ACL 2020

1,239 papers

Emotion Arcs of Student Narratives

Swapna Somasundaran, Xianyang Chen, Michael Flor

Extracting Message Sequence Charts from Hindi Narrative Text

Swapnil Hingmire, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Avinash Kumar Singh, Sangameshwar Patil, Girish Palshikar

Exploring aspects of similarity between spoken personal narratives by disentangling them into narrative clause types

Belen Saldias, Deb Roy

Annotating and quantifying narrative time disruptions in modernist and hypertext fiction

Edward Kearns

Automatic extraction of personal events from dialogue

Joshua Eisenberg, Michael Sheriff

Script Induction as Association Rule Mining

Anton Belyy, Benjamin Van Durme

Exploring the Effect of Author and Reader Identity in Online Story Writing: the STORIESINTHEWILD Corpus.

Tal August, Maarten Sap, Elizabeth Clark, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith

Extensively Matching for Few-shot Learning Event Detection

Viet Dac Lai, Thien Huu Nguyen, Franck Dernoncourt

Systematic Evaluation of a Framework for Unsupervised Emotion Recognition for Narrative Text

Samira Zad, Mark Finlayson

Improving the Identification of the Discourse Function of News Article Paragraphs

Deya Banisakher, W. Victor Yarlott, Mohammed Aldawsari, Naphtali Rishe, Mark Finlayson

Screenplay Quality Assessment: Can We Predict Who Gets Nominated?

Ming-Chang Chiu, Tiantian Feng, Xiang Ren, Shrikanth Narayanan

New Insights into Cross-Document Event Coreference: Systematic Comparison and a Simplified Approach

Andres Cremisini, Mark Finlayson

Topic-Based Measures of Conversation for Detecting Mild CognitiveImpairment

Meysam Asgari, Liu Chen, Hiroko Dodge

Robust Prediction of Punctuation and Truecasing for Medical ASR

Monica Sunkara, Srikanth Ronanki, Kalpit Dixit, Sravan Bodapati, Katrin Kirchhoff

On the Utility of Audiovisual Dialog Technologies and Signal Analytics for Real-time Remote Monitoring of Depression Biomarkers

Michael Neumann, Oliver Roessler, David Suendermann-Oeft, Vikram Ramanarayanan

Heart Failure Education of African American and Hispanic/Latino Patients: Data Collection and Analysis

Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Devika Salunke, Andrew Boyd, Paula Allen-Meares

Towards an Ontology-based Medication Conversational Agent for PrEP and PEP

Muhammad Amith, Licong Cui, Kirk Roberts, Cui Tao

Generating Medical Reports from Patient-Doctor Conversations Using Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Seppo Enarvi, Marilisa Amoia, Miguel Del-Agua Teba, Brian Delaney, Frank Diehl

Studying Challenges in Medical Conversation with Structured Annotation

Nan Wang, Yan Song, Fei Xia

Towards Understanding ASR Error Correction for Medical Conversations

Anirudh Mani, Shruti Palaskar, Sandeep Konam

Methods for Extracting Information from Messages from Primary Care Providers to Specialists

Xiyu Ding, Michael Barnett, Ateev Mehrotra, Timothy Miller

Probing Neural Dialog Models for Conversational Understanding

Abdelrhman Saleh, Tovly Deutsch, Stephen Casper, Yonatan Belinkov, Stuart Shieber

Sketch-Fill-A-R: A Persona-Grounded Chit-Chat Generation Framework

Michael Shum, Stephan Zheng, Wojciech Kryscinski, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

MultiWOZ 2.2 : A Dialogue Dataset with Additional Annotation Corrections and State Tracking Baselines

Xiaoxue Zang, Abhinav Rastogi, Srinivas Sunkara, Raghav Gupta, Jianguo Zhang

Learning to Classify Intents and Slot Labels Given a Handful of Examples

Jason Krone, Yi Zhang, Mona Diab

Improving Slot Filling by Utilizing Contextual Information

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Thien Huu Nguyen

From Machine Reading Comprehension to Dialogue State Tracking: Bridging the Gap

Shuyang Gao, Sanchit Agarwal, Di Jin, Tagyoung Chung, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Automating Template Creation for Ranking-Based Dialogue Models

Jingxiang Chen, Heba Elfardy, Simi Wang, Andrea Kahn, Jared Kramer

Data Augmentation for Training Dialog Models Robust to Speech Recognition Errors

Longshaokan Wang, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Aditya Tiwari, Spyros Matsoukas, Lazaros Polymenakos

DLGNet: A Transformer-based Model for Dialogue Response Generation

Olabiyi Oluwatobi, Erik Mueller

Accelerating Natural Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialog

Ojas Ahuja, Shrey Desai

Efficient Intent Detection with Dual Sentence Encoders

Iñigo Casanueva, Tadas Temčinas, Daniela Gerz, Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić

