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Affiliated Lecturer
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Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics English Faculty Building University of Cambridge 9 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP United Kingdom
About:
Taher is an Assistant Professor at the Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS) and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Taher's research is primarily in Lexical Semantics with a special focus on representation learning for word senses. Taher has contributed to the field with several publications, including two best paper nominees at ACL 2013 and ACL 2017 and a synthesis book on Embeddings in NLP.
Research interests:
Natural Language Processing Lexical semantics Semantic representation Word Sense Disambiguation
Published works:
- PheneBank: a literature-based database of phenotypes. MT Pilehvar, D Smedley, A Bernard, N Collier, Bioinformatics, 2021.
- How Does Fine-tuning Affect the Geometry of Embedding Space: A Case Study on Isotropy. S Rajaee, MT Pilehvar, EMNLP 2021.
- Don't Discard All the Biased Instances: Investigating a Core Assumption in Dataset Bias Mitigation Techniques. H Amirkhani, MT Pilehvar, EMNLP 2021.
- Analysis and Evaluation of Language Models for Word Sense Disambiguation. D Loureiro, K Rezaee, MT Pilehvar, J Camacho-Collados, Computational Linguistics, 2021.
- A Cluster-based Approach for Improving Isotropy in Contextual Embedding Space. S Rajaee, MT Pilehvar, ACL 2021.
- Exploring the Role of BERT Token Representations to Explain Sentence Probing Results. H Mohebbi, A Modarressi, MT Pilehvar, EMNLP 2021.
- WiC-TSV: An Evaluation Benchmark for Target Sense Verification of Words in Context. A Breit, A Revenko, K Rezaee, MT Pilehvar, J Camacho-Collados, EACL 2021.
- WiC: the Word-in-Context Dataset for Evaluating Context-Sensitive Meaning Representations, MT Pilehvar, J Camacho-Collados, NAACL 2019.
- From Word to Sense Embeddings: A Survey on Vector Representations of Meaning, J Camacho-Collados, MT Pilehvar, JAIR, 2018.
- Align, Disambiguate and Walk: A Unified Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity, MT Pilehvar, D Jurgens, R Navigli, ACL 2013.
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