NAACL 2019

752 papers

Identifying Sensible Lexical Relations in Generated Stories

Melissa Roemmele

Unsupervised Hierarchical Story Infilling

Daphne Ippolito, David Grangier, Chris Callison-Burch, Douglas Eck

Extraction of Message Sequence Charts from Narrative History Text

Girish Palshikar, Sachin Pawar, Sangameshwar Patil, Swapnil Hingmire, Nitin Ramrakhiyani

Deep Natural Language Understanding of News Text

Jaya Shree, Emily Liu, Andrew Gordon, Jerry Hobbs

Character Identification Refined: A Proposal

Labiba Jahan, Mark Finlayson

Towards Coherent and Cohesive Long-form Text Generation

Woon Sang Cho, Pengchuan Zhang, Yizhe Zhang, Xiujun Li, Michel Galley

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Narrative Understanding

David Bamman, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Elizabeth Clark, Madalina Fiterau, Mohit Iyyer

Analyzing Incorporation of Emotion in Emoji Prediction

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Aldrian Obaja Muis

Cross-lingual Subjectivity Detection for Resource Lean Languages

Ida Amini, Samane Karimi, Azadeh Shakery

“When Numbers Matter!”: Detecting Sarcasm in Numerical Portions of Text

Abhijeet Dubey, Lakshya Kumar, Arpan Somani, Aditya Joshi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT’s destruction

Kathleen C. Fraser, Frauke Zeller, David Harris Smith, Saif Mohammad, Frank Rudzicz

Deep Learning Techniques for Humor Detection in Hindi-English Code-Mixed Tweets

Sushmitha Reddy Sane, Suraj Tripathi, Koushik Reddy Sane, Radhika Mamidi

Using Structured Representation and Data: A Hybrid Model for Negation and Sentiment in Customer Service Conversations

Amita Misra, Mansurul Bhuiyan, Jalal Mahmud, Saurabh Tripathy

Enhancing the Measurement of Social Effects by Capturing Morality

Rezvaneh Rezapour, Saumil H. Shah, Jana Diesner

Exploring Fine-Tuned Embeddings that Model Intensifiers for Emotion Analysis

Laura Ana Maria Bostan, Roman Klinger

Online abuse detection: the value of preprocessing and neural attention models

Dhruv Kumar, Robin Cohen, Lukasz Golab

A Soft Label Strategy for Target-Level Sentiment Classification

Da Yin, Xiao Liu, Xiuyu Wu, Baobao Chang

Stance Detection in Code-Mixed Hindi-English Social Media Data using Multi-Task Learning

Sushmitha Reddy Sane, Suraj Tripathi, Koushik Reddy Sane, Radhika Mamidi

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

Alexandra Balahur, Roman Klinger, Véronique Hoste, Carlo Strapparava, Orphee De Clercq

Cross-lingual Annotation Projection Is Effective for Neural Part-of-Speech Tagging

Matthias Huck, Diana Dutka, Alexander Fraser

Comparing Pipelined and Integrated Approaches to Dialectal Arabic Neural Machine Translation

Pamela Shapiro, Kevin Duh

Experiments in Cuneiform Language Identification

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, Marcos Zampieri

DTeam @ VarDial 2019: Ensemble based on skip-gram and triplet loss neural networks for Moldavian vs. Romanian cross-dialect topic identification

Diana Tudoreanu

TwistBytes - Identification of Cuneiform Languages and German Dialects at VarDial 2019

Fernando Benites, Pius Von Däniken, Mark Cieliebak

Investigating Machine Learning Methods for Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts

Ehsan Doostmohammadi, Minoo Nassajian

Discriminating between Mandarin Chinese and Swiss-German varieties using adaptive language models

Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén, Heidi Jauhiainen

SC-UPB at the VarDial 2019 Evaluation Campaign: Moldavian vs. Romanian Cross-Dialect Topic Identification

Cristian Onose, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Stefan Trausan-Matu

Ensemble Methods to Distinguish Mainland and Taiwan Chinese

Hai Hu, Wen Li, He Zhou, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang

Neural and Linear Pipeline Approaches to Cross-lingual Morphological Analysis

Çağrı Çöltekin, Jeremy Barnes

Initial Experiments In Cross-Lingual Morphological Analysis Using Morpheme Segmentation

Vladislav Mikhailov, Lorenzo Tosi, Anastasia Khorosheva, Oleg Serikov

The R2I_LIS Team Proposes Majority Vote for VarDial’s MRC Task

Adrian-Gabriel Chifu

BAM: A combination of deep and shallow models for German Dialect Identification.

Andrei M. Butnaru

Naive Bayes and BiLSTM Ensemble for Discriminating between Mainland and Taiwan Variation of Mandarin Chinese

Li Yang, Yang Xiang

Toward a deep dialectological representation of Indo-Aryan

Chundra Cathcart

Leveraging Pretrained Word Embeddings for Part-of-Speech Tagging of Code Switching Data

Fahad AlGhamdi, Mona Diab

Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts

Tommi Jauhiainen, Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola, Krister Lindén

Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Rakhine (Arakanese)

Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Khin Mar Soe

Variation between Different Discourse Types: Literate vs. Oral

Katrin Ortmann, Stefanie Dipper

Language Discrimination and Transfer Learning for Similar Languages: Experiments with Feature Combinations and Adaptation

Nianheng Wu, Eric DeMattos, Kwok Him So, Pin-zhen Chen, Çağrı Çöltekin

Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification

Jonathan Dunn

Char-RNN for Word Stress Detection in East Slavic Languages

Ekaterina Chernyak, Maria Ponomareva, Kirill Milintsevich

Joint Approach to Deromanization of Code-mixed Texts

Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Grzegorz Kondrak

Improving Cuneiform Language Identification with BERT

Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Cyril Goutte, Serge Leger

A Report on the Third VarDial Evaluation Campaign

Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Yves Scherrer, Tanja Samardžić, Francis Tyers

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubešić, Jörg Tiedemann

Noisy Neural Language Modeling for Typing Prediction in BCI Communication

Rui Dong, David Smith, Shiran Dudy, Steven Bedrick

Investigating Speech Recognition for Improving Predictive AAC

Jiban Adhikary, Robbie Watling, Crystal Fletcher, Alex Stanage, Keith Vertanen

A Blissymbolics Translation System

Usman Sohail, David Traum

Speech-based Estimation of Bulbar Regression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Alan Wisler, Kristin Teplansky, Jordan Green, Yana Yunusova, Thomas Campbell

Permanent Magnetic Articulograph (PMA) vs Electromagnetic Articulograph (EMA) in Articulation-to-Speech Synthesis for Silent Speech Interface

Beiming Cao, Nordine Sebkhi, Ted Mau, Omer T. Inan, Jun Wang

Modeling Acoustic-Prosodic Cues for Word Importance Prediction in Spoken Dialogues

Sushant Kafle, Cissi Ovesdotter Alm, Matt Huenerfauth

A user study to compare two conversational assistants designed for people with hearing impairments

Anja Virkkunen, Juri Lukkarila, Kalle Palomäki, Mikko Kurimo

Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

Heidi Christensen, Kristy Hollingshead, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Frank Rudzicz, Keith Vertanen

What a neural language model tells us about spatial relations

Mehdi Ghanimifard, Simon Dobnik

SpatialNet: A Declarative Resource for Spatial Relations

Morgan Ulinski, Bob Coyne, Julia Hirschberg

Semantic Spatial Representation: a unique representation of an environment based on an ontology for robotic applications

Guillaume Sarthou, Aurélie Clodic, Rachid Alami

Multi-modal Discriminative Model for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Haoshuo Huang, Vihan Jain, Harsh Mehta, Jason Baldridge, Eugene Ie

Learning from Implicit Information in Natural Language Instructions for Robotic Manipulations

Ozan Arkan Can, Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires, Andreas Persson, Julian Gaal, Amy Loutfi

From Virtual to Real: A Framework for Verbal Interaction with Robots

Eugene Joseph

¿Es un plátano? Exploring the Application of a Physically Grounded Language Acquisition System to Spanish

Caroline Kery, Francis Ferraro, Cynthia Matuszek

Corpus of Multimodal Interaction for Collaborative Planning

Miltiadis Marios Katsakioris, Helen Hastie, Ioannis Konstas, Atanas Laskov

Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP)

Archna Bhatia, Yonatan Bisk, Parisa Kordjamshidi, Jesse Thomason

Multi-Context Term Embeddings: the Use Case of Corpus-based Term Set Expansion

Jonathan Mamou, Oren Pereg, Moshe Wasserblat, Ido Dagan

Dyr Bul Shchyl. Proxying Sound Symbolism With Word Embeddings

Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Viascheslav Shibaev, Alexey Tikhonov

