Conference Program
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016 | |||
18:30 - 20:00 | Welcome Reception - Salon H | ||
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 | |||
07:30 - 17:30 | Registration Day 1 - Salon H Prefunction | ||
08:00 - 08:40 | Morning Coffee | ||
08:40 - 09:00 | Session P1 - Plenary Session: Opening Remarks - Salon FG | ||
08:40 - 09:00 |
Opening Remarks
General Chair, PC Co-Chairs |
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09:00 - 10:00 | Session P2 - Plenary Session: Invited Talk by Christopher Potts - Salon FG | ||
09:00 - 10:00 |
Learning in Extended and Approximate Rational Speech Acts Models
Christopher Potts |
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10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 1A -
Parsing and Syntax (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Session 1B - Information Extraction (Long Papers) - Salon J Session 1C - Psycholinguistics / Machine Learning (Long Papers) - Room 616 AB |
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12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch | ||
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 2A -
Reading Comprehension and Question Answering (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Session 2B - Embeddings of Linguistic Structure (Long Papers) - Salon J Session 2C - Sentiment and Opinion Analysis (Long Papers) - Room 616 AB |
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15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | ||
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 3A -
Neural Machine Translation (Long + TACL Papers)
- Salon FG
Session 3B - Semi-supervised and Minimally Supervised Learning (Long + TACL Papers) - Salon J Session 3C - Summarization and Generation (Long Papers) - Room 616 AB |
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17:30 - 17:45 | Break | ||
17:45 - 18:15 | Session P3 - Plenary Session: Half Minute Madness A - Salon FG | ||
18:15 - 20:15 | Session P4 - Poster Session A - Salon H and J | ||
Thursday, November 3, 2016 | |||
07:30 - 17:30 | Registration Day 2 - Salon H Prefunction | ||
08:00 - 09:00 | Morning Coffee | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | Session P5 - Plenary Session: Invited Talk by Stefanie Tellex - Salon FG | ||
09:00 - 10:00 |
Learning Models of Language, Action and Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration
Stefanie Tellex |
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10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 4A -
Semantics and Semantic Parsing (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Session 4B - NLP for Social Science and Health (Long + TACL Papers) - Salon J Session 4C - Language Models (Long + TACL Papers) - Room 616 AB |
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12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch | ||
13:00 - 13:40 | Session P6 - SIGDAT Business Meeting - Salon FG | ||
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 5A -
Text Generation (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Session 5B - Discourse and Document Structure (Long Papers) - Salon J Session 5C - Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications (Long Papers) - Room 616 AB |
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15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | ||
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 6A -
Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Session 6B - Text Mining and NLP Applications (Long + TACL Papers) - Salon J Session 6C - Knowledge Base and Inference (Long Papers) - Room 616 AB |
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17:30 - 17:45 | Break | ||
17:45 - 18:15 | Session P7 - Plenary Session: Half-minute Madness B - Salon FG | ||
18:15 - 20:15 | Session P8 - Poster Session B - Salon H and J | ||
Friday, November 4, 2016 | |||
07:30 - 17:30 | Registration Day 3 - Salon H Prefunction | ||
08:00 - 09:00 | Morning Coffee | ||
09:00 - 10:00 | Session P9 - Plenary Session: Invited Talk by Andreas Stolcke - Salon FG | ||
09:00 - 10:00 |
You Talking to Me? Speech-based and Multimodal Approaches for Human versus Computer Addressee Detection
Andreas Stolcke |
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10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 7A -
Dialogue Systems (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Session 7B - Semantic Similarity (Long Papers) - Salon J Session 7C - Dependency Parsing (Long + TACL Papers) - Room 616 AB |
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12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch | ||
13:40 - 15:25 |
Session 8A -
Short Paper Oral Session I
- Salon FG
Session 8B - Short Paper Oral Session II - Salon J Session 8C - Short Paper Oral Session III - Room 616 AB |
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15:25 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | ||
15:50 - 17:25 | Session P10 - Plenary Session: Best Paper - Salon FG | ||
15:50 - 15:55 |
Introduction to Best Papers
Program Chairs |
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17:25 - 17:45 | Session P11 - Plenary Session: Closing Remarks - Salon FG | ||
17:25 - 17:45 |
Closing Remarks
General Chair |
Detailed Program
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
18:30 - 20:00 | Welcome Reception - Salon H |
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
07:30 - 17:30 | Registration Day 1 - Salon H Prefunction |
08:00 - 08:40 | Morning Coffee |
08:40 - 09:00 | Session P1 - Plenary Session: Opening Remarks - Salon FG |
08:40 - 09:00 |
Opening Remarks
General Chair, PC Co-Chairs |
09:00 - 10:00 | Session P2 - Plenary Session: Invited Talk by Christopher Potts - Salon FG |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Learning in Extended and Approximate Rational Speech Acts Models
Christopher Potts |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 1A -
Parsing and Syntax (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Chair: Martins, André F. T. |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 1A -
Span-Based Constituency Parsing with a Structure-Label System and Provably Optimal Dynamic Oracles
James Cross and Liang Huang Oregon State University |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 1A -
Rule Extraction for Tree-to-Tree Transducers by Cost Minimization
Pascual Martínez-Gómez 1 and Yusuke Miyao 2 1 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2 National Instutite of Informatics |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 1A -
A Neural Network for Coordination Boundary Prediction
Jessica Ficler 1 and Yoav Goldberg 2 1 Bar Ilan Univerdity, 2 Bar Ilan University |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 1A -
Using Left-corner Parsing to Encode Universal Structural Constraints in Grammar Induction
Hiroshi Noji 1 , Yusuke Miyao 2 , Mark Johnson 3 1 Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2 National Instutite of Informatics, 3 Macquarie University |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 1B -
Information Extraction (Long Papers)
- Salon J
Chair: Heng Ji |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 1B -
Distinguishing Past, On-going, and Future Events: The EventStatus Corpus
Ruihong Huang 1 , Ignacio Cases 2 , Dan Jurafsky 2 , Cleo Condoravdi 2 , Ellen Riloff 3 1 Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M; University, 2 Stanford University, 3 University of Utah |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 1B -
Nested Propositions in Open Information Extraction
Nikita Bhutani 1 , H V Jagadish 1 , Dragomir Radev 2 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2 University of Michigan |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 1B -
A Position Encoding Convolutional Neural Network Based on Dependency Tree for Relation Classification
Yunlun Yang, Yunhai Tong, Shulei Ma, Zhi-Hong Deng Peking University |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 1B -
Learning to Recognize Discontiguous Entities
Aldrian Obaja Muis and Wei Lu Singapore University of Technology and Design |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 1C -
Psycholinguistics / Machine Learning (Long Papers)
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Alona Fyshe |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 1C -
Modeling Human Reading with Neural Attention
Michael Hahn and Frank Keller University of Edinburgh |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 1C -
Comparing Computational Cognitive Models of Generalization in a Language Acquisition Task
Libby Barak 1 , Adele E. Goldberg 2 , Suzanne Stevenson 1 1 University of Toronto, 2 Princeton University |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 1C -
Rationalizing Neural Predictions
Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola MIT |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 1C -
Deep Multi-Task Learning with Shared Memory for Text Classification
Pengfei Liu 1 , Xipeng Qiu 2 , Xuanjing Huang 2 1 , 2 Fudan University |
12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch |
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 2A -
Reading Comprehension and Question Answering (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Chair: Phil Blunsom |
13:40 - 14:05 |
Session 2A -
Natural Language Comprehension with the EpiReader
Adam Trischler, Zheng Ye, Xingdi Yuan, Philip Bachman, Alessandro Sordoni, Kaheer Suleman Maluuba, Inc. |
14:05 - 14:30 |
Session 2A -
Creating Causal Embeddings for Question Answering with Minimal Supervision
Rebecca Sharp 1 , Mihai Surdeanu 1 , Peter Jansen 1 , Peter Clark 2 , Michael Hammond 1 1 University of Arizona, 2 Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
14:30 - 14:55 |
Session 2A -
Improving Semantic Parsing via Answer Type Inference
Semih Yavuz 1 , Izzeddin Gur 2 , Yu Su 2 , Mudhakar Srivatsa 3 , Xifeng Yan 2 1 University of California Santa Barbara, 2 UC Santa Barbara, 3 IBM Research |
14:55 - 15:20 |
Session 2A -
Semantic Parsing to Probabilistic Programs for Situated Question Answering
Jayant Krishnamurthy 1 , Oyvind Tafjord 2 , Aniruddha Kembhavi 1 1 Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2 AI2 |
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 2B -
Embeddings of Linguistic Structure (Long Papers)
- Salon J
Chair: Katrin Erk |
13:40 - 14:05 |
Session 2B -
Event participant modelling with neural networks
Ottokar Tilk 1 , Vera Demberg 2 , Asad Sayeed 2 , Dietrich Klakow 2 , Stefan Thater 3 1 Tallinn University of Technology, 2 Saarland University, 3 Universität des Saarlandes |
14:05 - 14:30 |
Session 2B -
Context-Dependent Sense Embedding
Lin Qiu 1 , Kewei Tu 2 , Yong Yu 1 1 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2 ShanghaiTech University |
14:30 - 14:55 |
Session 2B -
Jointly Embedding Knowledge Graphs and Logical Rules
Shu Guo 1 , Quan Wang 1 , Lihong Wang 2 , Bin Wang 1 , Li Guo 1 1 Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China |
14:55 - 15:20 |
Session 2B -
Learning Connective-based Word Representations for Implicit Discourse Relation Identification
Chloé Braud 1 and Pascal Denis 2 1 University of Copenhagen, 2 INRIA |
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 2C -
Sentiment and Opinion Analysis (Long Papers)
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Preslav Nakov |
13:40 - 14:05 |
Session 2C -
Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory Network
Duyu Tang 1 , Bing Qin 2 , Ting Liu 2 1 Microsoft Research Asia, 2 Harbin Institute of Technology |
14:05 - 14:30 |
Session 2C -
Lifelong-RL: Lifelong Relaxation Labeling for Separating Entities and Aspects in Opinion Targets
Lei Shu 1 , Bing Liu 1 , Hu Xu 1 , Annice Kim 2 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2 RTI International |
14:30 - 14:55 |
Session 2C -
Learning Sentence Embeddings with Auxiliary Tasks for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
Jianfei Yu and Jing Jiang Singapore Management University |
14:55 - 15:20 |
Session 2C -
Attention-based LSTM Network for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification
Xinjie Zhou, Xiaojun Wan, Jianguo Xiao Peking University |
15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break |
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 3A -
Neural Machine Translation (Long + TACL Papers)
- Salon FG
Chair: Alexandra Birch |
15:50 - 16:15 |
Session 3A -
[TACL]
Deep Recurrent Models with Fast-Forward Connections for Neural Machine Translation
Jie Zhou 1 , Ying Cao 2 , Xuguang Wang 2 , Peng Li 1 , Wei Xu 2 1 Baidu Research, 2 Baidu Inc |
16:15 - 16:40 |
Session 3A -
Neural versus Phrase-Based Machine Translation Quality: a Case Study
Luisa Bentivogli 1 , Arianna Bisazza 2 , Mauro Cettolo 1 , Marcello Federico 1 1 Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy), 2 University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) |
16:40 - 17:05 |
Session 3A -
Zero-Resource Translation with Multi-Lingual Neural Machine Translation
Orhan Firat 1 , Baskaran Sankaran 2 , Yaser Al-Onaizan 2 , Fatos T. Yarman Vural 1 , Kyunghyun Cho 3 1 Middle East Technical University, 2 IBM, 3 New York University |
17:05 - 17:30 |
Session 3A -
Memory-enhanced Decoder for Neural Machine Translation
Mingxuan Wang 1 , Zhengdong Lu 2 , Hang Li 2 , Qun Liu 1 1 Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei |
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 3B -
Semi-supervised and Minimally Supervised Learning (Long + TACL Papers)
- Salon J
Chair: Lluís Màrquez |
15:50 - 16:15 |
Session 3B -
Semi-Supervised Learning of Sequence Models with Method of Moments
Zita Marinho 1 , André F. T. Martins 2 , Shay B. Cohen 3 , Noah A. Smith 4 1 Carnegie Mellon University / University of Lisbon, 2 Priberam, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, 3 University of Edinburgh, 4 University of Washington |
16:15 - 16:40 |
Session 3B -
[TACL]
Minimally supervised models for number normalization
Kyle Gorman 1 and Richard Sproat 2 1 Google, Inc., 2 Google |
16:40 - 17:05 |
Session 3B -
Learning from Explicit and Implicit Supervision Jointly For Algebra Word Problems
Shyam Upadhyay 1 , Ming-Wei Chang 2 , Kai-Wei Chang 3 , Wen-tau Yih 2 1 UIUC, 2 Microsoft Research, 3 University of Virginia |
17:05 - 17:30 |
Session 3B -
TweeTime : A Minimally Supervised Method for Recognizing and Normalizing Time Expressions in Twitter
Jeniya Tabassum 1 , Alan Ritter 1 , Wei Xu 2 1 The Ohio State University, 2 University of Pennsylvania |
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 3C -
Summarization and Generation (Long Papers)
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Hiroya Takamura |
15:50 - 16:15 |
Session 3C -
Language as a Latent Variable: Discrete Generative Models for Sentence Compression
Yishu Miao and Phil Blunsom University of Oxford |
16:15 - 16:40 |
Session 3C -
Globally Coherent Text Generation with Neural Checklist Models
Chloé Kiddon, Luke Zettlemoyer, Yejin Choi University of Washington |
16:40 - 17:05 |
Session 3C -
A Dataset and Evaluation Metrics for Abstractive Compression of Sentences and Short Paragraphs
Kristina Toutanova 1 , Chris Brockett 1 , Ke M. Tran 2 , Saleema Amershi 1 1 Microsoft Research, 2 University of Amsterdam |
17:05 - 17:30 |
Session 3C -
PaCCSS-IT: A Parallel Corpus of Complex-Simple Sentences for Automatic Text Simplification
Dominique Brunato 1 , Andrea Cimino 2 , Felice Dell'Orletta 2 , Giulia Venturi 2 1 Institute of Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli" (ILC-CNR), Pisa, 2 Institute of Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli", ILC-CNR, Pisa |
17:30 - 17:45 | Break |
17:45 - 18:15 |
Session P3 -
Plenary Session: Half Minute Madness A
- Salon FG
Chair: Joel Tetreault, Brendan O'Connor, Courtney Napoles |
18:15 - 20:15 | Session P4 - Poster Session A - Salon H and J |
Session P4 -
L01
Discourse Parsing with Attention-based Hierarchical Neural Networks
[Discourse & Dialogue]
Qi Li 1 , Tianshi Li 2 , Baobao Chang 1 1 Peking University, 2 Institute of Computational Linguistic, Peking University |
Session P4 -
L02
Multi-view Response Selection for Human-Computer Conversation
[Discourse & Dialogue]
Xiangyang Zhou 1 , Daxiang Dong 1 , Hua Wu 2 , Shiqi Zhao 2 , Dianhai Yu 1 , Hao Tian 1 , Xuan Liu 1 , Rui Yan 1 1 Baidu Inc., 2 Baidu |
Session P4 -
L03
Variational Neural Discourse Relation Recognizer
[Discourse & Dialogue]
Biao Zhang 1 , Deyi Xiong 2 , jinsong su 1 , Qun Liu 3 , Rongrong Ji 1 , Hong Duan 1 , Min Zhang 4 1 Xiamen University, 2 Soochow University, 3 Dublin City University, 4 Suda |
Session P4 -
L04
Event Detection and Co-reference with Minimal Supervision
[Information Extraction]
Haoruo Peng 1 , Yangqiu Song 2 , Dan Roth 3 1 UIUC, 2 HKUST, 3 University of Illinois |
Session P4 -
L05
Learning Term Embeddings for Taxonomic Relation Identification Using Dynamic Weighting Neural Network
[Information Extraction]
Tuan Luu Anh 1 , Yi Tay 2 , Siu Cheung Hui 2 , See Kiong Ng 3 1 , 2 NTU, 3 A*Star Singapore |
Session P4 -
L06
Relation Schema Induction using Tensor Factorization with Side Information
[Information Extraction]
Madhav Nimishakavi, Uday Singh Saini, Partha Talukdar Indian Institute of Science |
Session P4 -
L07
Supervised Distributional Hypernym Discovery via Domain Adaptation
[Information Extraction]
Luis Espinosa Anke 1 , Jose Camacho-Collados 2 , Claudio Delli Bovi 2 , Horacio Saggion 1 1 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2 Sapienza University of Rome |
Session P4 -
L08
Latent Tree Language Model
[Language Modeling]
Tomáš Brychcín Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia |
Session P4 -
L09
Comparing Data Sources and Architectures for Deep Visual Representation Learning in Semantics
[Language and Vision]
Douwe Kiela 1 , Anita Lilla Verő 2 , Stephen Clark 2 1 University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, 2 University of Cambridge |
Session P4 -
L10
Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual Grounding
[Language and Vision]
Akira Fukui 1 , Dong Huk Park 2 , Daylen Yang 2 , Anna Rohrbach 3 , Trevor Darrell 2 , Marcus Rohrbach 4 1 Sony Corp, 2 UC Berkeley, 3 Max Planck Institute for Informatics, 4 berkeley.edu |
Session P4 -
L11
The Structured Weighted Violations Perceptron Algorithm
[Machine Learning]
Rotem Dror 1 and Roi Reichart 2 1 Technion, 2 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Session P4 -
L12
How Transferable are Neural Networks in NLP Applications?
