ACL 2017

357 papers

Tutorial: Making Better Use of the Crowd

Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Beyond Words: Deep Learning for Multiword Expressions and Collocations

Valia Kordoni

Deep Learning for Dialogue Systems

Yun-Nung Chen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Deep Learning for Semantic Composition

Xiaodan Zhu, Edward Grefenstette

Multimodal Machine Learning: Integrating Language, Vision and Speech

Louis-Philippe Morency, Tadas Baltrusaitis

NLP for Precision Medicine

Hoifung Poon, Chris Quirk, Kristina Toutanova, Wen-tau Yih

Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

Maja Popović, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Zara Returns: Improved Personality Induction and Adaptation by an Empathetic Virtual Agent

Farhad Bin Siddique, Onno Kampman, Yang Yang, Anik Dey, Pascale Fung

WebChild 2.0 : Fine-Grained Commonsense Knowledge Distillation

Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum

UCCAApp: Web-application for Syntactic and Semantic Phrase-based Annotation

Omri Abend, Shai Yerushalmi, Ari Rappoport

Swanson linking revisited: Accelerating literature-based discovery across domains using a conceptual influence graph

Gus Hahn-Powell, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega, Mihai Surdeanu

SuperAgent: A Customer Service Chatbot for E-commerce Websites

Lei Cui, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, Chuanqi Tan, Chaoqun Duan

Semedico: A Comprehensive Semantic Search Engine for the Life Sciences

Erik Faessler, Udo Hahn

Scattertext: a Browser-Based Tool for Visualizing how Corpora Differ

Jason Kessler

RelTextRank: An Open Source Framework for Building Relational Syntactic-Semantic Text Pair Representations

Kateryna Tymoshenko, Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Nicosia, Aliaksei Severyn

PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit

Stefan Ultes, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Dongho Kim

OpenNMT: Open-Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation

Guillaume Klein, Yoon Kim, Yuntian Deng, Jean Senellart, Alexander Rush

Olelo: A Question Answering Application for Biomedicine

Mariana Neves, Hendrik Folkerts, Marcel Jankrift, Julian Niedermeier, Toni Stachewicz

Life-iNet: A Structured Network-Based Knowledge Exploration and Analytics System for Life Sciences

Xiang Ren, Jiaming Shen, Meng Qu, Xuan Wang, Zeqiu Wu

Interactive Visual Analysis of Transcribed Multi-Party Discourse

Mennatallah El-Assady, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Valentin Gold, Miriam Butt, Katharina Holzinger

Hafez: an Interactive Poetry Generation System

Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Jay Priyadarshi, Kevin Knight

Extended Named Entity Recognition API and Its Applications in Language Education

Tuan Duc Nguyen, Khai Mai, Thai-Hoang Pham, Minh Trung Nguyen, Truc-Vien T. Nguyen

Exploring Diachronic Lexical Semantics with JeSemE

Johannes Hellrich, Udo Hahn

ESTEEM: A Novel Framework for Qualitatively Evaluating and Visualizing Spatiotemporal Embeddings in Social Media

Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova

End-to-End Non-Factoid Question Answering with an Interactive Visualization of Neural Attention Weights

Andreas Rücklé, Iryna Gurevych

Benben: A Chinese Intelligent Conversational Robot

Wei-Nan Zhang, Ting Liu, Bing Qin, Yu Zhang, Wanxiang Che

Automating Biomedical Evidence Synthesis: RobotReviewer

Iain Marshall, Joël Kuiper, Edward Banner, Byron C. Wallace

Annotating tense, mood and voice for English, French and German

Anita Ramm, Sharid Loáiciga, Annemarie Friedrich, Alexander Fraser

Proceedings of ACL 2017, System Demonstrations

Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji

Negotiation of Antibiotic Treatment in Medical Consultations: A Corpus Based Study

Nan Wang

Varying Linguistic Purposes of Emoji in (Twitter) Context

Noa Na’aman, Hannah Provenza, Orion Montoya

An Empirical Study on End-to-End Sentence Modelling

Kurt Junshean Espinosa

Modeling Situations in Neural Chat Bots

Shoetsu Sato, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa

Fast Forward Through Opportunistic Incremental Meaning Representation Construction

