NAACL 2019

752 papers

Cross-lingual Multi-Level Adversarial Transfer to Enhance Low-Resource Name Tagging

Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Jonathan May

On Knowledge distillation from complex networks for response prediction

Siddhartha Arora, Mitesh M. Khapra, Harish G. Ramaswamy

Evaluating Coherence in Dialogue Systems using Entailment

Nouha Dziri, Ehsan Kamalloo, Kory Mathewson, Osmar Zaïane

Cross-lingual Transfer Learning for Multilingual Task Oriented Dialog

Sebastian Schuster, Sonal Gupta, Rushin Shah, Mike Lewis

Continuous Learning for Large-scale Personalized Domain Classification

Han Li, Jihwan Lee, Sidharth Mudgal, Ruhi Sarikaya, Young-Bum Kim

What do Entity-Centric Models Learn? Insights from Entity Linking in Multi-Party Dialogue

Laura Aina, Carina Silberer, Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc, Matthijs Westera, Gemma Boleda

Top-Down Structurally-Constrained Neural Response Generation with Lexicalized Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar

Wenchao Du, Alan W Black

Topic Spotting using Hierarchical Networks with Self Attention

Pooja Chitkara, Ashutosh Modi, Pravalika Avvaru, Sepehr Janghorbani, Mubbasir Kapadia

Multi-Level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Danish Contractor, Dinesh Raghu, Sachindra Joshi

Affect-Driven Dialog Generation

Pierre Colombo, Wojciech Witon, Ashutosh Modi, James Kennedy, Mubbasir Kapadia

Dialogue Act Classification with Context-Aware Self-Attention

Vipul Raheja, Joel Tetreault

Decay-Function-Free Time-Aware Attention to Context and Speaker Indicator for Spoken Language Understanding

Jonggu Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee

Inferring Which Medical Treatments Work from Reports of Clinical Trials

Eric Lehman, Jay DeYoung, Regina Barzilay, Byron C. Wallace

Document-Level N-ary Relation Extraction with Multiscale Representation Learning

Robin Jia, Cliff Wong, Hoifung Poon

NLP Whack-A-Mole: Challenges in Cross-Domain Temporal Expression Extraction

Amy Olex, Luke Maffey, Bridget McInnes

Ranking and Selecting Multi-Hop Knowledge Paths to Better Predict Human Needs

Debjit Paul, Anette Frank

Multilingual prediction of Alzheimer’s disease through domain adaptation and concept-based language modelling

Kathleen C. Fraser, Nicklas Linz, Bai Li, Kristina Lundholm Fors, Frank Rudzicz

Structural Neural Encoders for AMR-to-text Generation

Marco Damonte, Shay B. Cohen

Recursive Routing Networks: Learning to Compose Modules for Language Understanding

Ignacio Cases, Clemens Rosenbaum, Matthew Riemer, Atticus Geiger, Tim Klinger

Let’s Make Your Request More Persuasive: Modeling Persuasive Strategies via Semi-Supervised Neural Nets on Crowdfunding Platforms

Diyi Yang, Jiaao Chen, Zichao Yang, Dan Jurafsky, Eduard Hovy

Submodular Optimization-based Diverse Paraphrasing and its Effectiveness in Data Augmentation

Ashutosh Kumar, Satwik Bhattamishra, Manik Bhandari, Partha Talukdar

pair2vec: Compositional Word-Pair Embeddings for Cross-Sentence Inference

Mandar Joshi, Eunsol Choi, Omer Levy, Daniel Weld, Luke Zettlemoyer

Structural Scaffolds for Citation Intent Classification in Scientific Publications

Arman Cohan, Waleed Ammar, Madeleine van Zuylen, Field Cady

Context Dependent Semantic Parsing over Temporally Structured Data

Charles Chen, Răzvan Bunescu

Information Aggregation for Multi-Head Attention with Routing-by-Agreement

Jian Li, Baosong Yang, Zi-Yi Dou, Xing Wang, Michael R. Lyu

Playing Text-Adventure Games with Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mark Riedl

Attention is not Explanation

Sarthak Jain, Byron C. Wallace

Studying the Inductive Biases of RNNs with Synthetic Variations of Natural Languages

Shauli Ravfogel, Yoav Goldberg, Tal Linzen

AutoSeM: Automatic Task Selection and Mixing in Multi-Task Learning

Han Guo, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal

Bayesian Learning for Neural Dependency Parsing

Ehsan Shareghi, Yingzhen Li, Yi Zhu, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen

Subword-based Compact Reconstruction of Word Embeddings

Shota Sasaki, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui

How Large a Vocabulary Does Text Classification Need? A Variational Approach to Vocabulary Selection

