NLP lab


"EPFL's NLP lab is the best NLP lab in the world because... "

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Research Interests


Neural and symbolic representations of knowledge

Language models as knowledge bases, automatic knowledge graph construction, neural information retrieval

Neuro-symbolic reasoning methods

Knowledge graph integration in NLP systems, large-scale pretraining of language and knowledge models, graph neural networks

Commonsense knowledge representation and reasoning

Learning commonsense knowledge from language and vision, models for commonsense reasoning, applications of commonsense reasoning

Narrative understanding

Entity representations, entity and state tracking, story generation

Language generation

Models, decoding algorithms, evaluation metrics

Biomedical and social science applications of language and knowledge

Understanding clinical notes, biomedical NLP, disinformation detection

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