ACL

Weakly Supervised Domain Detection

Yumo Xu, Mirella Lapata

Comments To appear in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL); 16 pages

Do Neural Dialog Systems Use the Conversation History Effectively? An Empirical Study

Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sandeep Subramanian, Christopher Pal, Sarath Chandar, Yoshua Bengio

Comments To appear at ACL 2019(oral; nominated for best paper)

Careful Selection of Knowledge to solve Open Book Question Answering

Pratyay Banerjee, Kuntal Kumar Pal, Arindam Mitra, Chitta Baral

Comments Accepted to ACL 2019

Dr.Quad at MEDIQA 2019: Towards Textual Inference and Question Entailment using contextualized representations

Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Ashwin Srinivasan, Aditi Chaudhary, James Route, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg

Comments Accepted in ACL challenge MediQA as part of the BioNLP workshop

CMU-01 at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task on Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology

Aditi Chaudhary, Elizabeth Salesky, Gayatri Bhat, David R. Mortensen, Jaime G. Carbonell, Yulia Tsvetkov

Comments In Proceedings of the ACL-SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology

Semantic Parsing with Dual Learning

Ruisheng Cao, Su Zhu, Chen Liu, Jieyu Li, Kai Yu

Comments Accepted by ACL 2019 Long Paper

Topic Sensitive Attention on Generic Corpora Corrects Sense Bias in Pretrained Embeddings

Vihari Piratla, Sunita Sarawagi, Soumen Chakrabarti

Comments Accepted at ACL 2019

Discourse Marker Augmented Network with Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Inference

Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

Comments Accepted in ACL 2018

Pre-Learning Environment Representations for Data-Efficient Neural Instruction Following

David Gaddy, Dan Klein

Comments ACL 2019

Are You Convinced? Choosing the More Convincing Evidence with a Siamese Network

Martin Gleize, Eyal Shnarch, Leshem Choshen, Lena Dankin, Guy Moshkowich, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim

Comments accepted to ACL 2019 - long paper

Can You Tell Me How to Get Past Sesame Street? Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling

Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas McCoy, Roma Patel, Najoung Kim, Ian Tenney, Yinghui Huang, Katherin Yu, Shuning Jin, Berlin Chen, Benjamin Van Durme, Edouard Grave, Ellie Pavlick, Samuel R. Bowman

Comments ACL 2019. This paper supercedes "Looking for ELMo's Friends: Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling", an earlier version of this work by the same authors

VIFIDEL: Evaluating the Visual Fidelity of Image Descriptions

Pranava Madhyastha, Josiah Wang, Lucia Specia

Comments Accepted for publication at ACL 2019

DREAMT -- Embodied Motivational Conversational Storytelling

David M W Powers

Comments 12 pages; to be presented as lightning talk plus poster at StoryNLP on 1 August 2019 at ACL in Florence - poster pdf and powerpoint available

Quantifying Similarity between Relations with Fact Distribution

Weize Chen, Hao Zhu, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun

Comments ACL 2019

Using Word Embeddings to Examine Gender Bias in Dutch Newspapers, 1950-1990

Melvin Wevers

Comments 6 pages with appendix. Published in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2019 co-organized with ACL2019

The Unbearable Weight of Generating Artificial Errors for Grammatical Error Correction

Phu Mon Htut, Joel Tetreault

Comments To appear at ACL-BEA workshop 2019

Generating Question-Answer Hierarchies

Kalpesh Krishna, Mohit Iyyer

Comments ACL camera ready + technical note on pipeline modifications for demo (15 pages)

Imitation Learning for Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation

Bingzhen Wei, Mingxuan Wang, Hao Zhou, Junyang Lin, Jun Xie, Xu Sun

Comments Accepted by ACL 2019. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1902.10245, arXiv:1812.09664 by other authors

A Corpus for Reasoning About Natural Language Grounded in Photographs

Alane Suhr, Stephanie Zhou, Ally Zhang, Iris Zhang, Huajun Bai, Yoav Artzi

Comments ACL 2019 Long Paper

Incorporating Syntactic and Semantic Information in Word Embeddings using Graph Convolutional Networks

Shikhar Vashishth, Manik Bhandari, Prateek Yadav, Piyush Rai, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Partha Talukdar

Comments 11 pages, 2 figures

Journal ref 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019)

Predicting Human Activities from User-Generated Content

Steven R. Wilson, Rada Mihalcea

Comments ACL 2019

WriterForcing: Generating more interesting story endings

Prakhar Gupta, Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Mukul Bhutani, Alan W Black

Comments Accepted in ACL workshop on Storytelling 2019

Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog with Maximal User Task Success and Minimal Human Agent Use

Janarthanan Rajendran, Jatin Ganhotra, Lazaros Polymenakos

Comments Author final version of article accepted for publication in TACL - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/tacl_a_00274 and oral presentation at ACL 2019

Journal ref Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2019 Vol. 7, 375-386

SUMBT: Slot-Utterance Matching for Universal and Scalable Belief Tracking

Hwaran Lee, Jinsik Lee, Tae-Yoon Kim

Comments 6 pages, 2 figures, The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Learning Representation Mapping for Relation Detection in Knowledge Base Question Answering

Peng Wu, Shujian Huang, Rongxiang Weng, Zaixiang Zheng, Jianbing Zhang, Xiaohui Yan, Jiajun Chen

Comments 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ACL 2019

STRASS: A Light and Effective Method for Extractive Summarization Based on Sentence Embeddings

Léo Bouscarrat, Antoine Bonnefoy, Thomas Peel, Cécile Pereira

Comments To appear in 2019 ACL Student Research Workshop

You Write Like You Eat: Stylistic variation as a predictor of social stratification

Angelo Basile, Albert Gatt, Malvina Nissim

Comments 11 pages, 5 figures, ACL Conference 2019

TWEETQA: A Social Media Focused Question Answering Dataset

Wenhan Xiong, Jiawei Wu, Hong Wang, Vivek Kulkarni, Mo Yu, Shiyu Chang, Xiaoxiao Guo, William Yang Wang

Comments ACL 2019

Compositional Semantic Parsing Across Graphbanks

Matthias Lindemann, Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller

Comments Accepted at ACL 2019

Good Secretaries, Bad Truck Drivers? Occupational Gender Stereotypes in Sentiment Analysis

Jayadev Bhaskaran, Isha Bhallamudi

Comments Accepted at GeBNLP (ACL Workshop on Gender Bias for NLP) at ACL 2019