Accepted Papers
This year, the ACL conference was super-competitive: We accepted 258 out of 1018 submitted long papers and 126 out of 526 short papers, with an overall acceptance rate of 24.9%. The details of the review process will be published soon on the homepage. Congratulations to all authors for their fine work, and thanks to all the area chairs and reviewers for their great effort to ensure the high-quality review process!
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The full proceedings are available on the ACL Anthology
Long Papers
- Knowledge Diffusion for Neural Dialogue Generation. .
- Neural Factor Graph Models for Cross-lingual Morphological Tagging. .
- Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures. .
- Gaussian Mixture Latent Vector Grammars. .
- Extending a Parser to Distant Domains Using a Few Dozen Partially Annotated Examples. .
- Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions. .
- A Helping Hand: Transfer Learning for Deep Sentiment Analysis. .
- NASH: Toward End-to-End Neural Architecture for Generative Semantic Hashing. .
- Exemplar Encoder-Decoder for Neural Conversation Generation. .
- Neural Models for Documents with Metadata. .
- Improving Entity Linking by Modeling Latent Relations between Mentions. .
- Probabilistic Embedding of Knowledge Graphs with Box Lattice Measures. .
- Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification with Target Domain Specific Information. .
- Incorporating Latent Meanings of Morphological Compositions to Enhance Word Embeddings. .
- Interactive Language Acquisition with One-shot Visual Concept Learning through a Conversational Game. .
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Testing Statistical Significance in Natural Language Processing. .
- Strong Baselines for Neural Semi-Supervised Learning under Domain Shift. .
- NeuralREG: An end-to-end approach to referring expression generation. .
- Subword-level Word Vector Representations for Korean. .
- Visual Attention Model for Name Tagging in Multimodal Social Media. .
- LSTMs Can Learn Syntax-Sensitive Dependencies Well, But Modeling Structure Makes Them Better. .
- A Graph-to-Sequence Model for AMR-to-Text Generation. .
- Identifying Transferable Information Across Domains for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification. .
- Backpropagating through Structured Argmax using a SPIGOT. .
- A Stylometric Inquiry into Hyperpartisan and Fake News. .
- Numeracy for Language Models: Evaluating and Improving their Ability to Predict Numbers. .
- What you can cram into a single \$\&!#* vector: Probing sentence embeddings for linguistic properties. .
- Language Generation via DAG Transduction. .
- Building Language Models for Text with Named Entities. .
- Reliability and Learnability of Human Bandit Feedback for Sequence-to-Sequence Reinforcement Learning. .
- To Attend or not to Attend: A Case Study on Syntactic Structures for Semantic Relatedness. .
- Straight to the Tree: Constituency Parsing with Neural Syntactic Distance. .
- Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning. .
- Rumor Detection on Twitter with Tree-structured Recursive Neural Networks. .
- Improving Event Coreference Resolution by Modeling Correlations between Event Coreference Chains and Document Topic Structures. .
- Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis with Gated Convolutional Networks. .
- Modeling Deliberative Argumentation Strategies on Wikipedia. .
- Attention Focusing for Neural Machine Translation by Bridging Source and Target Embeddings. .
- Illustrative Language Understanding: Large-Scale Visual Grounding with Image Search. .
- Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification. .
- A Structured Variational Autoencoder for Contextual Morphological Inflection. .
- Working Memory Networks: Augmenting Memory Networks with a Relational Reasoning Module. .
- Sentiment Adaptive End-to-End Dialog Systems. .
- On the Limitations of Unsupervised Bilingual Dictionary Induction. .
- A Spatial Model for Extracting and Visualizing Latent Discourse Structure in Text. .
- What Action Causes This? Towards Naive Physical Action-Effect Prediction. .
- Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?. .
- Extractive Summarization with SWAP-NET: Sentences and Words from Alternating Pointer Networks. .
- A Unified Model for Extractive and Abstractive Summarization using Inconsistency Loss. .
- Graph-to-Sequence Learning using Gated Graph Neural Networks. .
