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Varun Iyer

CS PhD student at UIC

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I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Illinois Chicago. I am working on inference-time methods for zero-shot abstractive document summarization with Professor Cornelia Caragea. I completed my master’s at Johns Hopkins, where I was involved in NLP research with Professor Benjamin van Durme at the Center for Language and Speech Processing. I also did NLP research during my undergrad at UMass Amherst under the supervision of Professor Andrew McCallum. Additionally, I have done research internships at Amazon Alexa AI and at the University of Southern California.

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  1. ParaAMR: A Large-Scale Syntactically Diverse Paraphrase Dataset by AMR Back-Translation

    Kuan-Hao Huang, Varun Iyer, I-Hung Hsu, Anoop Kumar, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023 Area Chair Award

  2. Unsupervised Syntactically Controlled Paraphrase Generation with Abstract Meaning Representations

    Kuan-Hao Huang*, Varun Iyer*, Anoop Kumar, Sriram Venkatapathy, Kai-Wei Chang, Aram Galstyan. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022