Petr Babkin, Sergei Nirenburg

Predicting Depression for Japanese Blog Text

Misato Hiraga

Generating Steganographic Text with LSTMs

Tina Fang, Martin Jaggi, Katerina Argyraki

Accent Adaptation for the Air Traffic Control Domain

Matthew Garber, Meital Singer, Christopher Ward

SoccEval: An Annotation Schema for Rating Soccer Players

Jose Ramirez, Matthew Garber, Xinhao Wang

Domain Specific Automatic Question Generation from Text

Katira Soleymanzadeh

Word Embedding for Response-To-Text Assessment of Evidence

Haoran Zhang, Diane Litman

Automatic Generation of Jokes in Hindi

Srishti Aggarwal, Radhika Mamidi

Blind Phoneme Segmentation With Temporal Prediction Errors

Paul Michel, Okko Rasanen, Roland Thiollière, Emmanuel Dupoux

Variation Autoencoder Based Network Representation Learning for Classification

Hang Li, Haozheng Wang, Zhenglu Yang, Masato Odagaki

Text-based Speaker Identification on Multiparty Dialogues Using Multi-document Convolutional Neural Networks

Kaixin Ma, Catherine Xiao, Jinho D. Choi

Segmentation Guided Attention Networks for Visual Question Answering

Vasu Sharma, Ankita Bishnu, Labhesh Patel

Building a Non-Trivial Paraphrase Corpus Using Multiple Machine Translation Systems

Yui Suzuki, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi

Are You Asking the Right Questions? Teaching Machines to Ask Clarification Questions

Sudha Rao

V for Vocab: An Intelligent Flashcard Application

Nihal V. Nayak, Tanmay Chinchore, Aishwarya Hanumanth Rao, Shane Michael Martin, Sagar Nagaraj Simha

nQuery - A Natural Language Statement to SQL Query Generator

Nandan Sukthankar, Sanket Maharnawar, Pranay Deshmukh, Yashodhara Haribhakta, Vibhavari Kamble

Bilingual Word Embeddings with Bucketed CNN for Parallel Sentence Extraction

Jeenu Grover, Pabitra Mitra

Improving Distributed Representations of Tweets - Present and Future

Ganesh Jawahar

Computational Characterization of Mental States: A Natural Language Processing Approach

Facundo Carrillo

Proceedings of ACL 2017, Student Research Workshop

Allyson Ettinger, Spandana Gella, Matthieu Labeau, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Marine Carpuat

How (not) to train a dependency parser: The curious case of jackknifing part-of-speech taggers

Željko Agić, Natalie Schluter

Character Composition Model with Convolutional Neural Networks for Dependency Parsing on Morphologically Rich Languages

Xiang Yu, Ngoc Thang Vu

Character-Aware Neural Morphological Disambiguation

Alymzhan Toleu, Gulmira Tolegen, Aibek Makazhanov

Temporal Orientation of Tweets for Predicting Income of Users

Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Sabyasachi Kamila, Mandeep Kaur, Sriparna Saha, Asif Ekbal

Recognizing Counterfactual Thinking in Social Media Texts

Youngseo Son, Anneke Buffone, Joe Raso, Allegra Larche, Anthony Janocko

Separating Facts from Fiction: Linguistic Models to Classify Suspicious and Trusted News Posts on Twitter

Svitlana Volkova, Kyle Shaffer, Jin Yea Jang, Nathan Hodas

Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About

Krishna Chaitanya Sanagavarapu, Alakananda Vempala, Eduardo Blanco

Improving Semantic Relevance for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning of Chinese Social Media Text Summarization

Shuming Ma, Xu Sun, Jingjing Xu, Houfeng Wang, Wenjie Li

Representing Sentences as Low-Rank Subspaces

Jiaqi Mu, Suma Bhat, Pramod Viswanath

Neural Semantic Parsing over Multiple Knowledge-bases

Jonathan Herzig, Jonathan Berant

Pay Attention to the Ending:Strong Neural Baselines for the ROC Story Cloze Task

Zheng Cai, Lifu Tu, Kevin Gimpel

Fast and Accurate Neural Word Segmentation for Chinese

Deng Cai, Hai Zhao, Zhisong Zhang, Yuan Xin, Yongjian Wu

Challenging Language-Dependent Segmentation for Arabic: An Application to Machine Translation and Part-of-Speech Tagging

Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Abdelali, Yonatan Belinkov

EuroSense: Automatic Harvesting of Multilingual Sense Annotations from Parallel Text

Claudio Delli Bovi, Jose Camacho-Collados, Alessandro Raganato, Roberto Navigli

Model Transfer for Tagging Low-resource Languages using a Bilingual Dictionary

Meng Fang, Trevor Cohn

Chunk-Based Bi-Scale Decoder for Neural Machine Translation

Hao Zhou, Zhaopeng Tu, Shujian Huang, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li

Speeding Up Neural Machine Translation Decoding by Shrinking Run-time Vocabulary

Xing Shi, Kevin Knight

Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Marzieh Fadaee, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz

Sentence Embedding for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation

Rui Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

On the Equivalence of Holographic and Complex Embeddings for Link Prediction

Katsuhiko Hayashi, Masashi Shimbo

Disfluency Detection using a Noisy Channel Model and a Deep Neural Language Model

Paria Jamshid Lou, Mark Johnson

Improving Native Language Identification by Using Spelling Errors

Lingzhen Chen, Carlo Strapparava, Vivi Nastase

List-only Entity Linking

Ying Lin, Chin-Yew Lin, Heng Ji

Salience Rank: Efficient Keyphrase Extraction with Topic Modeling

Nedelina Teneva, Weiwei Cheng

A Generative Attentional Neural Network Model for Dialogue Act Classification

Quan Hung Tran, Gholamreza Haffari, Ingrid Zukerman

Self-Crowdsourcing Training for Relation Extraction

Azad Abad, Moin Nabi, Alessandro Moschitti

Question Answering through Transfer Learning from Large Fine-grained Supervision Data

Sewon Min, Minjoon Seo, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

A Conditional Variational Framework for Dialog Generation

Xiaoyu Shen, Hui Su, Yanran Li, Wenjie Li, Shuzi Niu

AliMe Chat: A Sequence to Sequence and Rerank based Chatbot Engine

Minghui Qiu, Feng-Lin Li, Siyu Wang, Xing Gao, Yan Chen

Parser Adaptation for Social Media by Integrating Normalization

Rob van der Goot, Gertjan van Noord

A Network Framework for Noisy Label Aggregation in Social Media

Xueying Zhan, Yaowei Wang, Yanghui Rao, Haoran Xie, Qing Li

Twitter Demographic Classification Using Deep Multi-modal Multi-task Learning

Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy

Demographic Inference on Twitter using Recursive Neural Networks

Sunghwan Mac Kim, Qiongkai Xu, Lizhen Qu, Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris

Best-Worst Scaling More Reliable than Rating Scales: A Case Study on Sentiment Intensity Annotation

Svetlana Kiritchenko, Saif Mohammad

Multilingual Connotation Frames: A Case Study on Social Media for Targeted Sentiment Analysis and Forecast

Hannah Rashkin, Eric Bell, Yejin Choi, Svitlana Volkova

Methodical Evaluation of Arabic Word Embeddings

Mohammed Elrazzaz, Shady Elbassuoni, Khaled Shaban, Chadi Helwe

Temporal Word Analogies: Identifying Lexical Replacement with Diachronic Word Embeddings

Terrence Szymanski

Learning Topic-Sensitive Word Representations

Marzieh Fadaee, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz

Improving Semantic Composition with Offset Inference

Thomas Kober, Julie Weeds, Jeremy Reffin, David Weir

English Multiword Expression-aware Dependency Parsing Including Named Entities

Akihiko Kato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto

“Liar, Liar Pants on Fire”: A New Benchmark Dataset for Fake News Detection

William Yang Wang

STAIR Captions: Constructing a Large-Scale Japanese Image Caption Dataset

Yuya Yoshikawa, Yutaro Shigeto, Akikazu Takeuchi

Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare

Maria Ryskina, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Dan Garrette, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Detection of Chinese Word Usage Errors for Non-Native Chinese Learners with Bidirectional LSTM

Yow-Ting Shiue, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Feature Hashing for Language and Dialect Identification

Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras

Efficient Extraction of Pseudo-Parallel Sentences from Raw Monolingual Data Using Word Embeddings

Benjamin Marie, Atsushi Fujita

An Empirical Comparison of Domain Adaptation Methods for Neural Machine Translation

Chenhui Chu, Raj Dabre, Sadao Kurohashi