publications

2021

1. ACL

   ADEPT: An Adjective-Dependent Plausibility Task

   Ali Emami, Ian Porada, Alexandra Olteanu, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler, and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

   bibtex

   @inproceedings{emami-etal-2021-adept,
     abbr = {ACL},
     title = {{ADEPT}: An Adjective-Dependent Plausibility Task},
     author = {Emami, Ali and Porada, Ian and Olteanu, Alexandra and Suleman, Kaheer and Trischler, Adam and Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
     month = aug,
     year = {2021},
     address = {Online},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.553},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.553},
     pages = {7117--7128}
   }

2. NAACL

   Modeling Event Plausibility with Consistent Conceptual Abstraction

   Ian Porada, Kaheer Suleman, Adam Trischler, and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

   bibtex arXiv slides

   @inproceedings{porada-etal-2021-modeling,
     title = {Modeling Event Plausibility with Consistent Conceptual Abstraction},
     author = {Porada, Ian and Suleman, Kaheer and Trischler, Adam and Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
     month = jun,
     year = {2021},
     address = {Online},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.138},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.138},
     pages = {1732--1743},
     arxiv = {2104.10247},
     abbr = {NAACL},
     slides = {Porada_NAACL2021.pdf}
   }

2020

1. AAMAS

   META-Learning State-Based Eligibility Traces for More Sample-Efficient Policy Evaluation

   Mingde Zhao, Sitao Luan, Ian Porada, Xiao-Wen Chang, and Doina Precup

   bibtex arXiv code

   @inproceedings{10.5555/3398761.3398950,
     author = {Zhao, Mingde and Luan, Sitao and Porada, Ian and Chang, Xiao-Wen and Precup, Doina},
     title = {META-Learning State-Based Eligibility Traces for More Sample-Efficient Policy Evaluation},
     year = {2020},
     isbn = {9781450375184},
     publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
     address = {Richland, SC},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems},
     pages = {1647–1655},
     numpages = {9},
     keywords = {reinforcement learning, temporal difference learning, auxiliary task, function approximation, hyperparameter adaptation, meta-learning},
     location = {Auckland, New Zealand},
     series = {AAMAS ’20},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/3398761.3398950},
     code = {https://github.com/PwnerHarry/META},
     arxiv = {1904.11439},
     abbr = {AAMAS}
   }

2019

1. EMNLP-COIN

   Can a Gorilla Ride a Camel? Learning Semantic Plausibility from Text

   Ian Porada, Kaheer Suleman, and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

   bibtex arXiv slides

   @inproceedings{porada-etal-2019-gorilla,
     title = {Can a Gorilla Ride a Camel? Learning Semantic Plausibility from Text},
     author = {Porada, Ian and Suleman, Kaheer and Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Inference in Natural Language Processing},
     month = nov,
     year = {2019},
     address = {Hong Kong, China},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-6015},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/D19-6015},
     pages = {123--129},
     arxiv = {1911.05689},
     abbr = {EMNLP-COIN},
     slides = {Porada_EMNLP2019.pdf}
   }