COLING 2018

559 papers

Generic refinement of expressive grammar formalisms with an application to discontinuous constituent parsing

Kilian Gebhardt

Adaptive Weighting for Neural Machine Translation

Yachao Li, Junhui Li, Min Zhang

Toward Better Loanword Identification in Uyghur Using Cross-lingual Word Embeddings

Chenggang Mi, Yating Yang, Lei Wang, Xi Zhou, Tonghai Jiang

Multi-layer Representation Fusion for Neural Machine Translation

Qiang Wang, Fuxue Li, Tong Xiao, Yanyang Li, Yinqiao Li

Gold Standard Annotations for Preposition and Verb Sense with Semantic Role Labels in Adult-Child Interactions

Lori Moon, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Cynthia Fisher, Sandra Franco, Dan Roth

Incremental Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Strategies, and Evaluation

Arne Köhn

Using J-K-fold Cross Validation To Reduce Variance When Tuning NLP Models

Henry Moss, David Leslie, Paul Rayson

Multi-Task Learning for Sequence Tagging: An Empirical Study

Soravit Changpinyo, Hexiang Hu, Fei Sha

Sliced Recurrent Neural Networks

Zeping Yu, Gongshen Liu

Clausal Modifiers in the Grammar Matrix

Kristen Howell, Olga Zamaraeva

Expressively vulgar: The socio-dynamics of vulgarity and its effects on sentiment analysis in social media

Isabel Cachola, Eric Holgate, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Junyi Jessy Li

How emotional are you? Neural Architectures for Emotion Intensity Prediction in Microblogs

Devang Kulshreshtha, Pranav Goel, Anil Kumar Singh

Emotion Detection and Classification in a Multigenre Corpus with Joint Multi-Task Deep Learning

Shabnam Tafreshi, Mona Diab

Emotion Representation Mapping for Automatic Lexicon Construction (Mostly) Performs on Human Level

Sven Buechel, Udo Hahn

Folksonomication: Predicting Tags for Movies from Plot Synopses using Emotion Flow Encoded Neural Network

Sudipta Kar, Suraj Maharjan, Thamar Solorio

Neural Activation Semantic Models: Computational lexical semantic models of localized neural activations

Nikos Athanasiou, Elias Iosif, Alexandros Potamianos

Towards a unified framework for bilingual terminology extraction of single-word and multi-word terms

Jingshu Liu, Emmanuel Morin, Peña Saldarriaga

Learning Features from Co-occurrences: A Theoretical Analysis

Yanpeng Li

Model-Free Context-Aware Word Composition

Bo An, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

Learning Target-Specific Representations of Financial News Documents For Cumulative Abnormal Return Prediction

Junwen Duan, Yue Zhang, Xiao Ding, Ching-Yun Chang, Ting Liu

What represents “style” in authorship attribution?

Kalaivani Sundararajan, Damon Woodard

Novelty Goes Deep. A Deep Neural Solution To Document Level Novelty Detection

Tirthankar Ghosal, Vignesh Edithal, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, George Tsatsaronis

Challenges and Opportunities of Applying Natural Language Processing in Business Process Management

Han van der Aa, Josep Carmona, Henrik Leopold, Jan Mendling, Lluís Padró

Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks for Open Vocabulary Slots

Jun-Seong Kim, Junghoe Kim, SeungUn Park, Kwangyong Lee, Yoonju Lee

Authorship Attribution By Consensus Among Multiple Features

Jagadeesh Patchala, Raj Bhatnagar

A Full End-to-End Semantic Role Labeler, Syntactic-agnostic Over Syntactic-aware?

Jiaxun Cai, Shexia He, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao

Information Aggregation via Dynamic Routing for Sequence Encoding

Jingjing Gong, Xipeng Qiu, Shaojing Wang, Xuanjing Huang

A Reassessment of Reference-Based Grammatical Error Correction Metrics

Shamil Chollampatt, Hwee Tou Ng

Learning Semantic Sentence Embeddings using Sequential Pair-wise Discriminator

Badri Narayana Patro, Vinod Kumar Kurmi, Sandeep Kumar, Vinay Namboodiri

Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Word Similarity Calculation Using Word Vector Representation from a Knowledge-based Graph

Dongsuk O, Sunjae Kwon, Kyungsun Kim, Youngjoong Ko

What’s in Your Embedding, And How It Predicts Task Performance

Anna Rogers, Shashwath Hosur Ananthakrishna, Anna Rumshisky

Using Formulaic Expressions in Writing Assistance Systems

Kenichi Iwatsuki, Akiko Aizawa

Evaluation of Unsupervised Compositional Representations

Hanan Aldarmaki, Mona Diab

SeVeN: Augmenting Word Embeddings with Unsupervised Relation Vectors

Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert

Automatically Extracting Qualia Relations for the Rich Event Ontology

Ghazaleh Kazeminejad, Claire Bonial, Susan Windisch Brown, Martha Palmer

Pluralizing Nouns across Agglutinating Bantu Languages

Joan Byamugisha, C. Maria Keet, Brian DeRenzi

Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes

Patrick Littell, Anna Kazantseva, Roland Kuhn, Aidan Pine, Antti Arppe

Using Word Embeddings for Unsupervised Acronym Disambiguation

Jean Charbonnier, Christian Wartena

Learning Multilingual Topics from Incomparable Corpora

Shudong Hao, Michael J. Paul

If you’ve seen some, you’ve seen them all: Identifying variants of multiword expressions

Caroline Pasquer, Agata Savary, Carlos Ramisch, Jean-Yves Antoine

ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms

Mokhtar B. Billami, Thomas François, Núria Gala

Urdu Word Segmentation using Conditional Random Fields (CRFs)

Haris Bin Zia, Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar

Learning to Generate Word Representations using Subword Information

Yeachan Kim, Kang-Min Kim, Ji-Min Lee, SangKeun Lee

One vs. Many QA Matching with both Word-level and Sentence-level Attention Network

Lu Wang, Shoushan Li, Changlong Sun, Luo Si, Xiaozhong Liu

Part-of-Speech Tagging on an Endangered Language: a Parallel Griko-Italian Resource

Antonios Anastasopoulos, Marika Lekakou, Josep Quer, Eleni Zimianiti, Justin DeBenedetto

Automatically Creating a Lexicon of Verbal Polarity Shifters: Mono- and Cross-lingual Methods for German

Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer

Real-time Change Point Detection using On-line Topic Models

Yunli Wang, Cyril Goutte

Why does PairDiff work? - A Mathematical Analysis of Bilinear Relational Compositional Operators for Analogy Detection

Huda Hakami, Kohei Hayashi, Danushka Bollegala

Rich Character-Level Information for Korean Morphological Analysis and Part-of-Speech Tagging

Andrew Matteson, Chanhee Lee, Youngbum Kim, Heuiseok Lim

Convolutional Neural Network for Universal Sentence Embeddings

Xiaoqi Jiao, Fang Wang, Dan Feng

Synonymy in Bilingual Context: The CzEngClass Lexicon

Zdeňka Urešová, Eva Fučíková, Eva Hajičová, Jan Hajic

A LSTM Approach with Sub-Word Embeddings for Mongolian Phrase Break Prediction

Rui Liu, Feilong Bao, Guanglai Gao, Hui Zhang, Yonghe Wang

Context-Sensitive Generation of Open-Domain Conversational Responses

Weinan Zhang, Yiming Cui, Yifa Wang, Qingfu Zhu, Lingzhi LI

Retrofitting Distributional Embeddings to Knowledge Graphs with Functional Relations

Ben Lengerich, Andrew Maas, Christopher Potts

Correcting Chinese Word Usage Errors for Learning Chinese as a Second Language

Yow-Ting Shiue, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Stance Detection with Hierarchical Attention Network

Qingying Sun, Zhongqing Wang, Qiaoming Zhu, Guodong Zhou

Exploring the Influence of Spelling Errors on Lexical Variation Measures

Ryo Nagata, Taisei Sato, Hiroya Takamura

Hybrid Attention based Multimodal Network for Spoken Language Classification

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

Recurrent One-Hop Predictions for Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs

Wenpeng Yin, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Hinrich Schütze

Grounded Textual Entailment

Hoa Trong Vu, Claudio Greco, Aliia Erofeeva, Somayeh Jafaritazehjan, Guido Linders

Stress Test Evaluation for Natural Language Inference

Aakanksha Naik, Abhilasha Ravichander, Norman Sadeh, Carolyn Rose, Graham Neubig

Multimodal Grounding for Language Processing

Lisa Beinborn, Teresa Botschen, Iryna Gurevych

An Exploration of Three Lightly-supervised Representation Learning Approaches for Named Entity Classification

Ajay Nagesh, Mihai Surdeanu

Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction

Matthias Cetto, Christina Niklaus, Andre Freitas, Siegfried Handschuh

Open Information Extraction from Conjunctive Sentences

Swarnadeep Saha, Mausam

Who is Killed by Police: Introducing Supervised Attention for Hierarchical LSTMs

Minh Nguyen, Thien Huu Nguyen

Exploratory Neural Relation Classification for Domain Knowledge Acquisition

Yan Fan, Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He

Scoring and Classifying Implicit Positive Interpretations: A Challenge of Class Imbalance

