Kristina N Toutanova
Kristina Toutanova is a research scientist at Google AI Language in Seattle and an affiliate faculty at the University of Washington. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University with Christopher Manning, and her MSc in Computer Science from Sofia University, Bulgaria. Prior to joining Google in 2017, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Kristina focuses on modeling the structure of natural language using machine learning, most recently in the areas of representation learning, question answering, information retrieval, semantic parsing, and knowledge base completion.
Kristina is a past co-editor in chief of TACL and was a program co-chair for ACL 2014.
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Zero-shot Entity Linking by Reading Entity Descriptions
Lajanugen Logeswaran
Ming-Wei Chang
Jacob Devlin
Honglak Lee
ACL 2019
BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions
Christopher Clark
Ming-Wei Chang
NAACL 2019
Natural Questions: a Benchmark for Question Answering Research
Olivia Redfield
Danielle Epstein
Illia Polosukhin
Matthew Kelcey
Jacob Devlin
Llion Jones
Ming-Wei Chang
Jakob Uszkoreit
Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics (2019) (to appear)
