Reasoning about Ambiguous Definite Descriptions in EMNLP 2023 Findings
Abstract Natural language reasoning plays an increasingly important role in improving language models’ ability to solve complex language understanding tasks....
About me
I'm a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (CLTL), supervised by Piek Vossen, Peter Bloem, and Ilia Markov.
My main research interests involve evaluating whether models have strong capabilities like understanding, reasoning, intentionality, etc. I enjoy trying to make precise what exactly such capabilities can look like, taking into account philosophy to understand different ways these terms are used. In practice, I try to tackle these questions as problems of (mechanistic) interpretability. Currently, my focus is on understanding how LLMs represent whether to treat a sentence as true/false, and how this interacts with (in-context) information through reasoning.
Recent Posts
Cross-Domain Toxic Spans Detection @ NLDB 2023
Abstract Given the dynamic nature of toxic language use, automated methods for detecting toxic spans are likely to encounter distributional shift. To explore...
Probing the representations of named entities in Transformer-based Language Models @ BlackboxNLP 2022
On December 8th I will be presenting my poster of the following work. This work is a collaboration with my supervisors Peter Bloem and Piek Vossen.