- Incorporating Glosses into Neural Word Sense Disambiguation. .
- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution. .
- Dating Documents using Graph Convolution Networks. .
- Question Condensing Networks for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering. .
- AdvEntuRe: Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples. .
- Discourse Representation Structure Parsing. .
- Retrieval of the Best Counterargument without Prior Topic Knowledge. .
- Entity-Centric Joint Modeling of Japanese Coreference Resolution and Predicate Argument Structure Analysis. .
- Sequence-to-sequence Models for Cache Transition Systems. .
- Improving Text-to-SQL Evaluation Methodology. .
- Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization. .
- Language Modeling for Code-Mixing: The Role of Linguistic Theory based Synthetic Data. .
- A Purely End-to-End System for Multi-speaker Speech Recognition. .
- Fluency Boost Learning and Inference for Neural Grammatical Error Correction. .
- Chinese NER Using Lattice LSTM. .
- Efficient Low-rank Multimodal Fusion With Modality-Specific Factors. .
- A Stochastic Decoder for Neural Machine Translation. .
- Deep-speare: A joint neural model of poetic language, meter and rhyme. .
- Sentence-State LSTM for Text Representation. .
- Multi-Turn Response Selection for Chatbots with Deep Attention Matching Network. .
- Interpretable and Compositional Relation Learning by Joint Training with an Autoencoder. .
- Constituency Parsing with a Self-Attentive Encoder. .
- Think Visually: Question Answering through Virtual Imagery. .
- Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation. .
- Distilling Knowledge for Search-based Structured Prediction. .
- Fast Abstractive Summarization with Reinforce-Selected Sentence Rewriting. .
- Accurate SHRG-Based Semantic Parsing. .
- Triangular Architecture for Rare Language Translation. .
- Word Embedding and WordNet Based Metaphor Identification and Interpretation. .
- Coherence Modeling of Asynchronous Conversations: A Neural Entity Grid Approach. .
- Stock Movement Prediction from Tweets and Historical Prices. .
- The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation. .
- Neural Document Summarization by Jointly Learning to Score and Select Sentences. .
- Probabilistic FastText for Multi-Sense Word Embeddings. .
- Ultra-Fine Entity Typing. .
- Incorporating Chinese Characters of Words for Lexical Sememe Prediction. .
- Eyes are the Windows to the Soul: Predicting the Rating of Text Quality Using Gaze Behaviour. .
- Neural Adversarial Training for Semi-supervised Japanese Predicate-argument Structure Analysis. .
- Multi-Passage Machine Reading Comprehension with Cross-Passage Answer Verification. .
- Higher-order Relation Schema Induction using Tensor Factorization with Back-off and Aggregation. .
- Supervised Treebank Conversion: Data and Approaches. .
- Context-Aware Neural Model for Temporal Information Extraction. .
- Style Transfer Through Back-Translation. .
- Prefix Lexicalization of Synchronous CFGs using Synchronous TAG. .
- Zero-shot Learning of Classifiers from Natural Language Quantification. .
- No Metrics Are Perfect: Adversarial Reward Learning for Visual Storytelling. .
- Learning How to Actively Learn: A Deep Imitation Learning Approach. .
- Multimodal Language Analysis in the Wild: CMU-MOSEI Dataset and Interpretable Dynamic Fusion Graph. .
- Discourse Coherence: Concurrent Explicit and Implicit Relations. .
- Evaluating neural network explanation methods using hybrid documents and morphosyntactic agreement. .
- Learning to Generate Move-by-Move Commentary for Chess Games from Large-Scale Social Forum Data. .
- Soft Layer-Specific Multi-Task Summarization with Entailment and Question Generation. .
- A robust self-learning method for fully unsupervised cross-lingual mappings of word embeddings. .
- A Framework for Representing Language Acquisition in a Population Setting. .
- Hierarchical Neural Story Generation. .
- Automatic Metric Validation for Grammatical Error Correction. .
- Multi-Relational Question Answering from Narratives: Machine Reading and Reasoning in Simulated Worlds. .
- LinkNBed: Multi-Graph Representation Learning with Entity Linkage. .
- Adversarial Contrastive Estimation. .
- Learning to Ask Questions in Open-domain Conversational Systems with Typed Decoders. .
- Are BLEU and Meaning Representation in Opposition?. .
- Hierarchical Losses and New Resources for Fine-grained Entity Typing and Linking. .
- Robust Distant Supervision Relation Extraction via Deep Reinforcement Learning. .
- Constraining MGbank: Agreement, L-Selection and Supertagging in Minimalist Grammars. .
- Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing. .
- Give Me More Feedback: Annotating Argument Persuasiveness and Related Attributes in Student Essays. .
- Tailored Sequence to Sequence Models to Different Conversation Scenarios. .
- Efficient and Robust Question Answering from Minimal Context over Documents. .
- Document Similarity for Texts of Varying Lengths via Hidden Topics. .
- Sequence-to-Action: End-to-End Semantic Graph Generation for Semantic Parsing. .
- Adaptive Scaling for Sparse Detection in Information Extraction. .
- A Deep Relevance Model for Zero-Shot Document Filtering. .
- Neural Sparse Topical Coding. .
- Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP) for Document Understanding. .
- Towards Understanding the Geometry of Knowledge Graph Embeddings. .
- Semi-supervised User Geolocation via Graph Convolutional Networks. .
- hyperdoc2vec: Distributed Representations of Hypertext Documents. .
- Coarse-to-Fine Decoding for Neural Semantic Parsing. .
- Efficient Online Scalar Annotation with Bounded Support. .
- Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure. .
- Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation with Weight Sharing. .
- Modeling and Prediction of Online Product Review Helpfulness: A Survey. .
- Pre- and In-Parsing Models for Neural Empty Category Detection. .
- Unpaired Sentiment-to-Sentiment Translation: A Cycled Reinforcement Learning Approach. .
- Syntax for Semantic Role Labeling, To Be, Or Not To Be. .
- Stack-Pointer Networks for Dependency Parsing. .
- Simple and Effective Multi-Paragraph Reading Comprehension. .
- Mining Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Social Media. .
- From Credit Assignment to Entropy Regularization: Two New Algorithms for Neural Sequence Prediction. .
- Temporal Event Knowledge Acquisition via Identifying Narratives. .
- Simple and Effective Text Simplification Using Semantic and Neural Methods. .
- ParaNMT-50M: Pushing the Limits of Paraphrastic Sentence Embeddings with Millions of Machine Translations. .
- Neural Argument Generation Augmented with Externally Retrieved Evidence. .
- Target-Sensitive Memory Networks for Aspect Sentiment Classification. .
- Discovering Implicit Knowledge with Unary Relations. .
- Baseline Needs More Love: On Simple Word-Embedding-Based Models and Associated Pooling Mechanisms. .
- Token-level and sequence-level loss smoothing for RNN language models. .
- Joint Training of Candidate Extraction and Answer Selection for Reading Comprehension. .
- Generating Fine-Grained Open Vocabulary Entity Type Descriptions. .
- Semantically Equivalent Adversarial Rules for Debugging NLP models. .
- Joint Reasoning for Temporal and Causal Relations. .
- Denoising Distantly Supervised Open-Domain Question Answering. .
- Composing Finite State Transducers on GPUs. .
- Subword Regularization: Improving Neural Network Translation Models with Multiple Subword Candidates. .
- A Neural Approach to Pun Generation. .
- Unsupervised Abstractive Meeting Summarization with Multi-Sentence Compression and Budgeted Submodular Maximization. .
- Textual Deconvolution Saliency (TDS) : a deep tool box for linguistic analysis. .
- Searching for the X-Factor: Exploring Corpus Subjectivity for Word Embeddings. .
- Attacking Visual Language Grounding with Adversarial Examples: A Case Study on Neural Image Captioning. .
- Which Melbourne? Augmenting Geocoding with Maps. .
- Transformation Networks for Target-Oriented Sentiment Classification. .
- Knowledgeable Reader: Enhancing Cloze-Style Reading Comprehension with External Commonsense Knowledge. .
- Learning to Control the Specificity in Neural Response Generation. .
- A Multi-lingual Multi-task Architecture for Low-resource Sequence Labeling. .
- AMR dependency parsing with a typed semantic algebra. .
- Bilingual Sentiment Embeddings: Joint Projection of Sentiment Across Languages. .
- Learning to Write with Cooperative Discriminators. .
- Guess Me if You Can: Acronym Disambiguation for Enterprises. .
- A Neural Architecture for Automated ICD Coding. .
- Cold-Start Aware User and Product Attention for Sentiment Classification. .
- Extracting Relational Facts by an End-to-End Neural Model with Copy Mechanism. .
- Unsupervised Learning of Distributional Relation Vectors. .
- MojiTalk: Generating Emotional Responses at Scale. .
- Two Methods for Domain Adaptation of Bilingual Tasks: Delightfully Simple and Broadly Applicable. .
- A Multi-Axis Annotation Scheme for Event Temporal Relations. .
- Nugget Proposal Networks for Chinese Event Detection. .
- End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Taxonomy Induction. .
- Unsupervised Discrete Sentence Representation Learning for Interpretable Neural Dialog Generation. .
- Twitter Universal Dependency Parsing for African-American and Mainstream American English. .
- Not that much power: Linguistic alignment is influenced more by low-level linguistic features rather than social power. .
- Weakly Supervised Semantic Parsing with Abstract Examples. .
- Multi-Granularity Hierarchical Attention Fusion Networks for Reading Comprehension and Question Answering. .
- Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Learns Anaphora Resolution. .
- Multi-Input Attention for Unsupervised OCR Correction. .
- Forest-Based Neural Machine Translation. .
- Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training and Graph Embeddings. .
- SemAxis: A Lightweight Framework to Characterize Domain-Specific Word Semantics Beyond Sentiment. .
- Generating Informative Responses with Controlled Sentence Function. .
- Training Classifiers with Natural Language Explanations. .
- Did the Model Understand the Question?. .
- StructVAE: Tree-structured Latent Variable Models for Semi-supervised Semantic Parsing. .
- On the Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Reports. .
- Character-Level Models versus Morphology in Semantic Role Labeling. .
- Embedding Learning Through Multilingual Concept Induction. .
- TDNN: A Two-stage Deep Neural Network for Prompt-independent Automated Essay Scoring. .
- AMR Parsing as Graph Prediction with Latent Alignment. .
- Mem2Seq: Effectively Incorporating Knowledge Bases into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems. .
- Neural Natural Language Inference Models Enhanced with External Knowledge. .
- Document Context Neural Machine Translation with Memory Networks. .
- Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information. .
- DialSQL: Dialogue Based Structured Query Generation. .
- Discourse Marker Augmented Network with Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Inference. .
- Global-Locally Self-Attentive Encoder for Dialogue State Tracking. .
- Disconnected Recurrent Neural Networks for Text Categorization. .
- How Much Attention Do You Need? A Granular Analysis of Neural Machine Translation Architectures. .
- Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories. .
- Zero-Shot Transfer Learning for Event Extraction. .
- Semantic Parsing with Syntax- and Table-Aware SQL Generation. .
- Situated Mapping of Sequential Instructions to Actions with Single-step Reward Observation. .
- Joint Embedding of Words and Labels for Text Classification. .
- DuoRC: Towards Complex Language Understanding with Paraphrased Reading Comprehension. .
- Self-regulation: Employing a Generative Adversarial Network to Improve Event Detection. .
- Paraphrase to Explicate: Revealing Implicit Noun-Compound Relations. .
- Batch IS NOT Heavy: Learning Word Representations From All Samples. .
- Bridging CNNs, RNNs, and Weighted Finite-State Machines. .
- Large-Scale QA-SRL Parsing. .
