Igor Labutov

Deep Questions without Deep Understanding

2015

Igor Labutov, Sumit Basu, Lucy Vanderwende. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2015.

Learning to Ask for Conversational Machine Learning

2019

Shashank Srivastava, Igor Labutov, Tom Mitchell. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). 2019.

Evaluation methods for unsupervised word embeddings

2015

We present a comprehensive study of evaluation methods for unsupervised embedding techniques that obtain meaningful representations of words from text. Different evaluations result in different orderings of embedding methods, calling into question the common assumption …

Joint Concept Learning and Semantic Parsing from Natural Language Explanations

2017

Natural language constitutes a predominant medium for much of human learning and pedagogy. We consider the problem of concept learning from natural language explanations, and a small number of labeled examples of the concept. For …