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Interpreting User Requests in the Context of Natural Language Standing Instructions

Nikita Moghe, Patrick Xia, Jacob Andreas, Jason Eisner, Benjamin Van Durme, Harsh Jhamtani
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SCREWS: A Modular Framework for Reasoning with Revisions

Kumar Shridhar, Harsh Jhamtani, Hao Fang, Benjamin Van Durme, Jason Eisner, Patrick Xia
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Few-Shot Adaptation for Parsing Contextual Utterances with LLMs

Kevin Lin, Patrick Xia, Hao Fang
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Natural Language Decomposition and Interpretation of Complex Utterances

Harsh Jhamtani, Hao Fang, Patrick Xia, Eran Levy, Jacob Andreas, Ben Van Durme
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Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Multiparty Dialogue

Boyuan Zheng, Patrick Xia, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Benjamin Van Durme
In TACL (2023)
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Automatic Document Selection for Efficient Encoder Pretraining

Yukun Feng, Patrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme, João Sedoc
In EMNLP (2022)
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Adapting Coreference Resolution Models through Active Learning

Michelle Yuan, Patrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme, Jordan Boyd-Graber
ACL (2022)
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Pruning Pretrained Encoders with a Multitask Objective

Patrick Xia, Richard Shin
In ENLSP at NeurIPS (2021)
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On Generalization in Coreference Resolution

Shubham Toshniwal*, Patrick Xia*, Sam Wiseman, Kevin Gimpel, Karen Livescu
In CRAC (2021) [best short paper]
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Moving on from OntoNotes: Coreference Resolution Model Transfer

Patrick Xia, Benjamin Van Durme
In EMNLP (2021)
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LOME: Large Ontology Multilingual Extraction

Patrick Xia*, Guanghui Qin*, Siddharth Vashishtha, Yunmo Chen, Tongfei Chen, Chandler May, Craig Harman, Kyle Rawlins, Aaron Steven White, Benjamin Van Durme
In EACL System Demonstrations (2021)
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CopyNext: Explicit Span Copying and Alignment in Sequence to Sequence Models

Abhinav Singh, Patrick Xia, Guanghui Qin, Mahsa Yarmohammadi, Benjamin Van Durme
In SPNLP (2020) [spotlight talk]
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Which *BERT? A Survey Organizing Contextualized Encoders

Patrick Xia, Shijie Wu, Benjamin Van Durme
In EMNLP (2020)
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Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution in Constant Memory

Patrick Xia, João Sedoc, Benjamin Van Durme
In EMNLP (2020)
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Multi-Sentence Argument Linking

Seth Ebner*, Patrick Xia*, Ryan Culkin, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin Van Durme
In ACL (2020)
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Can You Tell Me How to Get Past Sesame Street? Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling

Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas McCoy, Roma Patel, Najoung Kim, Ian Tenney, Yinghui Huang, Katherin Yu, Shuning Jin, Berlin Chen, Benjamin Van Durme, Edouard Grave, Ellie Pavlick, Sam Bowman
In ACL (2019)
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Probing What Different NLP Tasks Teach Machines about Function Word Comprehension

Najoung Kim, Roma Patel, Adam Poliak, Patrick Xia, Alex Wang, Tom McCoy, Ian Tenney, Alexis Ross, Tal Linzen, Benjamin Van Durme, Sam Bowman and Ellie Pavlick
In *SEM (2019) [best paper]
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Improved Lexically Constrained Decoding for Translation and Monolingual Rewriting

J. Edward Hu, Huda Khayrallah, Ryan Culkin, Patrick Xia, Tongfei Chen, Matt Post and Benjamin Van Durme
In NAACL (2019)
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What do you learn from context? Probing for sentence structure in contextualized word representations

Ian Tenney, Patrick Xia, Berlin Chen, Alex Wang, Adam Poliak, R Thomas McCoy, Najoung Kim, Benjamin Van Durme, Sam Bowman, Dipanjan Das, Ellie Pavlick
In ICLR (2019)
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Consensus for Multi-Parallel Corpora: An English Bible Study

Patrick Xia and David Yarowsky
In IJCNLP (2017)
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CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection in 52 Languages

Ryan Cotterell, Christo Kirov, John Sylak-Glassman, Géraldine Walther, Ekaterina Vylomova, Patrick Xia, Manaal Faruqui, Sandra Kübler, David Yarowsky, Jason Eisner, and Mans Hulden
In CONLL (2017)
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Annotating Character Relationships in Literary Texts

Philip Massey, Patrick Xia, David Bamman, Noah A. Smith
arXiv (2015)
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I've been writing puzzles since ~2013, from PuzzlehuntCMU, Galactic Puzzle Hunt, Teammate Hunt, and more recently I was an editor-in-chief of the 2023 MIT Mystery Hunt. This list contains a few select puzzles along with my interpretation of their difficulty. Some puzzles are "paired," meaning they are meant to be solved simultaneously -- the pairing was not given during the event, which made these puzzles even harder.

I was also part of creating Conjuri's Quest, a puzzle roguelite that was part of the 2023 MIT Mystery Hunt event. The game contains a full round of (1-4 ★) puzzles and the game itself is a (meta)puzzle. However, it is also playable and winnable as a game. I also occasionally write puzzles that are not for a specific event, like Puzzlebox.

Puzzle	Difficulty	Puzzle Type	Solution
Beige Flags	★☆☆☆☆☆	Words	Solution
Hyperspace	★★☆☆☆☆	Words	Solution
We Made a Quiz Bowl Packet but Somewhere Things Went Horribly Wrong	★★★★★★	Research	Solution
My Fun Bow	★★★★★★	Swahili	Solution
Book Spade	★★☆☆☆☆	Words	Solution
Pin The Tail / Meta-Eval Times	★★★★★☆	Interactive game / Blackbox	Solution & Solution
DC Meet and Greet / Ring Toss	★★★★★★	Words, Reference	Solution & Solution
Solving Pumpkin Patch with NO Given Pumpkins?! (paired with Menagerial Problems)	★★★★☆☆	Logic / Math	Solution (& Solution)
Symbols	★★☆☆☆☆	Words	Solution
Thrifty/Thrifty	★★★★☆☆	Black box	Solution
Drip Quote	★★★★☆☆	Words	Solution
Connect the Dots	★★★★★★	Research	Solution
This Anagram Does Not Exist	★★★★★☆	Words	Solution
Exceptions to the Rule	★☆☆☆☆☆	Words	Solution
50/50	★★★★☆☆	Words	Solution
Now Get Ready For...	★★☆☆☆☆	Words	Solution
Fan Video	★★★☆☆☆	Reference	Solution
Chromesthesia	★★☆☆☆☆	Research	Solution