29th April 2022 - 11am - Anna Rogers: Seminar

Title:  When does a machine "understand" what it "reads"? 

 

Abstract:

NLP leaderboards create the impression that the current systems surpass human performance on natural language understanding tasks, but this is very far from reality. In particular, the progress in question answering & reading comprehension systems far outpaces progress on benchmarks that could not be gamed by learning spurious patterns. This talk discusses what kind of process could be called "machine reading comprehension", what kinds of questions we have been asking, and the challenges in creating better data.

Bio:

Anna Rogers is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, focusing on analysis and evaluation of deep learning models for NLP, as well as their impact on society. She is also known for her work on NLP methodology, peer review, and as an organizer of the Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP.

 

 

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Apr 29 2022 -

29th April 2022 - 11am - Anna Rogers: Seminar

This event is co-organised by ILCC and by the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing, https://nlp-cdt.ac.uk

G.03, Informatics Forum