Accepted papers 

 

Long papers

A BAMBARA TONALIZATION SYSTEM FOR WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION USING DIFFERENTIAL CODING, SEGMENTATION AND EDIT OPERATION FILTERING

Luigi (YuCheng) LIU and Damien Nouvel

 

A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY ON WORD MEANINGS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATIONS VIA POLYMODAL EMBEDDING

Joohee Park and sung-hyon myaeng

 

A NEURAL LANGUAGE MODEL FOR DYNAMICALLY INFERRING THE MEANINGS OF UNKNOWN WORDS IN A DISCOURSE

Sosuke Kobayashi, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui

 

A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF (AND PRACTITIONERS’ GUIDE TO) CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION

Ye Zhang and Byron Wallace

 

ABSTRACTIVE MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION BY PARTIAL TREE EXTRACTION, RECOMBINATION AND LINEARIZATION

Litton J Kurisinkel, Yue Zhang and Vasudeva Varma

 

ACQUISITION AND ASSESSMENT OF SEMANTIC CONTENT FOR THE GENERATION OF ELABORATENESS AND INDIRECTNESS IN SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

Louisa Pragst, Koichiro Yoshino, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura and Stefan Ultes

 

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE-TURN REASONING STRATEGIES IN READING COMPREHENSION TASKS

Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu, Kevin Duh and Jianfeng Gao

 

AN ENSEMBLE METHOD WITH SENTIMENT FEATURES AND CLUSTERING SUPPORT

Nguyen Huy Tien and Nguyen Minh Le

 

AN EXPLORATION OF NEURAL SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURES FOR AUTOMATIC POST-EDITING

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt and Roman Grundkiewicz

 

ASSESSING THE VERIFIABILITY OF ATTRIBUTIONS IN NEWS TEXT

Edward Newell, Ariane Schang, Drew Margolin and Derek Ruths

 

ATTENTIVE LANGUAGE MODELS

Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross and John Kelleher

 

AUTOMATED HISTORICAL FACT-CHECKING BY PASSAGE RETRIEVAL, WORD STATISTICS, AND VIRTUAL QUESTION-ANSWERING

Mio Kobayashi, Ai Ishii, Chikara Hoshino, Hiroshi Miyashita and Takuya Matsuzaki

 

AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTING VARIANT-NORMALIZATION PAIRS FOR JAPANESE TEXT NORMALIZATION

Itsumi Saito, kyosuke nishida, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito and Jyunji Tomato

 

BETWEEN READING TIME AND SYNTACTIC/SEMANTIC CATEGORIES

Masayuki Asahara and Sachi Kato

 

BILINGUAL WORD EMBEDDINGS FOR BILINGUAL TERMINOLOGY EXTRACTION FROM SPECIALIZED COMPARABLE CORPORA

Amir Hazem and Emmanuel Morin

 

CAPTURING LONG-RANGE CONTEXTUAL DEPENDENCIES WITH MEMORY-ENHANCED CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS

Fei Liu, Timothy Baldwin and Trevor Cohn

 

CASCADING MULTIWAY ATTENTIONS FOR DOCUMENT-LEVEL SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION

Dehong Ma, Sujian Li, Xiaodong Zhang and Houfeng WANG

 

CHARACTER-BASED JOINT SEGMENTATION AND POS TAGGING FOR CHINESE USING BIDIRECTIONAL RNN-CRF

Yan Shao, Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre

 

CHAT DISENTANGLEMENT: A REPLY ORIENTED APPROACH

Shikib Mehri and Giuseppe Carenini

 

COMBINING LIGHTLY-SUPERVISED TEXT CLASSIFICATION MODELS FOR ACCURATE CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING

Yiping Jin, Dittaya Wanvarie and Phu Le

 

CONCEPT-MAP-BASED MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION USING CONCEPT CO-REFERENCE RESOLUTION AND GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OPTIMIZATION

Tobias Falke and Iryna Gurevych

 

CONTEXT-AWARE SMOOTHING FOR NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION

Kehai Chen, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Tiejun Zhao

 

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK WITH WORD EMBEDDINGS FOR CHINESE WORD SEGMENTATION

Chunqi Wang

 

COORDINATION BOUNDARY IDENTIFICATION WITH SIMILARITY AND REPLACEABILITY

Hiroki Teranishi, Hiroyuki Shindo and Yuji Matsumoto

 

COURSE CONCEPT EXTRACTION IN MOOCS VIA EMBEDDING-BASED GRAPH PROPAGATION

Liangming Pan, Xiaochen Wang, Juanzi Li and Jie Tang

 

CROSS-LINGUAL SENTIMENT ANALYSIS WITHOUT (GOOD) TRANSLATION

Mohamed Abdalla and Graeme Hirst

 

