EMNLP 2019

1,120 papers

Fusion of Detected Objects in Text for Visual Question Answering

Chris Alberti, Jeffrey Ling, Michael Collins, David Reitter

Executing Instructions in Situated Collaborative Interactions

Alane Suhr, Claudia Yan, Jack Schluger, Stanley Yu, Hadi Khader

Video Dialog via Progressive Inference and Cross-Transformer

Weike Jin, Zhou Zhao, Mao Gu, Jun Xiao, Furu Wei

Fact-Checking Meets Fauxtography: Verifying Claims About Images

Dimitrina Zlatkova, Preslav Nakov, Ivan Koychev

Talk2Car: Taking Control of Your Self-Driving Car

Thierry Deruyttere, Simon Vandenhende, Dusan Grujicic, Luc Van Gool, Marie-Francine Moens

A Stack-Propagation Framework with Token-Level Intent Detection for Spoken Language Understanding

Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che, Yangming Li, Haoyang Wen, Ting Liu

Guiding the Flowing of Semantics: Interpretable Video Captioning via POS Tag

Xinyu Xiao, Lingfeng Wang, Bin Fan, Shinming Xiang, Chunhong Pan

Partners in Crime: Multi-view Sequential Inference for Movie Understanding

Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Lea Frermann, Mirella Lapata, Shay B. Cohen

UR-FUNNY: A Multimodal Language Dataset for Understanding Humor

Md Kamrul Hasan, Wasifur Rahman, AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Jianyuan Zhong, Md Iftekhar Tanveer

Unsupervised Discovery of Multimodal Links in Multi-image, Multi-sentence Documents

Jack Hessel, Lillian Lee, David Mimno

Dual Attention Networks for Visual Reference Resolution in Visual Dialog

Gi-Cheon Kang, Jaeseo Lim, Byoung-tak Zhang

Image Captioning with Very Scarce Supervised Data: Adversarial Semi-Supervised Learning Approach

Dong-Jin Kim, Jinsoo Choi, Tae-Hyun Oh, In So Kweon

Low-Rank HOCA: Efficient High-Order Cross-Modal Attention for Video Captioning

Tao Jin, Siyu Huang, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang

How to Build User Simulators to Train RL-based Dialog Systems

Weiyan Shi, Kun Qian, Xuewei Wang, Zhou Yu

A Practical Dialogue-Act-Driven Conversation Model for Multi-Turn Response Selection

Harshit Kumar, Arvind Agarwal, Sachindra Joshi

CoSQL: A Conversational Text-to-SQL Challenge Towards Cross-Domain Natural Language Interfaces to Databases

Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Heyang Er, Suyi Li, Eric Xue

Recommendation as a Communication Game: Self-Supervised Bot-Play for Goal-oriented Dialogue

Dongyeop Kang, Anusha Balakrishnan, Pararth Shah, Paul Crook, Y-lan Boureau

Variational Hierarchical User-based Conversation Model

JinYeong Bak, Alice Oh

Modeling Personalization in Continuous Space for Response Generation via Augmented Wasserstein Autoencoders

Zhangming Chan, Juntao Li, Xiaopeng Yang, Xiuying Chen, Wenpeng Hu

A Semi-Supervised Stable Variational Network for Promoting Replier-Consistency in Dialogue Generation

Jinxin Chang, Ruifang He, Longbiao Wang, Xiangyu Zhao, Ting Yang

Who Is Speaking to Whom? Learning to Identify Utterance Addressee in Multi-Party Conversations

Ran Le, Wenpeng Hu, Mingyue Shang, Zhenjun You, Lidong Bing

A Discrete CVAE for Response Generation on Short-Text Conversation

Jun Gao, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou

Low-Resource Response Generation with Template Prior

Ze Yang, Wei Wu, Jian Yang, Can Xu, Zhoujun Li

Scalable and Accurate Dialogue State Tracking via Hierarchical Sequence Generation

Liliang Ren, Jianmo Ni, Julian McAuley

Retrieval-guided Dialogue Response Generation via a Matching-to-Generation Framework

Deng Cai, Yan Wang, Wei Bi, Zhaopeng Tu, Xiaojiang Liu

DyKgChat: Benchmarking Dialogue Generation Grounding on Dynamic Knowledge Graphs

Yi-Lin Tuan, Yun-Nung Chen, Hung-yi Lee

Dually Interactive Matching Network for Personalized Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots

Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Xiaodan Zhu, Quan Liu

Unsupervised Context Rewriting for Open Domain Conversation

Kun Zhou, Kai Zhang, Yu Wu, Shujie LIU, Jingsong Yu

Improving Open-Domain Dialogue Systems via Multi-Turn Incomplete Utterance Restoration

