Aditi Chaudhary

When is Wall a Pared and when a Muro? -- Extracting Rules Governing Lexical Selection

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Learning fine-grained distinctions between vocabulary items is a key challenge in learning a new language. For example, the noun "wall" has different lexical manifestations in Spanish -- "pared" refers to an indoor wall while "muro" …

AUTOLEX: An Automatic Framework for Linguistic Exploration

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Each language has its own complex systems of word, phrase, and sentence construction, the guiding principles of which are often summarized in grammar descriptions for the consumption of linguists or language learners. However, manual creation …

Weighted Global Normalization for Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension\n over Long Documents

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Motivated by recent evidence pointing out the fragility of high-performing\nspan prediction models, we direct our attention to multiple choice reading\ncomprehension. In particular, this work introduces a novel method for improving\nanswer selection on long documents through …

Salient Span Masking for Temporal Understanding

2023

Salient Span Masking (SSM) has shown itself to be an effective strategy to improve closed-book question answering performance. SSM extends general masked language model pretraining by creating additional unsupervised training sentences that mask a single …