NAACL 2018

588 papers

ClaimRank: Detecting Check-Worthy Claims in Arabic and English

Israa Jaradat, Pepa Gencheva, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Lluis Marquez, Preslav Nakov

ArgumenText: Searching for Arguments in Heterogeneous Sources

Christian Stab, Johannes Daxenberger, Chris Stahlhut, Tristan Miller, Benjamin Schiller

CL Scholar: The ACL Anthology Knowledge Graph Miner

Mayank Singh, Pradeep Dogga, Sohan Patro, Dhiraj Barnwal, Ritam Dutt

An automated medical scribe for documenting clinical encounters

Gregory Finley, Erik Edwards, Amanda Robinson, Michael Brenndoerfer, Najmeh Sadoughi

Pay-Per-Request Deployment of Neural Network Models Using Serverless Architectures

Zhucheng Tu, Mengping Li, Jimmy Lin

NLP Lean Programming Framework: Developing NLP Applications More Effectively

Marc Schreiber, Bodo Kraft, Albert Zündorf

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

Yang Liu, Tim Paek, Manasi Patwardhan

Generating Image Captions in Arabic using Root-Word Based Recurrent Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks

Vasu Jindal

Sensing and Learning Human Annotators Engaged in Narrative Sensemaking

McKenna Tornblad, Luke Lapresi, Christopher Homan, Raymond Ptucha, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

Corpus Creation and Emotion Prediction for Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text

Deepanshu Vijay, Aditya Bohra, Vinay Singh, Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar, Manish Shrivastava

Training a Ranking Function for Open-Domain Question Answering

Phu Mon Htut, Samuel Bowman, Kyunghyun Cho

Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages using Bilingual Lexicon Induced from Comparable Corpora

Sree Harsha Ramesh, Krishna Prasad Sankaranarayanan

Metric for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation based on Universal Sentence Representations

Hiroki Shimanaka, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi

Japanese Predicate Conjugation for Neural Machine Translation

Michiki Kurosawa, Yukio Matsumura, Hayahide Yamagishi, Mamoru Komachi

ListOps: A Diagnostic Dataset for Latent Tree Learning

Nikita Nangia, Samuel Bowman

Read and Comprehend by Gated-Attention Reader with More Belief

Haohui Deng, Yik-cheung Tam

Towards Generating Personalized Hospitalization Summaries

Sabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez

End-to-End Learning of Task-Oriented Dialogs

Bing Liu, Ian Lane

Using Classifier Features to Determine Language Transfer on Morphemes

Alexandra Lavrentovich

Igbo Diacritic Restoration using Embedding Models

Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Enemouh Chioma

Learning Word Embeddings for Data Sparse and Sentiment Rich Data Sets

Prathusha Kameswara Sarma

A Deeper Look into Dependency-Based Word Embeddings

Sean MacAvaney, Amir Zeldes

Towards Qualitative Word Embeddings Evaluation: Measuring Neighbors Variation

Bénédicte Pierrejean, Ludovic Tanguy

A Generalized Knowledge Hunting Framework for the Winograd Schema Challenge

Ali Emami, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

Verb Alternations and Their Impact on Frame Induction

Esther Seyffarth

Combining Abstractness and Language-specific Theoretical Indicators for Detecting Non-Literal Usage of Estonian Particle Verbs

Eleri Aedmaa, Maximilian Köper, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Alignment, Acceptance, and Rejection of Group Identities in Online Political Discourse

Hagyeong Shin, Gabriel Doyle

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro, Shereen Oraby, Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Kyeongmin Rim

Document-based Recommender System for Job Postings using Dense Representations

Ahmed Elsafty, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann

Personalized neural language models for real-world query auto completion

Nicolas Fiorini, Zhiyong Lu

Demand-Weighted Completeness Prediction for a Knowledge Base

Andrew Hopkinson, Amit Gurdasani, Dave Palfrey, Arpit Mittal

Prediction for the Newsroom: Which Articles Will Get the Most Comments?

Carl Ambroselli, Julian Risch, Ralf Krestel, Andreas Loos

Practical Application of Domain Dependent Confidence Measurement for Spoken Language Understanding Systems

Mahnoosh Mehrabani, David Thomson, Benjamin Stern

The Alexa Meaning Representation Language

Thomas Kollar, Danielle Berry, Lauren Stuart, Karolina Owczarzak, Tagyoung Chung

A Novel Approach to Part Name Discovery in Noisy Text

Nobal Bikram Niraula, Daniel Whyatt, Anne Kao

Multi-lingual neural title generation for e-Commerce browse pages

Prashant Mathur, Nicola Ueffing, Gregor Leusch

Bag of Experts Architectures for Model Reuse in Conversational Language Understanding

Rahul Jha, Alex Marin, Suvamsh Shivaprasad, Imed Zitouni

Fast and Scalable Expansion of Natural Language Understanding Functionality for Intelligent Agents

Anuj Kumar Goyal, Angeliki Metallinou, Spyros Matsoukas

Selecting Machine-Translated Data for Quick Bootstrapping of a Natural Language Understanding System

Judith Gaspers, Penny Karanasou, Rajen Chatterjee

Benchmarks and models for entity-oriented polarity detection

Lidia Pivovarova, Arto Klami, Roman Yangarber

From dictations to clinical reports using machine translation

Gregory Finley, Wael Salloum, Najmeh Sadoughi, Erik Edwards, Amanda Robinson

Pieces of Eight: 8-bit Neural Machine Translation

Jerry Quinn, Miguel Ballesteros

Accelerating NMT Batched Beam Decoding with LMBR Posteriors for Deployment

Gonzalo Iglesias, William Tambellini, Adrià de Gispert, Eva Hasler, Bill Byrne

Can Neural Machine Translation be Improved with User Feedback?

Julia Kreutzer, Shahram Khadivi, Evgeny Matusov, Stefan Riezler

Construction of the Literature Graph in Semantic Scholar

Waleed Ammar, Dirk Groeneveld, Chandra Bhagavatula, Iz Beltagy, Miles Crawford

SystemT: Declarative Text Understanding for Enterprise

Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Frederick Reiss, Huaiyu Zhu

Using Aspect Extraction Approaches to Generate Review Summaries and User Profiles

Christopher Mitcheltree, Skyler Wharton, Avneesh Saluja

Atypical Inputs in Educational Applications

Su-Youn Yoon, Aoife Cahill, Anastassia Loukina, Klaus Zechner, Brian Riordan

Quality Estimation for Automatically Generated Titles of eCommerce Browse Pages

Nicola Ueffing, José G. C. de Souza, Gregor Leusch

Bootstrapping a Neural Conversational Agent with Dialogue Self-Play, Crowdsourcing and On-Line Reinforcement Learning

Pararth Shah, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Bing Liu, Gokhan Tur

Data Collection for Dialogue System: A Startup Perspective

Yiping Kang, Yunqi Zhang, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars

What we need to learn if we want to do and not just talk

Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy, Charles Elkan

A Scalable Neural Shortlisting-Reranking Approach for Large-Scale Domain Classification in Natural Language Understanding

Young-Bum Kim, Dongchan Kim, Joo-Kyung Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya

Neural Network based Extreme Classification and Similarity Models for Product Matching

Kashif Shah, Selcuk Kopru, Jean-David Ruvini

Scalable Wide and Deep Learning for Computer Assisted Coding

Marilisa Amoia, Frank Diehl, Jesús Giménez, Joel Pinto, Raphael Schumann

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 3 (Industry Papers)

Srinivas Bangalore, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Yunyao Li

Watch, Listen, and Describe: Globally and Locally Aligned Cross-Modal Attentions for Video Captioning

Xin Wang, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang

Visually Guided Spatial Relation Extraction from Text

Taher Rahgooy, Umar Manzoor, Parisa Kordjamshidi

Visual Referring Expression Recognition: What Do Systems Actually Learn?

Volkan Cirik, Louis-Philippe Morency, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

The Emergence of Semantics in Neural Network Representations of Visual Information

Dhanush Dharmaretnam, Alona Fyshe

Punny Captions: Witty Wordplay in Image Descriptions

Arjun Chandrasekaran, Devi Parikh, Mohit Bansal

Learning to Color from Language

Varun Manjunatha, Mohit Iyyer, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Larry Davis

An Evaluation of Image-Based Verb Prediction Models against Human Eye-Tracking Data

Spandana Gella, Frank Keller

Slot-Gated Modeling for Joint Slot Filling and Intent Prediction

Chih-Wen Goo, Guang Gao, Yun-Kai Hsu, Chih-Li Huo, Tsung-Chieh Chen

Role-specific Language Models for Processing Recorded Neuropsychological Exams

Tuka Al Hanai, Rhoda Au, James Glass

Smaller Text Classifiers with Discriminative Cluster Embeddings

Mingda Chen, Kevin Gimpel

Natural Language to Structured Query Generation via Meta-Learning

Po-Sen Huang, Chenglong Wang, Rishabh Singh, Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He

Gated Multi-Task Network for Text Classification

Liqiang Xiao, Honglun Zhang, Wenqing Chen

Evaluating Historical Text Normalization Systems: How Well Do They Generalize?

