Manuel R. Ciosici

Unsupervised Abbreviation Disambiguation Contextual disambiguation using word embeddings

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Abbreviations often have several distinct meanings, often making their use in text ambiguous. Expanding them to their intended meaning in context is important for Machine Reading tasks such as document search, recommendation and question answering. …

Perhaps PTLMs Should Go to School – A Task to Assess Open Book and Closed Book QA

2021 · Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Our goal is to deliver a new task and leaderboard to stimulate research on question answering and pre-trained language models (PTLMs) to understand a significant instructional document, e.g., an introductory college textbook or a manual. …

Remember what you did so you know what to do next

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We explore using a moderately sized large language model (GPT-J 6B parameters) to create a plan for a simulated robot to achieve 30 classes of goals in ScienceWorld, a text game simulator for elementary science …