DAILYDIALOG: A MANUALLY LABELLED MULTI-TURN DIALOGUE DATASET

Yanran Li, Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen and Wenjie Li

 

DATASET FOR A NEURAL NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR DATABASES (NNLIDB)

Florin Brad, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ionel Alexandru Hosu and Traian Rebedea

 

DEMOGRAPHIC WORD EMBEDDINGS FOR RACISM DETECTION ON TWITTER

Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Gaël Dias and Andy Way

 

DEPENDENCY PARSING WITH PARTIAL ANNOTATIONS: AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON

Yue Zhang, Zhenghua Li, Jun Lang, Qingrong Xia and Min Zhang

 

DIACHRONY-AWARE INDUCTION OF BINARY LATENT REPRESENTATIONS FROM TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES

Yugo Murawaki

 

DISTRIBUTIONAL MODEL ON A DIET: ONE-SHOT WORD LEARNING FROM TEXT ONLY

Su Wang, Stephen Roller and Katrin Erk

 

DOMAIN ADAPTATION FROM USER-LEVEL FACEBOOK MODELS TO COUNTY-LEVEL TWITTER PREDICTIONS

Daniel Rieman, Lyle Ungar, H. Andrew Schwartz and Kokil Jaidka

 

DOMAIN-ADAPTABLE HYBRID GENERATION OF RDF ENTITY DESCRIPTIONS

Or Biran and Kathleen McKeown

 

EMBRACING NON-TRADITIONAL LINGUISTIC RESOURCES FOR LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGE NAME TAGGING

Boliang Zhang, Di Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Ying Lin, Halidanmu Abudukelimu, Heng Ji and Kevin Knight

 

ENABLING TRANSITIVITY FOR LEXICAL INFERENCE ON CHINESE VERBS USING PROBABILISTIC SOFT LOGIC

Wei-Chung Wang and Lun-Wei Ku

 

END-TO-END NETWORK FOR TWITTER GEOLOCATION PREDICTION AND HASHING

Jey Han Lau, Lianhua Chi, Khoi-Nguyen Tran and Trevor Cohn

 

END-TO-END TASK-COMPLETION NEURAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

Xiujun Li, Yun-Nung Chen, Lihong Li, Jianfeng Gao and Asli Celikyilmaz

 

ES-LDA: ENTITY SUMMARIZATION USING KNOWLEDGE-BASED TOPIC MODELING

Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Allahyari, Krzysztof Kochut and Gong Cheng

 

ESTIMATING REACTIONS AND RECOMMENDING PRODUCTS WITH GENERATIVE MODELS OF REVIEWS

Jianmo Ni, Zachary C. Lipton, Sharad Vikram and Julian McAuley

 

EVALUATING LAYERS OF REPRESENTATION IN NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION ON PART-OF-SPEECH AND SEMANTIC TAGGING TASKS

Yonatan Belinkov, Lluís Màrquez, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi and James Glass

 

EVENT ARGUMENT IDENTIFICATION WITH NEURAL NETWORKS

Alex Judea and Michael Strube

 

EVENT ORDERING WITH A GENERALIZED MODEL FOR SIEVE PREDICTION RANKING

Bill McDowell, Nathanael Chambers, Alexander Ororbia II and David Reitter

 

EXPLOITING DOCUMENT-LEVEL INFORMATION TO IMPROVE EVENT DETECTION VIA RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

Shaoyang Duan, Ruifang He and Wenli Zhao

 

 EXTRACTION OF GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION FROM THE BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE

Jinseon You, Jin-Woo Chung, Wonsuk Yang and Jong C. Park

 

FINDING DOMINANT USER UTTERANCES AND SYSTEM RESPONSES IN CONVERSATIONS Dhiraj Madan and Sachindra Joshi

 

GENERATING A TRAINING CORPUS FOR OCR POST-CORRECTION USING ENCODER-DECODER MODEL

Eva D'hondt, Cyril Grouin and Brigitte Grau

 

GEOGRAPHICAL EVALUATION OF WORD EMBEDDINGS

Michal Konkol, Tomáš Brychcín, Michal Nykl and Tomáš Hercig

 

GLOBAL RECURRENT STRUCTURE ADDRESSING DOMAIN ADAPTION FOR CHINESE WORD SEGMENTATION

Shen Huang and Houfeng WANG

 

GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTION USING ERROR- AND GRAMMATICALITY-SPECIFIC WORD EMBEDDINGS

Masahiro Kaneko, Yuya Sakaizawa and Mamoru Komachi

 

GRAPH BASED SENTIMENT AGGREGATION USING CONCEPTNET ONTOLOGY

Srikanth Tamilselvam, Seema Nagar, Abhijit Mishra and Kuntal Dey

 

IDENTIFYING USAGE EXPRESSION SENTENCES IN CONSUMER PRODUCT REVIEWS

Shibamouli Lahiri, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Rada Mihalcea

 

IDENTITY DECEPTION DETECTION

Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Quincy Davenport, Anna Dai, Mohamed Abouelenien and Rada Mihalcea

 

IMAGE-GROUNDED CONVERSATIONS: MULTIMODAL CONTEXT FOR NATURAL QUESTION AND RESPONSE GENERATION

Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Chris Brockett, Bill Dolan, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, Georgios Spithourakis and Lucy Vanderwende

 

IMAGINATION IMPROVES MULTIMODAL TRANSLATION

Desmond Elliott and Ákos Kádár

 

IMPLICIT SYNTACTIC FEATURES FOR TARGET-DEPENDENT SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

yuze gao and yue zhang

 

IMPROVING IMPLICIT SEMANTIC ROLE LABELING BY PREDICTING SEMANTIC FRAME ARGUMENTS

Quynh Ngoc Thi Do, Steven Bethard and Marie-Francine Moens

 

IMPROVING NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION THROUGH PHRASE-BASED FORCED DECODING

Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichro Sumita, Graham Neubig and Satoshi Nakamura

 

IMPROVING SEQUENCE TO SEQUENCE NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION BY UTILIZING SYNTACTIC DEPENDENCY INFORMATION

An Nguyen Le, Ander Martinez, Akifumi Yoshimoto and Yuji Matsumoto

 

INFERENCE IS EVERYTHING: RECASTING SEMANTIC RESOURCES INTO A UNIFIED EVALUATION FRAMEWORK

Aaron Steven White, Pushpendre Rastogi, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme

 

INFORMATION BOTTLENECK INSPIRED METHOD FOR CHAT TEXT SEGMENTATION

S Vishal, Mohit Yadav, Lovekesh Vig and Gautam Shroff

 

INTEGRATING SUBJECT, TYPE, AND PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION FOR SIMPLE QUESTION ANSWERING OVER KNOWLEDGE BASE

Wei-Chuan Hsiao, Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen

 

JOINT LEARNING OF DIALOG ACT SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION IN SPOKEN DIALOG USING NEURAL NETWORKS

Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara

 

LEARNING HOW TO SIMPLIFY FROM EXPLICIT LABELING OF COMPLEX-SIMPLIFIED TEXT PAIRS

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Joachim Bingel, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton and Lucia Specia

 

LEARNING TO DIAGNOSE: ASSIMILATING CLINICAL NARRATIVES USING DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

Yuan Ling, Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek Datla, Ashequl Qadir, Kathy Lee, Joey Liu and Oladimeji Farri

 

LEARNING TRANSFERABLE REPRESENTATION FOR BILINGUAL RELATION EXTRACTION VIA CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Bonan Min, Zhuolin Jiang, Marjorie Freedman and Ralph Weischedel

 

LENGTH, INTERCHANGEABILITY, AND EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE: OBSERVATIONS FROM PREDICTING ARGUMENT CONVINCINGNESS

Peter Potash and Anna Rumshisky

 

LEVERAGING AUXILIARY TASKS FOR DOCUMENT-LEVEL CROSS-DOMAIN SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION

Jianfei Yu and Jing Jiang

 

LEVERAGING DISCOURSE INFORMATION EFFECTIVELY FOR AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION

Elisa Ferracane, Su Wang and Raymond Mooney

 

LOCAL MONOTONIC ATTENTION MECHANISM FOR END-TO-END SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Andros Tjandra, Sakriani Sakti and Satoshi Nakamura

 

MEASURING SEMANTIC RELATIONS BETWEEN HUMAN ACTIVITIES

Steven Wilson and Rada Mihalcea

 

MIPA: MUTUAL INFORMATION BASED PARAPHRASE ACQUISITION VIA BILINGUAL PIVOTING

Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi and Daichi Mochihashi

 

MODELING ARGUMENT PERSUASIVENESS

Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng

 

MULTI-TASK LEARNING FOR SPEAKER-ROLE ADAPTATION IN NEURAL CONVERSATION MODELS

Yi Luan, Chris Brockett, Bill Dolan, Jianfeng Gao and Michel Galley

 

MULTILINGUAL HIERARCHICAL ATTENTION NETWORKS FOR DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION

Nikolaos Pappas and Andrei Popescu-Belis

 

NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION WITH STACK RESIDUAL LSTM AND TRAINABLE BIAS DECODING

Quan Tran, Andrew MacKinlay and Antonio Jimeno Yepes

 

NATURAL LANGUAGE INFERENCE FROM MULTIPLE PREMISES

Alice Lai, Yonatan Bisk and Julia Hockenmaier

 

NEURAL PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR NON-PROJECTIVE MST PARSING

Xuezhe Ma and Eduard Hovy

 

NEURAMANTEAU: A NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLE MODEL FOR LEXICAL BLENDS

Kollol Das and DR SHAONA GHOSH

 

NMT OR SMT: CASE STUDY OF A NARROW-DOMAIN ENGLISH-LATVIAN POST-EDITING PROJECT

Inguna Skadina and Mārcis Pinnis

 

ON MODELING SENSE RELATEDNESS IN MULTI-PROTOTYPE WORD EMBEDDING

Yixin Cao, Jiaxin Shi, Juanzi Li and Zhiyuan Liu

 

OPEN RELATION EXTRACTION AND GROUNDING

Dian Yu and Heng Ji

 

PREDICTING USERS' NEGATIVE FEEDBACKS IN MULTI-TURN HUMAN-COMPUTER DIALOGUES

Xin Wang, Jianan Wang, Yuanchao Liu, Baoxun Wang, Zhuoran Wang and Xiaolong Wang

 

PROCEDURAL TEXT GENERATION FROM AN EXECUTION VIDEO

Atsushi Ushiku, Hayato Hashimoto, Atsushi Hashimoto and Shinsuke Mori

 

RECOGNIZING EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT HATE SPEECH USING A WEAKLY SUPERVISED TWO-PATH BOOTSTRAPPING APPROACH

Lei Gao, Alexis Kuppersmith and Ruihong Huang

 

REUSING NEURAL SPEECH REPRESENTATIONS FOR AUDITORY EMOTION RECOGNITION

Egor Lakomkin, Sven Magg, Cornelius Weber and Stefan Wermter

 

ROLES AND SUCCESS IN WIKIPEDIA TALK PAGES: IDENTIFYING LATENT PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR

Keith Maki, Michael Yoder, Yohan Jo and Carolyn Rosé

 

SELECTIVE DECODING FOR CROSS-LINGUAL OPEN INFORMATION EXTRACTION

Sheng Zhang, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme

 

SEMANTIC DOCUMENT DISTANCE MEASURES AND UNSUPERVISED DOCUMENT REVISION DETECTION

Xiaofeng Zhu, Diego Klabjan and Patrick Bless

 

SENTENCE MODELING WITH DEEP NEURAL ARCHITECTURE USING LEXICON AND CHARACTER ATTENTION MECHANISM FOR SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION

Huy-Thanh Nguyen and Minh-Le Nguyen

 

SUMMARIZING LENGTHY QUESTIONS

Tatsuya Ishigaki, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura

 

TAG-ENHANCED TREE-STRUCTURED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR IMPLICIT DISCOURSE RELATION CLASSIFICATION

Yizhong Wang and Sujian Li

 

TEXT SENTIMENT ANALYSIS BASED ON FUSION OF STRUCTURAL INFORMATION AND SERIALIZATION INFORMATION

厚瑜 龚, Ling Gan and Houyu Gong

 

TOWARDS BOOTSTRAPPING A POLARITY SHIFTER LEXICON USING LINGUISTIC FEATURES

Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer and Benjamin Roth

 

TOWARDS NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION WITH PARTIALLY ALIGNED CORPORA

Yining Wang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang and Chengqing Zong

 

TRAINING WORD SENSE EMBEDDINGS WITH LEXICON-BASED REGULARIZATION

Luis Nieto Piña and Richard Johansson

 

TURNING DISTRIBUTIONAL THESAURI INTO WORD VECTORS FOR SYNONYM EXTRACTION AND EXPANSION

Olivier Ferret

 

UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING MORPHOLOGICAL LEARNING IN THE NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION DECODER

Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Yonatan Belinkov and Stephan Vogel

 

UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION OF PHONEME SEQUENCES BASED ON PITMAN-YOR SEMI-MARKOV MODEL USING PHONEME LENGTH CONTEXT

Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani

 

USING EXPLICIT DISCOURSE CONNECTIVES IN TRANSLATION FOR IMPLICIT DISCOURSE RELATION CLASSIFICATION

Wei Shi, Frances Yung, Raphael Rubino and Vera Demberg

 

WHAT DOES ATTENTION IN NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION PAY ATTENTION TO?

Hamidreza Ghader and Christof Monz

 

WINER: A WIKIPEDIA ANNOTATED CORPUS FOR NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION

Abbas Ghaddar and Phillippe Langlais

 

WORD ORDERING AS UNSUPERVISED LEARNING TOWARDS SYNTACTICALLY PLAUSIBLE WORD REPRESENTATIONS

Noriki Nishida and Hideki Nakayama

 Important Dates

Program at a Glance

Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials:
November 27, 2017

Main Conferences:
November 28-30, 2017

Post-Conference Workshops and Shared Tasks:
December 1, 2017