Research interests:

• Natural language processing
• Commonsense reasoning
• Semantics and pragmatics
• Natural language understanding
• Natural language generation
• Machine learning
• Representation learning
• Neurosymbolic methods

Biography:

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.