ACL 2017

357 papers

Neural System Combination for Machine Translation

Long Zhou, Wenpeng Hu, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong

A Deep Network with Visual Text Composition Behavior

Hongyu Guo

Differentiable Scheduled Sampling for Credit Assignment

Kartik Goyal, Chris Dyer, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Question Answering on Knowledge Bases and Text using Universal Schema and Memory Networks

Rajarshi Das, Manzil Zaheer, Siva Reddy, Andrew McCallum

Integrating Deep Linguistic Features in Factuality Prediction over Unified Datasets

Gabriel Stanovsky, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Yevgeniy Puzikov, Ido Dagan, Iryna Gurevych

Cardinal Virtues: Extracting Relation Cardinalities from Text

Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari, Gerhard Weikum

Multi-Task Learning of Keyphrase Boundary Classification

Isabelle Augenstein, Anders Søgaard

Group Sparse CNNs for Question Classification with Answer Sets

Mingbo Ma, Liang Huang, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou

Fine-Grained Entity Typing with High-Multiplicity Assignments

Maxim Rabinovich, Dan Klein

Feature-Rich Networks for Knowledge Base Completion

Alexandros Komninos, Suresh Manandhar

Bootstrapping for Numerical Open IE

Swarnadeep Saha, Harinder Pal, Mausam

Answering Complex Questions Using Open Information Extraction

Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Peter Clark

Pocket Knowledge Base Population

Travis Wolfe, Mark Dredze, Benjamin Van Durme

EviNets: Neural Networks for Combining Evidence Signals for Factoid Question Answering

Denis Savenkov, Eugene Agichtein

English Event Detection With Translated Language Features

Sam Wei, Igor Korostil, Joel Nothman, Ben Hachey

A Neural Architecture for Generating Natural Language Descriptions from Source Code Changes

Pablo Loyola, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Yutaka Matsuo

Japanese Sentence Compression with a Large Training Dataset

Shun Hasegawa, Yuta Kikuchi, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Oracle Summaries of Compressive Summarization

Tsutomu Hirao, Masaaki Nishino, Masaaki Nagata

Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Discourse-specific Word Embeddings

Changxing Wu, Xiaodong Shi, Yidong Chen, Jinsong Su, Boli Wang

Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework

Xinhao Wang, James Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini, Klaus Zechner

A Recurrent Neural Model with Attention for the Recognition of Chinese Implicit Discourse Relations

Samuel Rönnqvist, Niko Schenk, Christian Chiarcos

Argumentation Quality Assessment: Theory vs. Practice

Henning Wachsmuth, Nona Naderi, Ivan Habernal, Yufang Hou, Graeme Hirst

Detecting Good Arguments in a Non-Topic-Specific Way: An Oxymoron?

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Binod Gyawali, Yi Song

Cross-lingual and cross-domain discourse segmentation of entire documents

Chloé Braud, Ophélie Lacroix, Anders Søgaard

How to Make Context More Useful? An Empirical Study on Context-Aware Neural Conversational Models

Zhiliang Tian, Rui Yan, Lili Mou, Yiping Song, Yansong Feng

Neural Architecture for Temporal Relation Extraction: A Bi-LSTM Approach for Detecting Narrative Containers

Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Aurélie Névéol, Xavier Tannier

A Corpus of Natural Language for Visual Reasoning

Alane Suhr, Mike Lewis, James Yeh, Yoav Artzi

A Neural Model for User Geolocation and Lexical Dialectology

Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

Understanding and Detecting Supporting Arguments of Diverse Types

Xinyu Hua, Lu Wang

Attention Strategies for Multi-Source Sequence-to-Sequence Learning

Jindřich Libovický, Jindřich Helcl

Error-repair Dependency Parsing for Ungrammatical Texts

Keisuke Sakaguchi, Matt Post, Benjamin Van Durme

A Two-Stage Parsing Method for Text-Level Discourse Analysis

Yizhong Wang, Sujian Li, Houfeng Wang

The Role of Prosody and Speech Register in Word Segmentation: A Computational Modelling Perspective

Bogdan Ludusan, Reiko Mazuka, Mathieu Bernard, Alejandrina Cristia, Emmanuel Dupoux