How to Tame Your Data: Data Augmentation for Dialog State Tracking

Adam Summerville, Jordan Hashemi, James Ryan, William Ferguson

CopyBERT: A Unified Approach to Question Generation with Self-Attention

Stalin Varanasi, Saadullah Amin, Guenter Neumann

On Incorporating Structural Information to improve Dialogue Response Generation

Nikita Moghe, Priyesh Vijayan, Balaraman Ravindran, Mitesh M. Khapra

Using Alternate Representations of Text for Natural Language Understanding

Venkat Varada, Charith Peris, Yangsook Park, Christopher Dipersio

Neural Multi-task Text Normalization and Sanitization with Pointer-Generator

Hoang Nguyen, Sandro Cavallari

Efficient Deployment of Conversational Natural Language Interfaces over Databases

Anthony Colas, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt, Moumita Sinha, Doo Soon Kim

Examination and Extension of Strategies for Improving Personalized Language Modeling via Interpolation

Liqun Shao, Sahitya Mantravadi, Tom Manzini, Alejandro Buendia, Manon Knoertzer

Towards Reversal-Based Textual Data Augmentation for NLI Problems with Opposable Classes

Alexey Tarasov

Answering Complex Questions by Combining Information from Curated and Extracted Knowledge Bases

Nikita Bhutani, Xinyi Zheng, Kun Qian, Yunyao Li, H. Jagadish

Simultaneous Translation and Paraphrase for Language Education

Stephen Mayhew, Klinton Bicknell, Chris Brust, Bill McDowell, Will Monroe

Improving Document-Level Neural Machine Translation with Domain Adaptation

Sami Ul Haq, Sadaf Abdul Rauf, Arslan Shoukat, Noor-e- Hira

Edinburgh’s Submissions to the 2020 Machine Translation Efficiency Task

Nikolay Bogoychev, Roman Grundkiewicz, Alham Fikri Aji, Maximiliana Behnke, Kenneth Heafield

Efficient and High-Quality Neural Machine Translation with OpenNMT

Guillaume Klein, Dakun Zhang, Clément Chouteau, Josep Crego, Jean Senellart

The NiuTrans System for WNGT 2020 Efficiency Task

Chi Hu, Bei Li, Yinqiao Li, Ye Lin, Yanyang Li

Simultaneous paraphrasing and translation by fine-tuning Transformer models

Rakesh Chada

The JHU Submission to the 2020 Duolingo Shared Task on Simultaneous Translation and Paraphrase for Language Education

Huda Khayrallah, Jacob Bremerman, Arya D. McCarthy, Kenton Murray, Winston Wu

Generating Diverse Translations via Weighted Fine-tuning and Hypotheses Filtering for the Duolingo STAPLE Task

Sweta Agrawal, Marine Carpuat

Growing Together: Modeling Human Language Learning With n-Best Multi-Checkpoint Machine Translation

El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Hasan Cavusoglu

Exploring Model Consensus to Generate Translation Paraphrases

Zhenhao Li, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia

Expand and Filter: CUNI and LMU Systems for the WNGT 2020 Duolingo Shared Task

Jindřich Libovický, Zdeněk Kasner, Jindřich Helcl, Ondřej Dušek

The ADAPT System Description for the STAPLE 2020 English-to-Portuguese Translation Task

Rejwanul Haque, Yasmin Moslem, Andy Way

POSTECH Submission on Duolingo Shared Task

Junsu Park, Hongseok Kwon, Jong-Hyeok Lee

English-to-Japanese Diverse Translation by Combining Forward and Backward Outputs

Masahiro Kaneko, Aizhan Imankulova, Tosho Hirasawa, Mamoru Komachi

Meeting the 2020 Duolingo Challenge on a Shoestring

Tadashi Nomoto

Training and Inference Methods for High-Coverage Neural Machine Translation

Michael Yang, Yixin Liu, Rahul Mayuranath

Distill, Adapt, Distill: Training Small, In-Domain Models for Neural Machine Translation

Mitchell Gordon, Kevin Duh

Leveraging Sentence Similarity in Natural Language Generation: Improving Beam Search using Range Voting

Sebastian Borgeaud, Guy Emerson

The Unreasonable Volatility of Neural Machine Translation Models

Marzieh Fadaee, Christof Monz

A Generative Approach to Titling and Clustering Wikipedia Sections

Anjalie Field, Sascha Rothe, Simon Baumgartner, Cong Yu, Abe Ittycheriah

A Question Type Driven and Copy Loss Enhanced Frameworkfor Answer-Agnostic Neural Question Generation

Xiuyu Wu, Nan Jiang, Yunfang Wu

A Deep Reinforced Model for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Summarization with Bilingual Semantic Similarity Rewards

Zi-Yi Dou, Sachin Kumar, Yulia Tsvetkov

Automatically Ranked Russian Paraphrase Corpus for Text Generation

Vadim Gudkov, Olga Mitrofanova, Elizaveta Filippskikh

Meta-Learning for Few-Shot NMT Adaptation

Amr Sharaf, Hany Hassan, Hal Daume III

Compressing Neural Machine Translation Models with 4-bit Precision

Alham Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield

Balancing Cost and Benefit with Tied-Multi Transformers

Raj Dabre, Raphael Rubino, Atsushi Fujita

Learning to Generate Multiple Style Transfer Outputs for an Input Sentence

Kevin Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Ming-ting Sun, Jan Kautz

