Yevgeni Berzak

Yevgeni Berzak
Yevgeni
Berzak
Graduate Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Associated Research Thrust: 

Yevgeni Berzak is a graduate student at MIT and a member of CSAIL, CBMM and InfoLab.

His research field is Natural Language Processing, where he studies language learning and multilingualism from a computational perspective. Yevgeni is also interested in the intersection of language with vision and neuroscience.

Email:  berzak@mit.edu
Website: 
Advisor/s: 
Boris Katz, Shimon Ullman

Past Advisees

Nayoung Lee - EIT

Projects

Grounded language acquisition
Grounded question answering
Human language learning
Investigating neural signals underlying language processing in the human brain
Multi-sentence event recognition

CBMM Publications

A. Yaari, DeWitt, J., Hu, H., Stankovits, B., Felshin, S., Berzak, Y., Aparicio, H., Katz, B., Cases, I., and Barbu, A., “The Aligned Multimodal Movie Treebank: An audio, video, dependency-parse treebank”, in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022.
C. Ross, Berzak, Y., Katz, B., and Barbu, A., “Learning Language from Vision.”, in Workshop on Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL) at the Thirty-third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, Canada, 2019.
Y. Berzak, Katz, B., and Levy, R., “Assessing Language Proficiency from Eye Movements in Reading”, 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. New Orleans, 2018.
C. Ross, Barbu, A., Berzak, Y., Myanganbayar, B., and Katz, B., “Grounding language acquisition by training semantic parsersusing captioned videos”, in Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018), , Brussels, Belgium, 2018.
Y. Berzak, Nakamura, C., Flynn, S., and Katz, B., “Predicting Native Language from Gaze”, in Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017), 2017.
Y. Berzak, Barbu, A., Harari, D., Katz, B., and Ullman, S., “Language and Vision Ambiguities (LAVA) Corpus”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Kenney, J., Spadine, C., Wang, J. Xian, Lam, L., Mori, K. Sophie, Garza, S., and Katz, B., “Universal Dependencies for Learner English”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Reichart, R., and Katz, B., “Contrastive Analysis with Predictive Power: Typology Driven Estimation of Grammatical Error Distributions in ESL”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Kenney, J., Spadine, C., Wang, J. Xian, Lam, L., Mori, K. Sophie, Garza, S., and Katz, B., “Treebank of Learner English (TLE)”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Barbu, A., Harari, D., Katz, B., and Ullman, S., “Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Huang, Y., Barbu, A., Korhonen, A., and Katz, B., “Anchoring and Agreement in Syntactic Annotations”. 2016.
Y. Berzak, Reichart, R., and Katz, B., “Contrastive Analysis with Predictive Power: Typology Driven Estimation of Grammatical Error Distributions in ESL”, in Nineteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Beijing, China, 2015.
Y. Berzak, Barbu, A., Harari, D., Katz, B., and Ullman, S., “Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguities”, in Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Lisbon, Portugal. , 2015.
Y. Berzak, Reichart, R., and Katz, B., “Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage.”. 2014.