Ryan Mcdonald
48 papers · 2005–2025 · 8 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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question answering
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abstractive summarization
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recurrent neural network
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zero-shot learning
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dialogue generation
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part-of-speech tagging
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document retrieval
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maximum entropy
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offline reinforcement learning
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text classification
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Papers
Sparse Rewards Can Self-Train Dialogue Agents
ACL 2025
On the Effectiveness of Offline RL for Dialogue Response Generation
ICML 2023
Decoding Part-of-Speech from Human EEG Signals
ACL 2022
Long-term Control for Dialogue Generation: Methods and Evaluation
NAACL 2022
Focus Attention: Promoting Faithfulness and Diversity in Summarization
ACL 2021
Leveraging Type Descriptions for Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition and Classification
ACL 2021
Zero-shot Neural Passage Retrieval via Domain-targeted Synthetic Question Generation
EACL 2021
BioMRC: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension
ACL 2020
On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization
ACL 2020
Stepwise Extractive Summarization and Planning with Structured Transformers
EMNLP 2020
Embedding Biomedical Ontologies by Jointly Encoding Network Structure and Textual Node Descriptors
ACL 2019
AUEB at BioASQ 6: Document and Snippet Retrieval
EMNLP 2018
Deep Relevance Ranking Using Enhanced Document-Query Interactions
EMNLP 2018
Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive Token Encodings
ACL 2018
Natural Language Processing with Small Feed-Forward Networks
EMNLP 2017
Generalized Transition-based Dependency Parsing via Control Parameters
ACL 2016
A Linear-Time Transition System for Crossing Interval Trees
NAACL 2015
Adapting taggers to Twitter with not-so-distant supervision
COLING 2014
Enforcing Structural Diversity in Cube-pruned Dependency Parsing
ACL 2014
Online Learning for Inexact Hypergraph Search
EMNLP 2013
Target Language Adaptation of Discriminative Transfer Parsers
NAACL 2013
Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing
ACL 2013
Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure
NAACL 2012
Generalized Higher-Order Dependency Parsing with Cube Pruning
EMNLP 2012
Using Search-Logs to Improve Query Tagging
ACL 2012
Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers
EMNLP 2011
Semi-supervised latent variable models for sentence-level sentiment analysis
ACL 2011
Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering
EMNLP 2011
Training dependency parsers by jointly optimizing multiple objectives
EMNLP 2011
Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron
NAACL 2010
Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies
COLING 2010
The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons
NAACL 2010
Contrastive Summarization: An Experiment with Consumer Reviews
NAACL 2009
Efficient Large-Scale Distributed Training of Conditional Maximum Entropy Models
NeurIPS 2009
Sentiment Summarization: Evaluating and Learning User Preferences
EACL 2009
A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization
ACL 2008
Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers
ACL 2008
Characterizing the Errors of Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Models
EMNLP 2007
Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis
ACL 2007
The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing
EMNLP 2007
Discriminative Sentence Compression with Soft Syntactic Evidence
EACL 2006
Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning
EMNLP 2006
Multilingual Dependency Analysis with a Two-Stage Discriminative Parser
CoNLL 2006
Online Learning of Approximate Dependency Parsing Algorithms
EACL 2006
Flexible Text Segmentation with Structured Multilabel Classification
EMNLP 2005
Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms
EMNLP 2005
Online Large-Margin Training of Dependency Parsers
ACL 2005
Simple Algorithms for Complex Relation Extraction with Applications to Biomedical IE
ACL 2005