Ranit Aharonov
Co-led IBM Research's Project Debater team and co-wrote its 2021 Nature paper
Ranit Aharonov is the last author of "An autonomous debating system," the 2021 Nature paper describing Project Debater, IBM Research's system for engaging in competitive debate with humans. The paper's contributions statement says Aharonov and Noam Slonim led the team, and that Aharonov helped design and build the system, design its evaluation framework, and write the paper. Aharonov is also listed with IBM Research among the authors of Label Sleuth (2022), an open-source, no-code system for labeling text and building text classifiers.123
Work
Project Debater (external site: nature.com)Published research
Last author of "An autonomous debating system" (Nature, 2021). The contributions statement says Aharonov designed and built Project Debater with the team, designed the evaluation framework, wrote the paper with Noam Slonim and Yonatan Bilu, and co-led the team with Slonim.1
Label Sleuth (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Listed among the authors of "Label Sleuth: From Unlabeled Text to a Classifier in a Few Hours" (2022), which introduces a free, open-source, no-code system for labeling text and creating classifiers; the label-sleuth repository is under the Apache-2.0 license.23
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Co-leader of the Project Debater team, listed with IBM Research AI on the 2021 Nature paper and with IBM Research on the 2022 Label Sleuth paper, IBM Research12
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