Luke Zettlemoyer is a Professor at the University of Washington and Research Scientist at Meta. His work spans machine learning and NLP, including foundational work in large-scale self-supervised pretraining of language models. Luke's PhD thesis is titled "Learning to Map Sentences to Logical Form", which he completed in 2009 at MIT. We talk about his PhD work, the path to the foundational Elmo paper, and various topics related to large language models. - Episode notes: www.wellecks.com/thesisreview/episode45.html - Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter - Find out more info about the show at www.wellecks.com/thesisreview - Support The Thesis Review at www.patreon.com/thesisreview or www.buymeacoffee.com/thesisreview