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Overview

Slav Petrov is affiliated with Google in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work broadly covers Artificial Intelligence among other subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Safety Research, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their research focuses on several main topics including:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Slav Petrov has published extensively, with their work appearing predominantly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Computational Linguistics, and Elsevier eBooks. The distribution of their publications includes six papers in arXiv, two in Computational Linguistics, and one contribution to Elsevier eBooks.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Slav Petrov include:

  • "PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways" (2022) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (2022) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Universal Dependencies" (2025) published in Elsevier eBooks
  • "Measuring and Reducing Gendered Correlations in Pre-trained Models" (2020) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Measuring Attribution in Natural Language Generation Models" (2021) published in arXiv (Cornell University)

They have collaborated frequently with several other researchers in their field. Among the most frequent co-authors are Michael J. Collins and Dipanjan Das, each appearing in four publications alongside Petrov. Additionally, Hannah Rashkin, V. A. Nikolaev, and Matthew S. Lamm have collaborated three times each with Slav Petrov.

Best Publications

  • Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

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  • Natural Questions: A Benchmark for Question Answering Research

    Tom Kwiatkowski;Jennimaria Palomaki;Olivia Redfield;Michael Collins

  • Universal Dependencies v1: A Multilingual Treebank Collection

    Joakim Nivre;Marie-Catherine de Marneffe;Filip Ginter;Yoav Goldberg

  • A Universal Part-of-Speech Tagset

    Slav Petrov;Dipanjan Das;Ryan McDonald

  • Learning Accurate, Compact, and Interpretable Tree Annotation

    Slav Petrov;Leon Barrett;Romain Thibaux;Dan Klein

  • Grammar as a foreign language

    Oriol Vinyals;Lukasz Kaiser;Terry Koo;Slav Petrov

  • CoNLL 2018 Shared Task : Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies

    Daniel Zeman;Jan Hajič;Martin Popel;Martin Potthast

  • Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing

    Slav Petrov;Dan Klein

  • Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing

    Ryan McDonald;Joakim Nivre;Yvonne Quirmbach-Brundage;Yoav Goldberg

  • Globally Normalized Transition-Based Neural Networks

    Daniel Andor;Chris Alberti;David Weiss;Aliaksei Severyn

  • Universal Dependencies 2.2

    Joakim Nivre;Mitchell Abrams;Željko Agić;Lars Ahrenberg

  • PaLM 2 Technical Report

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  • Syntactic Annotations for the Google Books NGram Corpus

    Yuri Lin;Jean-Baptiste Michel;Erez Aiden Lieberman;Jon Orwant

  • CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies

    Daniel Zeman;Martin Popel;Milan Straka;Jan Hajic

  • Temporal Analysis of Language through Neural Language Models

    Yoon Kim;Yi-I Chiu;Kentaro Hanaki;Darshan Hegde

  • Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based Projections

    Dipanjan Das;Slav Petrov

  • Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers

    Ryan McDonald;Slav Petrov;Keith Hall

  • Structured Training for Neural Network Transition-Based Parsing

    David Weiss;Chris Alberti;Michael Collins;Slav Petrov

  • Universal Dependencies 1.0

    Joakim Nivre;Cristina Bosco;Jinho Choi;Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

  • The Infinite PCFG Using Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

    Percy Liang;Slav Petrov;Michael Jordan;Dan Klein

  • Universal Dependencies 2.1

    Joakim Nivre;Željko Agić;Lars Ahrenberg;Lene Antonsen

  • Universal Dependencies 2.7

    Daniel Zeman;Joakim Nivre;Mitchell Abrams;Elia Ackermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Joakim Nivre
Joakim Nivre Uppsala University
Filip Ginter
Filip Ginter University of Turku
Jan Hajič
Jan Hajič Charles University
Christopher D. Manning
Christopher D. Manning Stanford University
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe The Ohio State University
Sampo Pyysalo
Sampo Pyysalo University of Turku
Daniel Klein
Daniel Klein University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Plank
Barbara Plank Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Samuel R. Bowman
Samuel R. Bowman New York University

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