ACL 2019

1,448 papers

Modeling Semantic Compositionality with Sememe Knowledge

Fanchao Qi, Junjie Huang, Chenghao Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiao Chen

Word2Sense: Sparse Interpretable Word Embeddings

Abhishek Panigrahi, Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

Language Modelling Makes Sense: Propagating Representations through WordNet for Full-Coverage Word Sense Disambiguation

Daniel Loureiro, Alipio Jorge

Zero-shot Word Sense Disambiguation using Sense Definition Embeddings

Sawan Kumar, Sharmistha Jat, Karan Saxena, Partha Talukdar

Improving Neural Conversational Models with Entropy-Based Data Filtering

Richárd Csáky, Patrik Purgai, Gabor Recski

Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good

Xuewei Wang, Weiyan Shi, Richard Kim, Yoojung Oh, Sijia Yang

Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation

Jianheng Tang, Tiancheng Zhao, Chenyan Xiong, Xiaodan Liang, Eric Xing

Multimodal Transformer Networks for End-to-End Video-Grounded Dialogue Systems

Hung Le, Doyen Sahoo, Nancy Chen, Steven Hoi

Observing Dialogue in Therapy: Categorizing and Forecasting Behavioral Codes

Jie Cao, Michael Tanana, Zac Imel, Eric Poitras, David Atkins

An Empirical Investigation of Structured Output Modeling for Graph-based Neural Dependency Parsing

Zhisong Zhang, Xuezhe Ma, Eduard Hovy

Combating Adversarial Misspellings with Robust Word Recognition

Danish Pruthi, Bhuwan Dhingra, Zachary C. Lipton

Towards Explainable NLP: A Generative Explanation Framework for Text Classification

Hui LIU, Qingyu Yin, William Yang Wang

Generating Fluent Adversarial Examples for Natural Languages

Huangzhao Zhang, Hao Zhou, Ning Miao, Lei Li

Depth Growing for Neural Machine Translation

Lijun Wu, Yiren Wang, Yingce Xia, Fei Tian, Fei Gao

Towards Integration of Statistical Hypothesis Tests into Deep Neural Networks

Ahmad Aghaebrahimian, Mark Cieliebak

Reversing Gradients in Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Question Deduplication and Textual Entailment Tasks

Anush Kamath, Sparsh Gupta, Vitor Carvalho

Soft Contextual Data Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation

Fei Gao, Jinhua Zhu, Lijun Wu, Yingce Xia, Tao Qin

Misleading Failures of Partial-input Baselines

Shi Feng, Eric Wallace, Jordan Boyd-Graber

Better Exploiting Latent Variables in Text Modeling

Canasai Kruengkrai

Neural-based Chinese Idiom Recommendation for Enhancing Elegance in Essay Writing

Yuanchao Liu, Bo Pang, Bingquan Liu

Learning Latent Trees with Stochastic Perturbations and Differentiable Dynamic Programming

Caio Corro, Ivan Titov

Rationally Reappraising ATIS-based Dialogue Systems

Jingcheng Niu, Gerald Penn

Modeling Semantic Relationship in Multi-turn Conversations with Hierarchical Latent Variables

Lei Shen, Yang Feng, Haolan Zhan

Deep Unknown Intent Detection with Margin Loss

Ting-En Lin, Hua Xu

Robust Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Slot Filling with Example Values

Darsh Shah, Raghav Gupta, Amir Fayazi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

SUMBT: Slot-Utterance Matching for Universal and Scalable Belief Tracking

Hwaran Lee, Jinsik Lee, Tae-Yoon Kim

Dual Supervised Learning for Natural Language Understanding and Generation

Shang-Yu Su, Chao-Wei Huang, Yun-Nung Chen

A Novel Bi-directional Interrelated Model for Joint Intent Detection and Slot Filling

Haihong E, Peiqing Niu, Zhongfu Chen, Meina Song

Reading Turn by Turn: Hierarchical Attention Architecture for Spoken Dialogue Comprehension

Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy Chen

Personalizing Dialogue Agents via Meta-Learning

Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Chien-Sheng Wu, Pascale Fung

Memory Consolidation for Contextual Spoken Language Understanding with Dialogue Logistic Inference

He Bai, Yu Zhou, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong

Ordinal and Attribute Aware Response Generation in a Multimodal Dialogue System

Hardik Chauhan, Mauajama Firdaus, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Conversing by Reading: Contentful Neural Conversation with On-demand Machine Reading

LIANHUI Qin, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Xiaodong Liu, Xiang Gao

