Reut Tsarfaty

Universal Dependencies v1: A Multilingual Treebank Collection

2016

Cross-linguistically consistent annotation is necessary for sound comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning experiments.It is also useful for multilingual system development and comparative linguistic studies.Universal Dependencies is an open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank …

Dyna-bAbI: unlocking bAbI's potential with dynamic synthetic benchmarking

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

While neural language models often perform surprisingly well on natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, their strengths and limitations remain poorly understood. Controlled synthetic tasks are thus an increasingly important resource for diagnosing model behavior. In …

Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Can we teach natural language understanding models to track their beliefs through intermediate points in text? We propose a representation learning framework called breakpoint modeling that allows for learning of this type. Given any text …

Breaking the Language Barrier: Can Direct Inference Outperform Pre-Translation in Multilingual LLM Applications?

2024

Yotam Intrator, Matan Halfon, Roman Goldenberg, Reut Tsarfaty, Matan Eyal, Ehud Rivlin, Yossi Matias, Natalia Aizenberg. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies …