COLING 2020

1,035 papers

An Empirical Study of Contextual Data Augmentation for Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution

Ryuto Konno, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi, Shun Kiyono, Hiroki Ouchi, Ryo Takahashi

Understanding Unnatural Questions Improves Reasoning over Text

Xiaoyu Guo, Yuan-Fang Li, Gholamreza Haffari

Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation

Vasanth Sarathy, Alexander Tsuetaki, Antonio Roque, Matthias Scheutz

Balanced Joint Adversarial Training for Robust Intent Detection and Slot Filling

Xu Cao, Deyi Xiong, Chongyang Shi, Chao Wang, Yao Meng

Two-level classification for dialogue act recognition in task-oriented dialogues

Philippe Blache, Massina Abderrahmane, Stéphane Rauzy, Magalie Ochs, Houda Oufaida

A Multitask Active Learning Framework for Natural Language Understanding

Hua Zhu, Wu Ye, Sihan Luo, Xidong Zhang

A Taxonomy of Empathetic Response Intents in Human Social Conversations

Anuradha Welivita, Pearl Pu

Inflating Topic Relevance with Ideology: A Case Study of Political Ideology Bias in Social Topic Detection Models

Meiqi Guo, Rebecca Hwa, Yu-Ru Lin, Wen-Ting Chung

Measuring Correlation-to-Causation Exaggeration in Press Releases

Bei Yu, Jun Wang, Lu Guo, Yingya Li

GPolS: A Contextual Graph-Based Language Model for Analyzing Parliamentary Debates and Political Cohesion

Ramit Sawhney, Arnav Wadhwa, Shivam Agarwal, Rajiv Ratn Shah

Predicting Clickbait Strength in Online Social Media

Vijayasaradhi Indurthi, Bakhtiyar Syed, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma

Hierarchical Trivia Fact Extraction from Wikipedia Articles

Jingun Kwon, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Young-In Song, Manabu Okumura

Manual Clustering and Spatial Arrangement of Verbs for Multilingual Evaluation and Typology Analysis

Olga Majewska, Ivan Vulić, Diana McCarthy, Anna Korhonen

Would you describe a leopard as yellow? Evaluating crowd-annotations with justified and informative disagreement

Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens, Piek Vossen

Identifying Annotator Bias: A new IRT-based method for bias identification

Jacopo Amidei, Paul Piwek, Alistair Willis

A Human Evaluation of AMR-to-English Generation Systems

Emma Manning, Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider

CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark

Liang Xu, Hai Hu, Xuanwei Zhang, Lu Li, Chenjie Cao

SpanAlign: Sentence Alignment Method based on Cross-Language Span Prediction and ILP

Katsuki Chousa, Masaaki Nagata, Masaaki Nishino

ContraCAT: Contrastive Coreference Analytical Templates for Machine Translation

Dario Stojanovski, Benno Krojer, Denis Peskov, Alexander Fraser

Emergent Communication Pretraining for Few-Shot Machine Translation

Yaoyiran Li, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen

Cross-lingual Transfer Learning for Grammatical Error Correction

Ikumi Yamashita, Satoru Katsumata, Masahiro Kaneko, Aizhan Imankulova, Mamoru Komachi

Detecting Urgency Status of Crisis Tweets: A Transfer Learning Approach for Low Resource Languages

Efsun Sarioglu Kayi, Linyong Nan, Bohan Qu, Mona Diab, Kathleen McKeown

Wiktionary Normalization of Translations and Morphological Information

Winston Wu, David Yarowsky

Utilizing Subword Entities in Character-Level Sequence-to-Sequence Lemmatization Models

Nasser Zalmout, Nizar Habash

Semi-supervised URL Segmentation with Recurrent Neural Networks Pre-trained on Knowledge Graph Entities

Hao Zhang, Jae Ro, Richard Sproat

Revitalization of Indigenous Languages through Pre-processing and Neural Machine Translation: The case of Inuktitut

Tan Ngoc Le, Fatiha Sadat

Morphological disambiguation from stemming data

Antoine Nzeyimana

Incorporating Inner-word and Out-word Features for Mongolian Morphological Segmentation

Na Liu, Xiangdong Su, Haoran Zhang, Guanglai Gao, Feilong Bao

Syllable-based Neural Thai Word Segmentation

Pattarawat Chormai, Ponrawee Prasertsom, Jin Cheevaprawatdomrong, Attapol Rutherford

Joint Persian Word Segmentation Correction and Zero-Width Non-Joiner Recognition Using BERT

Ehsan Doostmohammadi, Minoo Nassajian, Adel Rahimi

Interactive Word Completion for Morphologically Complex Languages

William Lane, Steven Bird

Coreference information guides human expectations during natural reading

Evan Jaffe, Cory Shain, William Schuler

A Linguistic Perspective on Reference: Choosing a Feature Set for Generating Referring Expressions in Context

