ACL 2018

673 papers

Task-oriented Dialogue System for Automatic Diagnosis

zhongyu wei, Qianlong Liu, Baolin Peng, Huaixiao Tou, Ting Chen

Diachronic degradation of language models: Insights from social media

Kokil Jaidka, Niyati Chhaya, Lyle Ungar

Fighting Offensive Language on Social Media with Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Igor Melnyk, Inkit Padhi

Content-based Popularity Prediction of Online Petitions Using a Deep Regression Model

Shivashankar Subramanian, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn

Identifying and Understanding User Reactions to Deceptive and Trusted Social News Sources

Maria Glenski, Tim Weninger, Svitlana Volkova

A Language Model based Evaluator for Sentence Compression

Yang Zhao, Zhiyuan Luo, Akiko Aizawa

Global Encoding for Abstractive Summarization

Junyang Lin, Xu Sun, Shuming Ma, Qi Su

Improved Evaluation Framework for Complex Plagiarism Detection

Anton Belyy, Marina Dubova, Dmitry Nekrasov

Automatic Article Commenting: the Task and Dataset

LIANHUI Qin, Lemao Liu, Wei Bi, Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu

Construction of a Chinese Corpus for the Analysis of the Emotionality of Metaphorical Expressions

Dongyu Zhang, Hongfei Lin, Liang Yang, Shaowu Zhang, Bo Xu

Analogical Reasoning on Chinese Morphological and Semantic Relations

Shen Li, Zhe Zhao, Renfen Hu, Wensi Li, Tao Liu

SNAG: Spoken Narratives and Gaze Dataset

Preethi Vaidyanathan, Emily T. Prud’hommeaux, Jeff B. Pelz, Cecilia O. Alm

A dataset for identifying actionable feedback in collaborative software development

Benjamin S. Meyers, Nuthan Munaiah, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Andrew Meneely, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

A Named Entity Recognition Shootout for German

Martin Riedl, Sebastian Padó

Some of Them Can be Guessed! Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Context in Predicting Quantifiers

Sandro Pezzelle, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Raffaella Bernardi, Jakub Szymanik

Fully Statistical Neural Belief Tracking

Nikola Mrkšić, Ivan Vulić

Neural Coreference Resolution with Deep Biaffine Attention by Joint Mention Detection and Mention Clustering

Rui Zhang, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Michihiro Yasunaga, Bing Xiang, Dragomir Radev

Automatic Extraction of Commonsense LocatedNear Knowledge

Frank F. Xu, Bill Yuchen Lin, Kenny Zhu

Ranking-Based Automatic Seed Selection and Noise Reduction for Weakly Supervised Relation Extraction

Van-Thuy Phi, Joan Santoso, Masashi Shimbo, Yuji Matsumoto

A Walk-based Model on Entity Graphs for Relation Extraction

Fenia Christopoulou, Makoto Miwa, Sophia Ananiadou

Type-Sensitive Knowledge Base Inference Without Explicit Type Supervision

Prachi Jain, Pankaj Kumar, Mausam, Soumen Chakrabarti

Named Entity Recognition With Parallel Recurrent Neural Networks

Andrej Žukov-Gregorič, Yoram Bachrach, Sam Coope

Identification of Alias Links among Participants in Narratives

Sangameshwar Patil, Sachin Pawar, Swapnil Hingmire, Girish Palshikar, Vasudeva Varma

Unsupervised Semantic Frame Induction using Triclustering

Dmitry Ustalov, Alexander Panchenko, Andrey Kutuzov, Chris Biemann, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

Learning Thematic Similarity Metric from Article Sections Using Triplet Networks

Liat Ein Dor, Yosi Mass, Alon Halfon, Elad Venezian, Ilya Shnayderman

Active learning for deep semantic parsing

Long Duong, Hadi Afshar, Dominique Estival, Glen Pink, Philip Cohen

HotFlip: White-Box Adversarial Examples for Text Classification

Javid Ebrahimi, Anyi Rao, Daniel Lowd, Dejing Dou

Towards Robust and Privacy-preserving Text Representations

Yitong Li, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn

Word Error Rate Estimation for Speech Recognition: e-WER

Ahmed Ali, Steve Renals

Deep RNNs Encode Soft Hierarchical Syntax

Terra Blevins, Omer Levy, Luke Zettlemoyer

Restricted Recurrent Neural Tensor Networks: Exploiting Word Frequency and Compositionality

Alexandre Salle, Aline Villavicencio

Continuous Learning in a Hierarchical Multiscale Neural Network

Thomas Wolf, Julien Chaumond, Clement Delangue

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao

Let’s do it “again”: A First Computational Approach to Detecting Adverbial Presupposition Triggers

