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Vagrant Gautam

4 accepted papers

2024

From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP

EMNLP 2024main

Interpretability and analysis (IA) research is a growing subfield within NLP with the goal of developing a deeper understanding of the behavior or inner workings of NLP systems and methods. Despite growing interest in the subfield, a criticism of this work is that it lacks actionable insights and th…

2024

The Impact of Demonstrations on Multilingual In-Context Learning: A Multidimensional Analysis

ACL 2024findings

In-context learning is a popular inference strategy where large language models solve a task using only a few labeled demonstrations without needing any parameter updates. Although there have been extensive studies on English in-context learning, multilingual in-context learning remains under-explor…

2024

Understanding “Democratization” in NLP and ML Research

EMNLP 2024main

Recent improvements in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) and increased mainstream adoption have led to researchers frequently discussing the “democratization” of artificial intelligence. In this paper, we seek to clarify how democratization is understood in NLP and ML publi…

2023

A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in English

EMNLP 2023short findings

If a question cannot be answered with the available information, robust systems for question answering (QA) should know *not* to answer. One way to build QA models that do this is with additional training data comprised of unanswerable questions, created either by employing annotators or through aut…

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