Timothy J. O'Donnell
Visiting Faculty
Human Machine Interaction Through Language
Timothy J. O’Donnell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University, a member of Mila, and a Research Scientist at ServiceNow Research. In his research, Timothy develops mathematical models of language generalization, learning, and processing. His research draws on experimental methods from psychology, formal modeling techniques from natural language processing, theoretical tools from linguistics, and problems from all three. Timothy holds a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University (2011) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in brain and cognitive sciences at the MIT.
Interests
- Neurosymbolic AI
- Compositional Generalization
Publications
Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing.
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
2022.
Systematic Generalization with Edge Transformers.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2021.
CLOSURE: Assessing Systematic Generalization of CLEVR models.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2019.