| My research area is Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on grounding. In particular, my work broadly falls into: 1. Uncovering the latent structures of natural language, 2. Modeling the semantics of the physical world, and 3. Connecting language to perception and control. | |
| Fall 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor @ CMU Language Technologies & Robotics Institutes | |
| Currently | |
| Microsoft Research in Redmond | |
| Previously | |
| I received my PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Julia Hockenmaier and my BS from the University of Texas at Austin, working with Risto Miikkulainen. I also did postdocs with Daniel Marcu at ISI and Yejin Choi at UW & AI2 | |
News/Events:
Xiujun Li, Chunyuan Li, Qiaolin Xia,
@inproceedings{Li2019,
author = {Xiujun Li and Chunyuan Li and Qiaolin Xia and Yonatan Bisk and Asli Celikyilmaz and Jianfeng Gao and Noah A. Smith and Yejin Choi},
title = {Efficient Navigation with Language Pre-training and Stochastic Sampling},
booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing},
year = {2019},
}
Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman, Hannah Rashkin,
@unpublished{Zellers2019,
author = {Rowan Zellers and Ari Holtzman and Hannah Rashkin and Yonatan Bisk and Ali Farhadi and Franziska Roesner and Yejin Choi},
title = {Defending Against Neural Fake News},
booktitle = {arXiv},
year = {2019},
}
Ranjani Murali, James Hemp, Victoria Orphan,
@unpublished{Murali2019,
author = {Ranjani Murali and James Hemp and Victoria Orphan and Yonatan Bisk},
title = {FIND: Identifying Functionally and Structurally Important Features in Protein Sequences with Deep Neural Networks},
booktitle = {bioRxiv},
year = {2019},
}
Rosario Scalise, Jesse Thomason,
@inproceedings{Scalise2019,
author = {Rosario Scalise and Jesse Thomason and Yonatan Bisk and Siddhartha Srinivasa},
title = {Improving Robot Success Detection using Static Object Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2019},
}
Aaron Walsman,
@inproceedings{Walsman2019,
author = {Aaron Walsman and Yonatan Bisk and Saadia Gabriel and Dipendra Misra and Yoav Artzi and Yejin Choi and Dieter Fox },
title = {Early Fusion for Goal Directed Robotic Vision},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2019},
}
Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman,
@inproceedings{Zellers2019,
author = {Rowan Zellers and Ari Holtzman and Yonatan Bisk and Ali Farhadi and Yejin Choi},
title = {HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence? },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {2019},
}
Rowan Zellers,
@inproceedings{Zellers2019,
author = {Rowan Zellers and Yonatan Bisk and Ali Farhadi and Yejin Choi },
title = {From Recognition to Cognition: Visual Commonsense Reasoning},
booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2019},
}
Liyiming Ke, Xiujun Li,
@inproceedings{Ke2019,
author = {Liyiming Ke and Xiujun Li and Yonatan Bisk and Ari Holtzman and Zhe Gan and Jingjing Liu and Jianfeng Gao and Yejin Choi and Siddhartha Srinivasa},
title = {Tactical Rewind: Self-Correction via Backtracking in Vision-and-Language Navigation},
booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2019},
}
Chris Paxton,
@inproceedings{Paxton2019,
author = {Chris Paxton and Yonatan Bisk and Jesse Thomason and Arunkumar Byravan and Dieter Fox },
title = {Prospection: Interpretable Plans From Language By Predicting the Future},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
year = {2019},
}
Jesse Thomason, Daniel Gordon,
@inproceedings{Thomason2019,
author = {Jesse Thomason and Daniel Gordon and Yonatan Bisk },
title = {Shifting the Baseline: Single Modality Performance on Visual Navigation & QA},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {2019},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2019,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Jan Buys and Karl Pichotta and Yejin Choi },
title = {Benchmarking Hierarchical Script Knowledge},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {2019},
}
Michael Hahn, Frank Keller,
@inproceedings{Hahn2019,
author = {Michael Hahn and Frank Keller and Yonatan Bisk and Yonatan Belinkov },
title = {Character-based Surprisal as a Model of Reading Difficulty in the Presence of Errors},
booktitle = {The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society},
year = {2019},
}
Rowan Zellers,
@inproceedings{Zellers2018,
author = {Rowan Zellers and Yonatan Bisk and Roy Schwartz and Yejin Choi },
title = {SWAG: A Large-Scale Adversarial Dataset for Grounded Commonsense Inference},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
year = {2018},
}
Ke Tran,
@inproceedings{Tran2018,
author = {Ke Tran and Yonatan Bisk },
title = {Inducing Grammars with and for Neural Machine Translation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation},
