Adina Williams
New York City, United States
Adina is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research in NYC (started October 2018). Previously, she earned her PhD at New York University in the Department of Linguistics, where she investigated the brain basis of syntactic and semantic processing. Her main research goal is to strengthen the connections between linguistics and cognitive science on the one hand and natural language processing and artificial intelligence on the other. She approaches this process from both directions: she brings linguistic and cognitive scientific insights about human language to bear on training, evaluating, and debiasing NLP systems, and also applies statistical methods and corpus analytic tools from NLP to uncover new quantitative, cross-linguistic facts about particular human languages.
Research Areas
Adina's Work
Adina's Publications
July 06, 2020
NLP
RESEARCH
Information-Theoretic Probing for Linguistic Structure
Tiago Pimentel, Josef Valvoda, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Ran Zmigrod, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell
July 06, 2020
June 19, 2020
NLP
RESEARCH
Predicting Declension Class from Form and Meaning
Adina Williams, Tiago Pimentel, Arya D. McCarthy, Hagen Blix, Eleanor Chodroff, Ryan Cotterell
June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
RESEARCH
NLP
Are Natural Language Inference Models IMPPRESsive? Learning IMPlicature and PRESupposition
Paloma Jeretič, Alex Warstadt, Suvrat Bhooshan, Adina Williams
June 19, 2020
June 05, 2020
RESEARCH
NLP
Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding
Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela
June 05, 2020
July 31, 2020
NLP
On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs | Facebook AI Research
Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Damián Blasi, Hanna Wallach
July 31, 2020
June 19, 2020
NLP
ML APPLICATIONS
A Tale of a Probe and a Parser
Rowan Hall Maudsley, Joseph Valvoda, Tiago Pimentel, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell
June 19, 2020
November 04, 2019
RESEARCH
NLP
Quantifying the Semantic Core of Gender Systems
Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Damián E. Blasi, Hanna Wallach,
November 04, 2019
June 16, 2019
RESEARCH
NLP
On the Idiosyncrasies of the Mandarin Chinese Classifier System
Shijia Liu, Hongyuan Mei, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell,
June 16, 2019
October 29, 2018
RESEARCH
NLP
XNLI: Evaluating Cross-lingual Sentence Representations
Alexis Conneau, Ruty Rinott, Guillaume Lample, Adina Williams, Samuel R. Bowman, Holger Schwenk, Ves Stoyanov,
October 29, 2018