Wenhu Chen, Yu Su, Yilin Shen, Zhiyu Chen, Xifeng Yan

Mining Discourse Markers for Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning

Damien Sileo, Tim Van de Cruys, Camille Pradel, Philippe Muller

Learning to Describe Unknown Phrases with Local and Global Contexts

Shonosuke Ishiwatari, Hiroaki Hayashi, Naoki Yoshinaga, Graham Neubig, Shoetsu Sato

Linguistically-Informed Specificity and Semantic Plausibility for Dialogue Generation

Wei-Jen Ko, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li

DiscoFuse: A Large-Scale Dataset for Discourse-Based Sentence Fusion

Mor Geva, Eric Malmi, Idan Szpektor, Jonathan Berant

Learning Hierarchical Discourse-level Structure for Fake News Detection

Hamid Karimi, Jiliang Tang

Neural Chinese Address Parsing

Hao Li, Wei Lu, Pengjun Xie, Linlin Li

Domain adaptation for part-of-speech tagging of noisy user-generated text

Luisa März, Dietrich Trautmann, Benjamin Roth

Multi-Task Learning for Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis

Hikaru Omori, Mamoru Komachi

Decomposed Local Models for Coordinate Structure Parsing

Hiroki Teranishi, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto

CAN-NER: Convolutional Attention Network for Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Yuying Zhu, Guoxin Wang

Better, Faster, Stronger Sequence Tagging Constituent Parsers

David Vilares, Mostafa Abdou, Anders Søgaard

Semantic Role Labeling with Associated Memory Network

Chaoyu Guan, Yuhao Cheng, Hai Zhao

Transferable Neural Projection Representations

Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva

Investigating Robustness and Interpretability of Link Prediction via Adversarial Modifications

Pouya Pezeshkpour, Yifan Tian, Sameer Singh

Evaluating and Enhancing the Robustness of Dialogue Systems: A Case Study on a Negotiation Agent

Minhao Cheng, Wei Wei, Cho-jui Hsieh

Benchmarking Approximate Inference Methods for Neural Structured Prediction

Lifu Tu, Kevin Gimpel

Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies

Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Miguel Ballesteros, Roger Levy

Corpora Generation for Grammatical Error Correction

Jared Lichtarge, Chris Alberti, Shankar Kumar, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar

Relation Discovery with Out-of-Relation Knowledge Base as Supervision

Yan Liang, Xin Liu, Jianwen Zhang, Yangqiu Song

Continual Learning for Sentence Representations Using Conceptors

Tianlin Liu, Lyle Ungar, João Sedoc

Using Large Corpus N-gram Statistics to Improve Recurrent Neural Language Models

Yiben Yang, Ji-Ping Wang, Doug Downey

Understanding Learning Dynamics Of Language Models with SVCCA

Naomi Saphra, Adam Lopez

An Effective Label Noise Model for DNN Text Classification

Ishan Jindal, Daniel Pressel, Brian Lester, Matthew Nokleby

Learning Relational Representations by Analogy using Hierarchical Siamese Networks

Gaetano Rossiello, Alfio Gliozzo, Robert Farrell, Nicolas Fauceglia, Michael Glass

Misspelling Oblivious Word Embeddings

Aleksandra Piktus, Necati Bora Edizel, Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Rui Ferreira

Exploiting Noisy Data in Distant Supervision Relation Classification

Kaijia Yang, Liang He, Xin-yu Dai, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen

Segmentation-free compositional n-gram embedding

Geewook Kim, Kazuki Fukui, Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Connecting Language and Knowledge with Heterogeneous Representations for Neural Relation Extraction

Peng Xu, Denilson Barbosa

Customizing Grapheme-to-Phoneme System for Non-Trivial Transcription Problems in Bangla Language

Sudipta Saha Shubha, Nafis Sadeq, Shafayat Ahmed, Md. Nahidul Islam, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan

Adapting RNN Sequence Prediction Model to Multi-label Set Prediction

Kechen Qin, Cheng Li, Virgil Pavlu, Javed Aslam

Reinforcement Learning Based Text Style Transfer without Parallel Training Corpus

Hongyu Gong, Suma Bhat, Lingfei Wu, Jinjun Xiong, Wen-Mei Hwu

Text Classification with Few Examples using Controlled Generalization

Abhijit Mahabal, Jason Baldridge, Burcu Karagol Ayan, Vincent Perot, Dan Roth

Predicting Helpful Posts in Open-Ended Discussion Forums: A Neural Architecture

Kishaloy Halder, Min-Yen Kan, Kazunari Sugiyama

Complexity-Weighted Loss and Diverse Reranking for Sentence Simplification

Reno Kriz, João Sedoc, Marianna Apidianaki, Carolina Zheng, Gaurav Kumar

Mitigating Uncertainty in Document Classification

Xuchao Zhang, Fanglan Chen, Chang-Tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan

Accelerated Reinforcement Learning for Sentence Generation by Vocabulary Prediction

Kazuma Hashimoto, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

On Evaluation of Adversarial Perturbations for Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Paul Michel, Xian Li, Graham Neubig, Juan Pino

Selective Attention for Context-aware Neural Machine Translation

Sameen Maruf, André F. T. Martins, Gholamreza Haffari

Improving Domain Adaptation Translation with Domain Invariant and Specific Information

Shuhao Gu, Yang Feng, Qun Liu

Neural Machine Translation of Text from Non-Native Speakers

Antonios Anastasopoulos, Alison Lui, Toan Q. Nguyen, David Chiang

Structured Minimally Supervised Learning for Neural Relation Extraction

Fan Bai, Alan Ritter

OpenCeres: When Open Information Extraction Meets the Semi-Structured Web

Colin Lockard, Prashant Shiralkar, Xin Luna Dong

A general framework for information extraction using dynamic span graphs

Yi Luan, Dave Wadden, Luheng He, Amy Shah, Mari Ostendorf

GAN Driven Semi-distant Supervision for Relation Extraction

Pengshuai Li, Xinsong Zhang, Weijia Jia, Hai Zhao

Long-tail Relation Extraction via Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Graph Convolution Networks

Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Zhanlin Sun, Guanying Wang, Xi Chen

Learning to Decipher Hate Symbols

Jing Qian, Mai ElSherief, Elizabeth Belding, William Yang Wang

Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass Shootings

Dorottya Demszky, Nikhil Garg, Rob Voigt, James Zou, Jesse Shapiro

GenderQuant: Quantifying Mention-Level Genderedness

Ananya, Nitya Parthasarthi, Sameer Singh

Repurposing Entailment for Multi-Hop Question Answering Tasks

Harsh Trivedi, Heeyoung Kwon, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Niranjan Balasubramanian

Enhancing Key-Value Memory Neural Networks for Knowledge Based Question Answering

Kun Xu, Yuxuan Lai, Yansong Feng, Zhiguo Wang

BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions

Christopher Clark, Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang, Tom Kwiatkowski, Michael Collins

Bidirectional Attentive Memory Networks for Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

Yu Chen, Lingfei Wu, Mohammed J. Zaki

A Richer-but-Smarter Shortest Dependency Path with Attentive Augmentation for Relation Extraction

Duy-Cat Can, Hoang-Quynh Le, Quang-Thuy Ha, Nigel Collier

Fact Discovery from Knowledge Base via Facet Decomposition

Zihao Fu, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Wai Lam

Review-Driven Multi-Label Music Style Classification by Exploiting Style Correlations

Guangxiang Zhao, Jingjing Xu, Qi Zeng, Xuancheng Ren, Xu Sun

Modelling Instance-Level Annotator Reliability for Natural Language Labelling Tasks

Maolin Li, Arvid Fahlström Myrman, Tingting Mu, Sophia Ananiadou

Improving Distantly-supervised Entity Typing with Compact Latent Space Clustering

Bo Chen, Xiaotao Gu, Yufeng Hu, Siliang Tang, Guoping Hu

Predicting Malware Attributes from Cybersecurity Texts

Arpita Roy, Youngja Park, Shimei Pan

An Integrated Approach for Keyphrase Generation via Exploring the Power of Retrieval and Extraction

Wang Chen, Hou Pong Chan, Piji Li, Lidong Bing, Irwin King

Scalable Collapsed Inference for High-Dimensional Topic Models

Rashidul Islam, James Foulds

Posterior-regularized REINFORCE for Instance Selection in Distant Supervision

Qi Zhang, Siliang Tang, Xiang Ren, Fei Wu, Shiliang Pu

Ranking-Based Autoencoder for Extreme Multi-label Classification

Bingyu Wang, Li Chen, Wei Sun, Kechen Qin, Kefeng Li

Distant Supervision Relation Extraction with Intra-Bag and Inter-Bag Attentions

Zhi-Xiu Ye, Zhen-Hua Ling

Document-Level Event Factuality Identification via Adversarial Neural Network

Zhong Qian, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu, Guodong Zhou

Relation Classification Using Segment-Level Attention-based CNN and Dependency-based RNN

Van-Hien Tran, Van-Thuy Phi, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto

Fluent Translations from Disfluent Speech in End-to-End Speech Translation

Elizabeth Salesky, Matthias Sperber, Alexander Waibel

A Dynamic Speaker Model for Conversational Interactions

Hao Cheng, Hao Fang, Mari Ostendorf

Acoustic-to-Word Models with Conversational Context Information

Suyoun Kim, Florian Metze