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Kristina Toutanova is a researcher affiliated with Google in the United States. Their primary research activity is situated within the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Molecular Biology. They have contributed to interdisciplinary areas including Information Systems and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research topics encompass a range of subjects including Natural Language Processing Techniques, Topic Modeling, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, and Speech Recognition and Synthesis.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Kristina Toutanova are:

  • EMBI, 2024, published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Sparse, Dense, and Attentional Representations for Text Retrieval, 2021, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Sparse, Dense, and Attentional Representations for Text Retrieval, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Revisiting the Primacy of English in Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Kristina Toutanova has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors in their work. These include:

  • Kenton Lee
  • Peter Shaw
  • Ming-Wei Chang
  • Panupong Pasupat
  • Jacob Eisenstein

Their publications are predominantly found in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Best Publications

  • BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

    Jacob Devlin;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina N. Toutanova

  • Feature-rich part-of-speech tagging with a cyclic dependency network

    Kristina Toutanova;Dan Klein;Christopher D. Manning;Yoram Singer

  • Natural Questions: A Benchmark for Question Answering Research

    Tom Kwiatkowski;Jennimaria Palomaki;Olivia Redfield;Michael Collins

  • Observed versus latent features for knowledge base and text inference

    Kristina Toutanova;Danqi Chen

  • Latent Retrieval for Weakly Supervised Open Domain Question Answering

    Kenton Lee;Ming-Wei Chang;Kristina N. Toutanova

  • Representing Text for Joint Embedding of Text and Knowledge Bases

    Kristina Toutanova;Danqi Chen;Patrick Pantel;Hoifung Poon

  • BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions

    Christopher Clark;Kenton Lee;Ming-Wei Chang;Tom Kwiatkowski

  • Cross-Sentence N-ary Relation Extraction with Graph LSTMs

    Nanyun Peng;Hoifung Poon;Chris Quirk;Kristina Toutanova

  • Well-Read Students Learn Better: On the Importance of Pre-training Compact Models

    Iulia Turc;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina Toutanova

  • Zero-shot Entity Linking by Reading Entity Descriptions

    Lajanugen Logeswaran;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina N. Toutanova

  • Pronunciation Modeling for Improved Spelling Correction

    Kristina Toutanova;Robert Moore

  • Learning Discriminative Projections for Text Similarity Measures

    Wen-tau Yih;Kristina Toutanova;John C. Platt;Christopher Meek

  • Sparse, Dense, and Attentional Representations for Text Retrieval

    Yi Luan;Jacob Eisenstein;Kristina Toutanova;Michael Collins

  • Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment

    Jason R. Smith;Chris Quirk;Kristina Toutanova

  • Joint Learning Improves Semantic Role Labeling

    Kristina Toutanova;Aria Haghighi;Christopher Manning

  • Semi-supervised part-of-speech tagging

    Kristina Nikolova Toutanova;Mark Edward Johnson

  • LinGO Redwoods: A Rich and Dynamic Treebank for HPSG

    Stephan Oepen;Dan Flickinger;Kristina Toutanova;Christopher D. Manning

  • A global joint model for semantic role labeling

    Kristina Toutanova;Kristina Toutanova;Kristina Toutanova;Aria Haghighi;Aria Haghighi;Aria Haghighi;Christopher D. Manning;Christopher D. Manning;Christopher D. Manning

  • Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models

    Hoifung Poon;Colin Cherry;Kristina Toutanova

  • Well-Read Students Learn Better: The Impact of Student Initialization on Knowledge Distillation

    Iulia Turc;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina Toutanova

  • Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

    Kristina Toutanova;Hua Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Manning
Christopher D. Manning Stanford University
Kenton Lee
Kenton Lee Google (United States)
Ming-Wei Chang
Ming-Wei Chang Google (United States)
Chris Quirk
Chris Quirk Microsoft (United States)
Hoifung Poon
Hoifung Poon Microsoft (United States)
Wen-tau Yih
Wen-tau Yih Facebook (United States)
Jianfeng Gao
Jianfeng Gao Microsoft (United States)
Dan Flickinger
Dan Flickinger Stanford University
Stephan Oepen
Stephan Oepen University of Oslo
Michael Collins
Michael Collins Google (United States)

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