Suraj Nair

Surprise Languages: Rapid-Response Cross-Language IR

2019 · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh)

Sixteen years ago, the first "surprise language exercise" was conducted, in Cebuano. The evaluation goal of a surprise language exercise is to learn how well systems for a new language can be quickly built. This …

Model-Based Visual Planning with Self-Supervised Functional Distances

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

A generalist robot must be able to complete a variety of tasks in its environment. One appealing way to specify each task is in terms of a goal observation. However, learning goal-reaching policies with reinforcement …

Cross-language Sentence Selection via Data Augmentation and Rationale Training

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

This paper proposes an approach to cross-language sentence selection in a low-resource setting. It uses data augmentation and negative sampling techniques on noisy parallel sentence data to directly learn a cross-lingual embedding-based query relevance model. …