Aida Nematzadeh

Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We propose a new dataset for evaluating question answering models with respect to their capacity to reason about beliefs. Our tasks are inspired by theory-of-mind experiments that examine whether children are able to reason about …

Pragmatics in Language Grounding: Phenomena, Tasks, and Modeling Approaches

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

People rely heavily on context to enrich meaning beyond what is literally said, enabling concise but effective communication. To interact successfully and naturally with people, user-facing artificial intelligence systems will require similar skills in pragmatics: …

Scaling Language Models: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Training Gopher

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Language modelling provides a step towards intelligent communication systems by harnessing large repositories of written human knowledge to better predict and understand the world. In this paper, we present an analysis of Transformer-based language model …