Ana Brassard

she/her

Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Technical Staff I at the Riken AIP Natural Language Understanding Team

PhD student at the Tohoku Univeristy NLP Lab


Email me: brassard.ana@gmail.com

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See my code: github.com/a-brassard

I work in Natural Language Processing with a particular interest in commonsense reasoning. My PhD topic is thinking of ways to diagnose current systems' reasoning capabilities beyond what a single performance score can tell us.

I recently made a crowdsourced semi-structured explanation dataset for a commonsense reasoning benchmark which can be used to train explanation-generating models or to compare with existing knowledge bases. Available here!

I am now working on a way to automatically evaluate generated explanations in a predict-and-explain (or explain-and-predict) paradigm: a benchmark for training evaluator models to score explanations according to explanation-specific criteria.

Education

PhD (in progress)
April 2021 - *March 2024 (planned)
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
Master of Science in Computing
October 2016 - September 2018
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Bachelor of Science in Computing
October 2013 - September 2016
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb

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