Guest lecture – Vered Shwartz – Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP Models

Location:Engineering building (1103), room 329Title:Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP ModelsAbstract:Human language is often ambiguous, underspecified, and grounded in social norms. We employ commonsense knowledge and reasoning abilities to understand others. Endowing NLP models with the same abilities is imperative for reaching human-level language understanding and generation skills. In this talk, I will present several lines ... Read more

BIU learning club – Jonathan Berant – Retrieval in the age of large language models

Location:Engineering building (1103), room 329 Title:Retrieval in the age of large language modelsAbstract:Large language models have revolutionized natural language processing. However, such models have a limited receptive field and cannot be applied directly on tasks that require processing entire corpora. In this talk, I will talk about the role of information retrieval in the new landscape ... Read more