Zhufeng Pan, Kun Bai, Yan Wang, Lianqiang Zhou, Xiaojiang Liu

Structuring Latent Spaces for Stylized Response Generation

Xiang Gao, Yizhe Zhang, Sungjin Lee, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett

Towards Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System

Qibin Chen, Junyang Lin, Yichang Zhang, Ming Ding, Yukuo Cen

Adaptive Parameterization for Neural Dialogue Generation

Hengyi Cai, Hongshen Chen, Cheng Zhang, Yonghao Song, Xiaofang Zhao

Knowledge Aware Conversation Generation with Explainable Reasoning over Augmented Graphs

Zhibin Liu, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang

Hierarchy Response Learning for Neural Conversation Generation

Bo Zhang, Xiaoming Zhang

Are You for Real? Detecting Identity Fraud via Dialogue Interactions

Weikang Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Qian Li, Chengqing Zong, Zhifei Li

Multi-Granularity Representations of Dialog

Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi

Data-Efficient Goal-Oriented Conversation with Dialogue Knowledge Transfer Networks

Igor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi, Oliver Lemon

Deep Ordinal Regression for Pledge Specificity Prediction

Shivashankar Subramanian, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

Latent Suicide Risk Detection on Microblog via Suicide-Oriented Word Embeddings and Layered Attention

Lei Cao, Huijun Zhang, Ling Feng, Zihan Wei, Xin Wang

Movie Plot Analysis via Turning Point Identification

Pinelopi Papalampidi, Frank Keller, Mirella Lapata

(Male, Bachelor) and (Female, Ph.D) have different connotations: Parallelly Annotated Stylistic Language Dataset with Multiple Personas

Dongyeop Kang, Varun Gangal, Eduard Hovy

Learning Invariant Representations of Social Media Users

Nicholas Andrews, Marcus Bishop

Reinforced Product Metadata Selection for Helpfulness Assessment of Customer Reviews

Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li

Finding Microaggressions in the Wild: A Case for Locating Elusive Phenomena in Social Media Posts

Luke Breitfeller, Emily Ahn, David Jurgens, Yulia Tsvetkov

The Trumpiest Trump? Identifying a Subject’s Most Characteristic Tweets

Charuta Pethe, Steve Skiena

Multi-label Categorization of Accounts of Sexism using a Neural Framework

Pulkit Parikh, Harika Abburi, Pinkesh Badjatiya, Radhika Krishnan, Niyati Chhaya

Multi-View Domain Adapted Sentence Embeddings for Low-Resource Unsupervised Duplicate Question Detection

Nina Poerner, Hinrich Schütze

Asking Clarification Questions in Knowledge-Based Question Answering

Jingjing Xu, Yuechen Wang, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Pengcheng Yang

Neural Duplicate Question Detection without Labeled Training Data

Andreas Rücklé, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Iryna Gurevych

A Multi-Type Multi-Span Network for Reading Comprehension that Requires Discrete Reasoning

Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Dongsheng Li

Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension

Yiming Cui, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Bing Qin, Shijin Wang

Hierarchical Modeling of Global Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation

Xin Tan, Longyin Zhang, Deyi Xiong, Guodong Zhou

Investigating Multilingual NMT Representations at Scale

Sneha Kudugunta, Ankur Bapna, Isaac Caswell, Orhan Firat

Controlling Text Complexity in Neural Machine Translation

Sweta Agrawal, Marine Carpuat

Simple, Scalable Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation

Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat

Enhancing Context Modeling with a Query-Guided Capsule Network for Document-level Translation

Zhengxin Yang, Jinchao Zhang, Fandong Meng, Shuhao Gu, Yang Feng

Span-based Hierarchical Semantic Parsing for Task-Oriented Dialog

Panupong Pasupat, Sonal Gupta, Karishma Mandyam, Rushin Shah, Mike Lewis

Dependency Parsing for Spoken Dialog Systems

Sam Davidson, Dian Yu, Zhou Yu

Unsupervised Labeled Parsing with Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders

Andrew Drozdov, Patrick Verga, Yi-Pei Chen, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum

Towards Making a Dependency Parser See

Michalina Strzyz, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Robust Navigation with Language Pretraining and Stochastic Sampling

Xiujun Li, Chunyuan Li, Qiaolin Xia, Yonatan Bisk, Asli Celikyilmaz

Grounding learning of modifier dynamics: An application to color naming

Xudong Han, Philip Schulz, Trevor Cohn

WSLLN:Weakly Supervised Natural Language Localization Networks

Mingfei Gao, Larry Davis, Richard Socher, Caiming Xiong

REO-Relevance, Extraness, Omission: A Fine-grained Evaluation for Image Captioning

Ming Jiang, Junjie Hu, Qiuyuan Huang, Lei Zhang, Jana Diesner

Decoupled Box Proposal and Featurization with Ultrafine-Grained Semantic Labels Improve Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering

Soravit Changpinyo, Bo Pang, Piyush Sharma, Radu Soricut

Multi-Head Attention with Diversity for Learning Grounded Multilingual Multimodal Representations

Po-Yao Huang, Xiaojun Chang, Alexander Hauptmann

Cross-lingual Transfer Learning with Data Selection for Large-Scale Spoken Language Understanding

Quynh Do, Judith Gaspers

Improving Generative Visual Dialog by Answering Diverse Questions

Vishvak Murahari, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Abhishek Das

Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Diacritic Restoration

Sawsan Alqahtani, Ajay Mishra, Mona Diab

Korean Morphological Analysis with Tied Sequence-to-Sequence Multi-Task Model

Hyun-Je Song, Seong-Bae Park

Encoders Help You Disambiguate Word Senses in Neural Machine Translation

Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich, Joakim Nivre

A Regularization-based Framework for Bilingual Grammar Induction

Yong Jiang, Wenjuan Han, Kewei Tu

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation with Domain-Aware Feature Embeddings

Zi-Yi Dou, Junjie Hu, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig

Exploiting Multilingualism through Multistage Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Raj Dabre, Atsushi Fujita, Chenhui Chu

Self-Attention with Structural Position Representations

Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Longyue Wang, Shuming Shi

Speculative Beam Search for Simultaneous Translation

Renjie Zheng, Mingbo Ma, Baigong Zheng, Liang Huang

Handling Syntactic Divergence in Low-resource Machine Translation

Chunting Zhou, Xuezhe Ma, Junjie Hu, Graham Neubig

HABLex: Human Annotated Bilingual Lexicons for Experiments in Machine Translation

Brian Thompson, Rebecca Knowles, Xuan Zhang, Huda Khayrallah, Kevin Duh

Investigating the Effectiveness of BPE: The Power of Shorter Sequences

Matthias Gallé

Machine Translation for Machines: the Sentiment Classification Use Case

Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Luisa Bentivogli, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Recurrent Positional Embedding for Neural Machine Translation

Kehai Chen, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

Adversarial Learning with Contextual Embeddings for Zero-resource Cross-lingual Classification and NER

Phillip Keung, Yichao Lu, Vikas Bhardwaj

Simpler and Faster Learning of Adaptive Policies for Simultaneous Translation

Baigong Zheng, Renjie Zheng, Mingbo Ma, Liang Huang

Vecalign: Improved Sentence Alignment in Linear Time and Space

Brian Thompson, Philipp Koehn

Towards Better Modeling Hierarchical Structure for Self-Attention with Ordered Neurons

Jie Hao, Xing Wang, Shuming Shi, Jinfeng Zhang, Zhaopeng Tu

Multilingual word translation using auxiliary languages

Hagai Taitelbaum, Gal Chechik, Jacob Goldberger

uniblock: Scoring and Filtering Corpus with Unicode Block Information

Yingbo Gao, Weiyue Wang, Hermann Ney

Automatically Learning Data Augmentation Policies for Dialogue Tasks

Tong Niu, Mohit Bansal

An Evaluation Dataset for Intent Classification and Out-of-Scope Prediction

Stefan Larson, Anish Mahendran, Joseph J. Peper, Christopher Clarke, Andrew Lee

Modeling Multi-Action Policy for Task-Oriented Dialogues

Lei Shu, Hu Xu, Bing Liu, Piero Molino

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue Systems with Transferable Latent Variables

Zihan Liu, Jamin Shin, Yan Xu, Genta Indra Winata, Peng Xu

Sampling Matters! An Empirical Study of Negative Sampling Strategies for Learning of Matching Models in Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems

Jia Li, Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao

CASA-NLU: Context-Aware Self-Attentive Natural Language Understanding for Task-Oriented Chatbots

Arshit Gupta, Peng Zhang, Garima Lalwani, Mona Diab

A Progressive Model to Enable Continual Learning for Semantic Slot Filling

Yilin Shen, Xiangyu Zeng, Hongxia Jin

Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Dialogue State Trackers for Task-Oriented Modelling

Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Marek Rei, Paweł Budzianowski, Richard Turner, Bill Byrne

Dirichlet Latent Variable Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder-Decoder in Dialogue Generation

Min Zeng, Yisen Wang, Yuan Luo

Multi-task Learning for Natural Language Generation in Task-Oriented Dialogue

Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Xuedong Huang

Towards Extracting Medical Family History from Natural Language Interactions: A New Dataset and Baselines

Mahmoud Azab, Stephane Dadian, Vivi Nastase, Larry An, Rada Mihalcea

Measure Country-Level Socio-Economic Indicators with Streaming News: An Empirical Study

Bonan Min, Xiaoxi Zhao

A Multilingual Topic Model for Learning Weighted Topic Links Across Corpora with Low Comparability

Weiwei Yang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Philip Resnik