Chantal van Son, Roser Morante, Lora Aroyo, Piek Vossen

Representations and Architectures in Neural Sentiment Analysis for Morphologically Rich Languages: A Case Study from Modern Hebrew

Adam Amram, Anat Ben David, Reut Tsarfaty

Learning Sentiment Composition from Sentiment Lexicons

Orith Toledo-Ronen, Roy Bar-Haim, Alon Halfon, Charles Jochim, Amir Menczel

Aspect-based summarization of pros and cons in unstructured product reviews

Florian Kunneman, Sander Wubben, Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer

Aff2Vec: Affect–Enriched Distributional Word Representations

Sopan Khosla, Niyati Chhaya, Kushal Chawla

Responding E-commerce Product Questions via Exploiting QA Collections and Reviews

Qian Yu, Wai Lam, Zihao Wang

Learning to Progressively Recognize New Named Entities with Sequence to Sequence Models

Lingzhen Chen, Alessandro Moschitti

Joint Neural Entity Disambiguation with Output Space Search

Hamed Shahbazi, Xiaoli Fern, Reza Ghaeini, Chao Ma, Rasha Mohammad Obeidat

Distantly Supervised NER with Partial Annotation Learning and Reinforcement Learning

Yaosheng Yang, Wenliang Chen, Zhenghua Li, Zhengqiu He, Min Zhang

A Survey on Recent Advances in Named Entity Recognition from Deep Learning models

Vikas Yadav, Steven Bethard

A Review on Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Answer Selection

Tuan Manh Lai, Trung Bui, Sheng Li

Investigating the Working of Text Classifiers

Devendra Sachan, Manzil Zaheer, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

An Analysis of Annotated Corpora for Emotion Classification in Text

Laura-Ana-Maria Bostan, Roman Klinger

Farewell Freebase: Migrating the SimpleQuestions Dataset to DBpedia

Michael Azmy, Peng Shi, Jimmy Lin, Ihab Ilyas

Improving Named Entity Recognition by Jointly Learning to Disambiguate Morphological Tags

Onur Gungor, Suzan Uskudarli, Tunga Güngör

Towards an argumentative content search engine using weak supervision

Ran Levy, Ben Bogin, Shai Gretz, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim

Learning What to Share: Leaky Multi-Task Network for Text Classification

Liqiang Xiao, Honglun Zhang, Wenqing Chen, Yongkun Wang, Yaohui Jin

Lyrics Segmentation: Textual Macrostructure Detection using Convolutions

Michael Fell, Yaroslav Nechaev, Elena Cabrio, Fabien Gandon

Adaptive Learning of Local Semantic and Global Structure Representations for Text Classification

Jianyu Zhao, Zhiqiang Zhan, Qichuan Yang, Yang Zhang, Changjian Hu

Task-oriented Word Embedding for Text Classification

Qian Liu, Heyan Huang, Yang Gao, Xiaochi Wei, Yuxin Tian

An Interpretable Reasoning Network for Multi-Relation Question Answering

Mantong Zhou, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu

The APVA-TURBO Approach To Question Answering in Knowledge Base

Yue Wang, Richong Zhang, Cheng Xu, Yongyi Mao

Location Name Extraction from Targeted Text Streams using Gazetteer-based Statistical Language Models

Hussein Al-Olimat, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Valerie Shalin, Amit Sheth

Transfer Learning for Entity Recognition of Novel Classes

Juan Diego Rodriguez, Adam Caldwell, Alexander Liu

Genre Identification and the Compositional Effect of Genre in Literature

Joseph Worsham, Jugal Kalita

LCQMC:A Large-scale Chinese Question Matching Corpus

Xin Liu, Qingcai Chen, Chong Deng, Huajun Zeng, Jing Chen

A Neural Question Answering Model Based on Semi-Structured Tables

Hao Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Shuming Ma, Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang

Style Detection for Free Verse Poetry from Text and Speech

Timo Baumann, Hussein Hussein, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek

Visual Question Answering Dataset for Bilingual Image Understanding: A Study of Cross-Lingual Transfer Using Attention Maps

Nobuyuki Shimizu, Na Rong, Takashi Miyazaki

A Pseudo Label based Dataless Naive Bayes Algorithm for Text Classification with Seed Words

Ximing Li, Bo Yang

Robust Lexical Features for Improved Neural Network Named-Entity Recognition

Abbas Ghaddar, Phillippe Langlais

An Attribute Enhanced Domain Adaptive Model for Cold-Start Spam Review Detection

Zhenni You, Tieyun Qian, Bing Liu

Exploiting Syntactic Structures for Humor Recognition

Lizhen Liu, Donghai Zhang, Wei Song