About Research+Code Blog Papers

Selected Publications

I will likely fail to keep this list regularly updated. Please see my Google Scholar for a more updated list.


Preprints

Mapping Language Models to Grounded Conceptual Spaces.
Roma Patel and Ellie Pavlick.
arXiv.

States as Strings as Strategies: Steering Language Models with Game-Theoretic Solvers
Ian Gemp, Yoram Bachrach, Marc Lanctot, Roma Patel, Vibhavari Dasagi, Luke Marris, Georgios Piliouras, Siqi Liu, Karl Tuyls.
arXiv.
Skill Generalization with Verbs.
Rachel Ma, Lyndon Lam, Benjamin A Spiegel, Aditya Ganeshan, Roma Patel, Ben Abbatematteo, David Paulius, Stefanie Tellex, George Konidaris.
ICRA 2023.

Pragmatics in grounded language learning: Phenomena, tasks, and modeling approaches.
Daniel Fried, Nicholas Tomlin, Jennifer Hu, Roma Patel, Aida Nematzadeh.
EMNLP Findings 2023.

Mapping Language Models to Grounded Conceptual Spaces.
Roma Patel and Ellie Pavlick.
ICLR 2022.

Generalising to New Domains by Mapping Natural Language to Lifted LTL.
Eric Hsiung, Hiloni Mehta, Junchi Chu, Xinyu Liu, Roma Patel, Stefanie Tellex, George Konidaris.
ICRA 2022.

Does linguistic bias affect generative language models?
Roma Patel and Ellie Pavlick.
EMNLP 2021.

Game-theoretic Vocabulary Selection for Text Classification Tasks
Roma Patel, Marta Garnelo, Ian Gemp, Chris Dyer and Yoram Bachrach.
NAACL 2021.

Affordance-based Robot Object Retrieval
Thao Nguyen, Nakul Gopalan, Roma Patel, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
AuRO 2021.

Room-Across-Room: Multilingual Vision-and Language Navigation with Dense Spatiotempral Grounding
Alexander Ku*, Peter Anderson*, Roma Patel, Eugene Ie, Jason Baldridge.
EMNLP 2020.

On the Relationship Between Structure in Natural Language and Models of Sequential Decision Processes
Roma Patel*, Rafael Rodriguez-Sanchez*, George Konidaris.
LAREL Workshop, ICML 2020.

Grounding Language to Non-Markovian Tasks with No Supervision of Task Specifications.
Roma Patel, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
RSS 2020.

Robot Object Retrieval with Contextual Natural Language Queries.
Thao Nguyen, Nakul Gopalan, Roma Patel, Matthew Corsaro, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
RSS 2020.

How to Get Past Sesame Street: Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling
Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas Mccoy, Roma Patel, Najoung Kim, Ian Tenney, Yinghui Huang, Katherin Yu, Shuning Jin, Berlin Chen, Benjamin Van Durme, Edouard Grave, Ellie Pavlick and Samuel R. Bowman.
ACL 2019. PDF

Planning with State Abstractions for Non-Markovian Task Specifications
Yoonseon Oh, Roma Patel, Thao Nguyen, Baichuan Huang, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
RSS 2019. PDF

Learning Visually Grounded Meaning Representations with Sketches
Roma Patel, Stephen Bach and Ellie Pavlick.
How2 Workshop, ICML 2019. PDF

Learning to Ground Language to Temporal Logical Form.
Roma Patel, Ellie Pavlick and Stefanie Tellex.
SpLU & RoboNLP Workshop, NAACL 2019. PDF

Probing What Different NLP Tasks Teach Machines about Function Word Comprehension
Najoung Kim, Roma Patel, Adam Poliak, Alex Wang, Patrick Xia, R. Thomas McCoy, Ian Tenney, Alexis Ross, Tal Linzen, Benjamin Van Durme, Samuel R. Bowman, Ellie Pavlick.
StarSEM. 2019. (Best Paper Award!) PDF

Looking for ELMo's Friends: Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling.
Samuel R. Bowman, Ellie Pavlick, Edouard Grave, Benjamin Van Durme, Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas McCoy, Roma Patel, Najoung Kim, Ian Tenney, Yinghui Huang, Katherin Yu, Shuning Jin, and Berlin Chen.
Unpublished manuscript. 2019. PDF
i

Modeling Ambiguity in Text: A Corpus of Legal Literature.
Roma Patel and Ani Nenkova.
Unpublished manuscript. 2018. PDF

A Corpus with Multi-Level Annotations of Patients, Interventions and Outcomes to Support Language Processing for Medical Literature.
Benjamin Nye, Jessy Li, Roma Patel, Yinfei Yang, Iain Marshall, Ani Nenkova and Byron Wallace.
ACL 2018. PDF

Syntactic Patterns Improve Information Extraction for Medical Literature
Roma Patel, Yinfei Yang, Iain Marshall, Ani Nenkova and Byron Wallace.
NAACL 2018. PDF


Tutorials

Recognising Multimodal Entailment.
Afsaneh Shirazi, Arjun Gopalan, Arsha Nagrani, Cesar Ilharco, Christina Liu, Gabriel Barcik, Jannis Bulian, Jared Frank, Lucas Smaira, Qin Cao, Ricardo Marino, Roma Patel.
ACL 2021.


Lectures and Invited Talks

Columbia University, Data Science Institue
Title: Learning from Patterns for Information Extraction for Medical Literature

Princeton University, PACT Summer Program
Title: Network Flows