Publications

Guiding Multi-Step Rearrangement Tasks with Natural Language Instructions

Enabling human operators to interact with robotic agents using natural language would allow non-experts to intuitively instruct these …
Elias Stengel-Eskin, Andrew Hundt, Zhuohong He, Aditya Murali, Nakul Gopalan, Matthew Gombolay, Gregory D. Hager
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Iterative Paraphrastic Augmentation with Discriminative Span Alignment

Ryan Culkin, J. Edward Hu, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Guanghui Qin, Benjamin Van Durme
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Joint Universal Syntactic and Semantic Parsing

While numerous attempts have been made to jointly parse syntax and semantics, high performance in one domain typically comes at the …
Elias Stengel-Eskin, Kenton Murray, Sheng Zhang, Aaron Steven White, Benjamin Van Durme
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Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness

While aggregate performance metrics can generate valuable insights at a large scale, their dominance means more complex and nuanced …
Elias Stengel-Eskin, Jimena Guallar-Blasco, Benjamin Van Durme
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Universal Decompositional Semantic Parsing

We introduce a transductive model for parsing into Universal Decompositional Semantics (UDS) representations, which jointly learns to …
Elias Stengel-Eskin, Aaron Steven White, Sheng Zhang, Benjamin Van Durme
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The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit

We present the Universal Decompositional Semantics (UDS) dataset (v1. 0), which is bundled with the Decomp toolkit (v0. 1). UDS1. 0 …
Aaron Steven White, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Siddharth Vashishtha, Venkata Govindarajan, Dee Ann Reisinger, Tim Vieira, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Sheng Zhang, Francis Ferraro, Rachel Rudinger, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin Van Durme
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A Discriminative Neural Model for Cross-Lingual Word Alignment

We introduce a novel discriminative word alignment model, which we integrate into a Transformer-based machine translation model. In …
Elias Stengel-Eskin, Tzu-Ray Su, Matt Post, Benjamin Van Durme
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Polyglot and Speech Corpus Tools: A System for Representing, Integrating, and Querying Speech Corpora.

Speech datasets from many languages, styles, and sources exist in the world, representing significant potential for scientific studies …
Michael McAuliffe, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Michaela Socolof, Morgan Sonderegger
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