- Accelerating Neural Transformer via an Average Attention Network. .
- Marrying Up Regular Expressions with Neural Networks: A Case Study for Spoken Language Understanding. .
- Stochastic Answer Networks for Machine Reading Comprehension. .
- Recursive Neural Structural Correspondence Network for Cross-domain Aspect and Opinion Co-Extraction. .
- Obtaining Reliable Human Ratings of Valence, Arousal, and Dominance for 20,000 English Words. .
- Using Intermediate Representations to Solve Math Word Problems. .
- A Distributional and Orthographic Aggregation Model for English Derivational Morphology. .
- Explicit Retrofitting of Distributional Word Vectors. .
- Multimodal Affective Analysis Using Hierarchical Attention Strategy with Word-Level Alignment. .
- A La Carte Embedding: Cheap but Effective Induction of Semantic Feature Vectors. .
- Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive Token Encodings. .
- Sharp Nearby, Fuzzy Far Away: How Neural Language Models Use Context. .
- Global Transition-based Non-projective Dependency Parsing. .
- Harvesting Paragraph-level Question-Answer Pairs from Wikipedia. .
- Entity-Duet Neural Ranking: Understanding the Role of Knowledge Graph Semantics in Neural Information Retrieval. .
- Learning Prototypical Goal Activities for Locations. .
- Let's do it ``again'': A First Computational Approach to Detecting Adverbial Presupposition Triggers. .
- The price of debiasing automatic metrics in natural language evalaution. .
- Inherent Biases in Reference-based Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction. .
- Learning Domain-Sensitive and Sentiment-Aware Word Embeddings. .
- Document Modeling with External Attention for Sentence Extraction. .
- Efficient Large-Scale Neural Domain Classification with Personalized Attention. .
- TutorialBank: A Manually-Collected Corpus for Prerequisite Chains, Survey Extraction and Resource Recommendation. .
- Improving Knowledge Graph Embedding Using Simple Constraints. .
- An End-to-end Approach for Handling Unknown Slot Values in Dialogue State Tracking. .
- Finding syntax in human encephalography with beam search. .
- GTR-LSTM: A Triple Encoder for Sentence Generation from RDF Data. .
- Bridging Languages through Images with Deep Partial Canonical Correlation Analysis. .
- Learning Translations via Images with a Massively Multilingual Image Dataset. .
- A Corpus with Multi-Level Annotations of Patients, Interventions and Outcomes to Support Language Processing for Medical Literature. .
- Improving a Neural Semantic Parser by Counterfactual Learning from Human Bandit Feedback. .
- Multimodal Named Entity Disambiguation for Noisy Social Media Posts. .
- Multitask Parsing Across Semantic Representations. .
- DSGAN: Generative Adversarial Training for Distant Supervision Relation Extraction. .
- Reasoning with Sarcasm by Reading In-Between. .
- Classification of Moral Foundations in Microblog Political Discourse. .
- Taylor's law for Human Linguistic Sequences. .
- Comprehensive Supersense Disambiguation of English Prepositions and Possessives. .
- Isomorphic Transfer of Syntactic Structures in Cross-Lingual NLP. .
- Conceptual Captions: A Cleaned, Hypernymed, Image Alt-text Dataset For Automatic Image Captioning. .
Short Papers
- Neural Coreference Resolution with Deep Biaffine Attention by Joint Mention Detection and Mention Clustering. .
- Automatic Estimation of Simultaneous Interpreter Performance. .
- Analogical Reasoning on Chinese Morphological and Semantic Relations. .
- Sense-Aware Neural Models for Pun Location in Texts. .
- Automatic Article Commenting: the Task and Dataset. .
- Modeling Sentiment Association in Discourse for Humor Recognition. .
- Scoring Lexical Entailment with a Supervised Directional Similarity Network. .
- Split and Rephrase: Better Evaluation and Stronger Baselines. .
- Towards Robust and Privacy-preserving Text Representations. .
- A Co-Matching Model for Multi-choice Reading Comprehension. .
