Swabha Swayamdipta

My research focuses on studying biases in datasets and models. Good biases, such as structural inductive biases help language understanding - check out my PhD thesis on these. But biases can be undesirable, e.g. spurious correlations commonly found in crowd-sourced, large-scale datasets due to annotation artifacts, or social prejudices of human annotators and task designers, which are difficult to rid!

Previously…

I obtained my PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2019, where I was advised by Noah Smith and Chris Dyer. During most of my PhD I was a visiting student at the University of Washington in Seattle. I received a Masters degree from Columbia University where I was advised by Owen Rambow, and my B.Tech in CSE from NIT Calicut.

Update I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the USC Viterbi Department of CS in Fall 2022!

news

Mar 4, 2021	Guest lecture on Transfer Learning at UW Stats: UW DATA 598 Statistical Deep Learning, taught by Zaid Harachoui.
Mar 1, 2021	Check out our new pre-print on contrastive explanations for model decisions! Work with my intern Alon Jacovi and others!
Feb 24, 2021	Talk at the NERT Seminar at Georgetown University! So honored to be an elected speaker :)
Feb 12, 2021	Invited talk at the NLP Seminar at Georgia Tech!
Feb 3, 2021	Check out our new pre-print on an evaluation metric for open-ended text generation, MAUVE !
Feb 1, 2021	New ACL submission on controlled generation, with exciting applications. Keep an eye out!
Jan 11, 2021	Paper on Challenges in Social Bias Mitigation in Hate Speech Detection to appear at EACL 2021!
Dec 3, 2020	Guest lecture in Eunsol Choi’s Topics in NLP class at UT Austin on Biases and Interpretability.
Nov 2, 2020	Was delighted to be an invited speaker for Responsible AI at the Microsoft E+D Product Leaders Conference.
Sep 15, 2020	Paper on Dataset Cartography: Mapping and Diagnosing Datasets with Training Dynamics is now accepted to the Proceedings of EMNLP, and GDaug is accepted to Findings of EMNLP.