ACL 2019

1,448 papers

Detecting Subevents using Discourse and Narrative Features

Mohammed Aldawsari, Mark Finlayson

COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction

Antoine Bosselut, Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Chaitanya Malaviya, Asli Celikyilmaz

A Cross-Sentence Latent Variable Model for Semi-Supervised Text Sequence Matching

Jihun Choi, Taeuk Kim, Sang-goo Lee

Duality of Link Prediction and Entailment Graph Induction

Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Shay B. Cohen, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman

Neural Network Alignment for Sentential Paraphrases

Jessica Ouyang, Kathy McKeown

Learning Attention-based Embeddings for Relation Prediction in Knowledge Graphs

Deepak Nathani, Jatin Chauhan, Charu Sharma, Manohar Kaul

Simple and Effective Text Matching with Richer Alignment Features

Runqi Yang, Jianhai Zhang, Xing Gao, Feng Ji, Haiqing Chen

An Empirical Study of Span Representations in Argumentation Structure Parsing

Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Hiroki Ouchi, Naoya Inoue, Paul Reisert, Toshinori Miyoshi

Yes, we can! Mining Arguments in 50 Years of US Presidential Campaign Debates

Shohreh Haddadan, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata

Context-aware Embedding for Targeted Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Bin Liang, Jiachen Du, Ruifeng Xu, Binyang Li, Hejiao Huang

Toward Comprehensive Understanding of a Sentiment Based on Human Motives

Naoki Otani, Eduard Hovy

Recognising Agreement and Disagreement between Stances with Reason Comparing Networks

Chang Xu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, Ross Sparks

Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments

Timothy Niven, Hung-Yu Kao

An Investigation of Transfer Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis in Japanese

Enkhbold Bataa, Joshua Wu

Latent Variable Sentiment Grammar

Liwen Zhang, Kewei Tu, Yue Zhang

Determining Relative Argument Specificity and Stance for Complex Argumentative Structures

Esin Durmus, Faisal Ladhak, Claire Cardie

Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper)

Santiago Castro, Devamanyu Hazarika, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Roger Zimmermann, Rada Mihalcea

Second-Order Semantic Dependency Parsing with End-to-End Neural Networks

Xinyu Wang, Jingxian Huang, Kewei Tu

Simple and Effective Paraphrastic Similarity from Parallel Translations

John Wieting, Kevin Gimpel, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline

Ian Tenney, Dipanjan Das, Ellie Pavlick

Rewarding Smatch: Transition-Based AMR Parsing with Reinforcement Learning

Tahira Naseem, Abhishek Shah, Hui Wan, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos

Compositional Semantic Parsing across Graphbanks

Matthias Lindemann, Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller

Human vs. Muppet: A Conservative Estimate of Human Performance on the GLUE Benchmark

Nikita Nangia, Samuel R. Bowman

Representing Schema Structure with Graph Neural Networks for Text-to-SQL Parsing

Ben Bogin, Jonathan Berant, Matt Gardner

Reranking for Neural Semantic Parsing

Pengcheng Yin, Graham Neubig

SemBleu: A Robust Metric for AMR Parsing Evaluation

Linfeng Song, Daniel Gildea

EigenSent: Spectral sentence embeddings using higher-order Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Subhradeep Kayal, George Tsatsaronis

Towards Complex Text-to-SQL in Cross-Domain Database with Intermediate Representation

Jiaqi Guo, Zecheng Zhan, Yan Gao, Yan Xiao, Jian-Guang Lou

SParC: Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing in Context

Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Michihiro Yasunaga, Yi Chern Tan, Xi Victoria Lin

DisSent: Learning Sentence Representations from Explicit Discourse Relations

Allen Nie, Erin Bennett, Noah Goodman

Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding

Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Jianfeng Gao

Complex Question Decomposition for Semantic Parsing

Haoyu Zhang, Jingjing Cai, Jianjun Xu, Ji Wang

Can You Tell Me How to Get Past Sesame Street? Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling

Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas McCoy

Zero-Shot Semantic Parsing for Instructions

Ofer Givoli, Roi Reichart

Language Modeling with Shared Grammar

Yuyu Zhang, Le Song

Real-Time Open-Domain Question Answering with Dense-Sparse Phrase Index

Minjoon Seo, Jinhyuk Lee, Tom Kwiatkowski, Ankur Parikh, Ali Farhadi

Selection Bias Explorations and Debias Methods for Natural Language Sentence Matching Datasets

Guanhua Zhang, Bing Bai, Jian Liang, Kun Bai, Shiyu Chang

Episodic Memory Reader: Learning What to Remember for Question Answering from Streaming Data

Moonsu Han, Minki Kang, Hyunwoo Jung, Sung Ju Hwang

Embedding Time Expressions for Deep Temporal Ordering Models

Tanya Goyal, Greg Durrett

Graph based Neural Networks for Event Factuality Prediction using Syntactic and Semantic Structures

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Thien Huu Nguyen, Dejing Dou

A2N: Attending to Neighbors for Knowledge Graph Inference

Trapit Bansal, Da-Cheng Juan, Sujith Ravi, Andrew McCallum

Chinese Relation Extraction with Multi-Grained Information and External Linguistic Knowledge

Ziran Li, Ning Ding, Zhiyuan Liu, Haitao Zheng, Ying Shen

Distilling Discrimination and Generalization Knowledge for Event Detection via Delta-Representation Learning

Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

AutoML Strategy Based on Grammatical Evolution: A Case Study about Knowledge Discovery from Text

Suilan Estevez-Velarde, Yoan Gutiérrez, Andrés Montoyo, Yudivián Almeida-Cruz

Beyond BLEU: Training Neural Machine Translation with Semantic Similarity

John Wieting, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Kevin Gimpel, Graham Neubig

Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference for Neural Machine Translation

Wen Zhang, Yang Feng, Fandong Meng, Di You, Qun Liu

Robust Neural Machine Translation with Doubly Adversarial Inputs

Yong Cheng, Lu Jiang, Wolfgang Macherey

Neural Legal Judgment Prediction in English

Ilias Chalkidis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nikolaos Aletras

Inter-sentence Relation Extraction with Document-level Graph Convolutional Neural Network

Sunil Kumar Sahu, Fenia Christopoulou, Makoto Miwa, Sophia Ananiadou

Towards Near-imperceptible Steganographic Text

Falcon Dai, Zheng Cai

Course Concept Expansion in MOOCs with External Knowledge and Interactive Game

Jifan Yu, Chenyu Wang, Gan Luo, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li

Eliciting Knowledge from Experts: Automatic Transcript Parsing for Cognitive Task Analysis

Junyi Du, He Jiang, Jiaming Shen, Xiang Ren

The Language of Legal and Illegal Activity on the Darknet

Leshem Choshen, Dan Eldad, Daniel Hershcovich, Elior Sulem, Omri Abend

AdaNSP: Uncertainty-driven Adaptive Decoding in Neural Semantic Parsing

Xiang Zhang, Shizhu He, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao

Improving Question Answering over Incomplete KBs with Knowledge-Aware Reader

Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo, William Yang Wang

Compositional Questions Do Not Necessitate Multi-hop Reasoning

Sewon Min, Eric Wallace, Sameer Singh, Matt Gardner, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Learning to Ask Unanswerable Questions for Machine Reading Comprehension

Haichao Zhu, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Wenhui Wang, Bing Qin

Open-Domain Why-Question Answering with Adversarial Learning to Encode Answer Texts

Jong-Hoon Oh, Kazuma Kadowaki, Julien Kloetzer, Ryu Iida, Kentaro Torisawa

Multi-Relational Script Learning for Discourse Relations

I-Ta Lee, Dan Goldwasser

Do You Know That Florence Is Packed with Visitors? Evaluating State-of-the-art Models of Speaker Commitment

Nanjiang Jiang, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

Employing the Correspondence of Relations and Connectives to Identify Implicit Discourse Relations via Label Embeddings

Linh The Nguyen, Linh Van Ngo, Khoat Than, Thien Huu Nguyen

A Unified Linear-Time Framework for Sentence-Level Discourse Parsing

Xiang Lin, Shafiq Joty, Prathyusha Jwalapuram, M Saiful Bari

Revisiting Joint Modeling of Cross-document Entity and Event Coreference Resolution

Shany Barhom, Vered Shwartz, Alon Eirew, Michael Bugert, Nils Reimers

Using Automatically Extracted Minimum Spans to Disentangle Coreference Evaluation from Boundary Detection

Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Leo Born, Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube

Keeping Notes: Conditional Natural Language Generation with a Scratchpad Encoder

Ryan Benmalek, Madian Khabsa, Suma Desu, Claire Cardie, Michele Banko

TIGS: An Inference Algorithm for Text Infilling with Gradient Search

Dayiheng Liu, Jie Fu, Pengfei Liu, Jiancheng Lv

Bayes Test of Precision, Recall, and F1 Measure for Comparison of Two Natural Language Processing Models

Ruibo Wang, Jihong Li

Learning Transferable Feature Representations Using Neural Networks

Himanshu Sharad Bhatt, Shourya Roy, Arun Rajkumar, Sriranjani Ramakrishnan

Neural Temporality Adaptation for Document Classification: Diachronic Word Embeddings and Domain Adaptation Models

Xiaolei Huang, Michael J. Paul

Few-Shot Representation Learning for Out-Of-Vocabulary Words

Ziniu Hu, Ting Chen, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun

Learning How to Active Learn by Dreaming

Thuy-Trang Vu, Ming Liu, Dinh Phung, Gholamreza Haffari

Distant Learning for Entity Linking with Automatic Noise Detection

Phong Le, Ivan Titov

Hubless Nearest Neighbor Search for Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Jiaji Huang, Qiang Qiu, Kenneth Church

Self-Attentive, Multi-Context One-Class Classification for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection on Text

Lukas Ruff, Yury Zemlyanskiy, Robert Vandermeulen, Thomas Schnake, Marius Kloft

Exploiting Invertible Decoders for Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning

Shuai Tang, Virginia R. de Sa

Leveraging Meta Information in Short Text Aggregation

He Zhao, Lan Du, Guanfeng Liu, Wray Buntine

Towards Language Agnostic Universal Representations

Armen Aghajanyan, XIA SONG, saurabh tiwary

Large Dataset and Language Model Fun-Tuning for Humor Recognition

Vladislav Blinov, Valeria Bolotova-Baranova, Pavel Braslavski

Does it Make Sense? And Why? A Pilot Study for Sense Making and Explanation

Cunxiang Wang, Shuailong Liang, Yue Zhang, Xiaonan Li, Tian Gao

Pay Attention when you Pay the Bills. A Multilingual Corpus with Dependency-based and Semantic Annotation of Collocations.

Marcos Garcia, Marcos García Salido, Susana Sotelo, Estela Mosqueira, Margarita Alonso-Ramos

Crowdsourcing and Validating Event-focused Emotion Corpora for German and English

Enrica Troiano, Sebastian Padó, Roman Klinger

Give Me More Feedback II: Annotating Thesis Strength and Related Attributes in Student Essays

Zixuan Ke, Hrishikesh Inamdar, Hui Lin, Vincent Ng

Fine-Grained Sentence Functions for Short-Text Conversation

Wei Bi, Jun Gao, Xiaojiang Liu, Shuming Shi

How Large Are Lions? Inducing Distributions over Quantitative Attributes

Yanai Elazar, Abhijit Mahabal, Deepak Ramachandran, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Dan Roth

StRE: Self Attentive Edit Quality Prediction in Wikipedia

Soumya Sarkar, Bhanu Prakash Reddy, Sandipan Sikdar, Animesh Mukherjee

The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: Removing Gender and Number Cues for Difficult Pronominal Anaphora Resolution

Ali Emami, Paul Trichelair, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, Hannes Schulz

Attention-based Conditioning Methods for External Knowledge Integration

Katerina Margatina, Christos Baziotis, Alexandros Potamianos

On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study

Damián E. Blasi, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel

Is Word Segmentation Child’s Play in All Languages?

Georgia R. Loukatou, Steven Moran, Damian Blasi, Sabine Stoll, Alejandrina Cristia

Uncovering Probabilistic Implications in Typological Knowledge Bases

Johannes Bjerva, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein

CNNs found to jump around more skillfully than RNNs: Compositional Generalization in Seq2seq Convolutional Networks

Roberto Dessi, Marco Baroni

Miss Tools and Mr Fruit: Emergent Communication in Agents Learning about Object Affordances

Diane Bouchacourt, Marco Baroni

Diachronic Sense Modeling with Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings: An Ecological View

Renfen Hu, Shen Li, Shichen Liang

End-to-End Sequential Metaphor Identification Inspired by Linguistic Theories

Rui Mao, Chenghua Lin, Frank Guerin

A Spreading Activation Framework for Tracking Conceptual Complexity of Texts

Ioana Hulpuș, Sanja Štajner, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Are we there yet? Encoder-decoder neural networks as cognitive models of English past tense inflection

Maria Corkery, Yevgen Matusevych, Sharon Goldwater

Self-Supervised Dialogue Learning

Jiawei Wu, Xin Wang, William Yang Wang

A Large-Scale Corpus for Conversation Disentanglement

Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Sai R. Gouravajhala, Joseph J. Peper, Vignesh Athreya, Chulaka Gunasekara

Pretraining Methods for Dialog Context Representation Learning

Shikib Mehri, Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Eskenazi

Are Training Samples Correlated? Learning to Generate Dialogue Responses with Multiple References

Lisong Qiu, Juntao Li, Wei Bi, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan