Greg DurrettAssociate Professor, UT Austin Computer Science
gdurrett@cs.utexas.edu
CV / TAUR lab / UT NLP
Greg DurrettMy students, collaborators, publications, and other information about my research group can be found on the TAUR lab website.
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My research is primarily in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning. My group focuses on improving techniques for using large language models (LLMs) to reason about knowledge in text. LLMs still fall short in challenging real-world applications such as medical information processing, scientific discovery, and legal reasoning. We develop methods for training these models to have new capabilities, augmenting them to be more reliable, and assessing their outputs to identify strengths and weaknesses of the state of the art. Some examples of recent projects include:
CS388: Natural Language Process (Online MSCS/MSDS version): video lectures, readings, and assignments for the online masters offering of these NLP courses.
NLP Module for high schools: videos and hands-on assignments introducing n-gram language models and pre-trained Transformers.
Undergraduate and graduate teaching:
Read about some of the course materials we use in our TeachingNLP workshop paper:
Contemporary NLP Modeling in Six Comprehensive Programming Assignments
Greg Durrett, Jifan Chen, Shrey Desai, Tanya Goyal, Lucas Kabela, Yasumasa Onoe, Jiacheng Xu. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP.
You can find videos of courses, talks, and more on my YouTube channel. Some of these [are] [silly] [videos].
When I'm not working, I'm often struggling with various physical pursuits (running, cycling, climbing, and hiking). My half marathon PR is 1:55:26 (set 2/19/2023).