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ACL 2018

673 papers

Low-Resource Machine Transliteration Using Recurrent Neural Networks of Asian Languages

Ngoc Tan Le, Fatiha Sadat

Neural Machine Translation Techniques for Named Entity Transliteration

Roman Grundkiewicz, Kenneth Heafield

Comparison of Assorted Models for Transliteration

Saeed Najafi, Bradley Hauer, Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Leyuan Yu, Grzegorz Kondrak

A Deep Learning Based Approach to Transliteration

Soumyadeep Kundu, Sayantan Paul, Santanu Pal

Statistical Machine Transliteration Baselines for NEWS 2018

Snigdha Singhania, Minh Nguyen, Gia H. Ngo, Nancy Chen

Report of NEWS 2018 Named Entity Transliteration Shared Task

Nancy Chen, Rafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Haizhou Li

NEWS 2018 Whitepaper

Nancy Chen, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li

Named-Entity Tagging and Domain adaptation for Better Customized Translation

Zhongwei Li, Xuancong Wang, Ai Ti Aw, Eng Siong Chng, Haizhou Li

Forms of Anaphoric Reference to Organisational Named Entities: Hoping to widen appeal, they diversified

Christian Hardmeier, Luca Bevacqua, Sharid Loáiciga, Hannah Rohde

Named Entity Recognition for Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text

Vinay Singh, Deepanshu Vijay, Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar, Manish Shrivastava

Attention-based Semantic Priming for Slot-filling

Jiewen Wu, Rafael E. Banchs, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Pavitra Krishnaswamy, Nancy Chen

A Sequence Learning Method for Domain-Specific Entity Linking

Emrah Inan, Oguz Dikenelli

Connecting Distant Entities with Induction through Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition: Precursor-Induced CRF

Wangjin Lee, Jinwook Choi

Automatic Extraction of Entities and Relation from Legal Documents

Judith Jeyafreeda Andrew

Proceedings of the Seventh Named Entities Workshop

Nancy Chen, Rafael E. Banchs, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li

A Sound and Complete Left-Corner Parsing for Minimalist Grammars

Miloš Stanojević, Edward Stabler

The Role of Syntax During Pronoun Resolution: Evidence from fMRI

Jixing Li, Murielle Fabre, Wen-Ming Luh, John Hale

Rating Distributions and Bayesian Inference: Enhancing Cognitive Models of Spatial Language Use

Thomas Kluth, Holger Schultheis

Affordances in Grounded Language Learning

Stephen McGregor, KyungTae Lim

Predicting Japanese Word Order in Double Object Constructions

Masayuki Asahara, Satoshi Nambu, Shin-Ichiro Sano

Multi-glance Reading Model for Text Understanding

Pengcheng Zhu, Yujiu Yang, Wenqiang Gao, Yi Liu

Language Production Dynamics with Recurrent Neural Networks

Jesús Calvillo, Matthew Crocker

Do Speakers Produce Discourse Connectives Rationally?

Frances Yung, Vera Demberg

Predicting Brain Activation with WordNet Embeddings

João António Rodrigues, Ruben Branco, João Silva, Chakaveh Saedi, António Branco

Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing

Marco Idiart, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau, Aline Villavicencio

Toward Cross-Domain Engagement Analysis in Medical Notes

Sara Rosenthal, Adam Faulkner

Investigating Domain-Specific Information for Neural Coreference Resolution on Biomedical Texts

Hai-Long Trieu, Nhung T. H. Nguyen, Makoto Miwa, Sophia Ananiadou

On Learning Better Embeddings from Chinese Clinical Records: Study on Combining In-Domain and Out-Domain Data

Yaqiang Wang, Yunhui Chen, Hongping Shu, Yongguang Jiang

Prediction Models for Risk of Type-2 Diabetes Using Health Claims

Masatoshi Nagata, Kohichi Takai, Keiji Yasuda, Panikos Heracleous, Akio Yoneyama

CRF-LSTM Text Mining Method Unveiling the Pharmacological Mechanism of Off-target Side Effect of Anti-Multiple Myeloma Drugs

Kaiyin Zhou, Sheng Zhang, Xiangyu Meng, Qi Luo, Yuxing Wang

MeSH-based dataset for measuring the relevance of text retrieval

Won Gyu Kim, Lana Yeganova, Donald Comeau, W John Wilbur, Zhiyong Lu

A Framework for Developing and Evaluating Word Embeddings of Drug-named Entity

Mengnan Zhao, Aaron J. Masino, Christopher C. Yang

SingleCite: Towards an improved Single Citation Search in PubMed

Lana Yeganova, Donald C Comeau, Won Kim, W John Wilbur, Zhiyong Lu

Bacteria and Biotope Entity Recognition Using A Dictionary-Enhanced Neural Network Model