Implicitly-Defined Neural Networks for Sequence Labeling

Michaeel Kazi, Brian Thompson

Information-Theory Interpretation of the Skip-Gram Negative-Sampling Objective Function

Oren Melamud, Jacob Goldberger

Improving Neural Parsing by Disentangling Model Combination and Reranking Effects

Daniel Fried, Mitchell Stern, Dan Klein

Exploiting Domain Knowledge via Grouped Weight Sharing with Application to Text Categorization

Ye Zhang, Matthew Lease, Byron C. Wallace

Lifelong Learning CRF for Supervised Aspect Extraction

Lei Shu, Hu Xu, Bing Liu

Learning Lexico-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect

Lena Reed, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Pranav Anand, Marilyn Walker

Towards String-To-Tree Neural Machine Translation

Roee Aharoni, Yoav Goldberg

Hybrid Neural Network Alignment and Lexicon Model in Direct HMM for Statistical Machine Translation

Weiyue Wang, Tamer Alkhouli, Derui Zhu, Hermann Ney

A Generative Parser with a Discriminative Recognition Algorithm

Jianpeng Cheng, Adam Lopez, Mirella Lapata

Arc-swift: A Novel Transition System for Dependency Parsing

Peng Qi, Christopher D. Manning

Understanding Task Design Trade-offs in Crowdsourced Paraphrase Collection

Youxuan Jiang, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Walter S. Lasecki

Sentence Alignment Methods for Improving Text Simplification Systems

Sanja Štajner, Marc Franco-Salvador, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Paolo Rosso, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

On the Challenges of Translating NLP Research into Commercial Products

Daniel Dahlmeier

Exploring Neural Text Simplification Models

Sergiu Nisioi, Sanja Štajner, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Liviu P. Dinu

On the Distribution of Lexical Features at Multiple Levels of Analysis

Fatemeh Almodaresi, Lyle Ungar, Vivek Kulkarni, Mohsen Zakeri, Salvatore Giorgi

Learning to Parse and Translate Improves Neural Machine Translation

Akiko Eriguchi, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kyunghyun Cho

An Analysis of Action Recognition Datasets for Language and Vision Tasks

Spandana Gella, Frank Keller

Evaluating Compound Splitters Extrinsically with Textual Entailment

Glorianna Jagfeld, Patrick Ziering, Lonneke van der Plas

Incorporating Dialectal Variability for Socially Equitable Language Identification

David Jurgens, Yulia Tsvetkov, Dan Jurafsky

Incorporating Uncertainty into Deep Learning for Spoken Language Assessment

Andrey Malinin, Anton Ragni, Kate Knill, Mark Gales

Neural Architectures for Multilingual Semantic Parsing

Raymond Hendy Susanto, Wei Lu

Vector space models for evaluating semantic fluency in autism

Emily Prud’hommeaux, Jan van Santen, Douglas Gliner

A Principled Framework for Evaluating Summarizers: Comparing Models of Summary Quality against Human Judgments

Maxime Peyrard, Judith Eckle-Kohler

Alternative Objective Functions for Training MT Evaluation Metrics

Miloš Stanojević, Khalil Sima’an

Lexical Features in Coreference Resolution: To be Used With Caution

Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Michael Strube

AMR-to-text Generation with Synchronous Node Replacement Grammar

Linfeng Song, Xiaochang Peng, Yue Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Daniel Gildea

Classifying Temporal Relations by Bidirectional LSTM over Dependency Paths

Fei Cheng, Yusuke Miyao

Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan

Semantic Parsing of Pre-university Math Problems

Takuya Matsuzaki, Takumi Ito, Hidenao Iwane, Hirokazu Anai, Noriko H. Arai

Semi-supervised Multitask Learning for Sequence Labeling

Marek Rei

Parsing to 1-Endpoint-Crossing, Pagenumber-2 Graphs

Junjie Cao, Sheng Huang, Weiwei Sun, Xiaojun Wan

Identifying 1950s American Jazz Musicians: Fine-Grained IsA Extraction via Modifier Composition

