racial Bias in Hate Speech Detection
We investigate how annotators’ insensitivity to differences in dialect can lead to racial bias in automatic hate speech detection models, potentially amplifying harm against minority populations. We…
Question Answering is a Format; When is it Useful?
Recent years have seen a dramatic expansion of tasks and datasets posed as question answering, from reading comprehension, semantic role labeling, and even machine translation, to image and video…
Robust Navigation with Language Pretraining and Stochastic Sampling
Core to the vision-and-language navigation (VLN) challenge is building robust instruction representations and action decoding schemes, which can generalize well to previously unseen instructions and…
Shallow Syntax in Deep Water
Shallow syntax provides an approximation of phrase-syntactic structure of sentences; it can be produced with high accuracy, and is computationally cheap to obtain. We investigate the role of shallow…
Are We Modeling the Task or the Annotator? An Investigation of Annotator Bias in Natural Language Understanding Datasets
Crowdsourcing has been the prevalent paradigm for creating natural language understanding datasets in recent years. A common crowdsourcing practice is to recruit a small number of high-quality…
Do Neural Language Representations Learn Physical Commonsense?
Humans understand language based on the rich background knowledge about how the physical world works, which in turn allows us to reason about the physical world through language. In addition to the…
To Tune or Not to Tune? Adapting Pretrained Representations to Diverse Tasks
While most previous work has focused on different pretraining objectives and architectures for transfer learning, we ask how to best adapt the pretrained model to a given target task. We focus on…
Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation
We present the first challenge set and evaluation protocol for the analysis of gender bias in machine translation (MT). Our approach uses two recent coreference resolution datasets composed of…
MultiQA: An Empirical Investigation of Generalization and Transfer in Reading Comprehension
A large number of reading comprehension (RC) datasets has been created recently, but little analysis has been done on whether they generalize to one another, and the extent to which existing…
Representing Schema Structure with Graph Neural Networks for Text-to-SQL Parsing
Research on parsing language to SQL has largely ignored the structure of the database (DB) schema, either because the DB was very simple, or because it was observed at both training and test time.…