New England NLP Meeting Series

Meeting Schedule for April 22, 2022
10-10:30 Welcome
10:30-12:10 Spotlight talks 1
10:30 Sarthak Jain Northeastern University Does BERT Pretrained on Clinical Notes Reveal Sensitive Data?
10:55 Zhichao Yang UMass Lowell / UMass Amherst Generating Accurate Electronic Health Assessment using Medical Knowledge Graph
11:20 Athul Paul Jacob MIT Modeling Strong and Human-like Gameplay with KL-Regularized Search
11:45 Pengshan Cai UMass Amherst Dialogue system reinforced for information acquisition
12:10 Vladislav Lialin UMass Lowell / UMass Amherst Life after BERT: What do Other Muppets Understand about Language?
12:10-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Poster session
2:30-4:10 Spotlight talks 2
2:30 Bhanu Rawat UMass Amherst Identifying Suicide Attempt and Ideation Events from EHRs
2:55 Albert Webson Brown University Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?
3:20 Denis McInerny That’s the Wrong Lung!
3:45 Pratyusha Sharma MIT Skill induction and planning with latent language
4:10-4:30 Concluding remarks & discussion
Poster session
Albert Webson Brown University Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?
Sunjae Kwon UMass Amherst MedJEx: a Medical Jargon Extraction Model with Wiki’s Hyperlink Span and Contextualized Masked Language Model Score
Jack Merullo Brown University Are Image-conditioned Language Model Prompts Good Image Representations?
George Zerveas Brown University Mitigating Bias in Search Results Through Contextual Document Reranking and Neutrality Regularization
Nihal V. Nayak Brown University Learning to Compose Soft Prompts for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
Roma Patel Brown University Mapping Language Models to Grounded Conceptual Spaces
Pengshan Cai UMass Amherst Learning as Conversation: Dialogue Systems Reinforced for Information Acquisition
Shannon Shen Allen Institute for AI VILA: Improving Structured Content Extraction from Scientific PDFs Using Visual Layout Groups
Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit Boston University Better Quality Estimation for Low Resource Corpus Mining
Kevin Meng MIT Locating and Editing Factual Knowledge in GPT
Vladislav Lialin UMass Lowell Life after BERT: What do Other Muppets Understand about Language?
Saurabh Kulshreshtha UMass Lowell Down and Across: Introducing Crossword-Solving as a New NLP Benchmark
Isidora Tourni Boston University Cultural and Geographical Influences on Image Translatability of Words across Languages
Sanjana Ramprasad Northeastern University Controllable Narrative Synthesis of Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Reports
Afra Feyza Akyurek Boston University On Measuring Social Biases in Prompt-Based Multi-Task Learning
Tian Yun Brown University Do Vision-Language Pretrained Models Learn Primitive Concepts?
Calvin Luo Brown University Implicit Object Representations for Complex Reasoning Tasks