Qiuyue Wang, Xiaofeng Meng

Predicting Discharge Disposition Using Patient Complaint Notes in Electronic Medical Records

Mohamad Salimi, Alla Rozovskaya

Domain Adaptation for Disease Phrase Matching with Adversarial Networks

Miaofeng Liu, Jialong Han, Haisong Zhang, Yan Song

Convolutional neural networks for chemical-disease relation extraction are improved with character-based word embeddings

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Karin Verspoor

Phrase2VecGLM: Neural generalized language model–based semantic tagging for complex query reformulation in medical IR

Manirupa Das, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Simon Lin, Soheil Moosavinasab, David Chen

BioAMA: Towards an End to End BioMedical Question Answering System

Vasu Sharma, Nitish Kulkarni, Srividya Pranavi, Gabriel Bayomi, Eric Nyberg

Biomedical Event Extraction Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Dependency Parsing

Jari Björne, Tapio Salakoski

A Neural Autoencoder Approach for Document Ranking and Query Refinement in Pharmacogenomic Information Retrieval

Jonas Pfeiffer, Samuel Broscheit, Rainer Gemulla, Mathias Göschl

Coding Structures and Actions with the COSTA Scheme in Medical Conversations

Nan Wang, Yan Song, Fei Xia

PICO Element Detection in Medical Text via Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks

Di Jin, Peter Szolovits

Sub-word information in pre-trained biomedical word representations: evaluation and hyper-parameter optimization

Dieter Galea, Ivan Laponogov, Kirill Veselkov

Ontology alignment in the biomedical domain using entity definitions and context

Lucy Lu Wang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Mark Neumann, Kyle Lo, Chris Wilhelm

Identifying Key Sentences for Precision Oncology Using Semi-Supervised Learning

Jurica Ševa, Martin Wackerbauer, Ulf Leser

Keyphrases Extraction from User-Generated Contents in Healthcare Domain Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks

Ilham Fathy Saputra, Rahmad Mahendra, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono

Identifying Risk Factors For Heart Disease in Electronic Medical Records: A Deep Learning Approach

Thanat Chokwijitkul, Anthony Nguyen, Hamed Hassanzadeh, Siegfried Perez

Multi-task learning for interpretable cause of death classification using key phrase prediction

Serena Jeblee, Mireille Gomes, Graeme Hirst

Embedding Transfer for Low-Resource Medical Named Entity Recognition: A Case Study on Patient Mobility

Denis Newman-Griffis, Ayah Zirikly

Proceedings of the BioNLP 2018 workshop

Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii

Multi-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking

Avi Sil, Heng Ji, Dan Roth, Silviu-Petru Cucerzan

Deep Reinforcement Learning for NLP

William Yang Wang, Jiwei Li, Xiaodong He

Neural Semantic Parsing

Matt Gardner, Pradeep Dasigi, Srinivasan Iyer, Alane Suhr, Luke Zettlemoyer

Beyond Multiword Expressions: Processing Idioms and Metaphors

Valia Kordoni

Connecting Language and Vision to Actions

Peter Anderson, Abhishek Das, Qi Wu

Variational Inference and Deep Generative Models

Wilker Aziz, Philip Schulz

Neural Approaches to Conversational AI

Jianfeng Gao, Michel Galley, Lihong Li

100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Semantics & Pragmatics But Were Afraid to Ask

Emily M. Bender

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts

Yoav Artzi, Jacob Eisenstein

Moon IME: Neural-based Chinese Pinyin Aided Input Method with Customizable Association

Yafang Huang, Zuchao Li, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao

A Flexible, Efficient and Accurate Framework for Community Question Answering Pipelines

Salvatore Romeo, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Alessandro Moschitti

RETURNN as a Generic Flexible Neural Toolkit with Application to Translation and Speech Recognition

Albert Zeyer, Tamer Alkhouli, Hermann Ney

DeepPavlov: Open-Source Library for Dialogue Systems

Mikhail Burtsev, Alexander Seliverstov, Rafael Airapetyan, Mikhail Arkhipov, Dilyara Baymurzina

Marian: Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Roman Grundkiewicz, Tomasz Dwojak, Hieu Hoang, Kenneth Heafield

Praaline: An Open-Source System for Managing, Annotating, Visualising and Analysing Speech Corpora