year = {2018},
}
Jan Buys,
@inproceedings{Buys2018,
author = {Jan Buys and Yonatan Bisk and Yejin Choi },
title = {Bridging HMMs and RNNs through Architectural Transformations},
booktitle = {32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), IRASL workshop},
year = {2018},
}
Yonatan Belinkov,
@inproceedings{Belinkov2018,
author = {Yonatan Belinkov and Yonatan Bisk},
title = {Synthetic and Natural Noise Both Break Neural Machine Translation },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations},
year = {2018},
}
Claudia Yan, Dipendra Misra, Andrew Bennnett, Aaron Walsman,
@inproceedings{Yan2018,
author = {Claudia Yan and Dipendra Misra and Andrew Bennnett and Aaron Walsman and Yonatan Bisk and Yoav Artzi },
title = {CHALET: Cornell House Agent Learning Environment },
booktitle = {ArXiv Preprint 1801.07357},
year = {2018},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2018,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Kevin Shih and Yejin Choi and Daniel Marcu },
title = {Learning Interpretable Spatial Operations in a Rich 3D Blocks World },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18)},
year = {2018},
}
Alice Lai,
@inproceedings{Lai2017,
author = {Alice Lai and Yonatan Bisk and Julia Hockenmaier },
title = {Natural Language Inference from Multiple Premises},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing},
year = {2017},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2016,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Deniz Yuret and Daniel Marcu },
title = {Natural Language Communication with Robots },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {2016},
}
Ashish Vaswani,
@inproceedings{Vaswani2016,
author = {Ashish Vaswani and Yonatan Bisk and Kenji Sagae and Ryan Musa },
title = {Supertagging with LSTMs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Short Papers)},
year = {2016},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2016,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Daniel Marcu and William Wong },
title = {Towards a Dataset for Human Computer Communication via Grounded Language Acquisition },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI 2016 Workshop on Symbiotic Cognitive Systems},
year = {2016},
}
Ke Tran,
@inproceedings{Tran2016,
author = {Ke Tran and Yonatan Bisk and Ashish Vaswani and Daniel Marcu and Kevin Knight },
title = {Unsupervised Neural Hidden Markov Models },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP},
year = {2016},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2016,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Siva Reddy and John Blitzer and Julia Hockenmaier and Mark Steedman },
title = {Evaluating Induced CCG Parsers on Grounded Semantic Parsing },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
year = {2016},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2015,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Julia Hockenmaier },
title = {Probing the Linguistic Strengths and Limitations of Unsupervised Grammar Induction},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
year = {2015},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2015,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Christos Christodoulopoulos and Julia Hockenmaier },
title = {Labeled Grammar Induction with Minimal Supervision },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
year = {2015},
}
@article{Bisk2013,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Julia Hockenmaier },
title = {An HDP Model for Inducing Combinatory Categorial Grammars},
journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {2013},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2012,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Julia Hockenmaier },
title = {Simple Robust Grammar Induction with Combinatory Categorial Grammar },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12)},
year = {2012},
}
Tim Weninger,
@inproceedings{Weninger2012,
author = {Tim Weninger and Yonatan Bisk and Jiawei Han },
title = {Document-Topic Hierarchies from Document Graphs },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM 2012)},
year = {2012},
}
@inproceedings{Bisk2012,
author = {Yonatan Bisk and Julia Hockenmaier },
title = {Induction of Linguistic Structure with Combinatory Categorial Grammars },
booktitle = {NAACL HLT Workshop on Induction of Linguistic Structure},
year = {2012},
}
Julia Hockenmaier,
@inproceedings{Hockenmaier2010,
author = {Julia Hockenmaier and Yonatan Bisk},
title = {Normal-form parsing for CCGs with generalized composition and type-raising},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010)},
year = {2010},
}
Theses
Advised by Julia Hockenmaier
Committee: Jason Eisner, Dan Roth, Cheng Zhai
Undergraduate Thesis Advised by Risto Miikkulainen