2021

''I'm Not Mad'': Commonsense Implications of Negation and Contradiction

Natural language inference requires reasoning about contradictions, negations, and their commonsense implications. Given a simple premise (e.g., "I'm mad at you"), humans can reason about the varying shades of contradictory statements ranging from …

EnglishBot: A Conversational AI System for Second Language Learning

Today, many students learn to speak a foreign language by listening to and repeating pre-recorded materials. This is due to the lack of practice opportunities with human partners. Leveraging recent advancements in AI, Speech, and NLP, we developed …