Nelson F. Liu

2 paper cards in the Research library · 2019–2020

Nelson F. Liu wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2019–2020; often with Matt Gardner, Noah A. Smith, Pradeep Dasigi.

OpenAlex · h-index 13 · 3238 citations · 37 works — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14

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Papers

Evaluating Models' Local Decision Boundaries via Contrast Sets (2020) measured
Standard test sets come from the same distribution as the training data, so a dataset with systematic gaps or annotation artifacts lets models score well with shallow heuristics.
Quoref: A Reading Comprehension Dataset with Questions Requiring Coreferential Reasoning (2019)
Quoref has over 24K span-answer questions on 4.7K Wikipedia paragraphs (about 40% film plot summaries, which mention many characters), written by crowd workers so that answering needs linking two mentions of one entity.

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