Haoyue Shi, University of Waterloo

Research

natural language processing machine learning pragmatics language grounding reasoning language models multilingualism multi-modal nlp

Latest funding

Towards General-Purpose Machine Pragmatic Reasoning
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$12,500
Towards General-Purpose Machine Pragmatic Reasoning
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$41,000

All 2 grants and awards

Towards General-Purpose Machine Pragmatic Reasoning

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Shi, Haoyue

Keywords: natural language processing; machine learning; pragmatics; language grounding; reasoning; language models; multilingualism; multi-modal nlp

$12,500

Towards General-Purpose Machine Pragmatic Reasoning

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Shi, Haoyue

Keywords: natural language processing; machine learning; pragmatics; language grounding; reasoning; language models; multilingualism; multi-modal nlp

$41,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: natural language processing Dear Professor Shi, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on natural language processing connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Towards General-Purpose Machine Pragmatic Reasoning" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]