The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2022 is being hosted July 10th - 15th. We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that’s being presented, and you’ll find links to papers, videos and blogs below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work that’s happening at Stanford!

List of Talks

by the Stanford NLP group memebers

List of Accepted Papers

Causal Distillation for Language Models

Authors: Zhengxuan Wu,* Atticus Geiger,* Josh Rozner, Elisa Kreiss, Hanson Lu, Thomas Icard, Christopher Potts, and Noah D. Goodman.
Contact: cgpotts@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: causal abstraction, foundation models, model distillation


ColBERTv2: Effective and Efficient Retrieval via Lightweight Late Interaction

Authors: Keshav Santhanam*, Omar Khattab*, Jon Saad-Falcon, Christopher Potts, Matei Zaharia
Contact: okhattab@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: information retrieval, search, zero-shot ir, late interaction, colbert, efficiency


Computationally Identifying Funneling and Focusing Questions in Classroom Discourse

Authors: Sterling Alic, Dorottya Demszky, Zid Mancenido, Jing Liu, Heather Hill, Dan Jurafsky
Contact: salic@stanford.edu
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: education, funneling, focusing, computational social science,


Deconstructing NLG Evaluation: Evaluation Practices, Assumptions, and Their Implications

Authors: Kaitlyn Zhou, Su Lin Blodgett, Adam Trischler, Hal Daumé III, Kaheer Suleman, Alexandra Olteanu
Contact: katezhou@stanford.edu
Links: Paper
Keywords: nlg, nlg evaluation, fairness and inclusion, ethics


We look forward to seeing you at NAACL 2022!