Vered Shwartz

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Vered Shwartz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include commonsense reasoning, computational semantics and pragmatics, and multiword expressions. Previously, Vered was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the University of Washington and received her PhD in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University.

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Commonsense Reasoning
  • Semantics & Pragmatics
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Natural Language Generation
  • Machine Learning
  • Representation Learning
  • Neurosymbolic Methods

Publications

Clever hans or neural theory of mind? stress testing social reasoning in large language models

Natalie Shapira and Mosh Levy and Seyed Hossein Alavi and Xuhui Zhou and Yejin Choi and Yoav Goldberg and Maarten Sap and Vered Shwartz

2024

Memecap: A dataset for captioning and interpreting memes

EunJeong Hwang and Vered Shwartz

2023

What happens before and after: Multi-event commonsense in event coreference resolution

Sahithya Ravi and Chris Tanner and Raymond Ng and Vered Shwartz

2023

Comet-m: Reasoning about multiple events in complex sentences

Sahithya Ravi and Raymond Ng and Vered Shwartz

2023

From chocolate bunny to chocolate crocodile: Do Language Models Understand Noun Compounds?

Jordan Coil and Vered Shwartz

2023

Knowledge Graph Compression Enhances Diverse Commonsense Generation

EunJeong Hwang and Veronika Thost and Vered Shwartz and Tengfei Ma

2023

CASE: Commonsense-Augmented Score with an Expanded Answer Space

Wenkai Chen and Sahithya Ravi and Vered Shwartz

2023

GD-COMET: A Geo-Diverse Commonsense Inference Model

Mehar Bhatia and Vered Shwartz

2024

Stance Reasoner: Zero-Shot Stance Detection on Social Media with Explicit Reasoning

Maksym Taranukhin and Vered Shwartz and Evangelos Milios

2023