The Challenges of Generalization in Large Scale Neural Sequence Models

Danqi Chen is an assistant professor at Princeton University, co-leading the Princeton NLP Group. Her research focuses on fundamental methods for learning representations of language and knowledge, and practical systems including question answering, information extraction and conversational agents. Danqi’s PhD thesis is titled "Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond", which she completed in 2018 at Stanford University. We discuss her work on parsing, reading comprehension and question answering. Throughout we discuss progress in NLP, fundamental challenges, and what the future holds. Episode notes: https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/episode27.html Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter, and find out more info about the show at https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html Support The Thesis Review at www.patreon.com/thesisreview or www.buymeacoffee.com/thesisreview