ACL 2018

673 papers

Neural Models for Documents with Metadata

Dallas Card, Chenhao Tan, Noah A. Smith

Document Modeling with External Attention for Sentence Extraction

Shashi Narayan, Ronald Cardenas, Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata

Semi-supervised User Geolocation via Graph Convolutional Networks

Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

Multimodal Named Entity Disambiguation for Noisy Social Media Posts

Seungwhan Moon, Leonardo Neves, Vitor Carvalho

Visual Attention Model for Name Tagging in Multimodal Social Media

Di Lu, Leonardo Neves, Vitor Carvalho, Ning Zhang, Heng Ji

Rumor Detection on Twitter with Tree-structured Recursive Neural Networks

Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong

Stock Movement Prediction from Tweets and Historical Prices

Yumo Xu, Shay B. Cohen

NeuralREG: An end-to-end approach to referring expression generation

Thiago Castro Ferreira, Diego Moussallem, Ákos Kádár, Sander Wubben, Emiel Krahmer

Deep-speare: A joint neural model of poetic language, meter and rhyme

Jey Han Lau, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Julian Brooke, Adam Hammond

A Distributional and Orthographic Aggregation Model for English Derivational Morphology

Daniel Deutsch, John Hewitt, Dan Roth

Language Generation via DAG Transduction

Yajie Ye, Weiwei Sun, Xiaojun Wan

Multi-Passage Machine Reading Comprehension with Cross-Passage Answer Verification

Yizhong Wang, Kai Liu, Jing Liu, Wei He, Yajuan Lyu

Harvesting Paragraph-level Question-Answer Pairs from Wikipedia

Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

Did the Model Understand the Question?

Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta, Ankur Taly, Mukund Sundararajan, Kedar Dhamdhere

Training Classifiers with Natural Language Explanations

Braden Hancock, Paroma Varma, Stephanie Wang, Martin Bringmann, Percy Liang

Learning How to Actively Learn: A Deep Imitation Learning Approach

Ming Liu, Wray Buntine, Gholamreza Haffari

Backpropagating through Structured Argmax using a SPIGOT

Hao Peng, Sam Thomson, Noah A. Smith

Batch IS NOT Heavy: Learning Word Representations From All Samples

Xin Xin, Fajie Yuan, Xiangnan He, Joemon M. Jose

Sequence-to-sequence Models for Cache Transition Systems

Xiaochang Peng, Linfeng Song, Daniel Gildea, Giorgio Satta

AMR dependency parsing with a typed semantic algebra

Jonas Groschwitz, Matthias Lindemann, Meaghan Fowlie, Mark Johnson, Alexander Koller

Improving a Neural Semantic Parser by Counterfactual Learning from Human Bandit Feedback

Carolin Lawrence, Stefan Riezler

Weakly Supervised Semantic Parsing with Abstract Examples

Omer Goldman, Veronica Latcinnik, Ehud Nave, Amir Globerson, Jonathan Berant

How Much Attention Do You Need? A Granular Analysis of Neural Machine Translation Architectures

Tobias Domhan

Accelerating Neural Transformer via an Average Attention Network

Biao Zhang, Deyi Xiong, Jinsong Su

Reliability and Learnability of Human Bandit Feedback for Sequence-to-Sequence Reinforcement Learning

Julia Kreutzer, Joshua Uyheng, Stefan Riezler

Attention Focusing for Neural Machine Translation by Bridging Source and Target Embeddings

Shaohui Kuang, Junhui Li, António Branco, Weihua Luo, Deyi Xiong

Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation

Yong Cheng, Zhaopeng Tu, Fandong Meng, Junjie Zhai, Yang Liu

Question Condensing Networks for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

Wei Wu, Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang

Denoising Distantly Supervised Open-Domain Question Answering

Yankai Lin, Haozhe Ji, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

Efficient and Robust Question Answering from Minimal Context over Documents

Sewon Min, Victor Zhong, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong

Joint Training of Candidate Extraction and Answer Selection for Reading Comprehension

Zhen Wang, Jiachen Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Yajuan Lyu, Tian Wu

Multi-Granularity Hierarchical Attention Fusion Networks for Reading Comprehension and Question Answering

Wei Wang, Ming Yan, Chen Wu

Stochastic Answer Networks for Machine Reading Comprehension

Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Kevin Duh, Jianfeng Gao

DuoRC: Towards Complex Language Understanding with Paraphrased Reading Comprehension

Amrita Saha, Rahul Aralikatte, Mitesh M. Khapra, Karthik Sankaranarayanan

From Credit Assignment to Entropy Regularization: Two New Algorithms for Neural Sequence Prediction

Zihang Dai, Qizhe Xie, Eduard Hovy

Learning to Generate Move-by-Move Commentary for Chess Games from Large-Scale Social Forum Data

Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard Hovy, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

A Neural Approach to Pun Generation

Zhiwei Yu, Jiwei Tan, Xiaojun Wan

Learning to Write with Cooperative Discriminators

Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Maxwell Forbes, Antoine Bosselut, David Golub

GTR-LSTM: A Triple Encoder for Sentence Generation from RDF Data

Bayu Distiawan Trisedya, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Wei Wang

A Graph-to-Sequence Model for AMR-to-Text Generation

Linfeng Song, Yue Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Daniel Gildea

Dating Documents using Graph Convolution Networks

Shikhar Vashishth, Shib Sankar Dasgupta, Swayambhu Nath Ray, Partha Talukdar

Improving Entity Linking by Modeling Latent Relations between Mentions

Phong Le, Ivan Titov

Discovering Implicit Knowledge with Unary Relations

Michael Glass, Alfio Gliozzo

Higher-order Relation Schema Induction using Tensor Factorization with Back-off and Aggregation

Madhav Nimishakavi, Manish Gupta, Partha Talukdar

Nugget Proposal Networks for Chinese Event Detection

Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Chinese NER Using Lattice LSTM

Yue Zhang, jie Yang

Language Modeling for Code-Mixing: The Role of Linguistic Theory based Synthetic Data

Adithya Pratapa, Gayatri Bhat, Monojit Choudhury, Sunayana Sitaram, Sandipan Dandapat

Isomorphic Transfer of Syntactic Structures in Cross-Lingual NLP

Edoardo Maria Ponti, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen, Ivan Vulić

Embedding Learning Through Multilingual Concept Induction

Philipp Dufter, Mengjie Zhao, Martin Schmitt, Alexander Fraser, Hinrich Schütze

Sentiment Adaptive End-to-End Dialog Systems

Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu

Generating Informative Responses with Controlled Sentence Function

Pei Ke, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu

Knowledge Diffusion for Neural Dialogue Generation

Shuman Liu, Hongshen Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Yang Feng, Qun Liu

Tailored Sequence to Sequence Models to Different Conversation Scenarios

Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

Mem2Seq: Effectively Incorporating Knowledge Bases into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Andrea Madotto, Chien-Sheng Wu, Pascale Fung

Global-Locally Self-Attentive Encoder for Dialogue State Tracking

Victor Zhong, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

An End-to-end Approach for Handling Unknown Slot Values in Dialogue State Tracking

Puyang Xu, Qi Hu

Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures

Wenqiang Lei, Xisen Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He

LSTMs Can Learn Syntax-Sensitive Dependencies Well, But Modeling Structure Makes Them Better

Adhiguna Kuncoro, Chris Dyer, John Hale, Dani Yogatama, Stephen Clark

Twitter Universal Dependency Parsing for African-American and Mainstream American English

Su Lin Blodgett, Johnny Wei, Brendan O’Connor

Stack-Pointer Networks for Dependency Parsing

Xuezhe Ma, Zecong Hu, Jingzhou Liu, Nanyun Peng, Graham Neubig

Distilling Knowledge for Search-based Structured Prediction

Yijia Liu, Wanxiang Che, Huaipeng Zhao, Bing Qin, Ting Liu

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Testing Statistical Significance in Natural Language Processing

Rotem Dror, Gili Baumer, Segev Shlomov, Roi Reichart

Automatic Metric Validation for Grammatical Error Correction

Leshem Choshen, Omri Abend

Are BLEU and Meaning Representation in Opposition?

Ondřej Cífka, Ondřej Bojar

Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure

Justine Zhang, Jonathan Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lucas Dixon, Yiqing Hua

DialSQL: Dialogue Based Structured Query Generation

Izzeddin Gur, Semih Yavuz, Yu Su, Xifeng Yan

Exemplar Encoder-Decoder for Neural Conversation Generation

Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor, Vineet Kumar, Sachindra Joshi

A Multi-Axis Annotation Scheme for Event Temporal Relations

Qiang Ning, Hao Wu, Dan Roth

Guess Me if You Can: Acronym Disambiguation for Enterprises

Yang Li, Bo Zhao, Ariel Fuxman, Fangbo Tao

Learning Prototypical Goal Activities for Locations

Tianyu Jiang, Ellen Riloff

Which Melbourne? Augmenting Geocoding with Maps

Milan Gritta, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Nigel Collier

Document Context Neural Machine Translation with Memory Networks

Sameen Maruf, Gholamreza Haffari

Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Learns Anaphora Resolution

Elena Voita, Pavel Serdyukov, Rico Sennrich, Ivan Titov

Forest-Based Neural Machine Translation

Chunpeng Ma, Akihiro Tamura, Masao Utiyama, Tiejun Zhao, Eiichiro Sumita

A Stochastic Decoder for Neural Machine Translation

Philip Schulz, Wilker Aziz, Trevor Cohn

Incorporating Latent Meanings of Morphological Compositions to Enhance Word Embeddings

Yang Xu, Jiawei Liu, Wei Yang, Liusheng Huang

Word Embedding and WordNet Based Metaphor Identification and Interpretation

Rui Mao, Chenghua Lin, Frank Guerin

Searching for the X-Factor: Exploring Corpus Subjectivity for Word Embeddings

Maksim Tkachenko, Chong Cher Chia, Hady Lauw

Paraphrase to Explicate: Revealing Implicit Noun-Compound Relations

Vered Shwartz, Ido Dagan

Extending a Parser to Distant Domains Using a Few Dozen Partially Annotated Examples

Vidur Joshi, Matthew Peters, Mark Hopkins

Gaussian Mixture Latent Vector Grammars

Yanpeng Zhao, Liwen Zhang, Kewei Tu

Straight to the Tree: Constituency Parsing with Neural Syntactic Distance

Yikang Shen, Zhouhan Lin, Athul Paul Jacob, Alessandro Sordoni, Aaron Courville

Prefix Lexicalization of Synchronous CFGs using Synchronous TAG

Logan Born, Anoop Sarkar

A Framework for Representing Language Acquisition in a Population Setting

Jordan Kodner, Christopher Cerezo Falco

Taylor’s law for Human Linguistic Sequences

Tatsuru Kobayashi, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

MojiTalk: Generating Emotional Responses at Scale

Xianda Zhou, William Yang Wang

Multi-Turn Response Selection for Chatbots with Deep Attention Matching Network

Xiangyang Zhou, Lu Li, Daxiang Dong, Yi Liu, Ying Chen

Learning to Control the Specificity in Neural Response Generation

Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu

Unsupervised Discrete Sentence Representation Learning for Interpretable Neural Dialog Generation

Tiancheng Zhao, Kyusong Lee, Maxine Eskenazi

TDNN: A Two-stage Deep Neural Network for Prompt-independent Automated Essay Scoring

Cancan Jin, Ben He, Kai Hui, Le Sun

Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training and Graph Embeddings

Firoj Alam, Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Imran

A Neural Architecture for Automated ICD Coding

Pengtao Xie, Eric Xing

Fluency Boost Learning and Inference for Neural Grammatical Error Correction

Tao Ge, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Strong Baselines for Neural Semi-Supervised Learning under Domain Shift

Sebastian Ruder, Barbara Plank

Adaptive Scaling for Sparse Detection in Information Extraction

Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Adversarial Contrastive Estimation

Avishek Joey Bose, huan ling, Yanshuai Cao

Reasoning with Sarcasm by Reading In-Between

Yi Tay, Anh Tuan Luu, Siu Cheung Hui, Jian Su

Working Memory Networks: Augmenting Memory Networks with a Relational Reasoning Module

Juan Pavez, Héctor Allende, Héctor Allende-Cid

Discourse Marker Augmented Network with Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Inference

Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai

Unpaired Sentiment-to-Sentiment Translation: A Cycled Reinforcement Learning Approach

Jingjing Xu, Xu Sun, Qi Zeng, Xiaodong Zhang, Xuancheng Ren