- Fighting Offensive Language on Social Media with Unsupervised Text Style Transfer. .
- Bleaching Text: Abstract Features for Cross-lingual Gender Prediction. .
- Linear-time Constituency Parsing with RNNs and Dynamic Programming. .
- Improving Beam Search by Removing Monotonic Constraint for Neural Machine Translation. .
- Using pseudo-senses for improving the extraction of synonyms from word embeddings. .
- A Language Model based Evaluator for Sentence Compression. .
- Learning Thematic Similarity Metric from Article Sections Using Triplet Networks. .
- A Rank-Based Similarity Metric for Word Embeddings. .
- Modeling discourse cohesion for discourse parsing via memory network. .
- Type-Sensitive Knowledge Base Inference Without Explicit Type Supervision. .
- Do Neural Network Cross-Modal Mappings Really Bridge Modalities?. .
- Large-Scale Multi-Domain Belief Tracking with Knowledge Sharing. .
- Disambiguating False-Alarm Hashtag Usages in Tweets for Irony Detection. .
- Simplified Abugidas. .
- Investigating Audio, Video, and Text Fusion Methods for End-to-End Automatic Personality Prediction. .
- Transfer Learning for Context-Aware Question Matching in Information-seeking Conversations in E-commerce. .
- Polyglot Semantic Role Labeling. .
- Obligation and Prohibition Extraction Using Hierarchical RNNs. .
- Automatic Extraction of Commonsense LocatedNear Knowledge. .
- Some of Them Can be Guessed! Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Context in Predicting Quantifiers. .
- Policy Gradient as a Proxy for Dynamic Oracles in Constituency Parsing. .
- Characterizing Departures from Linearity in Word Translation. .
- Simpler but More Accurate Semantic Dependency Parsing. .
- Unsupervised Semantic Frame Induction using Triclustering. .
- A Named Entity Recognition Shootout for German. .
- Learning Simplifications for Specific Target Audiences. .
- Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism. .
- A dataset for identifying actionable feedback in collaborative software development. .
- Double Embeddings and CNN-based Sequence Labeling for Aspect Extraction. .
- Task-oriented Dialogue System for Automatic Diagnosis. .
- Dynamic and Static Topic Model for Analyzing Time-Series Document Collections. .
- Conditional Generators of Words Definitions. .
- Diachronic degradation of language models: Insights from social media. .
- Active learning for deep semantic parsing. .
- Ranking-Based Automatic Seed Selection and Noise Reduction for Weakly Supervised Relation Extraction. .
- Generalized chart constraints for efficient PCFG and TAG parsing. .
- Document Embedding Enhanced Event Detection with Hierarchical and Supervised Attention. .
- Global Encoding for Abstractive Summarization. .
- Hybrid semi-Markov CRF for Neural Sequence Labeling. .
- Improved Evaluation Framework for Complex Plagiarism Detection. .
- Sparse and Constrained Attention for Neural Machine Translation. .
- Domain Adapted Word Embeddings for Improved Sentiment Classification. .
- SciDTB: Discourse Dependency TreeBank for Scientific Abstracts. .
- The Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability Judgements. .
- PhraseCTM: Correlated Topic Modeling on Phrases within Markov Random Fields. .
- Neural Open Information Extraction. .
- Neural Cross-Lingual Coreference Resolution And Its Application To Entity Linking. .
- CNN for Text-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering. .
- Exploring Semantic Properties of Sentence Embeddings. .
- A Multi-task Approach to Learning Multilingual Representations. .
- Narrative Modeling with Memory Chains and Semantic Supervision. .
- Fully Statistical Neural Belief Tracking. .
- GNEG: Graph-Based Negative Sampling for word2vec. .
- SNAG: Spoken Narratives and Gaze Dataset. .
- End-Task Oriented Textual Entailment via Deep Explorations of Inter-Sentence Interactions. .
- Jointly Predicting Predicates and Arguments in Neural Semantic Role Labeling. .