George Christodoulides

CRUISE: Cold-Start New Skill Development via Iterative Utterance Generation

Yilin Shen, Avik Ray, Abhishek Patel, Hongxia Jin

The SUMMA Platform: A Scalable Infrastructure for Multi-lingual Multi-media Monitoring

Ulrich Germann, Renārs Liepins, Guntis Barzdins, Didzis Gosko, Sebastião Miranda

ScoutBot: A Dialogue System for Collaborative Navigation

Stephanie M. Lukin, Felix Gervits, Cory J. Hayes, Pooja Moolchandani, Anton Leuski

A Web-scale system for scientific knowledge exploration

Zhihong Shen, Hao Ma, Kuansan Wang

TALEN: Tool for Annotation of Low-resource ENtities

Stephen Mayhew, Dan Roth

NCRF++: An Open-source Neural Sequence Labeling Toolkit

jie Yang, Yue Zhang

SANTO: A Web-based Annotation Tool for Ontology-driven Slot Filling

Matthias Hartung, Hendrik ter Horst, Frank Grimm, Tim Diekmann, Roman Klinger

Translating a Language You Don’t Know In the Chinese Room

Ulf Hermjakob, Jonathan May, Michael Pust, Kevin Knight

Sentence Suggestion of Japanese Functional Expressions for Chinese-speaking Learners

Jun Liu, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto

DCFEE: A Document-level Chinese Financial Event Extraction System based on Automatically Labeled Training Data

Hang Yang, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Yang Xiao, Jun Zhao

NLP Web Services for Resource-Scarce Languages

Martin Puttkammer, Roald Eiselen, Justin Hocking, Frederik Koen

NextGen AML: Distributed Deep Learning based Language Technologies to Augment Anti Money Laundering Investigation

Jingguang Han, Utsab Barman, Jeremiah Hayes, Jinhua Du, Edward Burgin

YEDDA: A Lightweight Collaborative Text Span Annotation Tool

jie Yang, Yue Zhang, Linwei Li, Xingxuan Li

Jack the Reader – A Machine Reading Framework

Dirk Weissenborn, Pasquale Minervini, Isabelle Augenstein, Johannes Welbl, Tim Rocktäschel

HarriGT: A Tool for Linking News to Science

James Ravenscroft, Amanda Clare, Maria Liakata

Out-of-the-box Universal Romanization Tool uroman

Ulf Hermjakob, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight

NovelPerspective: Identifying Point of View Characters

Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, Mohammed Bennamoun

Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language

Ying Lin, Cash Costello, Boliang Zhang, Di Lu, Heng Ji

Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations

Fei Liu, Thamar Solorio

Automatic Question Generation using Relative Pronouns and Adverbs

Payal Khullar, Konigari Rachna, Mukul Hase, Manish Shrivastava

Automatic Spelling Correction for Resource-Scarce Languages using Deep Learning

Pravallika Etoori, Manoj Chinnakotla, Radhika Mamidi

Mixed Feelings: Natural Text Generation with Variable, Coexistent Affective Categories

Lee Kezar

Alignment Analysis of Sequential Segmentation of Lexicons to Improve Automatic Cognate Detection

Pranav A

Trick Me If You Can: Adversarial Writing of Trivia Challenge Questions

Eric Wallace, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Exploring Chunk Based Templates for Generating a subset of English Text

Nikhilesh Bhatnagar, Manish Shrivastava, Radhika Mamidi

Graph-based Filtering of Out-of-Vocabulary Words for Encoder-Decoder Models

Satoru Katsumata, Yukio Matsumura, Hayahide Yamagishi, Mamoru Komachi

Reinforced Extractive Summarization with Question-Focused Rewards

Kristjan Arumae, Fei Liu

BCSAT : A Benchmark Corpus for Sentiment Analysis in Telugu Using Word-level Annotations

Sreekavitha Parupalli, Vijjini Anvesh Rao, Radhika Mamidi

A Computational Approach to Feature Extraction for Identification of Suicidal Ideation in Tweets

Ramit Sawhney, Prachi Manchanda, Raj Singh, Swati Aggarwal

Biomedical Document Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support System

Jainisha Sankhavara

Unsupervised Semantic Abstractive Summarization

Shibhansh Dohare, Vivek Gupta, Harish Karnick

SuperNMT: Neural Machine Translation with Semantic Supersenses and Syntactic Supertags

Eva Vanmassenhove, Andy Way

German and French Neural Supertagging Experiments for LTAG Parsing

Tatiana Bladier, Andreas van Cranenburgh, Younes Samih, Laura Kallmeyer

Language Identification and Named Entity Recognition in Hinglish Code Mixed Tweets

Kushagra Singh, Indira Sen, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru