Varun Iyer
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Varun Iyer

CS PhD student at UIC

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 Linguistics2023Area 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: EMNLP2022