- An Empirical Study of Building a Strong Baseline for Constituency Parsing. .
- Learning Cross-lingual Distributed Logical Representations for Semantic Parsing. .
- Parser Training with Heterogeneous Treebanks. .
- Exploiting Document Knowledge for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification. .
- Predicting accuracy on large datasets from smaller pilot data. .
- On the Practical Computational Power of Finite Precision RNNs for Language Recognition. .
- Learning from Chunk-based Feedback in Neural Machine Translation. .
- Enhancing Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction from Texts by Molecular Structure Information. .
- Personalized Review Generation By Expanding Phrases and Attending on Aspect-Aware Representations. .
- Addressing Noise in Multidialectal Word Embeddings. .
- Word Error Rate Estimation for Speech Recognition: e-WER. .
- Construction of a Chinese Corpus for the Analysis of the Emotionality of Metaphorical Expressions. .
- Unsupervised Learning of Style-sensitive Word Vectors. .
- Neural Hidden Markov Model for Machine Translation. .
- Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots. .
- Orthographic Features for Bilingual Lexicon Induction. .
- Content-based Popularity Prediction of Online Petitions Using a Deep Regression Model. .
- Judicious Selection of Training Data in Assisting Language for Multilingual Neural NER. .
- Injecting Relational Structural Representation in Neural Networks for Question Similarity. .
- Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora. .
- A Study of the Importance of External Knowledge in the Named Entity Recognition Task. .
- Multi-representation ensembles and delayed SGD updates improve syntax-based NMT. .
- Cross-Target Stance Classification with Self-Attention Networks. .
- 'Lighter' Can Still Be Dark: Modeling Comparative Color Descriptions. .
- A Multi-sentiment-resource Enhanced Attention Network for Sentiment Classification. .
- Adaptive Knowledge Sharing in Multi-Task Learning: Improving Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation. .
- Leveraging distributed representations and lexico-syntactic fixedness for token-level prediction of the idiomaticity of English verb-noun combinations. .
- Dynamic Sentence Sampling for Efficient Training of Neural Machine Translation. .
- Filtering and Mining Parallel Data in a Joint Multilingual Space. .
- Long Short-Term Memory as a Dynamically Computed Element-wise Weighted Sum. .
- Improving Topic Quality by Promoting Named Entities in Topic Modeling. .
- Will it Blend? Blending Weak and Strong Labeled Data in a Neural Network for Argumentation Mining. .
- Party Matters: Enhancing Legislative Embeddings with Author Attributes for Vote Prediction. .
- Breaking NLI Systems with Sentences that Require Simple Lexical Inferences. .
- Automatic Academic Paper Rating Based on Modularized Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Network. .
- A Document Descriptor using Covariance of Word Vectors. .
- Examining Temporality in Document Classification. .
- HotFlip: White-Box Adversarial Examples for Text Classification. .
- diaNED: Time-Aware Named Entity Disambiguation for Diachronic Corpora. .
- A Walk-based Model on Entity Graphs for Relation Extraction. .
- Learning with Structured Representations for Negation Scope Extraction. .
- Named Entity Recognition With Parallel Recurrent Neural Networks. .
- A Simple and Effective Approach to Coverage-Aware Neural Machine Translation. .
- Deep RNNs Encode Soft Hierarchical Syntax. .
- Identification of Alias Links among Participants in Narratives. .
- Know What You Don’t Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD. .
- Bag-of-Words as Target for Neural Machine Translation. .
- Pretraining Sentiment Classifiers with Unlabeled Dialog Data. .
- Extreme Adaptation for Personalized Neural Machine Translation. .
- Continuous Learning in a Hierarchical Multiscale Neural Network. .
- Automated essay scoring with string kernels and word embeddings. .
- Improving Slot Filling in Spoken Language Understanding with Joint Pointer and Attention. .
- Restricted Recurrent Neural Tensor Networks: Exploiting Word Frequency and Compositionality. .
- Personalized Language Model for Query Auto-Completion. .
- Autoencoder as Assistant Supervisor: Improving Text Representation for Chinese Social Media Text Summarization. .
- Tackling the Story Ending Biases in The Story Cloze Test. .
- Extracting Commonsense Properties from Embeddings with Limited Human Guidance. .
- Identifying and Understanding User Reactions to Deceptive and Trusted Social News Sources. .
- Compositional Representation of Morphologically-Rich Input for Neural Machine Translation. .
System Demonstration Papers
- NovelPerspective: Identifying Point of View Characters. .
- TALEN: Tool for Annotation of Low-resource ENtities. .
- DCFEE: A Document-level Chinese Financial Event Extraction System based on Automatically Labeled Training Data. .
- Sentence Suggestion of Japanese Functional Expressions for Chinese-speaking Learners. .
- SANTO: A Web-based Annotation Tool for Ontology-driven Slot Filling. .
- Jack the Reader -- A Machine Reading Framework. .
- A Flexible, Efficient and Accurate Framework for Community Question Answering Pipelines. .
- Moon IME: Neural-based Chinese Pinyin Aided Input Method with Customizable Association. .
- Translating a Language You Don't Know In the Chinese Room. .
- Marian: Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++. .
- NextGen AML: Distributed Deep Learning based Language Technologies to Augment Anti Money Laundering Investigation. .
- DeepPavlov: Open-Source Library for Dialogue Systems. .
- HarriGT: A Tool for Linking News to Science. .
- A Web-scale system for scientific knowledge exploration. .
- RETURNN as a Generic Flexible Neural Toolkit with Application to Translation and Speech Recognition. .
- NCRF++: An Open-source Neural Sequence Labeling Toolkit. .
- CRUISE: Cold-Start New Skill Development via Iterative Utterance Generation. .
- The SUMMA Platform: A Scalable Infrastructure for Multi-lingual Multi-media Monitoring. .
- ScoutBot: A Dialogue System for Collaborative Navigation. .
- YEDDA: A Lightweight Collaborative Text Span Annotation Tool. .
- Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language. .
- Out-of-the-box Universal Romanization Tool uroman. .
- NLP Web Services for Resource-Scarce Languages. .
- Praaline: An Open-Source System for Managing, Annotating, Visualising and Analysing Speech Corpora. .
Student Research Workshop Papers
- Trick Me If You Can: Adversarial Writing of Trivia Challenge Questions. .
- Reinforced Extractive Summarization with Question-Focused Rewards. .
- Language Identification and Named Entity Recognition in Hinglish Code Mixed Tweets. .
- Sampling Informative Training Data for RNN Language Models. .
- Towards Opinion Summarization of Customer Reviews. .
- A Computational Approach to Feature Extraction for Identification of Suicidal Ideation in Tweets. .
- BCSAT : A Benchmark Corpus for Sentiment Analysis in Telugu Using Word-level Annotations. .
- Biomedical Document Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support System. .
- Graph-based Filtering of Out-of-Vocabulary Words for Encoder-Decoder Models. .
- Automatic Spelling Correction for Resource-Scarce Languages using Deep Learning. .
- Recognizing Complex Entity Mentions: A Review and Future Directions. .
- Exploring Chunk Based Templates for Generating a subset of English Text. .
- Learning-based Composite Metrics for Improved Caption Evaluation. .
- Pushing the Limits of Radiology with Joint Modeling of Visual and Textual Information. .
- SuperNMT: Neural Machine Translation with Semantic Supersenses and Syntactic Supertags. .
- Automatic Detection of Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Associations. .
- German and French Neural Supertagging Experiments for LTAG Parsing. .
- Mixed Feelings: Natural Text Generation with Variable, Coexistent Affective Categories. .
- Alignment Analysis of Sequential Segmentation of Lexicons to Improve Automatic Cognate Detection. .
- Unsupervised Semantic Abstractive Summarization. .
- Recursive Neural Network Based Preordering for English-to-Japanese Machine Translation. .
- Automatic Question Generation using Relative Pronouns and Adverbs. .