Jonathan May

Extracting Structured Scholarly Information from the Machine Translation Literature

2016

Understanding the experimental results of a scientific paper is crucial to understanding its contribution and to comparing it with related work.We introduce a structured, queryable representation for experimental results and a baseline system that automatically …

Exploring Early Prediction of Buyer-Seller Negotiation Outcomes

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Agents that negotiate with humans find broad applications in pedagogy and conversational AI. Most efforts in human-agent negotiations rely on restrictive menu-driven interfaces for communication. To advance the research in language-based negotiation systems, we explore …

Multilingual Sentence-Level Semantic Search using Meta-Distillation Learning

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Multilingual semantic search is the task of retrieving relevant contents to a query expressed in different language combinations. This requires a better semantic understanding of the user's intent and its contextual meaning. Multilingual semantic search …

LOGicalThought: Logic-Based Ontological Grounding of LLMs for High-Assurance Reasoning

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

High-assurance reasoning, particularly in critical domains such as law and medicine, requires conclusions that are accurate, verifiable, and explicitly grounded in evidence. This reasoning relies on premises codified from rules, statutes, and contracts, inherently involving …

Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

2016 · Digital Collections portal (Koç University)

The encoder-decoder framework for neural machine translation (NMT) has been shown effective in large data scenarios, but is much less effective for low-resource languages. We present a transfer learning method that significantly improves BLEU scores …

Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages

2017

The ambitious goal of this work is to develop a cross-lingual name tagging and linking framework for 282 languages that exist in Wikipedia. Given a document in any of these languages, our framework is able …

Cross-lingual Structure Transfer for Relation and Event Extraction

2019

Ananya Subburathinam, Di Lu, Heng Ji, Jonathan May, Shih-Fu Chang, Avirup Sil, Clare Voss. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language …