Fun ------------------------- Ikuya Yamada, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Denis Peskov. OUSIA vs. Trivia All-Stars on Adversarial Question. 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5GHwDb6Ig Jordan Boyd-Graber. Etherial vs. MAQT. 2017. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kgnEUDMeug Ikuya Yamada, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Pedro Rodriguez. OUSIA vs. Trivia All-Stars. 2017. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdfxUQNE46M Jordan Boyd-Graber, Pedro Rodriguez, Nathan Murphy, and R. Hentzel. QANTA vs. Quiz Bowl Veterans. 2017. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYFqMINXayc Ikuya Yamada, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Mohit Iyyer. OUSIA vs. California NASAT Team. 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQHo7BApgAU&index=2&list=PLegWUnz91WfscfMYZvuSWEweBbIpfFDlF Jordan Boyd-Graber, Nathan Murphy, and R. Hentzel. QANTA vs. Quiz Bowl Veterans. 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/c2kGD1EdfFw Jordan Boyd-Graber, Mohit Iyyer, and R. Hentzel. QANTA vs. Jeopardy Champions. 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsUaprYMOw Jordan Boyd-Graber, Ken Jennings, and Noah Smith. QANTA vs. Ken Jennings. 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/kTXJCEvCDYk Hanna Wallach, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and Jonathan Chang. Workshop Recap (in song). 2009. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enmzmATC1zY Jordan Boyd-Graber and Jonathan Chang. Discussion of Probabilistic Network Analysis Models. 2008. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHljwi9KthQ Media Coverage ------------------------- Matt Gardner and Waleed Ammar. A Discussion of Question Answering. AI2 NLP Highlights, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://soundcloud.com/nlp-highlights/72-the-anatomy-question-answering-task-with-jordan-boyd-graber Sydney Worth. CU Boulder team to compete at national quiz tourney for second year in a row. Daily Camera, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_31803683/cu-boulder-team-compete-at-national-quiz-tourney Yomihiro Katabuti. The Impact of Fast-Moving AI: Dominating Trivia Champs. IT Media, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1802/28/news037.html Matt Early Wright. Inside AI’s "Black Box". Maryland Today, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://today.umd.edu/articles/inside-ais-black-box-eda1240f-b360-45ac-9ee3-5d266b739f76 Sala Levin. What Is … a Research-Inspired Route to “Jeopardy!”?. Maryland Today, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://today.umd.edu/articles/what-research-inspired-route-jeopardy-b2cfa4ae-4958-4b02-a574-e4b0517a464c Esther Bond. Simultaneous Interpreters May Soon Get Real-Time Help Just When They Need It. Slator, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://slator.com/academia/simultaneous-interpreters-may-soon-get-real-time-help-just-when-they-need-it/ Samir Singh. Summary of Pathologies of Neural Models Make Interpretations Difficult. UCI NLP, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://medium.com/uci-nlp/summary-pathologies-of-neural-models-make-interpretations-difficult-emnlp-2018-62280abe9df8 Brandi Adams. Associate Professor Jordan Boyd-Graber to appear on Jeopardy on September 26th 2018. UMD Computer Science, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2018/09/associate-professor-jordan-boyd-graber-appear-jeopardy-september-26th-2018 Melissa Brachfeld. Boyd-Graber Publishes Paper in PNAS that Assesses Scholarly Influence. UMIACS, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/about-us/news/boyd-graber-publishes-paper-pnas-assesses-scholarly-influence Rob Mitchum. New model reveals forgotten influencers and 'sleeping beauties' of science. University of Chicago, 2018. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2018/03/16/new-model-reveals-forgotten-influencers-and-sleeping-beauties-science Melissa Brachfeld. UMD Computerized System Beats Human Quiz Bowl Team at Atlanta Exhibition. UMIACS, 2017. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/about-us/news/umd-computerized-system-beats-human-quiz-bowl-team-atlanta-exhibition Inderjeet Mani. When robots read books. Aeon, 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://aeon.co/essays/how-ai-is-revolutionising-the-role-of-the-literary-critic Luke Dormehl. Like parents from the 1950s, AI still can't understand comics. Here's why. Digital Trends, 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/comic-book-ai/ Katherine Gorman. Automatic Translation and t-SNE. Talking Machines, 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/episodes/automatic-translation-and-t-sne Christopher Chabris. Game On: The Psychology of Betrayal. Wall Street Journal, 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-diplomacy-leads-to-betrayal-1455897078 Melissa Dahl. Should you worry about people who are too polite?. CNN, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/31/health/beware-polite-people/ Emily Adams. Professor's Quiz Bowl Robot Goes Head-To-Head With Humans. Colorado Computer Science Newsletter, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/umd-researchers-computer-beats-jeopardy-star-ken-jennings-at-trivia/article_133f05f4-75d9-11e5-9c00-8718fca7f4ec.html Morgan Eichensehr. STUDY: Changes in language, tone could reveal impending betrayal. Diamondback, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/study-changes-in-language-tone-could-reveal-impending-betrayal/article_a4da0a7c-50f4-11e5-80d6-030e2fec745c.html Lexie Schapitl. UMD researchers' computer beats 'Jeopardy!' star Ken Jennings at trivia. Diamondback, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/umd-researchers-computer-beats-jeopardy-star-ken-jennings-at-trivia/article_133f05f4-75d9-11e5-9c00-8718fca7f4ec.html Leigh Weingus. What You Should Know About Really Polite People. Huffington Post, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/polite-people-more-likely-to-betray_55e06f5ae4b0b7a96338a186 Melissa Dahl. Here's a Good Reason to Be Wary of Overly Polite People. New York Magazine, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/08/good-reason-to-be-wary-of-overly-polite-people.html?mid=twitter_nymag Nathan Collins. Detecting a Coming Betrayal. Pacific Standard, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/diplomacy-detecting-a-coming-betrayal Bill Steele. Language analysis predicts a coming betrayal. Phys.org, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://phys.org/news/2015-08-language-analysis-betrayal.html Rachel Ehrenberg. A few key signs betray betrayal. Science News, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/culture-beaker/few-key-signs-betray-betrayal?mode=blog&context=159 Liam Farrell. Question-Answering System Built by UMD, UC Boulder Bests Ken Jennings. Terp, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://terp.umd.edu/what-is-a-jeopardy-worthy-computer#.Vh2ts7R_NBc Question: Which language scientists designed first competitive quiz bowl playing NLP system?. UMD Language Science Newsletter, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://languagescience.umd.edu/news/question-which-language-scientists-designed-first-competitive-quiz-bowl-playing-nlp-system Melissa Brachfeld. Computerized Question-Answering System Built by UMD, UC Boulder Bests "Jeopardy!" Champion. UMIACS, 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/about-us/news/computerized-question-answering-system-built-umd-uc-boulder-bests-%E2%80%9Cjeopardy%E2%80%9D-champion Marcus Smith. Prof. Ringger and Natural Language Processing. Thinking Aloud, 2014. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://cs.byu.edu/article/prof-ringger-and-natural-language-processing Opinion ------------------------- Jordan Boyd-Graber. Why are there so few conservative university professors?. Newsweek, 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.newsweek.com/quora-question-why-are-there-so-few-conservative-university-professors-460922 Jordan Boyd-Graber. Why are there so few conservative university professors?. Slate, 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2016/07/05/why_are_there_so_few_conservatives_in_academia.html Research Overview ------------------------- Jordan Boyd-Graber. Thinking on your Feet: Reinforcement Learning for Incremental Language Tasks. 2015. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YArUk9QcMe0 Research Talks ------------------------- Jordan Boyd-Graber. Playlist of Research Talks. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLegWUnz91WftcdMOJoGmIZMqDbVNBq6wg Jordan Boyd-Graber. A Trainable Spaced Repetition Model for Language Learning. 2016. http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqI2Bv2Av5s Social Media ------------------------- Jordan Boyd-Graber. @boydgraber on Twitter. Tweets by @boydgraber !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s),p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/https://twitter.com/boydgraber Jordan Boyd-Graber. 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