Ellie Pavlick, Marius Pasca

Ontology-Aware Token Embeddings for Prepositional Phrase Attachment

Pradeep Dasigi, Waleed Ammar, Chris Dyer, Eduard Hovy

Revisiting Recurrent Networks for Paraphrastic Sentence Embeddings

John Wieting, Kevin Gimpel

A Progressive Learning Approach to Chinese SRL Using Heterogeneous Data

Qiaolin Xia, Lei Sha, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui

Learning Character-level Compositionality with Visual Features

Frederick Liu, Han Lu, Chieh Lo, Graham Neubig

Improved Word Representation Learning with Sememes

Yilin Niu, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

Deep Multitask Learning for Semantic Dependency Parsing

Hao Peng, Sam Thomson, Noah A. Smith

Riemannian Optimization for Skip-Gram Negative Sampling

Alexander Fonarev, Oleksii Grinchuk, Gleb Gusev, Pavel Serdyukov, Ivan Oseledets

From Characters to Words to in Between: Do We Capture Morphology?

Clara Vania, Adam Lopez

Morphological Inflection Generation with Hard Monotonic Attention

Roee Aharoni, Yoav Goldberg

One-Shot Neural Cross-Lingual Transfer for Paradigm Completion

Katharina Kann, Ryan Cotterell, Hinrich Schütze

Using Global Constraints and Reranking to Improve Cognates Detection

Michael Bloodgood, Benjamin Strauss

Estimating Code-Switching on Twitter with a Novel Generalized Word-Level Language Detection Technique

Shruti Rijhwani, Royal Sequiera, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Chandra Shekhar Maddila

Adversarial Training for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Meng Zhang, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun

Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages

Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Jonathan May, Joel Nothman, Kevin Knight

Improved Neural Machine Translation with a Syntax-Aware Encoder and Decoder

Huadong Chen, Shujian Huang, David Chiang, Jiajun Chen

A Teacher-Student Framework for Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Yun Chen, Yang Liu, Yong Cheng, Victor O.K. Li

Doubly-Attentive Decoder for Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation

Iacer Calixto, Qun Liu, Nick Campbell

Chunk-based Decoder for Neural Machine Translation

Shonosuke Ishiwatari, Jingtao Yao, Shujie LIU, Mu Li, Ming Zhou

An Algebra for Feature Extraction

Vivek Srikumar

Learning to Skim Text

Adams Wei Yu, Hongrae Lee, Quoc Le

Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions

Danqi Chen, Adam Fisch, Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes

Towards a Seamless Integration of Word Senses into Downstream NLP Applications

Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Jose Camacho-Collados, Roberto Navigli, Nigel Collier

Determining Gains Acquired from Word Embedding Quantitatively Using Discrete Distribution Clustering

Jianbo Ye, Yanran Li, Zhaohui Wu, James Z. Wang, Wenjie Li

Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension

Bhuwan Dhingra, Hanxiao Liu, Zhilin Yang, William Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Search-based Neural Structured Learning for Sequential Question Answering

Mohit Iyyer, Wen-tau Yih, Ming-Wei Chang

Jointly Extracting Relations with Class Ties via Effective Deep Ranking

Hai Ye, Wenhan Chao, Zhunchen Luo, Zhoujun Li

Topical Coherence in LDA-based Models through Induced Segmentation

Hesam Amoualian, Wei Lu, Eric Gaussier, Georgios Balikas, Massih R. Amini

Exploiting Argument Information to Improve Event Detection via Supervised Attention Mechanisms

Shulin Liu, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking

Nikola Mrkšić, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young

Learning Symmetric Collaborative Dialogue Agents with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Embeddings

He He, Anusha Balakrishnan, Mihail Eric, Percy Liang

Semi-supervised sequence tagging with bidirectional language models

Matthew E. Peters, Waleed Ammar, Chandra Bhagavatula, Russell Power

Generic Axiomatization of Families of Noncrossing Graphs in Dependency Parsing

Anssi Yli-Jyrä, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Universal Dependencies Parsing for Colloquial Singaporean English

Hongmin Wang, Yue Zhang, GuangYong Leonard Chan, jie Yang, Hai Leong Chieu

CANE: Context-Aware Network Embedding for Relation Modeling

Cunchao Tu, Han Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

Volatility Prediction using Financial Disclosures Sentiments with Word Embedding-based IR Models

Navid Rekabsaz, Mihai Lupu, Artem Baklanov, Alexander Dür, Linda Andersson