Andre Cianflone, Yulan Feng, Jad Kabbara, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information

Sudha Rao, Hal Daume III

Finding syntax in human encephalography with beam search

John Hale, Chris Dyer, Adhiguna Kuncoro, Jonathan Brennan

Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP) for Document Understanding

Zhengdong Lu, Xianggen Liu, Haotian Cui, Yukun Yan, Daqi Zheng

Supervised Treebank Conversion: Data and Approaches

Xinzhou Jiang, Zhenghua Li, Bo Zhang, Min Zhang, Sheng Li

Composing Finite State Transducers on GPUs

Arturo Argueta, David Chiang

Pre- and In-Parsing Models for Neural Empty Category Detection

Yufei Chen, Yuanyuan Zhao, Weiwei Sun, Xiaojun Wan

Constituency Parsing with a Self-Attentive Encoder

Nikita Kitaev, Dan Klein

Global Transition-based Non-projective Dependency Parsing

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee

Neural Factor Graph Models for Cross-lingual Morphological Tagging

Chaitanya Malaviya, Matthew R. Gormley, Graham Neubig

Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive Token Encodings

Bernd Bohnet, Ryan Mcdonald, Gonçalo Simões, Daniel Andor, Emily Pitler

A Structured Variational Autoencoder for Contextual Morphological Inflection

Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Jason Naradowsky, Sabrina J. Mielke, Ryan Cotterell

A Purely End-to-End System for Multi-speaker Speech Recognition

Hiroshi Seki, Takaaki Hori, Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux, John R. Hershey

Interactive Language Acquisition with One-shot Visual Concept Learning through a Conversational Game

Haichao Zhang, Haonan Yu, Wei Xu

Think Visually: Question Answering through Virtual Imagery

Ankit Goyal, Jian Wang, Jia Deng

Attacking Visual Language Grounding with Adversarial Examples: A Case Study on Neural Image Captioning

Hongge Chen, Huan Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Jinfeng Yi, Cho-jui Hsieh

On the Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Reports

Baoyu Jing, Pengtao Xie, Eric Xing

Learning Translations via Images with a Massively Multilingual Image Dataset

John Hewitt, Daphne Ippolito, Brendan Callahan, Reno Kriz, Derry Tanti Wijaya

Conceptual Captions: A Cleaned, Hypernymed, Image Alt-text Dataset For Automatic Image Captioning

Piyush Sharma, Nan Ding, Sebastian Goodman, Radu Soricut

Modeling Deliberative Argumentation Strategies on Wikipedia

Khalid Al-Khatib, Henning Wachsmuth, Kevin Lang, Jakob Herpel, Matthias Hagen

Cold-Start Aware User and Product Attention for Sentiment Classification

Reinald Kim Amplayo, Jihyeok Kim, Sua Sung, Seung-won Hwang

A Helping Hand: Transfer Learning for Deep Sentiment Analysis

Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo

Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis with Gated Convolutional Networks

Wei Xue, Tao Li

Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification with Target Domain Specific Information

Minlong Peng, Qi Zhang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Xuanjing Huang

Learning Domain-Sensitive and Sentiment-Aware Word Embeddings

Bei Shi, Zihao Fu, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Bilingual Sentiment Embeddings: Joint Projection of Sentiment Across Languages

Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Incorporating Glosses into Neural Word Sense Disambiguation

Fuli Luo, Tianyu Liu, Qiaolin Xia, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui

End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Taxonomy Induction

Yuning Mao, Xiang Ren, Jiaming Shen, Xiaotao Gu, Jiawei Han

SemAxis: A Lightweight Framework to Characterize Domain-Specific Word Semantics Beyond Sentiment

Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yong-Yeol Ahn

Incorporating Chinese Characters of Words for Lexical Sememe Prediction

Huiming Jin, Hao Zhu, Zhiyuan Liu, Ruobing Xie, Maosong Sun

Subword-level Word Vector Representations for Korean

Sungjoon Park, Jeongmin Byun, Sion Baek, Yongseok Cho, Alice Oh

AdvEntuRe: Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples

Dongyeop Kang, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Eduard Hovy

Neural Natural Language Inference Models Enhanced with External Knowledge

Qian Chen, Xiaodan Zhu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Diana Inkpen, Si Wei

Entity-Duet Neural Ranking: Understanding the Role of Knowledge Graph Semantics in Neural Information Retrieval

Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu

hyperdoc2vec: Distributed Representations of Hypertext Documents

Jialong Han, Yan Song, Wayne Xin Zhao, Shuming Shi, Haisong Zhang

Building Language Models for Text with Named Entities

Md Rizwan Parvez, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, Kai-Wei Chang

Multi-Input Attention for Unsupervised OCR Correction

Rui Dong, David Smith

Eyes are the Windows to the Soul: Predicting the Rating of Text Quality Using Gaze Behaviour

Sandeep Mathias, Diptesh Kanojia, Kevin Patel, Samarth Agrawal, Abhijit Mishra

Hongyu Gong, Tarek Sakakini, Suma Bhat, Jinjun Xiong

Neural Sparse Topical Coding

Min Peng, Qianqian Xie, Yanchun Zhang, Hua Wang, Xiuzhen Zhang

Joint Embedding of Words and Labels for Text Classification

Guoyin Wang, Chunyuan Li, Wenlin Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Dinghan Shen

Disconnected Recurrent Neural Networks for Text Categorization

Baoxin Wang

A Deep Relevance Model for Zero-Shot Document Filtering

Chenliang Li, Wei Zhou, Feng Ji, Yu Duan, Haiqing Chen

Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories

Hannah Rashkin, Antoine Bosselut, Maarten Sap, Kevin Knight, Yejin Choi

Joint Reasoning for Temporal and Causal Relations

Qiang Ning, Zhili Feng, Hao Wu, Dan Roth

A Spatial Model for Extracting and Visualizing Latent Discourse Structure in Text

Shashank Srivastava, Nebojsa Jojic

Discourse Coherence: Concurrent Explicit and Implicit Relations

Hannah Rohde, Alexander Johnson, Nathan Schneider, Bonnie Webber

Efficient Low-rank Multimodal Fusion With Modality-Specific Factors

Zhun Liu, Ying Shen, Varun Bharadhwaj Lakshminarasimhan, Paul Pu Liang, AmirAli Bagher Zadeh

Multimodal Language Analysis in the Wild: CMU-MOSEI Dataset and Interpretable Dynamic Fusion Graph

AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Paul Pu Liang, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal Affective Analysis Using Hierarchical Attention Strategy with Word-Level Alignment

Yue Gu, Kangning Yang, Shiyu Fu, Shuhong Chen, Xinyu Li

Efficient Large-Scale Neural Domain Classification with Personalized Attention

Young-Bum Kim, Dongchan Kim, Anjishnu Kumar, Ruhi Sarikaya

Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?

Saizheng Zhang, Emily Dinan, Jack Urbanek, arthur szlam, Douwe Kiela

Learning to Ask Questions in Open-domain Conversational Systems with Typed Decoders

Yansen Wang, Chenyi Liu, Minlie Huang, Liqiang Nie

Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning

Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Jingjing Liu, Kam-Fai Wong

Recursive Neural Structural Correspondence Network for Cross-domain Aspect and Opinion Co-Extraction

Wenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan

Zero-Shot Transfer Learning for Event Extraction

Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Kyunghyun Cho, Ido Dagan, Sebastian Riedel

Interpretable and Compositional Relation Learning by Joint Training with an Autoencoder

Ryo Takahashi, Ran Tian, Kentaro Inui

Robust Distant Supervision Relation Extraction via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Pengda Qin, Weiran Xu, William Yang Wang

What you can cram into a single $&!#* vector: Probing sentence embeddings for linguistic properties

Alexis CONNEAU, Germán Kruszewski, Guillaume Lample, Loic Barrault, Marco Baroni

To Attend or not to Attend: A Case Study on Syntactic Structures for Semantic Relatedness

Amulya Gupta, Zhu Zhang

Numeracy for Language Models: Evaluating and Improving their Ability to Predict Numbers

Georgios Spithourakis, Sebastian Riedel

Token-level and sequence-level loss smoothing for RNN language models

Maha Elbayad, Laurent Besacier, Jakob Verbeek

Marrying Up Regular Expressions with Neural Networks: A Case Study for Spoken Language Understanding

Bingfeng Luo, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Songfang Huang, Rui Yan

Situated Mapping of Sequential Instructions to Actions with Single-step Reward Observation

Alane Suhr, Yoav Artzi

Syntax for Semantic Role Labeling, To Be, Or Not To Be

Shexia He, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao, Hongxiao Bai

Large-Scale QA-SRL Parsing

Nicholas FitzGerald, Julian Michael, Luheng He, Luke Zettlemoyer

NASH: Toward End-to-End Neural Architecture for Generative Semantic Hashing

Dinghan Shen, Qinliang Su, Paidamoyo Chapfuwa, Wenlin Wang, Guoyin Wang