Douwe Kiela
I am a research scientist at Facebook AI Research in New York.
I received my PhD (and my MPhil) from the University of Cambridge,
where I was supervised by Stephen Clark.
Before that, I did an undergraduate degree at Utrecht University with a double major in
Cognitive Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy; and then a master's degree in Logic at the
University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language & Computation.
My work focuses on machine learning and natural language processing. My research interests lie in developing better models for language understanding and grounded language learning.
How do I pronounce your name?
In Dutch, "ou" is pronounced like in loud and "we" like in were, but you can simply call me Dow if that's easier.
Publications
2018
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Talk the Walk: Navigating New York City through Grounded Dialogue
H. de Vries, K. Shuster, D. Batra, D. Parikh, J. Weston, D. Kiela
Workshop on Visual Learning and Embodied Agents in Simulation Environments at ECCV 2018
[pdf] [github] -
Jump to Better Conclusions: SCAN both Left and Right
J. Bastings, M. Baroni, J. Weston, K. Cho and D. Kiela
Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP at EMNLP 2018
[pdf] [github] -
Dynamic Meta-Embeddings for Improved Sentence Representations
D. Kiela, C. Wang, K. Cho
Proceedings of EMNLP 2018
[pdf] [github] -
Learning Continuous Hierarchies in the Lorentz Model of Hyperbolic Geometry
M. Nickel and D. Kiela
Proceedings of ICML 2018
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Code-Switched Named Entity Recognition with Embedding Attention
C. Wang, K. Cho and D. Kiela
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching at ACL 2018
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Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora
S. Roller, D. Kiela and M. Nickel
Proceedings of ACL 2018
[pdf] [github] -
Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?
S. Zhang, E. Dinan, J. Urbanek, A. Szlam, D. Kiela and J. Weston
Proceedings of ACL 2018
[pdf] [dataset via ParlAI] -
SentEval: An Evaluation Toolkit for Universal Sentence Representations
A. Conneau and D. Kiela
Proceedings of LREC 2018
[pdf] [github] -
Learning Visually Grounded Sentence Representations
D. Kiela, A. Conneau, A. Jabri and M. Nickel
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2018
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Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent
Z. Yang, S. Zhang, J. Urbanek, W. Feng, A.H. Miller, A. Szlam, D. Kiela and J. Weston
ICLR 2018, Vancouver, Canada.
[pdf] [dataset via ParlAI] -
Emergent Translation in Multi-Agent Communication
J. Lee, K. Cho, J. Weston and D. Kiela
ICLR 2018, Vancouver, Canada.
[pdf] [github] -
Emergent Language in a Multi-Modal, Multi-Step Referential Game
K. Evtimova, A. Drozdov, D. Kiela and K. Cho
ICLR 2018, Vancouver, Canada.
[pdf] [github] -
Efficient Large-Scale Multi-Modal Classification
D. Kiela, E. Grave, A. Joulin and T. Mikolov
Proceedings of AAAI 2018
[pdf]
2017
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Learning Neural Audio Embeddings for Grounding Semantics in Auditory Perception
D. Kiela and S. Clark
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
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Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations
M. Nickel and D. Kiela
NIPS 2017, Long Beach, CA.
[pdf] [github] -
Grasping the Finer Point: A Supervised Similarity Network for Metaphor Detection
M. Rei, L. Bulat, D. Kiela and E. Shutova
Proceedings of EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Supervised Learning of Universal Sentence Representations from Natural Language Inference Data
(Honorable mention)
A. Conneau, D. Kiela, H. Schwenk, L. Barrault and A. Bordes
Proceedings of EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark.
[pdf] [github] -
Automatically Generating Rhythmic Verse with Neural Networks
J. Hopkins and D. Kiela
Proceedings of ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada.
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Deep embodiment: grounding semantics in perceptual modalities
D. Kiela
PhD Thesis
[pdf] -
Learning to Negate Adjectives with Bilinear Models
L. Rimell, A. Mabona, L. Bulat and D. Kiela
Proceedings of EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain.
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Evaluation by Association: A Systematic Study of Quantitative Word Association Evaluation
I. Vulić, D. Kiela and A. Korhonen
Proceedings of EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain.
