Language Models in Plain English

About the Authors

Austin Eovito is a senior data scientist on the Client Engineering Team at IBM. Austin’s current role focuses on understanding and solving complex enterprise AI problems for Segment 1 clients. His role covers areas such as natural language, computer vision, and capacity management. He received his MS in computational science from the Florida State University in 2019, and his BS in applied economics from the Florida State University in 2018. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife, two dogs, and two cats.

Marina Danilevsky is a research staff member at IBM Research. Her work centers on understanding structured and unstructured text data, with a particular focus on model explainability and human-in-the-loop techniques. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 and her BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2007. She lives in San Jose, California, with her husband and two children.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to our family, friends and colleagues for their valuable feedback while writing this report. Special thanks to Benjamin Bengfort, Tony Ojeda, Aya Soffer, Salim Roukos and the amazing team at O’Reilly, especially our editor Nicole Taché.