News

Nov. 2021: Our SummerTime repository is online and pip-installable now. Check it out!
Aug. 2021: Three papers accepted to EMNLP! Mitigating False-Negative Contexts in Multi-document Question Answering with Retrieval Marginalization, An Exploratory Study on Long Dialogue Summarization: What Works and What’s Next, and SummerTime: Text Summarization Toolkit for Non-experts!
Jun. 2021: One paper accepted to TACL! FeTaQA: Free-form Table Question Answering!
Jun. 2021: A new release of AAN, our NLP search endine, is available. More than 20,000 resources are currently indexed there. We have a blog post with more details.
Jun. 2021: A new release of LectureBank is now available.
Jun. 2021: A new release of TutorialBank is now available.
May. 2021: Three papers accepted to ACL 2021! ConvoSumm: Conversation Summarization Benchmark and Improved Abstractive Summarization with Argument Mining, Unsupervised Cross-Domain Prerequisite Chain Learning using Variational Graph Autoencoders, and BookSum: A Collection of Datasets for Long-form Narrative Summarization!
Apr. 2021: Our SummEval repository is online and pip-installable now. Check it out!
Apr. 2021: One paper published at npj digital medicine: COVID-19 information retrieval with deep-learning based semantic search, question answering, and abstractive summarization!
Apr. 2021: Our new dataset FeTaQA: Free-form Table Question Answering is released online now. Check it out!
Apr. 2021: We updated aan.how, which now has over 16k manually-curated resources on NLP and related topics!
Apr. 2021: Khera Awarded Career Development Grant from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute!
Mar. 2021: Three papers accepted to NAACL! Improving Zero and Few-Shot Abstractive Summarization with Intermediate Fine-tuning and Data Augmentation, DART: Open-Domain Structured Data Record to Text Generation, and QMSum: A New Benchmark for Query-based Multi-domain Meeting Summarization!
Mar. 2021: Two papers accepted to ICLR! GraPPa: Grammar-Augmented Pre-Training for Table Semantic Parsing and SCoRe: Pre-Training for Context Representation in Conversational Semantic Parsing!
Mar. 2021: Tao Yu has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on semantic parsing for natural language interfaces. Congratulations to Dr. Yu!
Feb. 2021: Alex Fabbri has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on natural language processing for text summarization. Congratulations to Dr. Fabbri!
Feb. 2021 Check out our Fall 2020 projects!
Jul. 2020 Check out the ESPRIT paper, accepted at ACL 2020!
Dec. 2019 Professor Dragomir Radev Elected as a Fellow of the AAAI! [link]
Dec. 2019: Professor Dragomir Radev Elected as a Fellow of the AAAI! [link]
Nov. 2019 Check out our task pages and repositories for SParC, CoSQL, EditSQL, and Multi-News!
Oct. 2019: AAN.how has been updated to include over 12,000 resoures!
Oct. 2019: A LILY paper was accepted to the NeurIPS Machine Learning for Health Workshop!
Sep. 2019 Coached by Dragomir Radev, U.S. linguistics team takes prizes at IOL! [link]
Aug. 2019: U.S. linguistics team, coached by Professor Radev, thrives at IOL. Check out the story!
Aug. 2019: Check out the CoSQL and EditSQL papers from EMNLP 2019!
Jun. 2019: Check out our ACL 2019 SParC: Yale & Salesforce Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL in Context Challenge !
May. 2019 Four LILY papers have been accepted at ACL, the top conference in Natural Language Processing!
Apr. 2019: Check out our collection of Awesome NLP pages!
Apr. 2019: We updated aan.how to include over 500 additional lecture slides from university courses!
Mar. 2019: Register for The 1st Yale Workshop on AI, Ethics, and Society!
Jan. 2019: Check out the work the LILY Lab will be presenting at AAAI, including the LectureBank and ScisummNet datasets!
Dec. 2018 Yale senior Michihiro Yasunaga is recipient of CRA 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! [link]
Dec. 2018 Professor Dragomir Radev has been selected as new ACL fellow for 2018! [link]
Nov. 2018: The LILY Lab now has a blog on Medium! Check it out here!
Nov. 2018 Professor Dragomir Radev named AAAS Fellow! [link]
Oct. 2018:Check out this blog post on replicating the OpenAI Pretrained Transformer Language Model
Oct. 2018: Check out this blog post on the Spider dataset!
Sep. 2018: Check out the dataset and leaderboard for our EMNLP 2018 paper: Spider - Yale Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Challenge!
Aug. 2018 U.S. high schoolers, coached by Prof. Dragomir Radev, win the 2018 International Linguistics Olympiad in Prague, Czech Republic! [link]
July 2018. Our paper on TutorialBank was presented at ACL. You can read about TutorialBank on this blog post.
Jun. 2018 A very successful research year for the Natural Language Processing group at Yale! [link]
May 2018. AAN (All About NLP) hosted at http://aan.how/. Our new search engine for 8000+ tutorials, presentations, libraries, NACLO problems on NLP, AI, DL.
We are co-organizing a workshop on Scientific Document Summarization at SIGIR 2018
Workshop on Computational Social Science on October 20, 2017

May 2017 Dragomir Radev is the new Giamatti Professor of Computer Science! [link]