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Visually Grounded and Textual Semantic Models Differentially Decode Brain Activity Associated with Concrete and Abstract Nouns
A.J. Anderson, D. Kiela, S. Clark and M. Poesio
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
[pdf]
2016
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Virtual embodiment: A scalable long-term strategy for Artificial Intelligence research
D. Kiela, L. Bulat, A.L. Vero and S. Clark
NIPS Workshop on Machine Intelligence (MAIN) 2016
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Robust Text Classification for Sparsely Labelled Data Using Multi-level Embeddings
S. Baker, D. Kiela and A. Korhonen
Proceedings of COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan.
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HyperLex: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Graded Lexical Entailment
I. Vulić, D. Gerz, D. Kiela, F. Hill and A. Korhonen
arXiv:1608.02117 [cs.CL]
[pdf] [data] -
Comparing Data Sources and Architectures for Deep Visual Representation Learning in Semantics
D. Kiela, A.L. Verő and S. Clark
Proceedings of EMNLP 2016, Austin, TX.
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MMFEAT: A Toolkit for Extracting Multi-Modal Features
D. Kiela
Proceedings of ACL 2016: System Demonstrations, Berlin, Germany.
[pdf] [github] -
Multi-Modal Representations for Improved Bilingual Lexicon Learning
I. Vulić, D. Kiela, S. Clark and M.F. Moens
Proceedings of ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany.
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Vision and Feature Norms: Improving automatic feature norm learning through cross-modal maps
L. Bulat, D. Kiela and S. Clark
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2016, San Diego, CA.
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Black Holes and White Rabbits: Metaphor Identification with Visual Features
(Best Paper Runner up)
E. Shutova, D. Kiela and J. Maillard
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2016, San Diego, CA.
[pdf]
2015
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Multi- and Cross-Modal Semantics Beyond Vision: Grounding in Auditory Perception
D. Kiela and S. Clark
Proceedings of EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
[pdf] [amen dataset] [instruments dataset] -
Visual Bilingual Lexicon Induction with Transferred ConvNet Features
D. Kiela, I. Vulić and S. Clark
Proceedings of EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Specializing Word Embeddings for Similarity or Relatedness
D. Kiela, F. Hill and S. Clark
Proceedings of EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
[pdf] -
Grounding Semantics in Olfactory Perception
D. Kiela, L. Bulat and S. Clark
Proceedings of ACL 2015, Beijing, China.
[pdf] [omen dataset] -
Exploiting Image Generality for Lexical Entailment Detection
D. Kiela, L. Rimell, I. Vulić and S. Clark
Proceedings of ACL 2015, Beijing, China.
[pdf] [bibless dataset] -
Adaptive communication: Languages with more non-native speakers tend to have fewer word forms.
C. Bentz, A. Verkerk, D. Kiela, F. Hill and P. Buttery
PLoS One.
[pdf]
2014
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Unsupervised Discovery of Information Structure in Biomedical Documents
D. Kiela, Y. Guo, U. Stenius and A. Korhonen
Bioinformatics, Volume 31, Number 7
[pdf] [data] -
Learning Image Embeddings using Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Multi-Modal Semantics
D. Kiela and L. Bottou
Proceedings of EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar.
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Improving Multi-Modal Representations Using Image Dispersion: Why Less is Sometimes More
D. Kiela*, F. Hill*, A. Korhonen and S. Clark
Proceedings of ACL 2014, Baltimore, MA.
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A Systematic Study of Semantic Vector Space Model Parameters
D. Kiela and S. Clark
Proceedings of EACL 2014, Second Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (CVSC), Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Zipf's law across languages of the world: Towards a quantitative measure of lexical diversity
C. Bentz and D. Kiela
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang-10), Vienna, Austria.
[abstract] -
Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A quantitative study of Old and Modern English parallel texts
C. Bentz, D. Kiela, F. Hill and P. Buttery
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Volume 10, Issue 1. Berlin: de Gruyter
[pdf]
2013
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Detecting Compositionality of Multi-Word Expressions using Nearest Neighbours in Vector Space Models
D. Kiela and S. Clark
Proceedings of EMNLP 2013, Seattle, WA
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Concreteness and corpora: A theoretical and practical analysis.
F. Hill, D. Kiela and A. Korhonen
Proceedings of ACL 2013, Workshop on Cognitive Modelling and Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria (Best student paper award)
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UCAM-CORE: Incorporating structured distributional similarity into STS.
T. Polajnar, L. Rimell and D. Kiela
Proceedings of *SEM 2013 (shared task), Atlanta, Georgia.
[pdf]