Alexander Robertson, Sharon Goldwater

Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains

Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona

Deep Dungeons and Dragons: Learning Character-Action Interactions from Role-Playing Game Transcripts

Annie Louis, Charles Sutton

Detecting Linguistic Characteristics of Alzheimer’s Dementia by Interpreting Neural Models

Sweta Karlekar, Tong Niu, Mohit Bansal

Non-Projective Dependency Parsing with Non-Local Transitions

Daniel Fernández-González, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Higher-Order Coreference Resolution with Coarse-to-Fine Inference

Kenton Lee, Luheng He, Luke Zettlemoyer

Multimodal Emoji Prediction

Francesco Barbieri, Miguel Ballesteros, Francesco Ronzano, Horacio Saggion

Where Have I Heard This Story Before? Identifying Narrative Similarity in Movie Remakes

Snigdha Chaturvedi, Shashank Srivastava, Dan Roth

Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction with Multipartite Graphs

Florian Boudin

Pruning Basic Elements for Better Automatic Evaluation of Summaries

Ukyo Honda, Tsutomu Hirao, Masaaki Nagata

Objective Function Learning to Match Human Judgements for Optimization-Based Summarization

Maxime Peyrard, Iryna Gurevych

Multi-Reward Reinforced Summarization with Saliency and Entailment

Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal

Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata

Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Hady Elsahar, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Christophe Gravier, Frederique Laforest

Key2Vec: Automatic Ranked Keyphrase Extraction from Scientific Articles using Phrase Embeddings

Debanjan Mahata, John Kuriakose, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Roger Zimmermann

Effective Crowdsourcing for a New Type of Summarization Task

Youxuan Jiang, Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Walter Lasecki

A Mixed Hierarchical Attention Based Encoder-Decoder Approach for Standard Table Summarization

Parag Jain, Anirban Laha, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Preksha Nema, Mitesh M. Khapra

A Discourse-Aware Attention Model for Abstractive Summarization of Long Documents

Arman Cohan, Franck Dernoncourt, Doo Soon Kim, Trung Bui, Seokhwan Kim

Predicting Foreign Language Usage from English-Only Social Media Posts

Svitlana Volkova, Stephen Ranshous, Lawrence Phillips

Cross-Domain Review Helpfulness Prediction Based on Convolutional Neural Networks with Auxiliary Domain Discriminators

Cen Chen, Yinfei Yang, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, Forrest Sheng Bao

Community Member Retrieval on Social Media Using Textual Information

Aaron Jaech, Shobhit Hathi, Mari Ostendorf

TypeSQL: Knowledge-Based Type-Aware Neural Text-to-SQL Generation

Tao Yu, Zifan Li, Zilin Zhang, Rui Zhang, Dragomir Radev

Simple and Effective Semi-Supervised Question Answering

Bhuwan Dhingra, Danish Pruthi, Dheeraj Rajagopal

Robust Machine Comprehension Models via Adversarial Training

Yicheng Wang, Mohit Bansal

Leveraging Context Information for Natural Question Generation

Linfeng Song, Zhiguo Wang, Wael Hamza, Yue Zhang, Daniel Gildea

Crowdsourcing Question-Answer Meaning Representations

Julian Michael, Gabriel Stanovsky, Luheng He, Ido Dagan, Luke Zettlemoyer

Contextualized Word Representations for Reading Comprehension

Shimi Salant, Jonathan Berant

Unsupervised Disambiguation of Syncretism in Inflected Lexicons

Ryan Cotterell, Christo Kirov, Sabrina J. Mielke, Jason Eisner

The Computational Complexity of Distinctive Feature Minimization in Phonology

Hubie Chen, Mans Hulden

Are All Languages Equally Hard to Language-Model?

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

When and Why Are Pre-Trained Word Embeddings Useful for Neural Machine Translation?

Ye Qi, Devendra Sachan, Matthieu Felix, Sarguna Padmanabhan, Graham Neubig

Using Word Vectors to Improve Word Alignments for Low Resource Machine Translation

Nima Pourdamghani, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Kevin Knight

On the Evaluation of Semantic Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation Using Natural Language Inference

Adam Poliak, Yonatan Belinkov, James Glass, Benjamin Van Durme