Research Areas

Natural Language Processing

Associated Publications

2024

A Chat about Boring Problems: Studying GPT-Based Text Normalization
Yang Zhang, Travis M. Bartley, Mariana Graterol-Fuenmayor, Vitaly Lavrukhin, Evelina Bakhturina, Boris Ginsburg
ICASSP

2023

NeMo Guardrails: A Toolkit for Controllable and Safe LLM Applications with Programmable Rails
Traian Rebedea, Razvan Dinu, Makesh Sreedhar, Christopher Parisien, Jonathan Cohen
SteerLM: Attribute Conditioned SFT as an (User-Steerable) Alternative to RLHF
Yi Dong, Zhilin Wang, Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, Xianchao Wu, Oleksii Kuchaiev

2022

Evaluating Parameter Efficient Learning for Generation
Peng Xu, Mostofa Patwary, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Virginia Adams, Ryan J. Prenger, Wei Ping, Nayeon Lee, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro
Thutmose Tagger: Single-pass neural model for Inverse Text Normalization
Alexandra Antonova, Evelina Bakhturina, Boris Ginsburg
Shallow Fusion of Weighted Finite-State Transducer and Language Model for Text Normalization
Evelina Bakhturina, Yang Zhang, Boris Ginsburg

2021

Text Mining Drug/Chemical-Protein Interactions using an Ensemble of BERT and T5 Based Models
Virginia Adams, Hoo-Chang Shin, Carol Anderson, Bo Liu, Anas Abidin
A Unified Transformer-based Framework for Duplex Text Normalization
Tuan Manh Lai, Yang Zhang, Evelina Bakhturina , Boris Ginsburg, Heng Ji
SGD-QA: Fast Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking for Unseen Services
Yang Zhang, Vahid Noroozi, Evelina Bakhturina, Boris Ginsburg
NeMo Inverse Text Normalization: From Development To Production
Yang Zhang, Evelina Bakhturina, Kyle Gorman, Boris Ginsburg

2020

BioMegatron: Larger Biomedical Domain Language Model
Hoo-Chang Shin, Yang Zhang, Evelina Bakhturina, Raul Puri, Mostofa Patwary, Mohammad Shoeybi, Raghav Mani
ACL Anthology
A Fast and Robust BERT-based Dialogue State Tracker for Schema-Guided Dialogue Dataset
Vahid Noroozi, Yang Zhang, Evelina Bakhturina, Tomasz Kornuta