NLP research at UBC
The Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at University of British Columbia conducts research on core NLP problems, computational linguistics, text mining, and visual text analytics. We focus on the following research areas in particular (but not limited to):
Discourse and Summarization: We are working on discourse parsing, coreference resolution, and automatic summarization, with a focus on long documents. We are also working on analyzing conversations (such as emails, meetings, blogs, and chats), through topic segmentation, sentiment analysis, controversiality prediction, and conversational structure extraction.
Pragmatics and Commonsense Reasoning: We are working on acquiring and representing commonsense knowledge, developing reasoning modules, and incorporating commonsense into NLP models.
Natural Language Understanding: We are interested in tasks such as machine reading comprehension and natural language inference, in particular those involving reading between the lines. We are also working on interpreting figurative language.
Natural Language Generation: We are working on Text Structuring in text2text, data2text and image2text tasks. We are also interested in automatic evaluation of text generation models.
Text Analytics: We are working on tightly integrating interactive visualization with text mining and summarization techniques for information exploration and scalable decision support.
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