Probing Biomedical Embeddings from Language Models

Qiao Jin, Bhuwan Dhingra, William Cohen, Xinghua Lu

Evaluation of Morphological Embeddings for English and Russian Languages

Vitaly Romanov, Albina Khusainova

Syntactic Interchangeability in Word Embedding Models

Daniel Hershcovich, Assaf Toledo, Alon Halfon, Noam Slonim

CODAH: An Adversarially-Authored Question Answering Dataset for Common Sense

Michael Chen, Mike D’Arcy, Alisa Liu, Jared Fernandez, Doug Downey

Classification of Semantic Paraphasias: Optimization of a Word Embedding Model

Katy Mckinney-Bock, Steven Bedrick

SWOW-8500: Word Association task for Intrinsic Evaluation of Word Embeddings

Avijit Thawani, Biplav Srivastava, Anil Singh

Measuring Semantic Abstraction of Multilingual NMT with Paraphrase Recognition and Generation Tasks

Jörg Tiedemann, Yves Scherrer

How Well Do Embedding Models Capture Non-compositionality? A View from Multiword Expressions

Navnita Nandakumar, Timothy Baldwin, Bahar Salehi

The Influence of Down-Sampling Strategies on SVD Word Embedding Stability

Johannes Hellrich, Bernd Kampe, Udo Hahn

Characterizing the Impact of Geometric Properties of Word Embeddings on Task Performance

Brendan Whitaker, Denis Newman-Griffis, Aparajita Haldar, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Neural Vector Conceptualization for Word Vector Space Interpretation

Robert Schwarzenberg, Lisa Raithel, David Harbecke

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP

Anna Rogers, Aleksandr Drozd, Anna Rumshisky, Yoav Goldberg

Modeling Behavioral Aspects of Social Media Discourse for Moral Classification

Kristen Johnson, Dan Goldwasser

Simple dynamic word embeddings for mapping perceptions in the public sphere

Nabeel Gillani, Roger Levy

Uphill from here: Sentiment patterns in videos from left- and right-wing YouTube news channels

Felix Soldner, Justin Chun-ting Ho, Mykola Makhortykh, Isabelle W.J. van der Vegt, Maximilian Mozes

A Sociolinguistic Study of Online Echo Chambers on Twitter

Nikita Duseja, Harsh Jhamtani

Stance Classification, Outcome Prediction, and Impact Assessment: NLP Tasks for Studying Group Decision-Making

Elijah Mayfield, Alan Black

Using time series and natural language processing to identify viral moments in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate

Josephine Lukito, Prathusha K Sarma, Jordan Foley, Aman Abhishek

Modeling performance differences on cognitive tests using LSTMs and skip-thought vectors trained on reported media consumption.

Maury Courtland, Aida Davani, Melissa Reyes, Leigh Yeh, Jun Leung

Neural Network Prediction of Censorable Language

Kei Yin Ng, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng, Chris Leberknight

Geolocating Political Events in Text

Andrew Halterman

Tweet Classification without the Tweet: An Empirical Examination of User versus Document Attributes

Veronica Lynn, Salvatore Giorgi, Niranjan Balasubramanian, H. Andrew Schwartz

Identification, Interpretability, and Bayesian Word Embeddings

Adam Lauretig

Not My President: How Names and Titles Frame Political Figures

Esther van den Berg, Katharina Korfhage, Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Katja Markert

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science

Svitlana Volkova, David Jurgens, Dirk Hovy, David Bamman, Oren Tsur

Sign Clustering and Topic Extraction in Proto-Elamite

Logan Born, Kate Kelley, Nishant Kambhatla, Carolyn Chen, Anoop Sarkar

The limits of Spanglish?

Barbara Bullock, Wally Guzmán, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

On the Feasibility of Automated Detection of Allusive Text Reuse

Enrique Manjavacas, Brian Long, Mike Kestemont

Correcting Whitespace Errors in Digitized Historical Texts

Sandeep Soni, Lauren Klein, Jacob Eisenstein

Computational Linguistics Applications for Multimedia Services

Kyeongmin Rim, Kelley Lynch, James Pustejovsky

Semantics and Homothetic Clustering of Hafez Poetry

Arya Rahgozar, Diana Inkpen

Graph convolutional networks for exploring authorship hypotheses

Tom Lippincott

Revisiting NMT for Normalization of Early English Letters

Mika Hämäläinen, Tanja Säily, Jack Rueter, Jörg Tiedemann, Eetu Mäkelä

A framework for streamlined statistical prediction using topic models

Vanessa Glenny, Jonathan Tuke, Nigel Bean, Lewis Mitchell

Stylometric Classification of Ancient Greek Literary Texts by Genre

Efthimios Gianitsos, Thomas Bolt, Pramit Chaudhuri, Joseph P. Dexter

Inferring missing metadata from environmental policy texts

Steven Bethard, Egoitz Laparra, Sophia Wang, Yiyun Zhao, Ragheb Al-Ghezi