Papers by Emily M. Bender
Integrating Ethics into the NLP Curriculum (2020.acl-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | a tutorial aims to teach students how to ethically apply NLP . the tutorial will focus on examples for university classrooms, but ideas can extend to company-internal workshops or tutorials in a variety of organizations. |
| Approach: | a tutorial aims to empower NLP researchers and practitioners to teach others about ethical NLP . the tutorial will focus on examples for university classrooms, but ideas can extend to company-internal workshops . |
| Outcome: | a tutorial aims to teach students how to ethically apply NLP techniques . the tutorial will include examples for university classrooms, but ideas can extend to company-internal workshops . |
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | a priori, large neural language models are described as understanding or capturing meaning on tasks that are ostensibly meaningsensitive. |
| Approach: | They argue that a system trained only on form has no way to learn meaning . they argue that this is due to a misunderstanding of the relationship between form and meaning - which is a misconception in NLP . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can't learn meaning because it only uses form as training data, the authors argue . they argue that a clear understanding of the distinction between form and meaning will guide the field towards better science around natural language understanding. |
Neural Text Generation from Rich Semantic Representations (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | 2 is a neural model that maps a linearization of Dependency MRS to text . 1 is based on a BLEU score of 66.11 when trained on gold data . |
| Approach: | They propose to use Minimal Recursion Semantics to generate high-quality text from structured representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves a BLEU score of 77.17 on the full test set and 83.37 on the subset of test data most closely matching the silver data domain. |
100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Semantics & Pragmatics But Were Afraid to Ask (P18-5)
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| Challenge: | This tutorial aims to provide information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way that’s accessible to and useful for NLP practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior training in linguistics. |
| Approach: | This tutorial presents a selection of useful information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics. |
| Outcome: | The aim of the tutorial is to present useful information about semantics and pragmatics, as understood in linguistics, in a way that’s accessible to and useful for NLP practitioners with minimal (or even no) prior training in linguistry. |
Visualizing Inferred Morphotactic Systems (N19-4)
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| Challenge: | a web-based system facilitates the exploration of complex morphological patterns found in morphology rich languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a web-based system that facilitates the exploration of complex morphological patterns found in morphology rich languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can be used to explore morphological patterns in morphology rich languages. |