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.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair
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
2024
Memecap: A dataset for captioning and interpreting memes
2023
What happens before and after: Multi-event commonsense in event coreference resolution
2023
Comet-m: Reasoning about multiple events in complex sentences
2023
From chocolate bunny to chocolate crocodile: Do Language Models Understand Noun Compounds?
2023
Knowledge Graph Compression Enhances Diverse Commonsense Generation
2023
CASE: Commonsense-Augmented Score with an Expanded Answer Space
2023
GD-COMET: A Geo-Diverse Commonsense Inference Model
2024
Stance Reasoner: Zero-Shot Stance Detection on Social Media with Explicit Reasoning
2023
Automatic Evaluation of Generative Models with Instruction Tuning
2023
Empowering Air Travelers: A Chatbot for Canadian Air Passenger Rights
2024
Small But Funny: A Feedback-Driven Approach to Humor Distillation
2024