ACL 2018

673 papers

Automatic Detection of Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Associations

Menasha Thilakaratne, Katrina Falkner, Thushari Atapattu

Recognizing Complex Entity Mentions: A Review and Future Directions

Xiang Dai

Pushing the Limits of Radiology with Joint Modeling of Visual and Textual Information

Sonit Singh

Recursive Neural Network Based Preordering for English-to-Japanese Machine Translation

Yuki Kawara, Chenhui Chu, Yuki Arase

Learning-based Composite Metrics for Improved Caption Evaluation

Naeha Sharif, Lyndon White, Mohammed Bennamoun, Syed Afaq Ali Shah

Sampling Informative Training Data for RNN Language Models

Jared Fernandez, Doug Downey

Towards Opinion Summarization of Customer Reviews

Samuel Pecar

Proceedings of ACL 2018, Student Research Workshop

Vered Shwartz, Jeniya Tabassum, Rob Voigt, Wanxiang Che, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

‘Lighter’ Can Still Be Dark: Modeling Comparative Color Descriptions

Olivia Winn, Smaranda Muresan

Know What You Don’t Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD

Pranav Rajpurkar, Robin Jia, Percy Liang

Cross-Target Stance Classification with Self-Attention Networks

Chang Xu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, Ross Sparks

Disambiguating False-Alarm Hashtag Usages in Tweets for Irony Detection

Hen-Hsen Huang, Chiao-Chen Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Pretraining Sentiment Classifiers with Unlabeled Dialog Data

Toru Shimizu, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Hayato Kobayashi

A Multi-sentiment-resource Enhanced Attention Network for Sentiment Classification

Zeyang Lei, Yujiu Yang, Min Yang, Yi Liu

Tackling the Story Ending Biases in The Story Cloze Test

Rishi Sharma, James Allen, Omid Bakhshandeh, Nasrin Mostafazadeh

A Co-Matching Model for Multi-choice Reading Comprehension

Shuohang Wang, Mo Yu, Jing Jiang, Shiyu Chang

On the Practical Computational Power of Finite Precision RNNs for Language Recognition

Gail Weiss, Yoav Goldberg, Eran Yahav

Long Short-Term Memory as a Dynamically Computed Element-wise Weighted Sum

Omer Levy, Kenton Lee, Nicholas FitzGerald, Luke Zettlemoyer

Autoencoder as Assistant Supervisor: Improving Text Representation for Chinese Social Media Text Summarization

Shuming Ma, Xu Sun, Junyang Lin, Houfeng Wang

Split and Rephrase: Better Evaluation and Stronger Baselines

Roee Aharoni, Yoav Goldberg

Learning Simplifications for Specific Target Audiences

Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia

Personalized Review Generation By Expanding Phrases and Attending on Aspect-Aware Representations

Jianmo Ni, Julian McAuley

Personalized Language Model for Query Auto-Completion

Aaron Jaech, Mari Ostendorf

Examining Temporality in Document Classification

Xiaolei Huang, Michael J. Paul

diaNED: Time-Aware Named Entity Disambiguation for Diachronic Corpora

Prabal Agarwal, Jannik Strötgen, Luciano Del Corro, Johannes Hoffart, Gerhard Weikum

Enhancing Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction from Texts by Molecular Structure Information

Masaki Asada, Makoto Miwa, Yutaka Sasaki

Learning Cross-lingual Distributed Logical Representations for Semantic Parsing

Yanyan Zou, Wei Lu

Polyglot Semantic Role Labeling

Phoebe Mulcaire, Swabha Swayamdipta, Noah A. Smith

Automatic Estimation of Simultaneous Interpreter Performance

Craig Stewart, Nikolai Vogler, Junjie Hu, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Graham Neubig

Adaptive Knowledge Sharing in Multi-Task Learning: Improving Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Poorya Zaremoodi, Wray Buntine, Gholamreza Haffari

Breaking NLI Systems with Sentences that Require Simple Lexical Inferences

Max Glockner, Vered Shwartz, Yoav Goldberg

Extracting Commonsense Properties from Embeddings with Limited Human Guidance

Yiben Yang, Larry Birnbaum, Ji-Ping Wang, Doug Downey

Scoring Lexical Entailment with a Supervised Directional Similarity Network

Marek Rei, Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić

Exploring Semantic Properties of Sentence Embeddings

Xunjie Zhu, Tingfeng Li, Gerard de Melo

Generalized chart constraints for efficient PCFG and TAG parsing

Stefan Grünewald, Sophie Henning, Alexander Koller

Parser Training with Heterogeneous Treebanks

Sara Stymne, Miryam de Lhoneux, Aaron Smith, Joakim Nivre

An Empirical Study of Building a Strong Baseline for Constituency Parsing

Jun Suzuki, Sho Takase, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Makoto Morishita, Masaaki Nagata

Investigating Audio, Video, and Text Fusion Methods for End-to-End Automatic Personality Prediction

Onno Kampman, Elham J. Barezi, Dario Bertero, Pascale Fung

Will it Blend? Blending Weak and Strong Labeled Data in a Neural Network for Argumentation Mining

Eyal Shnarch, Carlos Alzate, Lena Dankin, Martin Gleize, Yufang Hou

Double Embeddings and CNN-based Sequence Labeling for Aspect Extraction

Hu Xu, Bing Liu, Lei Shu, Philip S. Yu

Modeling Sentiment Association in Discourse for Humor Recognition

Lizhen Liu, Donghai Zhang, Wei Song

Exploiting Document Knowledge for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification

Ruidan He, Wee Sun Lee, Hwee Tou Ng, Daniel Dahlmeier

Unsupervised Learning of Style-sensitive Word Vectors

Reina Akama, Kento Watanabe, Sho Yokoi, Sosuke Kobayashi, Kentaro Inui

GNEG: Graph-Based Negative Sampling for word2vec

Zheng Zhang, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Addressing Noise in Multidialectal Word Embeddings

Alexander Erdmann, Nasser Zalmout, Nizar Habash

Enrico Santus, Hongmin Wang, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yue Zhang

Sense-Aware Neural Models for Pun Location in Texts

Yitao Cai, Yin Li, Xiaojun Wan

End-Task Oriented Textual Entailment via Deep Explorations of Inter-Sentence Interactions

Wenpeng Yin, Dan Roth, Hinrich Schütze

Learning with Structured Representations for Negation Scope Extraction

Hao Li, Wei Lu

A Document Descriptor using Covariance of Word Vectors

Marwan Torki

PhraseCTM: Correlated Topic Modeling on Phrases within Markov Random Fields

Weijing Huang

Dynamic and Static Topic Model for Analyzing Time-Series Document Collections

Rem Hida, Naoya Takeishi, Takehisa Yairi, Koichi Hori

Party Matters: Enhancing Legislative Embeddings with Author Attributes for Vote Prediction

Anastassia Kornilova, Daniel Argyle, Vladimir Eidelman

Automated essay scoring with string kernels and word embeddings

Mădălina Cozma, Andrei Butnaru, Radu Tudor Ionescu

Automatic Academic Paper Rating Based on Modularized Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Network

Pengcheng Yang, Xu Sun, Wei Li, Shuming Ma

Simplified Abugidas

Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

Simpler but More Accurate Semantic Dependency Parsing

Timothy Dozat, Christopher D. Manning

Linear-time Constituency Parsing with RNNs and Dynamic Programming

Juneki Hong, Liang Huang

Policy Gradient as a Proxy for Dynamic Oracles in Constituency Parsing

Daniel Fried, Dan Klein

Do Neural Network Cross-Modal Mappings Really Bridge Modalities?

Guillem Collell, Marie-Francine Moens

The Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability Judgements

Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Shalom Lappin, Jey Han Lau

Predicting accuracy on large datasets from smaller pilot data

Mark Johnson, Peter Anderson, Mark Dras, Mark Steedman

SciDTB: Discourse Dependency TreeBank for Scientific Abstracts

An Yang, Sujian Li

Modeling discourse cohesion for discourse parsing via memory network

Yanyan Jia, Yuan Ye, Yansong Feng, Yuxuan Lai, Rui Yan

Large-Scale Multi-Domain Belief Tracking with Knowledge Sharing

Osman Ramadan, Paweł Budzianowski, Milica Gasic

Improving Slot Filling in Spoken Language Understanding with Joint Pointer and Attention

Lin Zhao, Zhe Feng

Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots

Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

Document Embedding Enhanced Event Detection with Hierarchical and Supervised Attention

Yue Zhao, Xiaolong Jin, Yuanzhuo Wang, Xueqi Cheng

Neural Open Information Extraction

Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Judicious Selection of Training Data in Assisting Language for Multilingual Neural NER

Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Neural Cross-Lingual Coreference Resolution And Its Application To Entity Linking

Gourab Kundu, Avi Sil, Radu Florian, Wael Hamza

Orthographic Features for Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Parker Riley, Daniel Gildea

Bleaching Text: Abstract Features for Cross-lingual Gender Prediction

Rob van der Goot, Nikola Ljubešić, Ian Matroos, Malvina Nissim, Barbara Plank

Neural Hidden Markov Model for Machine Translation

Weiyue Wang, Derui Zhu, Tamer Alkhouli, Zixuan Gan, Hermann Ney

Sparse and Constrained Attention for Neural Machine Translation

Chaitanya Malaviya, Pedro Ferreira, André F. T. Martins

Jointly Predicting Predicates and Arguments in Neural Semantic Role Labeling

Luheng He, Kenton Lee, Omer Levy, Luke Zettlemoyer

Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora

Stephen Roller, Douwe Kiela, Maximilian Nickel

Using pseudo-senses for improving the extraction of synonyms from word embeddings

Olivier Ferret

Leveraging distributed representations and lexico-syntactic fixedness for token-level prediction of the idiomaticity of English verb-noun combinations

Milton King, Paul Cook

Improving Beam Search by Removing Monotonic Constraint for Neural Machine Translation

Raphael Shu, Hideki Nakayama

Bag-of-Words as Target for Neural Machine Translation

Shuming Ma, Xu Sun, Yizhong Wang, Junyang Lin

Learning from Chunk-based Feedback in Neural Machine Translation

Pavel Petrushkov, Shahram Khadivi, Evgeny Matusov

Multi-representation ensembles and delayed SGD updates improve syntax-based NMT

Danielle Saunders, Felix Stahlberg, Adrià de Gispert, Bill Byrne

Extreme Adaptation for Personalized Neural Machine Translation

Paul Michel, Graham Neubig

Compositional Representation of Morphologically-Rich Input for Neural Machine Translation

Duygu Ataman, Marcello Federico

Dynamic Sentence Sampling for Efficient Training of Neural Machine Translation

Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

A Simple and Effective Approach to Coverage-Aware Neural Machine Translation

Yanyang Li, Tong Xiao, Yinqiao Li, Qiang Wang, Changming Xu

Injecting Relational Structural Representation in Neural Networks for Question Similarity

Antonio Uva, Daniele Bonadiman, Alessandro Moschitti

Narrative Modeling with Memory Chains and Semantic Supervision

Fei Liu, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

CNN for Text-Based Multiple Choice Question Answering

Akshay Chaturvedi, Onkar Pandit, Utpal Garain

Conditional Generators of Words Definitions

Artyom Gadetsky, Ilya Yakubovskiy, Dmitry Vetrov

Paper Abstract Writing through Editing Mechanism

Qingyun Wang, Zhihao Zhou, Lifu Huang, Spencer Whitehead, Boliang Zhang

Obligation and Prohibition Extraction Using Hierarchical RNNs

Ilias Chalkidis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Achilleas Michos

Improving Topic Quality by Promoting Named Entities in Topic Modeling

Katsiaryna Krasnashchok, Salim Jouili

A Study of the Importance of External Knowledge in the Named Entity Recognition Task

Dominic Seyler, Tatiana Dembelova, Luciano Del Corro, Johannes Hoffart, Gerhard Weikum

Hybrid semi-Markov CRF for Neural Sequence Labeling

Zhixiu Ye, Zhen-Hua Ling

Filtering and Mining Parallel Data in a Joint Multilingual Space

Holger Schwenk

Characterizing Departures from Linearity in Word Translation

Ndapa Nakashole, Raphael Flauger

A Multi-task Approach to Learning Multilingual Representations

Karan Singla, Dogan Can, Shrikanth Narayanan

Transfer Learning for Context-Aware Question Matching in Information-seeking Conversations in E-commerce

Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, Wei Zhou, Jun Huang