Neural Response Generation with Meta-words

Can Xu, Wei Wu, Chongyang Tao, Huang Hu, Matt Schuerman

Collaborative Dialogue in Minecraft

Anjali Narayan-Chen, Prashant Jayannavar, Julia Hockenmaier

Training Neural Response Selection for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić, Daniela Gerz, Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski

Know More about Each Other: Evolving Dialogue Strategy via Compound Assessment

Siqi Bao, Huang He, Fan Wang, Rongzhong Lian, Hua Wu

Towards Empathetic Open-domain Conversation Models: A New Benchmark and Dataset

Hannah Rashkin, Eric Michael Smith, Margaret Li, Y-lan Boureau

Label-Agnostic Sequence Labeling by Copying Nearest Neighbors

Sam Wiseman, Karl Stratos

A Prism Module for Semantic Disentanglement in Name Entity Recognition

Kun Liu, Shen Li, Daqi Zheng, Zhengdong Lu, Sheng Gao

Sequence Labeling Parsing by Learning across Representations

Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

PTB Graph Parsing with Tree Approximation

Yoshihide Kato, Shigeki Matsubara

How to Best Use Syntax in Semantic Role Labelling

Yufei Wang, Mark Johnson, Stephen Wan, Yifang Sun, Wei Wang

Online Infix Probability Computation for Probabilistic Finite Automata

Marco Cognetta, Yo-Sub Han, Soon Chan Kwon

Neural Architectures for Nested NER through Linearization

Jana Straková, Milan Straka, Jan Hajic

Enhancing Unsupervised Generative Dependency Parser with Contextual Information

Wenjuan Han, Yong Jiang, Kewei Tu

Span-Level Model for Relation Extraction

Kalpit Dixit, Yaser Al-Onaizan

Towards Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers

Tianyu Liu, Jin-ge Yao, Chin-Yew Lin

Improving Open Information Extraction via Iterative Rank-Aware Learning

Zhengbao Jiang, Pengcheng Yin, Graham Neubig

Exploring Pre-trained Language Models for Event Extraction and Generation

Sen Yang, Dawei Feng, Linbo Qiao, Zhigang Kan, Dongsheng Li

Cost-sensitive Regularization for Label Confusion-aware Event Detection

Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Neural Aspect and Opinion Term Extraction with Mined Rules as Weak Supervision

Hongliang Dai, Yangqiu Song

Joint Slot Filling and Intent Detection via Capsule Neural Networks

Chenwei Zhang, Yaliang Li, Nan Du, Wei Fan, Philip Yu

A Deep Reinforced Sequence-to-Set Model for Multi-Label Classification

Pengcheng Yang, Fuli Luo, Shuming Ma, Junyang Lin, Xu Sun

Quantity Tagger: A Latent-Variable Sequence Labeling Approach to Solving Addition-Subtraction Word Problems

Yanyan Zou, Wei Lu

A Unified Multi-task Adversarial Learning Framework for Pharmacovigilance Mining

Shweta Yadav, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Incorporating Linguistic Constraints into Keyphrase Generation

Jing Zhao, Yuxiang Zhang

Scaling up Open Tagging from Tens to Thousands: Comprehension Empowered Attribute Value Extraction from Product Title

Huimin Xu, WenTing Wang, Xin Mao, Xinyu Jiang, Man Lan

Identification of Tasks, Datasets, Evaluation Metrics, and Numeric Scores for Scientific Leaderboards Construction

Yufang Hou, Charles Jochim, Martin Gleize, Francesca Bonin, Debasis Ganguly

Improving Textual Network Embedding with Global Attention via Optimal Transport

Liqun Chen, Guoyin Wang, Chenyang Tao, Dinghan Shen, Pengyu Cheng

Sequence-to-Nuggets: Nested Entity Mention Detection via Anchor-Region Networks

Hongyu Lin, Yaojie Lu, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

NNE: A Dataset for Nested Named Entity Recognition in English Newswire

Nicky Ringland, Xiang Dai, Ben Hachey, Sarvnaz Karimi, Cecile Paris

Word-order Biases in Deep-agent Emergent Communication

Rahma Chaabouni, Eugene Kharitonov, Alessandro Lazaric, Emmanuel Dupoux, Marco Baroni

Modeling Affirmative and Negated Action Processing in the Brain with Lexical and Compositional Semantic Models

Vesna Djokic, Jean Maillard, Luana Bulat, Ekaterina Shutova

Relating Simple Sentence Representations in Deep Neural Networks and the Brain

Sharmistha Jat, Hao Tang, Partha Talukdar, Tom Mitchell

Like a Baby: Visually Situated Neural Language Acquisition

Alexander Ororbia, Ankur Mali, Matthew Kelly, David Reitter

Morphological Irregularity Correlates with Frequency

Shijie Wu, Ryan Cotterell, Timothy O’Donnell

Generating Summaries with Topic Templates and Structured Convolutional Decoders

Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Yang Liu, Mirella Lapata

Simple Unsupervised Summarization by Contextual Matching

Jiawei Zhou, Alexander Rush

Studying Summarization Evaluation Metrics in the Appropriate Scoring Range

Maxime Peyrard

Abstractive Text Summarization Based on Deep Learning and Semantic Content Generalization

Panagiotis Kouris, Georgios Alexandridis, Andreas Stafylopatis

Hierarchical Transformers for Multi-Document Summarization

Yang Liu, Mirella Lapata

HIBERT: Document Level Pre-training of Hierarchical Bidirectional Transformers for Document Summarization

Xingxing Zhang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Tree LSTMs with Convolution Units to Predict Stance and Rumor Veracity in Social Media Conversations

Sumeet Kumar, Kathleen Carley

Asking the Crowd: Question Analysis, Evaluation and Generation for Open Discussion on Online Forums

Zi Chai, Xinyu Xing, Xiaojun Wan, Bo Huang

TWEETQA: A Social Media Focused Question Answering Dataset

Wenhan Xiong, Jiawei Wu, Hong Wang, Vivek Kulkarni, Mo Yu

Automatically Identifying Complaints in Social Media

Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Mihaela Gaman, Nikolaos Aletras

Bilingual Lexicon Induction through Unsupervised Machine Translation

Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre

How Multilingual is Multilingual BERT?

Telmo Pires, Eva Schlinger, Dan Garrette

Analyzing the Limitations of Cross-lingual Word Embedding Mappings

Aitor Ormazabal, Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Aitor Soroa, Eneko Agirre

What Kind of Language Is Hard to Language-Model?

Sabrina J. Mielke, Ryan Cotterell, Kyle Gorman, Brian Roark, Jason Eisner

Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Graded Lexical Entailment

Ivan Vulić, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Goran Glavaš

A Resource-Free Evaluation Metric for Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings Based on Graph Modularity

Yoshinari Fujinuma, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Michael J. Paul

Interpretable Question Answering on Knowledge Bases and Text

Alona Sydorova, Nina Poerner, Benjamin Roth

Explain Yourself! Leveraging Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning

Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Bryan McCann, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

Simple and Effective Curriculum Pointer-Generator Networks for Reading Comprehension over Long Narratives

Yi Tay, Shuohang Wang, Anh Tuan Luu, Jie Fu, Minh C. Phan

MultiQA: An Empirical Investigation of Generalization and Transfer in Reading Comprehension

Alon Talmor, Jonathan Berant

Unsupervised Question Answering by Cloze Translation

Patrick Lewis, Ludovic DENOYER, Sebastian Riedel

Handling Divergent Reference Texts when Evaluating Table-to-Text Generation

Bhuwan Dhingra, Manaal Faruqui, Ankur Parikh, Ming-Wei Chang, Dipanjan Das

A Hierarchical Reinforced Sequence Operation Method for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Chen Wu, Xuancheng Ren, Fuli Luo, Xu Sun

Cross-Lingual Training for Automatic Question Generation

Vishwajeet Kumar, Nitish Joshi, Arijit Mukherjee, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Preethi Jyothi

Interconnected Question Generation with Coreference Alignment and Conversation Flow Modeling

Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu

Coherent Comments Generation for Chinese Articles with a Graph-to-Sequence Model

Wei Li, Jingjing Xu, Yancheng He, ShengLi Yan, Yunfang Wu

A Surprisingly Robust Trick for the Winograd Schema Challenge

Vid Kocijan, Ana-Maria Cretu, Oana-Maria Camburu, Yordan Yordanov, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Attention Is (not) All You Need for Commonsense Reasoning

Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi

Generalized Tuning of Distributional Word Vectors for Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Lexical Entailment

Goran Glavaš, Ivan Vulić

Learning to Rank for Plausible Plausibility

Zhongyang Li, Tongfei Chen, Benjamin Van Durme

Every Child Should Have Parents: A Taxonomy Refinement Algorithm Based on Hyperbolic Term Embeddings

Rami Aly, Shantanu Acharya, Alexander Ossa, Arne Köhn, Chris Biemann

Unified Semantic Parsing with Weak Supervision

Priyanka Agrawal, Ayushi Dalmia, Parag Jain, Abhishek Bansal, Ashish Mittal

HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence?

Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman, Yonatan Bisk, Ali Farhadi, Yejin Choi