NAACL 2019

752 papers

fairseq: A Fast, Extensible Toolkit for Sequence Modeling

Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, Alexei Baevski, Angela Fan, Sam Gross

Eidos, INDRA, & Delphi: From Free Text to Executable Causal Models

Rebecca Sharp, Adarsh Pyarelal, Benjamin Gyori, Keith Alcock, Egoitz Laparra

compare-mt: A Tool for Holistic Comparison of Language Generation Systems

Graham Neubig, Zi-Yi Dou, Junjie Hu, Paul Michel, Danish Pruthi

Train, Sort, Explain: Learning to Diagnose Translation Models

Robert Schwarzenberg, David Harbecke, Vivien Macketanz, Eleftherios Avramidis, Sebastian Möller

Learning to Respond to Mixed-code Queries using Bilingual Word Embeddings

Chia-Fang Ho, Jason Chang, Jhih-Jie Chen, Chingyu Yang

INS: An Interactive Chinese News Synthesis System

Hui LIU, Wentao Qin, Xiaojun Wan

Enabling Search and Collaborative Assembly of Causal Interactions Extracted from Multilingual and Multi-domain Free Text

George C. G. Barbosa, Zechy Wong, Gus Hahn-Powell, Dane Bell, Rebecca Sharp

ADIDA: Automatic Dialect Identification for Arabic

Ossama Obeid, Mohammad Salameh, Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash

Abbreviation Explorer - an interactive system for pre-evaluation of Unsupervised Abbreviation Disambiguation

Manuel R. Ciosici, Ira Assent

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations)

Waleed Ammar, Annie Louis, Nasrin Mostafazadeh

SNAP-BATNET: Cascading Author Profiling and Social Network Graphs for Suicide Ideation Detection on Social Media

Rohan Mishra, Pradyumn Prakhar Sinha, Ramit Sawhney, Debanjan Mahata, Puneet Mathur

Speak up, Fight Back! Detection of Social Media Disclosures of Sexual Harassment

Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Ramit Sawhney, Puneet Mathur, Debanjan Mahata, Rajiv Ratn Shah

A Pregroup Representation of Word Order Alternation Using Hindi Syntax

Alok Debnath, Manish Shrivastava

Gating Mechanisms for Combining Character and Word-level Word Representations: an Empirical Study

Jorge Balazs, Yutaka Matsuo

Expectation and Locality Effects in the Prediction of Disfluent Fillers and Repairs in English Speech

Samvit Dammalapati, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Sumeet Agarwal

Data Augmentation by Data Noising for Open-vocabulary Slots in Spoken Language Understanding

Hwa-Yeon Kim, Yoon-Hyung Roh, Young-Kil Kim

Deep Learning and Sociophonetics: Automatic Coding of Rhoticity Using Neural Networks

Sarah Gupta, Anthony DiPadova

Multimodal Machine Translation with Embedding Prediction

Tosho Hirasawa, Hayahide Yamagishi, Yukio Matsumura, Mamoru Komachi

SEDTWik: Segmentation-based Event Detection from Tweets Using Wikipedia

Keval Morabia, Neti Lalita Bhanu Murthy, Aruna Malapati, Surender Samant

Computational Investigations of Pragmatic Effects in Natural Language

Jad Kabbara

A Partially Rule-Based Approach to AMR Generation

Emma Manning

Generating Text through Adversarial Training Using Skip-Thought Vectors

Afroz Ahamad

A Bag-of-concepts Model Improves Relation Extraction in a Narrow Knowledge Domain with Limited Data

Jiyu Chen, Karin Verspoor, Zenan Zhai

Opinion Mining with Deep Contextualized Embeddings

Wen-Bin Han, Noriko Kando

Handling Noisy Labels for Robustly Learning from Self-Training Data for Low-Resource Sequence Labeling

Debjit Paul, Mittul Singh, Michael A. Hedderich, Dietrich Klakow

The Strength of the Weakest Supervision: Topic Classification Using Class Labels

Jiatong Li, Kai Zheng, Hua Xu, Qiaozhu Mei, Yue Wang

Emotion Impacts Speech Recognition Performance

Rushab Munot, Ani Nenkova

Identifying and Reducing Gender Bias in Word-Level Language Models

Shikha Bordia, Samuel R. Bowman

Is It Dish Washer Safe? Automatically Answering “Yes/No” Questions Using Customer Reviews

Daria Dzendzik, Carl Vogel, Jennifer Foster

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

Sudipta Kar, Farah Nadeem, Laura Burdick, Greg Durrett, Na-Rae Han

Content-based Dwell Time Engagement Prediction Model for News Articles

Heidar Davoudi, Aijun An, Gordon Edall

Generate, Filter, and Rank: Grammaticality Classification for Production-Ready NLG Systems

Ashwini Challa, Kartikeya Upasani, Anusha Balakrishnan, Rajen Subba

In Other News: a Bi-style Text-to-speech Model for Synthesizing Newscaster Voice with Limited Data

Nishant Prateek, Mateusz Łajszczak, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Thomas Drugman, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba

Audio De-identification - a New Entity Recognition Task

Ido Cohn, Itay Laish, Genady Beryozkin, Gang Li, Izhak Shafran

Neural Text Normalization with Subword Units

Courtney Mansfield, Ming Sun, Yuzong Liu, Ankur Gandhe, Bjorn Hoffmeister

Cross-lingual Transfer Learning for Japanese Named Entity Recognition

Andrew Johnson, Penny Karanasou, Judith Gaspers, Dietrich Klakow

TOI-CNN: a Solution of Information Extraction on Chinese Insurance Policy

Lin Sun, Kai Zhang, Fule Ji, Zhenhua Yang

Robust Semantic Parsing with Adversarial Learning for Domain Generalization

Gabriel Marzinotto, Geraldine Damnati, Frédéric Béchet, Benoit Favre

Train One Get One Free: Partially Supervised Neural Network for Bug Report Duplicate Detection and Clustering

Lahari Poddar, Leonardo Neves, William Brendel, Luís Marujo, Sergey Tulyakov

A k-Nearest Neighbor Approach towards Multi-level Sequence Labeling

Yue Chen, John Chen

Improving Knowledge Base Construction from Robust Infobox Extraction

Boya Peng, Yejin Huh, Xiao Ling, Michele Banko

Extraction of Message Sequence Charts from Software Use-Case Descriptions

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

Learning When Not to Answer: a Ternary Reward Structure for Reinforcement Learning Based Question Answering

Fréderic Godin, Anjishnu Kumar, Arpit Mittal

Development and Deployment of a Large-Scale Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring System

Shazia Afzal, Tejas Dhamecha, Nirmal Mukhi, Renuka Sindhgatta, Smit Marvaniya

Are the Tools up to the Task? an Evaluation of Commercial Dialog Tools in Developing Conversational Enterprise-grade Dialog Systems

Marie Meteer, Meghan Hickey, Carmi Rothberg, David Nahamoo, Ellen Eide Kislal

Scaling Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking via Query Reformulation

Pushpendre Rastogi, Arpit Gupta, Tongfei Chen, Mathias Lambert

Active Learning for New Domains in Natural Language Understanding

Stanislav Peshterliev, John Kearney, Abhyuday Jagannatha, Imre Kiss, Spyros Matsoukas

Neural Lexicons for Slot Tagging in Spoken Language Understanding

Kyle Williams

A Case Study on Neural Headline Generation for Editing Support

Kazuma Murao, Ken Kobayashi, Hayato Kobayashi, Taichi Yatsuka, Takeshi Masuyama

Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network for Short Product Title Generation in Mobile E-Commerce

Jianguo Zhang, Pengcheng Zou, Zhao Li, Yao Wan, Xiuming Pan

Detecting Customer Complaint Escalation with Recurrent Neural Networks and Manually-Engineered Features

Wei Yang, Luchen Tan, Chunwei Lu, Anqi Cui, Han Li

Goal-Oriented End-to-End Conversational Models with Profile Features in a Real-World Setting

Yichao Lu, Manisha Srivastava, Jared Kramer, Heba Elfardy, Andrea Kahn

Diversifying Reply Suggestions Using a Matching-Conditional Variational Autoencoder

Budhaditya Deb, Peter Bailey, Milad Shokouhi

Graph Convolution for Multimodal Information Extraction from Visually Rich Documents

Xiaojing Liu, Feiyu Gao, Qiong Zhang, Huasha Zhao

Fast Prototyping a Dialogue Comprehension System for Nurse-Patient Conversations on Symptom Monitoring

Zhengyuan Liu, Hazel Lim, Nur Farah Ain Suhaimi, Shao Chuen Tong, Sharon Ong

Practical Semantic Parsing for Spoken Language Understanding

Marco Damonte, Rahul Goel, Tagyoung Chung

Locale-agnostic Universal Domain Classification Model in Spoken Language Understanding

Jihwan Lee, Ruhi Sarikaya, Young-Bum Kim

Enabling Real-time Neural IME with Incremental Vocabulary Selection

Jiali Yao, Raphael Shu, Xinjian Li, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki, Hideki Nakayama

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Industry Papers)

