Patrick Huber
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I am a third year Ph.D. candidate in the NLP Lab at the University of British Columbia.
I am interested in innovative applications of machine learning methods and algorithms, focusing on designing and implementing computational models that enable automated systems to better understand natural language.
News
| Dec 1, 2021 | Our paper Predicting Above-Sentence Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from Topic Segmentation has been accepted to AAAI 2022! |
| Oct 15, 2021 | Released my latest paper CCQA: A New Web-Scale Question Answering Dataset for Model Pre-Training with my amazing collaborators at Facebook! |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Successfully passed my Thesis Proposal today - Officially a PhD candidate now 🥳 |
| Apr 1, 2021 | Our paper W-RST: Towards a Weighted RST-style Discourse Framework has been accepted to ACL 2021! |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Our paper Predicting Discourse Trees from Transformer-based Neural Summarizers has been accepted to NAACL 2021! |
| Feb 1, 2021 | I officially accepted my internship offer from Facebook for Summer 2021! Looking forward to explore how research is done in a top industry lab. |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Our paper Unsupervised Learning of Discourse Structures using a Tree Autoencoder has been accepted to AAAI 2021! |
| Sep 26, 2020 | Two extended abstracts and one long paper on Do we Really Need That Many Parameters In The Transformer For Extractive Summarization? Discourse Can Help! accepted for the first CODI workshop at EMNLP 2020! |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Our paper MEGA RST Discourse Treebanks with Structure and Nuclearity from Scalable Distant Sentiment Supervision has been accepted for the oral track at EMNLP 2020! |
| Aug 25, 2019 | Successfully passed my research Proficiency Examination (RPE) today - Ready to start with my second year as a Ph.D. student. |
| Aug 12, 2019 | Our paper Predicting Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from Sentiment has been accepted for the oral track at EMNLP 2019 in Hong Kong! |
| Sep 1, 2018 | Finally starting my Ph.D. journey at the University of British Columbia (UBC) today. Excited for what will come and ready to start a new chapter :-) |
| Mar 31, 2018 | Officially graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)! Many thanks to everyone who made this possible, my supervisors Alex Waibel and Jan Niehues, friends and family. Find my Master’s thesis here |
| Dec 13, 2017 | Our paper Automated Evaluation of Out-of-Context Errors has been accepted as a poster at LREC 2018 in Miyazaki (Japan)! |
| Jul 27, 2016 | Further postponed my graduation to spend 3 more month at SAP Vancouver, working on the customer outreach applications using SAPUI5, SAP Fiori and SAP HANA |
| May 1, 2016 | I moved to Vancouver, Canada for a 5-month internship at the SAP Labs Vancouver. Looking forward to many new things to learn :-) |