Findings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation

Kenneth Heafield, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yusuke Oda, Ioannis Konstas, Andrew Finch

How Human is Machine Translationese? Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Text and Speech

Yuri Bizzoni, Tom S Juzek, Cristina España-Bonet, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Josef van Genabith

Efficient Automatic Punctuation Restoration Using Bidirectional Transformers with Robust Inference

Maury Courtland, Adam Faulkner, Gayle McElvain

Joint Translation and Unit Conversion for End-to-end Localization

Georgiana Dinu, Prashant Mathur, Marcello Federico, Stanislas Lauly, Yaser Al-Onaizan

From Speech-to-Speech Translation to Automatic Dubbing

Marcello Federico, Robert Enyedi, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Ritwik Giri, Umut Isik

Adapting End-to-End Speech Recognition for Readable Subtitles

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues, Gerasimos Spanakis

Neural Simultaneous Speech Translation Using Alignment-Based Chunking

Patrick Wilken, Tamer Alkhouli, Evgeny Matusov, Pavel Golik

Towards Stream Translation: Adaptive Computation Time for Simultaneous Machine Translation

Felix Schneider, Alexander Waibel

Re-translation versus Streaming for Simultaneous Translation

Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Wolfgang Macherey, George Foster

Is 42 the Answer to Everything in Subtitling-oriented Speech Translation?

Alina Karakanta, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

ELITR Non-Native Speech Translation at IWSLT 2020

Dominik Macháček, Jonáš Kratochvíl, Sangeet Sagar, Matúš Žilinec, Ondřej Bojar

CUNI Neural ASR with Phoneme-Level Intermediate Step for~Non-Native~SLT at IWSLT 2020

Peter Polák, Sangeet Sagar, Dominik Macháček, Ondřej Bojar

The HW-TSC Video Speech Translation System at IWSLT 2020

Minghan Wang, Hao Yang, Yao Deng, Ying Qin, Lizhi Lei

Generating Fluent Translations from Disfluent Text Without Access to Fluent References: IIT Bombay@IWSLT2020

Nikhil Saini, Jyotsana Khatri, Preethi Jyothi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

NAIST’s Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2020 Conversational Speech Translation Task

Ryo Fukuda, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura

Octanove Labs’ Japanese-Chinese Open Domain Translation System

Masato Hagiwara

ISTIC’s Neural Machine Translation System for IWSLT’2020

Jiaze Wei, Wenbin Liu, Zhenfeng Wu, You Pan, Yanqing He

Xiaomi’s Submissions for IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation Task

Yuhui Sun, Mengxue Guo, Xiang Li, Jianwei Cui, Bin Wang

University of Tsukuba’s Machine Translation System for IWSLT20 Open Domain Translation Task

Hongyi Cui, Yizhen Wei, Shohei Iida, Takehito Utsuro, Masaaki Nagata

Deep Blue Sonics’ Submission to IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation Task

Enmin Su, Yi Ren

CASIA’s System for IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation

Qian Wang, Yuchen Liu, Cong Ma, Yu Lu, Yining Wang

Character Mapping and Ad-hoc Adaptation: Edinburgh’s IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation System

Pinzhen Chen, Nikolay Bogoychev, Ulrich Germann

OPPO’s Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation Task

Qian Zhang, Xiaopu Li, Dawei Dang, Tingxun Shi, Di Ai

LIT Team’s System Description for Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation Task in IWSLT 2020

Yimeng Zhuang, yuan zhang, Lijie Wang

The AFRL IWSLT 2020 Systems: Work-From-Home Edition

Brian Ore, Eric Hansen, Tim Anderson, Jeremy Gwinnup

The University of Helsinki Submission to the IWSLT2020 Offline SpeechTranslation Task

Raúl Vázquez, Mikko Aulamo, Umut Sulubacak, Jörg Tiedemann

SRPOL’s System for the IWSLT 2020 End-to-End Speech Translation Task

Tomasz Potapczyk, Pawel Przybysz

End-to-End Speech-Translation with Knowledge Distillation: FBK@IWSLT2020

Marco Gaido, Mattia A. Di Gangi, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

End-to-End Offline Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2020 using Modality Agnostic Meta-Learning

Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu, Beomseok Lee, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Hou Jeung Han, Mohd Abbas Zaidi

DiDi Labs’ End-to-end System for the IWSLT 2020 Offline Speech TranslationTask

Arkady Arkhangorodsky, Yiqi Huang, Amittai Axelrod

End-to-End Simultaneous Translation System for IWSLT2020 Using Modality Agnostic Meta-Learning

Hou Jeung Han, Mohd Abbas Zaidi, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu, Beomseok Lee

KIT’s IWSLT 2020 SLT Translation System

Ngoc-Quan Pham, Felix Schneider, Tuan-Nam Nguyen, Thanh-Le Ha, Thai Son Nguyen