[Machine Learning]
Lili Mou 1 , Zhao Meng 2 , Rui Yan 3 , Ge Li 1 , Yan Xu 4 , Lu Zhang 1 , Zhi Jin 1 1 Peking University, 2 Software Institute, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China, 3 Baidu Inc., 4 PKU |
Session P4 -
L13
Morphological Priors for Probabilistic Neural Word Embeddings
[Machine Learning]
Parminder Bhatia 1 , Robert Guthrie 2 , Jacob Eisenstein 2 1 , 2 Georgia Institute of Technology |
Session P4 -
L14
Automatic Cross-Lingual Similarization of Dependency Grammars for Tree-based Machine Translation
[Machine Translation]
Wenbin Jiang 1 , Wen Zhang 1 , Jinan Xu 2 , Rangjia Cai 3 1 Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, 2 Beijing Jiaotong University, 3 Qinghai Normal University |
Session P4 -
L15
IRT-based Aggregation Model of Crowdsourced Pairwise Comparison for Evaluating Machine Translations
[Machine Translation]
Naoki Otani 1 , Toshiaki Nakazawa 2 , Daisuke Kawahara 1 , Sadao Kurohashi 1 1 Kyoto University, 2 Japan Science and Technology Agency |
Session P4 -
L16
Variational Neural Machine Translation
[Machine Translation]
Biao Zhang 1 , Deyi Xiong 2 , jinsong su 1 , Hong Duan 1 , Min Zhang 3 1 Xiamen University, 2 Soochow University, 3 Suda |
Session P4 -
L17
Towards a Convex HMM Surrogate for Word Alignment
[Machine Translation]
Andrei Simion, Michael Collins, Cliff Stein Columbia University |
Session P4 -
L18
Solving Verbal Questions in IQ Test by Knowledge-Powered Word Embedding
[Question Answering]
Huazheng Wang 1 , Fei Tian 2 , Bin Gao 3 , Chengjieren Zhu 4 , Jiang Bian 5 , Tie-Yan Liu 2 1 University of Virginia, 2 Microsoft Research, 3 Microsoft, 4 University of California, San Diego, 5 Yidian Inc. |
Session P4 -
L19
Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading
[Question Answering]
Jianpeng Cheng 1 , Li Dong 1 , Mirella Lapata 2 1 University of Edinburgh, 2 School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh |
Session P4 -
L20
On Generating Characteristic-rich Question Sets for QA Evaluation
[Question Answering]
Yu Su 1 , Huan Sun 2 , Brian Sadler 3 , Mudhakar Srivatsa 4 , Izzeddin Gur 1 , Zenghui Yan 1 , Xifeng Yan 1 1 University of California Santa Barbara, 2 The Ohio State University, 3 U.S. Army Research Lab, 4 IBM Research |
Session P4 -
L21
Learning to Translate for Multilingual Question Answering
[Question Answering]
Ferhan Ture 1 and Elizabeth Boschee 2 1 Comcast Labs, 2 Raytheon BBN Technologies |
Session P4 -
L22
A Semiparametric Model for Bayesian Reader Identification
[Question Answering]
Ahmed Abdelwahab, Reinhold Kliegl, Niels Landwehr University of Potsdam |
Session P4 -
L23
Inducing Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons from Unlabeled Corpora
[Sentiment Analysis]
William L. Hamilton 1 , Kevin Clark 2 , Jure Leskovec 1 , Dan Jurafsky 1 1 Stanford University, 2 Stanford Univeristy |
Session P4 -
L24
Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification
[Sentiment Analysis]
Yequan Wang 1 , Minlie Huang 1 , xiaoyan zhu 2 , Li Zhao 3 1 Tsinghua University, 2 , 3 Microsoft Research Asia |
Session P4 -
L25
Recursive Neural Conditional Random Fields for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
[Sentiment Analysis]
Wenya Wang 1 , Sinno Jialin Pan 1 , Daniel Dahlmeier 2 , Xiaokui Xiao 1 1 Nanyang Technological University, 2 SAP |
Session P4 -
L26
Extracting Aspect Specific Opinion Expressions
[Sentiment Analysis]
Abhishek Laddha 1 and Arjun Mukherjee 2 1 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2 University of Houston |
Session P4 -
L27
Emotion Distribution Learning from Texts
[Sentiment Analysis]
Deyu ZHOU, Xuan Zhang, Yin Zhou, Quan Zhao, Xin Geng School of computer science and engineering, Southeast University |
Session P4 -
L28
Building an Evaluation Scale using Item Response Theory
[Semantics]
John Lalor 1 , Hao Wu 2 , hong yu 3 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2 Boston College, 3 University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Session P4 -
L29
WordRank: Learning Word Embeddings via Robust Ranking
[Semantics]
Shihao Ji 1 , Hyokun Yun 2 , Pinar Yanardag 3 , Shin Matsushima 4 , S. V. N. Vishwanathan 5 1 Intel, 2 Amazon, 3 Purdue University, 4 University of Tokyo, 5 Univ. of California, Santa Cruz |
Session P4 -
L30
Exploring Semantic Representation in Brain Activity Using Word Embeddings
[Semantics]
Yu-Ping Ruan 1 , Zhen-Hua Ling 1 , Yu Hu 2 1 University of Science and Technology of China, 2 iFLYTEK Research, Heifei, China |
Session P4 -
L31
AMR Parsing with an Incremental Joint Model
[Semantics]
Junsheng Zhou 1 , Feiyu Xu 2 , Hans Uszkoreit 3 , Weiguang QU 1 , Ran Li 1 , Yanhui Gu 1 1 Nanjing Normal University, 2 DFKI LT Lab, 3 DFKI and Saarland University |
Session P4 -
L32
Identifying Dogmatism in Social Media: Signals and Models
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Ethan Fast 1 and Eric Horvitz 2 1 Stanford University, 2 Microsoft Research |
Session P4 -
L33
Enhanced Personalized Search using Social Data
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Dong Zhou 1 , Séamus Lawless 2 , Xuan Wu 1 , Wenyu Zhao 1 , Jianxun Liu 1 1 Hunan University of Science and Technology, 2 Trinity Collge Dublin |
Session P4 -
L34
Effective Greedy Inference for Graph-based Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
[Syntax & Morphology]
Ilan Tchernowitz 1 , Liron Yedidsion 2 , Roi Reichart 2 1 Technion, 2 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Session P4 -
L35
Generating Abbreviations for Chinese Named Entities Using Recurrent Neural Network with Dynamic Dictionary
[Syntax & Morphology]
Qi Zhang, Jin Qian, Ya Guo, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang Fudan University |
Session P4 -
L36
Neural Network for Heterogeneous Annotations
[Syntax & Morphology]
Hongshen Chen 1 , Yue Zhang 2 , Qun Liu 3 1 Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 Singapore University of Technology and Design, 3 Dublin City University |
Session P4 -
L37
LAMB: A Good Shepherd of Morphologically Rich Languages
[Syntax & Morphology]
Sebastian Ebert 1 , Thomas Müller 2 , Hinrich Schütze 1 1 Center for Information and Language Processing, University of Munich, 2 CIS, University of Munich |
Session P4 -
L38
Fast Coupled Sequence Labeling on Heterogeneous Annotations via Context-aware Pruning
[Syntax & Morphology]
Zhenghua Li 1 , Jiayuan Chao 1 , Min Zhang 2 , Jiwen Yang 1 1 Soochow University, 2 Suda |
Session P4 -
L39
Unsupervised Neural Dependency Parsing
[Syntax & Morphology]
Yong Jiang, Wenjuan Han, Kewei Tu ShanghaiTech University |
Session P4 -
L40
Generating Coherent Summaries of Scientific Articles Using Coherence Patterns
[Summarization]
Daraksha Parveen, Mohsen Mesgar, Michael Strube Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies |
Session P4 -
L41
News Stream Summarization using Burst Information Networks
[Summarization]
Tao Ge 1 , Lei Cui 2 , Baobao Chang 3 , Sujian Li 3 , Ming Zhou 4 , Zhifang Sui 5 1 Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, 2 Microsoft Research, 3 Peking University, 4 microsoft research asia, 5 |
Session P4 -
L42
Rationale-Augmented Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification
[Text Mining & Applications]
Ye Zhang 1 , Iain Marshall 2 , Byron C. Wallace 3 1 University of Texas at Austin, 2 King's College London, 3 Northeastern University |
Session P4 -
L43
Transferring User Interests Across Websites with Unstructured Text for Cold-Start Recommendation
[Text Mining & Applications]
Yu-Yang Huang and Shou-De Lin Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |
Session P4 -
L44
Speculation and Negation Scope Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks
[Text Mining & Applications]
Zhong Qian 1 , Peifeng Li 1 , Qiaoming Zhu 1 , Guodong Zhou 1 , Zhunchen Luo 2 , Wei Luo 2 1 Soochow University, 2 China Defense Science and Technology Information Center |
Session P4 -
L45
Analyzing Linguistic Knowledge in Sequential Model of Sentence
[Text Mining & Applications]
Peng Qian, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang Fudan University |
Session P4 -
L46
Keyphrase Extraction Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks on Twitter
[Text Mining & Applications]
Qi Zhang, Yang Wang, Yeyun Gong, Xuanjing Huang Fudan University |
Session P4 -
L47
Solving and Generating Chinese Character Riddles
[Text Mining & Applications]
Chuanqi Tan 1 , Furu Wei 2 , Li Dong 3 , Weifeng Lv 1 , Ming Zhou 2 1 Beihang University, 2 Microsoft Research Asia, 3 University of Edinburgh |
Session P4 -
L48
Structured prediction models for RNN based sequence labeling in clinical text
[Text Mining & Applications]
Abhyuday Jagannatha 1 and hong yu 2 1 College of Information and Computer Sciences , UMass AMherst, 2 University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Session P4 -
L49
Learning to Represent Review with Tensor Decomposition for Spam Detection
[Text Mining & Applications]
Xuepeng Wang 1 , Kang Liu 2 , Shizhu He 1 , Jun Zhao 3 1 Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Session P4 -
L50
Stance Detection with Bidirectional Conditional Encoding
[Text Mining & Applications]
Isabelle Augenstein 1 , Tim Rocktäschel 2 , Andreas Vlachos 3 , Kalina Bontcheva 3 1 Department of Computer Science, University College London, 2 University College London, 3 University of Sheffield |
Session P4 -
S01
Modeling Skip-Grams for Event Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks
[Information Extraction]
Thien Huu Nguyen and Ralph Grishman New York University |
Session P4 -
S02
Porting an Open Information Extraction System from English to German
[Information Extraction]
Tobias Falke 1 , Gabriel Stanovsky 2 , Iryna Gurevych 1 , Ido Dagan 3 1 UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2 Bar Ilan University, 3 Bar-Ilan University |
Session P4 -
S03
Named Entity Recognition for Novel Types by Transfer Learning
[Information Extraction]
Lizhen Qu 1 , Gabriela Ferraro 1 , Liyuan Zhou 1 , Weiwei Hou 1 , Timothy Baldwin 2 1 Data61, 2 The University of Melbourne |
Session P4 -
S04
Extracting Subevents via an Effective Two-phase Approach
[Information Extraction]
Allison Badgett and Ruihong Huang Texas A&M; University |
Session P4 -
S05
Gaussian Visual-Linguistic Embedding for Zero-Shot Recognition
[Language and Vision]
Tanmoy Mukherjee 1 and Timothy Hospedales 2 1 IIIT Hyderabad, 2 |
Session P4 -
S06
Question Relevance in VQA: Identifying Non-Visual And False-Premise Questions
[Language and Vision]
Arijit Ray 1 , Gordon Christie 2 , Mohit Bansal 3 , Dhruv Batra 2 , Devi Parikh 4 1 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2 Virginia Tech, 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4 Georgia Institute of Technology |
Session P4 -
S07
Sort Story: Sorting Jumbled Images and Captions into Stories
[Language and Vision]
Harsh Agrawal 1 , Arjun Chandrasekaran 2 , Dhruv Batra 1 , Devi Parikh 3 , Mohit Bansal 4 1 Virginia Tech, 2 Virginia Tech, Toyota Technological Institute, 3 Georgia Institute of Technology, 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Session P4 -
S08
Human Attention in Visual Question Answering: Do Humans and Deep Networks look at the same regions?
[Language and Vision]
Abhishek Das 1 , Harsh Agrawal 1 , Larry Zitnick 2 , Devi Parikh 3 , Dhruv Batra 1 1 Virginia Tech, 2 Facebook, 3 Georgia Institute of Technology |
Session P4 -
S09
Recurrent Residual Learning for Sequence Classification
[Machine Learning]
Yiren Wang 1 and Fei Tian 2 1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2 Microsoft Research |
Session P4 -
S10
Richer Interpolative Smoothing Based on Modified Kneser-Ney Language Modeling
[Machine Learning]
Ehsan Shareghi 1 , Trevor Cohn 2 , Gholamreza Haffari 1 1 Monash University, 2 University of Melbourne |
Session P4 -
S11
A General Regularization Framework for Domain Adaptation
[Machine Learning]
Wei Lu 1 , Hai Leong Chieu 2 , Jonathan Löfgren 3 1 Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2 DSO National Laboratories, 3 Uppsala University |
Session P4 -
S12
Coverage Embedding Models for Neural Machine Translation
[Machine Translation]
Haitao Mi 1 , Baskaran Sankaran 2 , Zhiguo Wang 1 , Abe Ittycheriah 3 1 IBM Watson Research Center, 2 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 3 IBM |
Session P4 -
S13
Neural Morphological Analysis: Encoding-Decoding Canonical Segments
[Syntax & Morphology]
Katharina Kann 1 , Ryan Cotterell 2 , Hinrich Schütze 3 1 LMU Munich, 2 Johns Hopkins University, 3 Center for Information and Language Processing, University of Munich |
Session P4 -
S14
Exploiting Mutual Benefits between Syntax and Semantic Roles using Neural Network
[Syntax & Morphology]
Peng Shi 1 , Zhiyang Teng 2 , Yue Zhang 2 1 ZheJiang University, 2 Singapore University of Technology and Design |
Session P4 -
S15
The Effects of Data Size and Frequency Range on Distributional Semantic Models
[Semantics]
Magnus Sahlgren 1 and Alessandro Lenci 2 1 Gavagai, 2 University of Pisa |
Session P4 -
S16
Multi-Granularity Chinese Word Embedding
[Semantics]
Rongchao Yin, Quan Wang, Peng Li, Rui Li, Bin Wang Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Session P4 -
S17
Numerically Grounded Language Models for Semantic Error Correction
[Semantics]
Georgios Spithourakis 1 , Isabelle Augenstein 1 , Sebastian Riedel 2 1 Department of Computer Science, University College London, 2 UCL |
Session P4 -
S18
Towards Semi-Automatic Generation of Proposition Banks for Low-Resource Languages
[Semantics]
Alan Akbik 1 , vishwajeet kumar 2 , Yunyao Li 3 1 IBM Research, 2 Department of Computer Science Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 3 IBM Research - Almaden |
Session P4 -
S19
A Hierarchical Model of Reviews for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
[Sentiment Analysis]
Sebastian Ruder 1 , Parsa Ghaffari 2 , John G. Breslin 1 1 National University of Ireland, Galway, 2 Aylien Ltd. |
Session P4 -
S20
Are Word Embedding-based Features Useful for Sarcasm Detection?
[Sentiment Analysis]
Aditya Joshi 1 , Vaibhav Tripathi 2 , Kevin Patel 3 , Pushpak Bhattacharyya 4 , Mark Carman 5 1 IITB-Monash Research Academy, 2 IIT Bombay, India, 3 CSE, IIT Bombay, 4 CSE Department, IIT Bombay, 5 Monash University |
Session P4 -
S21
Weakly Supervised Tweet Stance Classification by Relational Bootstrapping
[Sentiment Analysis]
Javid Ebrahimi, Dejing Dou, Daniel Lowd University of Oregon |
Session P4 -
S22
The Gun Violence Database: A new task and data set for NLP
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Ellie Pavlick 1 , Heng Ji 2 , Xiaoman Pan 2 , Chris Callison-Burch 1 1 University of Pennsylvania, 2 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Session P4 -
S23
Fluency detection on communication networks
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Tom Lippincott and Benjamin Van Durme Johns Hopkins University |
Session P4 -
S25
Characterizing the Language of Online Communities and its Relation to Community Reception
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Trang Tran and Mari Ostendorf University of Washington |
Session P4 -
S26
Joint Transition-based Dependency Parsing and Disfluency Detection for Automatic Speech Recognition Texts
[Spoken Language Processing]
Masashi Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
Session P4 -
S27
Real-Time Speech Emotion and Sentiment Recognition for Interactive Dialogue Systems
[Spoken Language Processing]
Dario Bertero 1 , Farhad Bin Siddique 2 , Chien-Sheng Wu 3 , Yan Wan 2 , Ricky Ho Yin Chan 2 , Pascale Fung 2 1 Human Language Technology Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2 Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 3 National Taiwan University |
Session P4 -
S28
A Neural Network Architecture for Multilingual Punctuation Generation
[Summarization]
Miguel Ballesteros 1 and Leo Wanner 2 1 Pompeu Fabra University, 2 ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University |
Session P4 -
S29
Neural Headline Generation on Abstract Meaning Representation
[Summarization]
Sho Takase 1 , Jun Suzuki 2 , Naoaki Okazaki 1 , Tsutomu Hirao 3 , Masaaki Nagata 4 1 Tohoku University, 2 NTT CS Lab., 3 NTT Communication Science Labs., 4 +81-774-93-5235 |
Session P4 -
S30
Robust Gram Embeddings
[Text Mining & Applications]
Taygun Kekec and David M. J. Tax TU Delft |
Session P4 -
S31
SimpleScience: Lexical Simplification of Scientific Terminology
[Text Mining & Applications]
Yea Seul Kim 1 , Jessica Hullman 1 , Matthew Burgess 2 , Eytan Adar 3 1 University of Washington, 2 , 3 University of Michigan |
Session P4 -
S32
Automatic Features for Essay Scoring – An Empirical Study
[Text Mining & Applications]
Fei Dong and Yue Zhang Singapore University of Technology & Design |
Thursday, November 3, 2016
07:30 - 17:30 | Registration Day 2 - Salon H Prefunction |
08:00 - 09:00 | Morning Coffee |
09:00 - 10:00 | Session P5 - Plenary Session: Invited Talk by Stefanie Tellex - Salon FG |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Learning Models of Language, Action and Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration
Stefanie Tellex |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 4A -
Semantics and Semantic Parsing (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Chair: Raymond Mooney |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 4A -
Semantic Parsing with Semi-Supervised Sequential Autoencoders
Tomáš Kočiský 1 , Gábor Melis 1 , Edward Grefenstette 1 , Chris Dyer 1 , Wang Ling 1 , Phil Blunsom 2 , Karl Moritz Hermann 1 1 Google DeepMind, 2 University of Oxford |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 4A -
Equation Parsing : Mapping Sentences to Grounded Equations
Subhro Roy 1 , Shyam Upadhyay 2 , Dan Roth 3 1 University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2 UIUC, 3 University of Illinois |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 4A -
Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions
Jordan Sanders and Eduardo Blanco University of North Texas |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 4A -
Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies
Zahra Sarabi and Eduardo Blanco University of North Texas |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 4B -
NLP for Social Science and Health (Long + TACL Papers)
- Salon J
Chair: Thamar Solorio |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 4B -
Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English
Su Lin Blodgett 1 , Lisa Green 1 , Brendan O'Connor 2 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2 Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 4B -
Understanding Language Preference for Expression of Opinion and Sentiment: What do Hindi-English Speakers do on Twitter?
Koustav Rudra 1 , Shruti Rijhwani 2 , Rafiya Begum 3 , Kalika Bali 3 , Monojit Choudhury 4 , Niloy Ganguly 1 1 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2 Carnegie Mellon University, 3 Microsoft Research India, 4 Microsoft Research |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 4B -
Detecting and Characterizing Events
Allison Chaney 1 , Hanna Wallach 2 , Matthew Connelly 3 , David Blei 3 1 Princeton University, 2 Microsoft Research, 3 Columbia University |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 4B -
[TACL]
Large-scale Analysis of Counseling Conversations: An Application of Natural Language Processing to Mental Health
Tim Althoff, Kevin Clark, Jure Leskovec Stanford University |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 4C -
Language Models (Long + TACL Papers)
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Yang Liu |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 4C -
[TACL]
Fast, Small and Exact: Infinite-order Language Modelling with Compressed Suffix Trees
Ehsan Shareghi 1 , Matthias Petri 2 , Gholamreza Haffari 1 , Trevor Cohn 3 1 Monash University, 2 The University of Melbourne, 3 University of Melbourne |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 4C -
Convolutional Neural Network Language Models
Ngoc-Quan Pham, Germán Kruszewski, Gemma Boleda University of Trento |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 4C -
[TACL]
Sparse Non-negative Matrix Language Modeling
Joris Pelemans 1 , Noam Shazeer 2 , Ciprian Chelba 2 1 KU Leuven, 2 Google |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 4C -
Generalizing and Hybridizing Count-based and Neural Language Models
Graham Neubig 1 and Chris Dyer 2 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 Google DeepMind |
12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch |
13:00 - 13:40 | Session P6 - SIGDAT Business Meeting - Salon FG |
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 5A -
Text Generation (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Chair: Kathy McKeown |
13:40 - 14:05 |
Session 5A -
Reasoning about Pragmatics with Neural Listeners and Speakers
Jacob Andreas 1 and Dan Klein 2 1 Berkeley, 2 UC Berkeley |
14:05 - 14:30 |
Session 5A -
Generating Topical Poetry
Marjan Ghazvininejad 1 , Xing Shi 2 , Yejin Choi 3 , Kevin Knight 4 1 USC, 2 University of Southern California, 3 University of Washington, 4 USC/ISI |
14:30 - 14:55 |
Session 5A -
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Generation
Jiwei Li 1 , Will Monroe 1 , Alan Ritter 2 , Dan Jurafsky 1 , Michel Galley 3 , Jianfeng Gao 4 1 Stanford University, 2 The Ohio State University, 3 Microsoft Research, 4 Microsoft |
14:55 - 15:20 |
Session 5A -
Neural Text Generation from Structured Data with Application to the Biography Domain
Rémi Lebret 1 , David Grangier 2 , Michael Auli 3 1 Idiap/EPFL, 2 Facebook, 3 Facebook AI Research |
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 5B -
Discourse and Document Structure (Long Papers)
- Salon J
Chair: Bonnie Webber |
13:40 - 14:05 |
Session 5B -
What makes a convincing argument? Empirical analysis and detecting attributes of convincingness in Web argumentation
Ivan Habernal and Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt |
14:05 - 14:30 |
Session 5B -
Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations via Repeated Reading: Neural Networks with Multi-Level Attention
Yang Liu and Sujian Li Peking University |
14:30 - 14:55 |
Session 5B -
Antecedent Selection for Sluicing: Structure and Content
Pranav Anand 1 and Daniel Hardt 2 1 University of California, Santa Cruz, 2 Copenhagen Business School |
14:55 - 15:20 |
Session 5B -
Intra-Sentential Subject Zero Anaphora Resolution using Multi-Column Convolutional Neural Network
Ryu Iida 1 , Kentaro Torisawa 2 , Jong-Hoon Oh 2 , Canasai Kruengkrai 2 , Julien Kloetzer 1 1 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 2 NICT |
13:40 - 15:20 |
Session 5C -
Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications (Long Papers)
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Graham Neubig |
13:40 - 14:05 |
Session 5C -
An Unsupervised Probability Model for Speech-to-Translation Alignment of Low-Resource Languages
Antonios Anastasopoulos 1 , David Chiang 1 , Long Duong 2 1 University of Notre Dame, 2 The University of Melbourne |
14:05 - 14:30 |
Session 5C -
HUME: Human UCCA-Based Evaluation of Machine Translation
Alexandra Birch 1 , Omri Abend 2 , Ondřej Bojar 3 , Barry Haddow 1 1 University of Edinburgh, 2 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 3 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
14:30 - 14:55 |
Session 5C -
Improving Multilingual Named Entity Recognition with Wikipedia Entity Type Mapping
Jian Ni and Radu Florian IBM Research |
14:55 - 15:20 |
Session 5C -
Learning Crosslingual Word Embeddings without Bilingual Corpora
Long Duong 1 , Hiroshi Kanayama 2 , Tengfei Ma 3 , Steven Bird 4 , Trevor Cohn 4 1 The University of Melbourne, 2 IBM Research - Tokyo, 3 IBM Research-Tokyo, 4 University of Melbourne |
15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break |
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 6A -
Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Chair: Regina Barzilay |
15:50 - 16:15 |
Session 6A -
Sequence-to-Sequence Learning as Beam-Search Optimization
Sam Wiseman and Alexander M. Rush Harvard University |
16:15 - 16:40 |
Session 6A -
Online Segment to Segment Neural Transduction
Lei Yu 1 , Jan Buys 2 , Phil Blunsom 1 1 University of Oxford, 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
16:40 - 17:05 |
Session 6A -
Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation
Yoon Kim and Alexander M. Rush Harvard University |
17:05 - 17:30 |
Session 6A -
Controlling Output Length in Neural Encoder-Decoders
Yuta Kikuchi 1 , Graham Neubig 2 , Ryohei Sasano 1 , Hiroya Takamura 1 , Manabu Okumura 1 1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2 Carnegie Mellon University |
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 6B -
Text Mining and NLP Applications (Long + TACL Papers)
- Salon J
Chair: Hinrich Schütze |
15:50 - 16:15 |
Session 6B -
Poet Admits // Mute Cypher: Beam Search to find Mutually Enciphering Poetic Texts
Cole Peterson and Alona Fyshe University of Victoria |
16:15 - 16:40 |
Session 6B -
All Fingers are not Equal: Intensity of References in Scientific Articles
Tanmoy Chakraborty 1 and Ramasuri Narayanam 2 1 University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 2 IBM Research, India |
16:40 - 17:05 |
Session 6B -
Improving Users' Demographic Prediction via the Videos They Talk about
Yuan Wang, Yang Xiao, Chao Ma, Zhen Xiao Peking University |
17:05 - 17:30 |
Session 6B -
[TACL]
Understanding Satirical Articles Using Common-Sense
Dan Goldwasser and Xiao Zhang Purdue University |
15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 6C -
Knowledge Base and Inference (Long Papers)
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Kristina Toutanova |
15:50 - 16:15 |
Session 6C -
AFET: Automatic Fine-Grained Entity Typing by Hierarchical Partial-Label Embedding
Xiang Ren 1 , Wenqi He 2 , Meng Qu 2 , Lifu Huang 3 , Heng Ji 3 , Jiawei Han 2 1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2 UIUC, 3 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
16:15 - 16:40 |
Session 6C -
Mining Inference Formulas by Goal-Directed Random Walks
Zhuoyu Wei 1 , Jun Zhao 2 , Kang Liu 1 1 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
16:40 - 17:05 |
Session 6C -
Lifted Rule Injection for Relation Embeddings
Thomas Demeester 1 , Tim Rocktäschel 2 , Sebastian Riedel 3 1 Ghent University - iMinds, 2 University College London, 3 UCL |
17:05 - 17:30 |
Session 6C -
Key-Value Memory Networks for Directly Reading Documents
Alexander Miller 1 , Adam Fisch 1 , Jesse Dodge 2 , Amir-Hossein Karimi 1 , Antoine Bordes 1 , Jason Weston 1 1 Facebook, 2 Carnegie Mellon University |
17:30 - 17:45 | Break |
17:45 - 18:15 |
Session P7 -
Plenary Session: Half-minute Madness B
- Salon FG
Chair: Joel Tetreault, Brendan O'Connor, Courtney Napoles |
18:15 - 20:15 | Session P8 - Poster Session B - Salon H and J |
Session P8 -
L01
Analyzing Framing through the Casts of Characters in the News
[Discourse & Dialogue]
Dallas Card 1 , Justin Gross 2 , Amber Boydstun 3 , Noah A. Smith 4 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 3 University of California, Davis, 4 University of Washington |
Session P8 -
L02
The Teams Corpus and Entrainment in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues
[Discourse & Dialogue]
Diane Litman 1 , Susannah Paletz 2 , Zahra Rahimi 1 , Stefani Allegretti 1 , Caitlin Rice 1 1 University of Pittsburgh, 2 University of Maryland |
Session P8 -
L03
Personalized Emphasis Framing for Persuasive Message Generation
[Discourse & Dialogue]
Tao Ding and Shimei Pan University of Maryland Baltimore County |
Session P8 -
L04
Cross Sentence Inference for Process Knowledge
[Information Extraction]
Samuel Louvan 1 , Chetan Naik 1 , Sadhana Kumaravel 1 , Heeyoung Kwon 1 , Niranjan Balasubramanian 1 , Peter Clark 2 1 Stony Brook University, 2 Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
Session P8 -
L05
Toward Socially-Infused Information Extraction: Embedding Authors, Mentions, and Entities
[Information Extraction]
Yi Yang 1 , Ming-Wei Chang 2 , Jacob Eisenstein 1 1 Georgia Institute of Technology, 2 Microsoft Research |
Session P8 -
L06
Phonologically Aware Neural Model for Named Entity Recognition in Low Resource Transfer Settings
[Information Extraction]
Akash Bharadwaj, David Mortensen, Chris Dyer, Jaime Carbonell Carnegie Mellon University |
Session P8 -
L07
Long-Short Range Context Neural Networks for Language Modeling
[Language Modeling]
Youssef Oualil, Mittul Singh, Clayton Greenberg, Dietrich Klakow Saarland University |
Session P8 -
L08
Jointly Learning Grounded Task Structures from Language Instruction and Visual Demonstration
[Language and Vision]
Changsong Liu 1 , Shaohua Yang 1 , Sari Saba-Sadiya 1 , Nishant Shukla 2 , Yunzhong He 2 , Song-chun Zhu 2 , Joyce Chai 1 1 Michigan State University, 2 University of California, Los Angeles |
Session P8 -
L09
Resolving Language and Vision Ambiguities Together: Joint Segmentation & Prepositional Attachment Resolution in Captioned Scenes
[Language and Vision]
Gordon Christie 1 , Ankit Laddha 2 , Aishwarya Agrawal 1 , Stanislaw Antol 1 , Yash Goyal 1 , Kevin Kochersberger 1 , Dhruv Batra 1 1 Virginia Tech, 2 Carnegie Mellon University |
Session P8 -
L10
Charagram: Embedding Words and Sentences via Character n-grams
[Machine Learning]
John Wieting 1 , Mohit Bansal 2 , Kevin Gimpel 3 , Karen Livescu 4 1 University of Illinois; TTI-Chicago, 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 3 Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 4 TTI-Chicago |
Session P8 -
L11
Length bias in Encoder Decoder Models and a Case for Global Conditioning
[Machine Learning]
Pavel Sountsov 1 and Sunita Sarawagi 2 1 Google, 2 IIT Bombay |
Session P8 -
[TACL]
Comparing Apples to Apple: The Effects of Stemmers on Topic Models
Alexandra Schofield and David Mimno Cornell University |
Session P8 -
L13
Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?
[Machine Translation]
Xing Shi 1 , Inkit Padhi 1 , Kevin Knight 2 1 University of Southern California, 2 USC/ISI |
Session P8 -
L14
Exploiting Source-side Monolingual Data in Neural Machine Translation
[Machine Translation]
Jiajun Zhang 1 and Chengqing Zong 2 1 Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Session P8 -
L15
Phrase-based Machine Translation is State-of-the-Art for Automatic Grammatical Error Correction
[Machine Translation]
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt 1 and Roman Grundkiewicz 2 1 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
Session P8 -
L16
Incorporating Discrete Translation Lexicons into Neural Machine Translation
[Machine Translation]
Philip Arthur 1 , Graham Neubig 2 , Satoshi Nakamura 1 1 Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2 Carnegie Mellon University |
Session P8 -
L17
Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
[Machine Translation]
Barret Zoph 1 , Deniz Yuret 2 , Jonathan May 3 , Kevin Knight 4 1 University of Southern California, 2 Koc University, 3 USC Information Sciences Institute, 4 USC/ISI |
Session P8 -
L18
MixKMeans: Clustering Question-Answer Archives
[Question Answering]
Deepak P Queen's University Belfast |
Session P8 -
L19
It Takes Three to Tango: Triangulation Approach to Answer Ranking in Community Question Answering
[Question Answering]
Preslav Nakov 1 , Lluís Màrquez 2 , Francisco Guzmán 3 1 Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, 2 Qatar Computing Research Institute, 3 Facebook |
Session P8 -
L20
Character-Level Question Answering with Attention
[Question Answering]
Xiaodong He 1 and David Golub 2 1 Microsoft Research, 2 University of Washington |
Session P8 -
L21
Learning to Generate Textual Data
[Question Answering]
Guillaume Bouchard 1 , Pontus Stenetorp 2 , Sebastian Riedel 1 1 UCL, 2 University College London |
Session P8 -
L22
A Theme-Rewriting Approach for Generating Algebra Word Problems
[Question Answering]
Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Ioannis Konstas, Luke Zettlemoyer, Hannaneh Hajishirzi University of Washington |
Session P8 -
L23
Context-Sensitive Lexicon Features for Neural Sentiment Analysis
[Sentiment Analysis]
Zhiyang Teng, Duy Tin Vo, Yue Zhang Singapore University of Technology and Design |
Session P8 -
L24
Event-Driven Emotion Cause Extraction with Corpus Construction
[Sentiment Analysis]
Lin Gui 1 , Dongyin Wu 2 , Ruifeng Xu 2 , Qin Lu 3 , Yu Zhou 2 1 Key Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, 2 Laboratory of Network Oriented Intelligent Computation, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, 3 Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Session P8 -
L25
Neural Sentiment Classification with User and Product Attention
[Sentiment Analysis]
Huimin Chen, Maosong Sun, Cunchao Tu, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu Tsinghua University |
Session P8 -
L26
Cached Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks for Document-Level Sentiment Classification
[Sentiment Analysis]
Jiacheng Xu, Danlu Chen, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang Fudan University |
Session P8 -
L27
Deep Neural Networks with Massive Learned Knowledge
[Sentiment Analysis]
Zhiting Hu 1 , Zichao Yang 2 , Ruslan Salakhutdinov 1 , Eric Xing 1 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 CMU |
Session P8 -
L28
De-Conflated Semantic Representations
[Semantics]
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and Nigel Collier University of Cambridge |
Session P8 -
L29
Improving Sparse Word Representations with Distributional Inference for Semantic Composition
[Semantics]
Thomas Kober, Julie Weeds, Jeremy Reffin, David Weir University of Sussex |
Session P8 -
L30
Modelling Interaction of Sentence Pair with Coupled-LSTMs
[Semantics]
Pengfei Liu 1 , Xipeng Qiu 2 , Yaqian Zhou 2 , Jifan Chen 2 , Xuanjing Huang 2 1 , 2 Fudan University |
Session P8 -
L31
Universal Decompositional Semantics on Universal Dependencies
[Semantics]
Aaron Steven White 1 , Drew Reisinger 1 , Keisuke Sakaguchi 1 , Tim Vieira 2 , Sheng Zhang 1 , Rachel Rudinger 1 , Kyle Rawlins 1 , Benjamin Van Durme 3 1 Johns Hopkins University, 2 Johns Hopkins, 3 JHU |
Session P8 -
L32
Friends with Motives: Using Text to Infer Influence on SCOTUS
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Yanchuan Sim 1 , Bryan Routledge 1 , Noah A. Smith 2 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 University of Washington |
Session P8 -
L33
Verb Phrase Ellipsis Resolution Using Discriminative and Margin-Infused Algorithms
[Syntax & Morphology]
Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Doina Precup McGill University |
Session P8 -
L34
Distilling an Ensemble of Greedy Dependency Parsers into One MST Parser
[Syntax & Morphology]
Adhiguna Kuncoro 1 , Miguel Ballesteros 2 , Lingpeng Kong 1 , Chris Dyer 3 , Noah A. Smith 4 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 Pompeu Fabra University, 3 Google DeepMind, 4 University of Washington |
Session P8 -
L35
LSTM Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
[Syntax & Morphology]
Wenduan Xu Cambridge University |
Session P8 -
L36
An Evaluation of Parser Robustness for Ungrammatical Sentences
[Syntax & Morphology]
Homa B. Hashemi 1 and Rebecca Hwa 2 1 Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2 University of Pittsburgh |
Session P8 -
L37
Neural Shift-Reduce CCG Semantic Parsing
[Syntax & Morphology]
Dipendra Kumar Misra and Yoav Artzi Cornell University |
Session P8 -
L38
Syntactic Parsing of Web Queries
[Syntax & Morphology]
Xiangyan Sun 1 , Haixun Wang 2 , Yanghua Xiao 1 , Zhongyuan Wang 3 1 Fudan University, 2 Facebook, 3 Microsoft Research |
Session P8 -
L39
Unsupervised Text Recap Extraction for TV Series
[Summarization]
Hongliang Yu, Shikun Zhang, Louis-Philippe Morency Carnegie Mellon University |
Session P8 -
L40
On- and Off-Topic Classification and Semantic Annotation of User-Generated Software Requirements
[Text Mining & Applications]
Markus Dollmann and Michaela Geierhos University of Paderborn, Heinz Nixdorf Institute |
Session P8 -
L41
Deceptive Review Spam Detection via Exploiting Task Relatedness and Unlabeled Data
[Text Mining & Applications]
Zhen Hai 1 , Peilin Zhao 1 , Peng Cheng 2 , Peng Yang 1 , Xiao-Li Li 1 , Guangxia Li 3 1 Data Analytics Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore, 2 School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 3 School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, China |
Session P8 -
L42
Regularizing Text Categorization with Clusters of Words
[Text Mining & Applications]
Konstantinos Skianis, Francois Rousseau, Michalis Vazirgiannis Ecole Polytechnique |
Session P8 -
L43
Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Combinatorial Action Space for Predicting Popular Reddit Threads
[Text Mining & Applications]
Ji He 1 , Mari Ostendorf 1 , Xiaodong He 2 , Jianshu Chen 2 , Jianfeng Gao 2 , Lihong Li 2 , Li Deng 2 1 University of Washington, 2 Microsoft Research |
Session P8 -
L44
Non-Literal Text Reuse in Historical Texts: An Approach to Identify Reuse Transformations and its Application to Bible Reuse
[Text Mining & Applications]
Maria Moritz 1 , Andreas Wiederhold 2 , Barbara Pavlek 3 , Yuri Bizzoni 4 , Marco Büchler 2 1 Georg-August-University Göttingen, 2 University of Göttingen, 3 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 4 University of Gothenburg |
Session P8 -
L45
A Graph Degeneracy-based Approach to Keyword Extraction
[Text Mining & Applications]
Antoine Tixier 1 , Fragkiskos Malliaros 2 , Michalis Vazirgiannis 2 1 Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 2 Ecole Polytechnique |
Session P8 -
L46
Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context
[Text Mining & Applications]
Elliot Schumacher 1 , Maxine Eskenazi 1 , Gwen Frishkoff 2 , Kevyn Collins-Thompson 3 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 University of Oregon, 3 University of Michigan |
Session P8 -
L47
A Neural Approach to Automated Essay Scoring
[Text Mining & Applications]
Kaveh Taghipour and Hwee Tou Ng National University of Singapore |
Session P8 -
L48
Non-uniform Language Detection in Technical Writing
[Text Mining & Applications]
Weibo Wang 1 , Abidalrahman Moh'd 1 , Aminul Islam 2 , Axel Soto 3 , Evangelos Milios 1 1 Dalhousie University, 2 University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 3 University of Manchester |
Session P8 -
L49
Adapting Grammatical Error Correction Based on the Native Language of Writers with Neural Network Joint Models
[Text Mining & Applications]
Shamil Chollampatt, Duc Tam Hoang, Hwee Tou Ng National University of Singapore |
Session P8 -
S01
Orthographic Syllable as basic unit for SMT between Related Languages
[Machine Translation]
Anoop Kunchukuttan 1 and Pushpak Bhattacharyya 2 1 IIT Bombay, 2 CSE Department, IIT Bombay |
Session P8 -
S02
Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language with Minimal Domain Knowledge
[Text Mining & Applications]
Nicholas Locascio 1 , Karthik Narasimhan 2 , Eduardo De Leon 1 , Nate Kushman 3 , Regina Barzilay 1 1 MIT, 2 CSAIL, MIT, 3 MSR |
Session P8 -
S03
Supervised Keyphrase Extraction as Positive Unlabeled Learning
[Information Extraction]
Lucas Sterckx 1 , Cornelia Caragea 2 , Thomas Demeester 1 , Chris Develder 1 1 Ghent University - iMinds, 2 University of North Texas |
Session P8 -
S04
Learning to Answer Questions from Wikipedia Infoboxes
[Information Extraction]
Alvaro Morales, Varot Premtoon, Cordelia Avery, Sue Felshin, Boris Katz CSAIL MIT |
Session P8 -
S05
Timeline extraction using distant supervision and joint inference
[Information Extraction]
Savelie Cornegruta 1 and Andreas Vlachos 2 1 King's College London, 2 University of Sheffield |
Session P8 -
S06
Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Enembles for Knowledge Base Population
[Information Extraction]
Nazneen Fatema Rajani 1 and Raymond Mooney 2 1 The University of Texas at Austin, 2 University of Texas at Austin |
Session P8 -
S07
Character Sequence Models for Colorful Words
[Language and Vision]
Kazuya Kawakami 1 , Chris Dyer 2 , Bryan Routledge 1 , Noah A. Smith 3 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 Google DeepMind, 3 University of Washington |
Session P8 -
S08
Analyzing the Behavior of Visual Question Answering Models
[Language and Vision]
Aishwarya Agrawal 1 , Dhruv Batra 1 , Devi Parikh 2 1 Virginia Tech, 2 Georgia Institute of Technology |
Session P8 -
S09
Improving LSTM-based Video Description with Linguistic Knowledge Mined from Text
[Language and Vision]
Subhashini Venugopalan 1 , Lisa Anne Hendricks 2 , Raymond Mooney 3 , Kate Saenko 4 1 The University of Texas at Austin, 2 University of California at Berkeley, 3 University of Texas at Austin, 4 UMass Lowell |
Session P8 -
S10
Representing Verbs with Rich Contexts: an Evaluation on Verb Similarity
[Semantics]
Emmanuele Chersoni 1 , Enrico Santus 2 , Alessandro Lenci 3 , Philippe Blache 4 , Chu-Ren Huang 5 1 Aix-Marseille University, 2 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 3 University of Pisa, 4 LPL CNRS, 5 The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universiy |
Session P8 -
S11
Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Tagging with Variable-Order CRFs and Structured Sparsity
[Machine Learning]
Tim Vieira 1 , Ryan Cotterell 2 , Jason Eisner 2 1 Johns Hopkins, 2 Johns Hopkins University |
Session P8 -
S12
Learning Robust Representations of Text
[Machine Learning]
Yitong Li 1 , Trevor Cohn 1 , Timothy Baldwin 2 1 University of Melbourne, 2 The University of Melbourne |
Session P8 -
S13
Modified Dirichlet Distribution: Allowing Negative Parameters to Induce Stronger Sparsity
[Machine Learning]
Kewei Tu ShanghaiTech University |
Session P8 -
S14
Gated Word-Character Recurrent Language Model
[Machine Learning]
Yasumasa Miyamoto and Kyunghyun Cho New York University |
Session P8 -
S15
Unsupervised Word Alignment by Agreement Under ITG Constraint
[Syntax & Morphology]
Hidetaka Kamigaito 1 , Akihiro Tamura 2 , Hiroya Takamura 1 , Manabu Okumura 1 , Eiichiro Sumita 3 1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 3 National Institute of Information and Communication Technology |
Session P8 -
S16
Training with Exploration Improves a Greedy Stack LSTM Parser
[Syntax & Morphology]
Miguel Ballesteros 1 , Yoav Goldberg 2 , Chris Dyer 3 , Noah A. Smith 4 1 Pompeu Fabra University, 2 Bar Ilan University, 3 Google DeepMind, 4 University of Washington |
Session P8 -
S17
Capturing Argument Relationship for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling
[Semantics]
Lei Sha 1 , Sujian Li 1 , Baobao Chang 1 , Zhifang Sui 2 , Tingsong Jiang 3 1 Peking University, 2 , 3 Institute of Computational Linguistics,Peking University |
Session P8 -
S18
BrainBench: A Brain-Image Test Suite for Distributional Semantic Models
[Semantics]
Haoyan Xu 1 , Brian Murphy 2 , Alona Fyshe 1 1 University of Victoria, 2 Queen's University Belfast |
Session P8 -
S19
Evaluating Induced CCG Parsers on Grounded Semantic Parsing
[Semantics]
Yonatan Bisk 1 , Siva Reddy 2 , John Blitzer 3 , Julia Hockenmaier 4 , Mark Steedman 2 1 ISI/USC, 2 University of Edinburgh, 3 , 4 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Session P8 -
S20
Vector-space models for PPDB paraphrase ranking in context
[Semantics]
Marianna Apidianaki LIMSI-CNRS, University Paris-Saclay |
Session P8 -
S21
Interpreting Neural Networks to Improve Politeness Comprehension
[Sentiment Analysis]
Malika Aubakirova 1 and Mohit Bansal 2 1 University of Chicago, 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Session P8 -
S22
Does ‘well-being’ translate on Twitter?
[Sentiment Analysis]
Laura Smith 1 , Salvatore Giorgi 1 , Rishi Solanki 1 , Johannes Eichstaedt 1 , H. Andrew Schwartz 2 , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed 3 , Anneke Buffone 1 , Lyle Ungar 1 1 University of Pennsylvania, 2 Stony Brook University, 3 University of British Columbia |
Session P8 -
S23
Beyond Canonical Texts: A Computational Analysis of Fanfiction
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Smitha Milli 1 and David Bamman 2 1 UC Berkeley, 2 University of California, Berkeley |
Session P8 -
S24
Using Syntactic and Semantic Context to Explore Psychodemographic Differences in Self-reference
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Masoud Rouhizadeh 1 , Lyle Ungar 2 , Anneke Buffone 2 , H. Andrew Schwartz 3 1 Stony Brook Univ. / Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2 University of Pennsylvania, 3 Stony Brook University |
Session P8 -
S25
Learning to Identify Metaphors from a Corpus of Proverbs
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Gözde Özbal 1 , Carlo Strapparava 1 , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu 2 , Daniele Pighin 3 1 FBK-irst, 2 University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 3 Google Inc |
Session P8 -
S26
An Embedding Model for Predicting Roll-Call Votes
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
Peter Kraft, Hirsh Jain, Alexander M. Rush Harvard University |
Session P8 -
S27
Natural Language Model Re-usability for Scaling to Different Domains
[Spoken Language Processing]
Young-Bum Kim, Alexandre Rochette, Ruhi Sarikaya Microsoft |
Session P8 -
S28
Leveraging Sentence-level Information with Encoder LSTM for Semantic Slot Filling
[Spoken Language Processing]
Gakuto Kurata 1 , Bing Xiang 2 , Bowen Zhou 2 , Mo Yu 2 1 IBM Research, 2 IBM Watson |
Session P8 -
S29
AMR-to-text generation as a Traveling Salesman Problem
[Summarization]
Linfeng Song 1 , Yue Zhang 2 , Xiaochang Peng 1 , Zhiguo Wang 3 , Daniel Gildea 1 1 University of Rochester, 2 Singapore University of Technology and Design, 3 IBM Watson Research Center |
Session P8 -
S30
Learning to Capitalize with Character-Level Recurrent Neural Networks: An Empirical Study
[Text Mining & Applications]
Raymond Hendy Susanto 1 , Hai Leong Chieu 2 , Wei Lu 1 1 Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2 DSO National Laboratories |
Session P8 -
S31
The Effects of the Content of FOMC Communications on US Treasury Rates
[Text Mining & Applications]
Christopher Rohlfs 1 , Sunandan Chakraborty 2 , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian 2 1 Morgan Stanley, 2 New York University |
Session P8 -
S32
Learning to refine text based recommendations
[Text Mining & Applications]
Youyang Gu, Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Session P8 -
S33
There's No Comparison: Reference-less Evaluation Metrics in Grammatical Error Correction
[Text Mining & Applications]
Courtney Napoles 1 , Keisuke Sakaguchi 1 , Joel Tetreault 2 1 Johns Hopkins University, 2 Grammarly |
Session P8 -
S34
Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computational Measures of Semantic Change
[Social Media & Computational Social Science]
William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky Stanford University |
Friday, November 4, 2016
07:30 - 17:30 | Registration Day 3 - Salon H Prefunction |
08:00 - 09:00 | Morning Coffee |
09:00 - 10:00 | Session P9 - Plenary Session: Invited Talk by Andreas Stolcke - Salon FG |
09:00 - 10:00 |
You Talking to Me? Speech-based and Multimodal Approaches for Human versus Computer Addressee Detection
Andreas Stolcke |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 7A -
Dialogue Systems (Long Papers)
- Salon FG
Chair: Diane Litman |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 7A -
How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response Generation
Chia-Wei Liu 1 , Ryan Lowe 1 , Iulian Serban 2 , Mike Noseworthy 1 , Laurent Charlin 1 , Joelle Pineau 1 1 McGill University, 2 University of Montreal |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 7A -
Addressee and Response Selection for Multi-Party Conversation
Hiroki Ouchi 1 and Yuta Tsuboi 2 1 Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2 IBM Research - Tokyo |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 7A -
Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Spoken Language Understanding
Kei Wakabayashi 1 , Johane Takeuchi 2 , Kotaro Funakoshi 2 , Mikio Nakano 2 1 Tsukuba University, 2 Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd. |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 7A -
Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems
Tsung-Hsien Wen 1 , Milica Gasic 1 , Nikola Mrkšić 1 , Lina M. Rojas Barahona 2 , Pei-Hao Su 1 , Stefan Ultes 1 , David Vandyke 1 , Steve Young 3 1 University of Cambridge, 2 University of Cambridge., 3 Cambridge University |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 7B -
Semantic Similarity (Long Papers)
- Salon J
Chair: Ido Dagan |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 7B -
Relations such as Hypernymy: Identifying and Exploiting Hearst Patterns in Distributional Vectors for Lexical Entailment
Stephen Roller 1 and Katrin Erk 2 1 The University of Texas at Austin, 2 University of Texas at Austin |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 7B -
SimVerb-3500: A Large-Scale Evaluation Set of Verb Similarity
Daniela Gerz 1 , Ivan Vulić 1 , Felix Hill 2 , Roi Reichart 3 , Anna Korhonen 1 1 University of Cambridge, 2 Cambridge University, 3 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 7B -
POLY: Mining Relational Paraphrases from Multilingual Sentences
Adam Grycner 1 and Gerhard Weikum 2 1 Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, 2 Max Planck Institute for Informatics |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 7B -
Exploiting Sentence Similarities for Better Alignments
Tao Li and Vivek Srikumar University of Utah |
10:30 - 12:10 |
Session 7C -
Dependency Parsing (Long + TACL Papers)
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
10:30 - 10:55 |
Session 7C -
Bi-directional Attention with Agreement for Dependency Parsing
Hao Cheng 1 , Hao Fang 1 , Xiaodong He 2 , Jianfeng Gao 3 , Li Deng 2 1 University of Washington, 2 Microsoft Research, 3 Microsoft Research, Redmond |
10:55 - 11:20 |
Session 7C -
[TACL]
The Galactic Dependencies Treebanks: Getting More Data by Synthesizing New Languages
Dingquan Wang and Jason Eisner Johns Hopkins University |
11:20 - 11:45 |
Session 7C -
[TACL]
Easy-First Dependency Parsing with Hierarchical Tree LSTMs
Eliyahu Kiperwasser 1 and Yoav Goldberg 2 1 Bar-Ilan University, 2 Bar Ilan University |
11:45 - 12:10 |
Session 7C -
Anchoring and Agreement in Syntactic Annotations
Yevgeni Berzak 1 , Yan Huang 2 , Andrei Barbu 1 , Anna Korhonen 3 , Boris Katz 1 1 CSAIL MIT, 2 DTAL Cambridge University, 3 University of Cambridge |
12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch |
13:40 - 15:25 |
Session 8A -
Short Paper Oral Session I
- Salon FG
Chair: Wei Xu |
13:40 - 13:55 |
Session 8A -
Tense Manages to Predict Implicative Behavior in Verbs
Ellie Pavlick and Chris Callison-Burch University of Pennsylvania |
13:55 - 14:10 |
Session 8A -
Who did What: A Large-Scale Person-Centered Cloze Dataset
Takeshi Onishi 1 , Hai Wang 1 , Mohit Bansal 2 , Kevin Gimpel 1 , David McAllester 1 1 Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
14:10 - 14:25 |
Session 8A -
Building compositional semantics and higher-order inference system for a wide-coverage Japanese CCG parser
Koji Mineshima 1 , Ribeka Tanaka 1 , Pascual Martínez-Gómez 2 , Yusuke Miyao 3 , Daisuke Bekki 1 1 Ochanomizu University, 2 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 3 National Instutite of Informatics |
14:25 - 14:40 |
Session 8A -
Learning to Generate Compositional Color Descriptions
Will Monroe, Noah D. Goodman, Christopher Potts Stanford University |
14:40 - 14:55 |
Session 8A -
A Decomposable Attention Model for Natural Language Inference
Ankur Parikh 1 , Oscar Täckström 1 , Dipanjan Das 2 , Jakob Uszkoreit 3 1 Google, 2 Google Inc., 3 Google, Inc. |
14:55 - 15:10 |
Session 8A -
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mention-Ranking Coreference Models
Kevin Clark and Christopher D. Manning Stanford University |
15:10 - 15:25 |
Session 8A -
A Stacking Gated Neural Architecture for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Lianhui Qin 1 , Zhisong Zhang 2 , Hai Zhao 2 1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
13:40 - 15:25 |
Session 8B -
Short Paper Oral Session II
- Salon J
Chair: Yejin Choi |
13:40 - 13:55 |
Session 8B -
Insertion Position Selection Model for Flexible Non-Terminals in Dependency Tree-to-Tree Machine Translation
Toshiaki Nakazawa 1 , John Richardson 2 , Sadao Kurohashi 2 1 Japan Science and Technology Agency, 2 Kyoto University |
13:55 - 14:10 |
Session 8B -
Why Neural Translations are the Right Length
Xing Shi 1 , Kevin Knight 2 , Deniz Yuret 3 1 University of Southern California, 2 USC/ISI, 3 Koc University |
14:10 - 14:25 |
Session 8B -
Supervised Attentions for Neural Machine Translation
Haitao Mi 1 , Zhiguo Wang 1 , Abe Ittycheriah 2 1 IBM Watson Research Center, 2 IBM |
14:25 - 14:40 |
Session 8B -
Learning principled bilingual mappings of word embeddings while preserving monolingual invariance
Mikel Artetxe 1 , Gorka Labaka 2 , Eneko Agirre 2 1 University of the Basque Country, 2 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) |
14:40 - 14:55 |
Session 8B -
Measuring the behavioral impact of machine translation quality improvements with A/B testing
Ben Russell 1 and Duncan Gillespie 2 1 Etsy, Inc., 2 Etsy, Inc |
14:55 - 15:10 |
Session 8B -
Creating a Large Benchmark for Open Information Extraction
Gabriel Stanovsky 1 and Ido Dagan 2 1 Bar Ilan University, 2 Bar-Ilan University |
15:10 - 15:25 |
Session 8B -
Bilingually-constrained Synthetic Data for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
Changxing Wu 1 , xiaodong shi 1 , Yidong Chen 2 , Yanzhou Huang 1 , jinsong su 1 1 Xiamen University, 2 Department of Cognitive Science, School of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University |
13:40 - 15:25 |
Session 8C -
Short Paper Oral Session III
- Room 616 AB
Chair: Rebecca Hwa |
13:40 - 13:55 |
Session 8C -
Transition-Based Dependency Parsing with Heuristic Backtracking
Jacob Buckman 1 , Miguel Ballesteros 2 , Chris Dyer 3 1 Carnegie Mellon University, 2 Pompeu Fabra University, 3 Google DeepMind |
13:55 - 14:10 |
Session 8C -
Word Ordering Without Syntax
Allen Schmaltz 1 , Alexander M. Rush 1 , Stuart Shieber 2 1 Harvard University, 2 |
14:10 - 14:25 |
Session 8C -
Morphological Segmentation Inside-Out
Ryan Cotterell 1 , Arun Kumar 2 , Hinrich Schütze 3 1 Johns Hopkins University, 2 Universitat Oberta Catalonia, UPC, Barcelona, 3 Center for Information and Language Processing, University of Munich |
14:25 - 14:40 |
Session 8C -
Parsing as Language Modeling
Do Kook Choe and Eugene Charniak Brown University |
14:40 - 14:55 |
Session 8C -
Human-in-the-Loop Parsing
Luheng He, Julian Michael, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer University of Washington |
14:55 - 15:10 |
Session 8C -
Unsupervised Timeline Generation for Wikipedia History Articles
Sandro Bauer 1 and Simone Teufel 2 1 University of Cambridge, 2 Cambridge University |
15:10 - 15:25 |
Session 8C -
Encoding Temporal Information for Time-Aware Link Prediction
Tingsong Jiang 1 , Tianyu Liu 2 , Tao Ge 3 , Lei Sha 4 , Sujian Li 4 , Baobao Chang 4 , Zhifang Sui 5 1 Institute of Computational Linguistics,Peking University, 2 PKU, 3 Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, 4 Peking University, 5 |
15:25 - 15:50 | Coffee Break |
15:50 - 17:25 |
Session P10 -
Plenary Session: Best Paper
- Salon FG
Chair: Kevin Duh Co-Chair: Xavier Carreras |
15:50 - 15:55 |
Introduction to Best Papers
Program Chairs |
15:55 - 16:20 |
Session P10 -
Improving Information Extraction by Acquiring External Evidence with Reinforcement Learning
Karthik Narasimhan 1 , Adam Yala 1 , Regina Barzilay 2 1 CSAIL, MIT, 2 MIT |
16:20 - 16:45 |
Session P10 -
Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees
Kenton Lee, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer University of Washington |
16:45 - 17:00 |
Session P10 -
Learning a Lexicon and Translation Model from Phoneme Lattices
Oliver Adams 1 , Graham Neubig 2 , Trevor Cohn 3 , Steven Bird 3 , Quoc Truong Do 4 , Satoshi Nakamura 5 1 The University of Melbourne, 2 Carnegie Mellon University, 3 University of Melbourne, 4 Graduate school of Information and Science, NARA Institute of Science and Technology, 5 Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
17:00 - 17:25 |
Session P10 -
SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text
Pranav Rajpurkar, Jian Zhang, Konstantin Lopyrev, Percy Liang Stanford University |
17:25 - 17:45 | Session P11 - Plenary Session: Closing Remarks - Salon FG |
17:25 - 17:45 |
Closing Remarks
General Chair |
Workshop Programs
Tuesday, November 1st
- W1: 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media – [Proceedings]
- W2: 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching – [Proceedings]
- W4: Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing – [Proceedings]
- W5: NLP and Computational Social Science – [Proceedings]
- W6: 7th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis – [Proceedings]
- W7: 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines – [Proceedings]
- W8: Uphill Battles in Language Processing: Scaling early achievements to robust methods – [Proceedings]