Anastassia Loukina, Michelle Morales, Rohit Kumar

What’s in a Name? Reducing Bias in Bios without Access to Protected Attributes

Alexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Chayes, Christian Borgs

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova

Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation

Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Loic Barrault

CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge

Alon Talmor, Jonathan Herzig, Nicholas Lourie, Jonathan Berant

CNM: An Interpretable Complex-valued Network for Matching

Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang, Massimo Melucci

A Structural Probe for Finding Syntax in Word Representations

John Hewitt, Christopher D. Manning

Data Augmentation for Context-Sensitive Neural Lemmatization Using Inflection Tables and Raw Text

Toms Bergmanis, Sharon Goldwater

Show Some Love to Your n-grams: A Bit of Progress and Stronger n-gram Language Modeling Baselines

Ehsan Shareghi, Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen

Joint Learning of Pre-Trained and Random Units for Domain Adaptation in Part-of-Speech Tagging

Sara Meftah, Youssef Tamaazousti, Nasredine Semmar, Hassane Essafi, Fatiha Sadat

On the Idiosyncrasies of the Mandarin Chinese Classifier System

Shijia Liu, Hongyuan Mei, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell

Augmenting word2vec with latent Dirichlet allocation within a clinical application

Akshay Budhkar, Frank Rudzicz

A large-scale study of the effects of word frequency and predictability in naturalistic reading

Cory Shain

Benchmarking Hierarchical Script Knowledge

Yonatan Bisk, Jan Buys, Karl Pichotta, Yejin Choi

Stochastic Wasserstein Autoencoder for Probabilistic Sentence Generation

Hareesh Bahuleyan, Lili Mou, Hao Zhou, Olga Vechtomova

Pragmatically Informative Text Generation

Sheng Shen, Daniel Fried, Jacob Andreas, Dan Klein

Pre-trained language model representations for language generation

Sergey Edunov, Alexei Baevski, Michael Auli

Rethinking Complex Neural Network Architectures for Document Classification

Ashutosh Adhikari, Achyudh Ram, Raphael Tang, Jimmy Lin

Convolutional Self-Attention Networks

Baosong Yang, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao, Zhaopeng Tu

Neural Grammatical Error Correction with Finite State Transducers

Felix Stahlberg, Christopher Bryant, Bill Byrne

Understanding Dataset Design Choices for Multi-hop Reasoning

Jifan Chen, Greg Durrett

Saliency Learning: Teaching the Model Where to Pay Attention

Reza Ghaeini, Xiaoli Fern, Hamed Shahbazi, Prasad Tadepalli

Using Natural Language Relations between Answer Choices for Machine Comprehension

Rajkumar Pujari, Dan Goldwasser

The Lower The Simpler: Simplifying Hierarchical Recurrent Models

Chao Wang, Hui Jiang

Positional Encoding to Control Output Sequence Length

Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki

Conversation Initiation by Diverse News Contents Introduction

Satoshi Akasaki, Nobuhiro Kaji

Cross-referencing Using Fine-grained Topic Modeling

Jeffrey Lund, Piper Armstrong, Wilson Fearn, Stephen Cowley, Emily Hales

News Article Teaser Tweets and How to Generate Them

Sanjeev Kumar Karn, Mark Buckley, Ulli Waltinger, Hinrich Schütze

Jointly Extracting and Compressing Documents with Summary State Representations

Afonso Mendes, Shashi Narayan, Sebastião Miranda, Zita Marinho, André F. T. Martins

Understanding the Behaviour of Neural Abstractive Summarizers using Contrastive Examples

Krtin Kumar, Jackie Chi Kit CHEUNG

Question Answering as an Automatic Evaluation Metric for News Article Summarization

Matan Eyal, Tal Baumel, Michael Elhadad

Recommendations for Datasets for Source Code Summarization

Alexander LeClair, Collin McMillan

Typological Features for Multilingual Delexicalised Dependency Parsing

Manon Scholivet, Franck Dary, Alexis Nasr, Benoit Favre, Carlos Ramisch

Polyglot Contextual Representations Improve Crosslingual Transfer

Phoebe Mulcaire, Jungo Kasai, Noah A. Smith

Context-Aware Cross-Lingual Mapping

Hanan Aldarmaki, Mona Diab

Combining Discourse Markers and Cross-lingual Embeddings for Synonym–Antonym Classification

Michael Roth, Shyam Upadhyay

A Large-Scale Comparison of Historical Text Normalization Systems

Marcel Bollmann

Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Roee Aharoni, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat

Addressing word-order Divergence in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for extremely Low Resource Languages

Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Revisiting Adversarial Autoencoder for Unsupervised Word Translation with Cycle Consistency and Improved Training

Tasnim Mohiuddin, Shafiq Joty

Low-Resource Syntactic Transfer with Unsupervised Source Reordering

Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Michael Collins

Unsupervised Extraction of Partial Translations for Neural Machine Translation

Benjamin Marie, Atsushi Fujita