Fahime Same, Kees van Deemter

Rhetoric, Logic, and Dialectic: Advancing Theory-based Argument Quality Assessment in Natural Language Processing

Anne Lauscher, Lily Ng, Courtney Napoles, Joel Tetreault

Aspectuality Across Genre: A Distributional Semantics Approach

Thomas Kober, Malihe Alikhani, Matthew Stone, Mark Steedman

Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy

Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Federico Nanni, Kaspar Beelen, Kasra Hosseini, Ruth Ahnert

Domain Transfer based Data Augmentation for Neural Query Translation

Liang Yao, Baosong Yang, Haibo Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo

Is MAP Decoding All You Need? The Inadequacy of the Mode in Neural Machine Translation

Bryan Eikema, Wilker Aziz

Knowledge Graph Enhanced Neural Machine Translation via Multi-task Learning on Sub-entity Granularity

Yang Zhao, Lu Xiang, Junnan Zhu, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou

Effective Use of Target-side Context for Neural Machine Translation

Hideya Mino, Hitoshi Ito, Isao Goto, Ichiro Yamada, Takenobu Tokunaga

Leveraging Discourse Rewards for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation

Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Nazanin Esmaili, Gholamreza Haffari, Massimo Piccardi

EmpDG: Multi-resolution Interactive Empathetic Dialogue Generation

Qintong Li, Hongshen Chen, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhaopeng Tu

MEISD: A Multimodal Multi-Label Emotion, Intensity and Sentiment Dialogue Dataset for Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis in Conversations

Mauajama Firdaus, Hardik Chauhan, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Knowledge Aware Emotion Recognition in Textual Conversations via Multi-Task Incremental Transformer

Duzhen Zhang, Xiuyi Chen, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu

Combining Cognitive Modeling and Reinforcement Learning for Clarification in Dialogue

Baber Khalid, Malihe Alikhani, Matthew Stone

Does Gender Matter? Towards Fairness in Dialogue Systems

Haochen Liu, Jamell Dacon, Wenqi Fan, Hui LIU, Zitao Liu

Context-Aware Cross-Attention for Non-Autoregressive Translation

Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Di Wu, Dacheng Tao, Zhaopeng Tu

A Document-Level Neural Machine Translation Model with Dynamic Caching Guided by Theme-Rheme Information

Yiqi Tong, Jiangbin Zheng, Hongkang Zhu, Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi

Neural Transduction for Multilingual Lexical Translation

Dylan Lewis, Winston Wu, Arya D. McCarthy, David Yarowsky

Unifying Input and Output Smoothing in Neural Machine Translation

Yingbo Gao, Baohao Liao, Hermann Ney

Intermediate Self-supervised Learning for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

Raphael Rubino, Eiichiro Sumita

Lost in Back-Translation: Emotion Preservation in Neural Machine Translation

Enrica Troiano, Roman Klinger, Sebastian Padó

Filtering Back-Translated Data in Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation

Jyotsana Khatri, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

The Two Shades of Dubbing in Neural Machine Translation

Alina Karakanta, Supratik Bhattacharya, Shravan Nayak, Timo Baumann, Matteo Negri

Investigating Catastrophic Forgetting During Continual Training for Neural Machine Translation

Shuhao Gu, Yang Feng

Supervised Visual Attention for Multimodal Neural Machine Translation

Tetsuro Nishihara, Akihiro Tamura, Takashi Ninomiya, Yutaro Omote, Hideki Nakayama

Token Drop mechanism for Neural Machine Translation

Huaao Zhang, Shigui Qiu, Xiangyu Duan, Min Zhang

Bilingual Subword Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation

Hiroyuki Deguchi, Masao Utiyama, Akihiro Tamura, Takashi Ninomiya, Eiichiro Sumita

Layer-Wise Multi-View Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Qiang Wang, Changliang Li, Yue Zhang, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu

Improving Low-Resource NMT through Relevance Based Linguistic Features Incorporation

Abhisek Chakrabarty, Raj Dabre, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

Understanding Pure Character-Based Neural Machine Translation: The Case of Translating Finnish into English

Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich, Joakim Nivre

Robust Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation with Adversarial Denoising Training

Haipeng Sun, Rui Wang, Kehai Chen, Xugang Lu, Masao Utiyama

A Two-Level Interpretation of Modality in Human-Robot Dialogue

Lucia Donatelli, Kenneth Lai, James Pustejovsky

Integrating User History into Heterogeneous Graph for Dialogue Act Recognition

Dong Wang, Ziran Li, Haitao Zheng, Ying Shen

A Co-Attentive Cross-Lingual Neural Model for Dialogue Breakdown Detection

Qian Lin, Souvik Kundu, Hwee Tou Ng

HiTrans: A Transformer-Based Context- and Speaker-Sensitive Model for Emotion Detection in Conversations

Jingye Li, Donghong Ji, Fei Li, Meishan Zhang, Yijiang Liu

Suggest me a movie for tonight: Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Conversational Recommendation

Rajdeep Sarkar, Koustava Goswami, Mihael Arcan, John P. McCrae

Deconstruct to Reconstruct a Configurable Evaluation Metric for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems

Vitou Phy, Yang Zhao, Akiko Aizawa

Summarize before Aggregate: A Global-to-local Heterogeneous Graph Inference Network for Conversational Emotion Recognition

Dongming Sheng, Dong Wang, Ying Shen, Haitao Zheng, Haozhuang Liu

Intent Mining from past conversations for Conversational Agent

Ajay Chatterjee, Shubhashis Sengupta

Towards Topic-Guided Conversational Recommender System

Kun Zhou, Yuanhang Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao, Xiaoke Wang, Ji-Rong Wen

Diverse dialogue generation with context dependent dynamic loss function

Ayaka Ueyama, Yoshinobu Kano

Translation vs. Dialogue: A Comparative Analysis of Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling

Wenpeng Hu, Ran Le, Bing Liu, Jinwen Ma, Dongyan Zhao

Dual Dynamic Memory Network for End-to-End Multi-turn Task-oriented Dialog Systems

Jian Wang, Junhao Liu, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Kejing He

PEDNet: A Persona Enhanced Dual Alternating Learning Network for Conversational Response Generation

Bin Jiang, Wanyue Zhou, Jingxu Yang, Chao Yang, Shihan Wang

An Iterative Emotion Interaction Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Xin Lu, Yanyan Zhao, Yang Wu, Yijian Tian, Huipeng Chen

Topic-relevant Response Generation using Optimal Transport for an Open-domain Dialog System

Shuying Zhang, Tianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara

When and Who? Conversation Transition Based on Bot-Agent Symbiosis Learning Network

Yipeng Yu, Ran Guan, Jie Ma, Zhuoxuan Jiang, Jingchang Huang

Corpus-based Identification of Verbs Participating in Verb Alternations Using Classification and Manual Annotation

Esther Seyffarth, Laura Kallmeyer

How LSTM Encodes Syntax: Exploring Context Vectors and Semi-Quantization on Natural Text

Chihiro Shibata, Kei Uchiumi, Daichi Mochihashi

CxGBERT: BERT meets Construction Grammar

Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Laurence Romain, Dagmar Divjak, Petar Milin

Comparative Probing of Lexical Semantics Theories for Cognitive Plausibility and Technological Usefulness

António Branco, João António Rodrigues, Malgorzata Salawa, Ruben Branco, Chakaveh Saedi

Real-Valued Logics for Typological Universals: Framework and Application

Tillmann Dönicke, Xiang Yu, Jonas Kuhn

Dynamic Curriculum Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Chen Xu, Bojie Hu, Yufan Jiang, Kai Feng, Zeyang Wang

Neural Machine Translation Models with Back-Translation for the Extremely Low-Resource Indigenous Language Bribri

Isaac Feldman, Rolando Coto-Solano

Breeding Gender-aware Direct Speech Translation Systems

Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Luisa Bentivogli, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Understanding the effects of word-level linguistic annotations in under-resourced neural machine translation

Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez

Integrating Domain Terminology into Neural Machine Translation

Elise Michon, Josep Crego, Jean Senellart

Second-Order Unsupervised Neural Dependency Parsing

Songlin Yang, Yong Jiang, Wenjuan Han, Kewei Tu

Learning from Non-Binary Constituency Trees via Tensor Decomposition

Daniele Castellana, Davide Bacciu

Towards Instance-Level Parser Selection for Cross-Lingual Transfer of Dependency Parsers

Robert Litschko, Ivan Vulić, Željko Agić, Goran Glavaš

Semi-supervised Autoencoding Projective Dependency Parsing

Xiao Zhang, Dan Goldwasser

An Analysis of Simple Data Augmentation for Named Entity Recognition

Xiang Dai, Heike Adel

How Far Does BERT Look At: Distance-based Clustering and Analysis of BERT’s Attention

Yue Guan, Jingwen Leng, CHAO LI, Quan Chen, Minyi Guo

Learning to Prune Dependency Trees with Rethinking for Neural Relation Extraction

Bowen Yu, Xue Mengge, Zhenyu Zhang, Tingwen Liu, Wang Yubin

Porous Lattice Transformer Encoder for Chinese NER

Xue Mengge, Bowen Yu, Tingwen Liu, Yue Zhang, Erli Meng

Data Augmentation via Subtree Swapping for Dependency Parsing of Low-Resource Languages

Mathieu Dehouck, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing via Improved Contextualized Word Representations

Ying Li, Zhenghua Li, Min Zhang

Unleashing the Power of Neural Discourse Parsers - A Context and Structure Aware Approach Using Large Scale Pretraining

Grigorii Guz, Patrick Huber, Giuseppe Carenini

A Unifying Theory of Transition-based and Sequence Labeling Parsing

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares