Conference Program


November 27: Tutorials and Pre-conference Workshops

December 1: Post-conference Workshops and Shared Tasks


Program of the Main Conference

November 28

November 29

November 30

Monday, November 27
18:00-20:00

Welcome Reception (6F)

Tuesday, November 28
08:40 - 09:00

Opening Remarks (Room 504abc)

09:00 - 10:00Invited Talk by Rada Mihalcea  (Room 504abc)
10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break 
10:30 - 12:00

Machine Translation 1
(Room 501)

Syntax and Parsing
(Room 502)

Semantics 1 
(Room 503)

12:00 - 13:30Lunch Break (Room 504abc)
13:30 - 15:00

Machine Translation 2
(Room 501)

Segmentation and Tagging 
(Room 502)

Semantics 2 
(Room 503)

15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break 
15:30 - 17:30

Poster and Demo Session (6F)

Wednesday, November 29
09:00 - 10:00Invited Talk by Trevor Cohn (Room 504abc)
10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break 
10:30 - 12:00

Machine Learning 1 
(Room 501)

Discourse 1 
(Room 502)

Sentiment and Opinion 1 
(Room 503)

12:00 - 13:30Lunch Break (Room 504abc)
13:30 - 15:00

Machine Learning 2 
(Room 501)

Discourse 2 
(Room 502)

Sentiment and Opinion 2 
(Room 503)

15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break 
15:30 - 17:00

Words 
(Room 501)

Dialogue 
(Room 502)

Web and Social Media 
(Room 503)

18:00 - 20:00

Banquet (Le Xuan Banquet Hall, conference venue 3F)

Thursday, November 30
09:00 - 10:00Invited Talk by Jason Eisner (Room 504abc)
10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break 
10:30 - 12:00

Summarization 
(Room 501)

Information Extraction 
(Room 502)

NLP Applications 
(Room 503)

12:00 - 13:30Lunch Break (Room 504abc)
13:30 - 15:00

Generation 
(Room 501)

Documents and Questions 
(Room 502)

Resources and Tools 
(Room 503)

15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break 
15:30 - 16:20Best Paper Session  (Room 504abc)
16:20 - 16:50Closing Remarks  (Room 504abc)



Detailed Program

Monday, November 27
18:00-20:00Welcome Reception (6F)
Tuesday, November 28 
08:00-17:00Registration (5F)
08:40-09:00Opening Remarks (Room 504abc)
09:00-10:00Invited Talk by Rada Mihalcea (Room 504abc)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00Machine Translation 1 (Room 501)
10:30-10:50Evaluating 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
10:50-11:10Context-Aware Smoothing for Neural Machine Translation
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Tiejun Zhao
11:10-11:30Improving Sequence to Sequence Neural Machine Translation by Utilizing Syntactic Dependency Information
An Nguyen Le, Ander Martinez, Akifumi Yoshimoto and Yuji Matsumoto
11:30-11:50What does Attention in Neural Machine Translation Pay Attention to?
Hamidreza Ghader and Christof Monz
11:50-12:00CKY-based Convolutional Attention for Neural Machine Translation
Taiki Watanabe, Akihiro Tamura and Takashi Ninomiya
10:30-12:00Syntax and Parsing (Room 502)
10:30-10:50Grammatical Error Detection Using Error- and Grammaticality-Specific Word Embeddings
Masahiro Kaneko, Yuya Sakaizawa and Mamoru Komachi
10:50-11:10Dependency Parsing with Partial Annotations: An Empirical Comparison
Yue Zhang, Zhenghua Li, Jun Lang, Qingrong Xia and Min Zhang
11:10-11:30Neural Probabilistic Model for Non-projective MST Parsing
Xuezhe Ma and Eduard Hovy
11:30-11:50Word Ordering as Unsupervised Learning Towards Syntactically Plausible Word Representations
Noriki Nishida and Hideki Nakayama
11:50-12:00Supervised Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Constituency Parsing
Hidetaka Kamigaito, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Tsutomu Hirao, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura and Masaaki Nagata
10:30-12:00Semantics 1 (Room 503)
10:30-10:50MIPA: Mutual Information Based Paraphrase Acquisition via Bilingual Pivoting
Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi and Daichi Mochihashi
10:50-11:10Improving Implicit Semantic Role Labeling by Predicting Semantic Frame Arguments
Quynh Ngoc Thi Do, Steven Bethard and Marie-Francine Moens
11:10-11:30Natural Language Inference from Multiple Premises
Alice Lai, Yonatan Bisk and Julia Hockenmaier
11:30-11:50Enabling Transitivity for Lexical Inference on Chinese Verbs Using Probabilistic Soft Logic
Wei-Chung Wang and Lun-Wei Ku
11:50-12:00Transferring Semantic Roles Using Translation and Syntactic Information
Maryam Aminian, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli and Mona Diab
12:00-13:30Lunch Break (Room 504abc)
13:30-15:00Machine Translation 2 (Room 501)
13:30-13:50An Exploration of Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures for Automatic Post-Editing
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt and Roman Grundkiewicz
13:50-14:10Imagination Improves Multimodal Translation
Desmond Elliott and Ákos Kádár
14:10-14:30Understanding and Improving Morphological Learning in the Neural Machine Translation Decoder
Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Yonatan Belinkov and Stephan Vogel
14:30-14:50Improving Neural Machine Translation through Phrase-based Forced Decoding
Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichro Sumita, Graham Neubig and Satoshi Nakamura
14:50-15:00Neural Lattice Search for Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation
Huda Khayrallah, Gaurav Kumar, Kevin Duh, Matt Post and Philipp Koehn
13:30-15:00Segmentation and Tagging (Room 502)
13:30-13:50Convolutional Neural Network with Word Embeddings for Chinese Word Segmentation
Chunqi Wang and Bo Xu
13:50-14:10Character-based Joint Segmentation and POS Tagging for Chinese using Bidirectional RNN-CRF
Yan Shao, Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann and Joakim Nivre
14:10-14:30Addressing Domain Adaptation for Chinese Word Segmentation with Global Recurrent Structure
Shen Huang, Xu Sun and Houfeng Wang
14:30-14:50Information Bottleneck Inspired Method For Chat Text Segmentation
S Vishal, Mohit Yadav, Lovekesh Vig and Gautam Shroff
14:50-15:00Analyzing Well-Formedness of Syllables in Japanese Sign Language
Satoshi Yawata, Makoto Miwa, Yutaka Sasaki and Daisuke Hara
13:30-15:00Semantics 2 (Room 503)
13:30-13:50Distributional Modeling on a Diet: One-shot Word Learning from Text Only
Su Wang, Stephen Roller and Katrin Erk
13:50-14:10A Computational Study on Word Meanings and Their Distributed Representations via Polymodal Embedding
Joohee Park and Sung-Hyon Myaeng
14:10-14:30Geographical Evaluation of Word Embeddings
Michal Konkol, Tomáš Brychcín, Michal Nykl and Tomáš Hercig
14:30-14:50On Modeling Sense Relatedness in Multi-prototype Word Embedding
Yixin Cao, Jiaxin Shi, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu and Chengjiang Li
14:50-15:00Towards Lower Bounds on Number of Dimensions for Word Embeddings
Kevin Patel and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
15:00-15:30Coffee Break 
15:30-17:30Poster and Demo Session (6F)
 

P1

Unsupervised Segmentation of Phoneme Sequences based on Pitman-Yor Semi-Markov Model using Phoneme Length Context
Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani

P2

A Sensitivity Analysis of (and Practitioners’ Guide to) Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification
Ye Zhang and Byron Wallace

P3

Sequence to Sequence Learning for Event Prediction
Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Cuong Xuan Chu, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal

P4

Input-to-Output Gate to Improve RNN Language Models
Sho Takase, Jun Suzuki and Masaaki Nagata

P5

Counterfactual Language Model Adaptation for Suggesting Phrases
Kenneth Arnold, Kai-Wei Chang and Adam Kalai

P6

Deep Automated Multi-task Learning
Davis Liang and Yan Shu

P7

Post-Processing Techniques for Improving Predictions of Multilabel Learning Approaches
Akshay Soni, Aasish Pappu, Jerry Chia-mau Ni and Troy Chevalier

P8

Learning Kernels over Strings using Gaussian Processes
Daniel Beck and Trevor Cohn

P9

Substring Frequency Features for Segmentation of Japanese Katakana Words with Unlabeled Corpora
Yoshinari Fujinuma and Alvin Grissom II

P10MONPA: Multi-objective Named-entity and Part-of-speech Annotator for Chinese using Recurrent Neural Network
Yu-Lun Hsieh, Yung-Chun Chang, Yi-Jie Huang, Shu-Hao Yeh, Chun-Hung Chen and Wen-Lian Hsu
P11

Recall is the Proper Evaluation Metric for Word Segmentation
Yan Shao, Christian Hardmeier and Joakim Nivre

P12

Coordination Boundary Identification with Similarity and Replaceability
Hiroki Teranishi, Hiroyuki Shindo and Yuji Matsumoto

P13

Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition with Cross-lingual, Character-Level Neural Conditional Random Fields
Ryan Cotterell and Kevin Duh

P14

Segment-Level Neural Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition
Motoki Sato, Hiroyuki Shindo, Ikuya Yamada and Yuji Matsumoto

P15

Turning Distributional Thesauri into Word Vectors for Synonym Extraction and Expansion
Olivier Ferret

P16Training Word Sense Embeddings With Lexicon-based Regularization
Luis Nieto Piña and Richard Johansson
P17

Integrating Vision and Language Datasets to Measure Word Concreteness
Gitit Kehat and James Pustejovsky

P18

Semantic Features Based on Word Alignments for Estimating Quality of Text Simplification
Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Atsushi Fujita

P19

Injecting Word Embeddings with Another Language's Resource: An Application of Bilingual Embeddings
Prakhar Pandey, Vikram Pudi and Manish Shrivastava

P20

Improving Black-box Speech Recognition using Semantic Parsing
Rodolfo Corona, Jesse Thomason and Raymond Mooney

P21

Revisiting the Design Issues of Local Models for Japanese Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis
Yuichiroh Matsubayashi and Kentaro Inui

P22

Natural Language Informs the Interpretation of Iconic Gestures: A Computational Approach
Ting Han, Julian Hough and David Schlangen

P23

Draw and Tell: Multimodal Descriptions Outperform Verbal- or Sketch-Only Descriptions in an Image Retrieval Task
Ting Han and David Schlangen

P24

Learning How to Simplify From Explicit Labeling of Complex-Simplified Text Pairs
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Joachim Bingel, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton and Lucia Specia

P25

Domain-Adaptable Hybrid Generation of RDF Entity Descriptions
Or Biran and Kathleen McKeown

P26

ES-LDA: Entity Summarization using Knowledge-based Topic Modeling
Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Mehdi Allahyari, Krzysztof Kochut, Gong Cheng and Hamid Reza Arabnia

P27

Procedural Text Generation from an Execution Video
Atsushi Ushiku, Hayato Hashimoto, Atsushi Hashimoto and Shinsuke Mori

P28

A Statistical Framework for Product Description Generation
Jinpeng Wang, Yutai Hou, Jing Liu, Yunbo Cao and Chin-Yew Lin

P29

Automatic Text Summarization Using Reinforcement Learning with Embedding Features
Gyoung Ho Lee and Kong Joo Lee

P30

SSAS: Semantic Similarity for Abstractive Summarization
Raghuram Vadapalli, Litton J Kurisinkel, Manish Gupta and Vasudeva Varma

P31

Taking into account Inter-sentence Similarity for Update Summarization
Maali Mnasri, Gaël de Chalendar and Olivier Ferret

P32

Text Sentiment Analysis based on Fusion of Structural Information and Serialization Information
Ling Gan and Houyu Gong

P33

Modelling Representation Noise in Emotion Analysis using Gaussian Processes
Daniel Beck

P34Are Manually Prepared Affective Lexicons Really Useful for Sentiment Analysis
Minglei Li, Qin Lu and Yunfei Long
P35

MTNA: A Neural Multi-task Model for Aspect Category Classification and Aspect Term Extraction On Restaurant Reviews
Wei Xue, Wubai Zhou, Tao Li and Qing Wang

P36

Length, Interchangeability, and External Knowledge: Observations from Predicting Argument Convincingness
Peter Potash, Robin Bhattacharya and Anna Rumshisky

P37Hyperspherical Query Likelihood Models with Word Embeddings
Ryo Masumura, Taichi Asami, Hirokazu Masataki, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kyosuke Nishida and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
P38

Dual Constrained Question Embeddings with Relational Knowledge Bases for Simple Question Answering
Kaustubh Kulkarni, Riku Togashi, Hideyuki Maeda and Sumio Fujita

P39Efficiency-aware Answering of Compositional Questions using Answer Type Prediction
David Ziegler, Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy and Gerhard Weikum
P40

Exploiting Document Level Information to Improve Event Detection via Recurrent Neural Networks
Shaoyang Duan, Ruifang He and Wenli Zhao

P41

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

P42

High Recall Open IE for Relation Discovery
Hady Elsahar, Christopher Gravier and Frederique Laforest

P43

Using Context Events in Neural Network Models for Event Temporal Status Identification
Zeyu Dai, Wenlin Yao and Ruihong Huang

P44

Identifying Protein-protein Interactions in Biomedical Literature using Recurrent Neural Networks with Long Short-Term Memory
Yu-Lun Hsieh, Yung-Chun Chang, Nai-Wen Chang and Wen-Lian Hsu

P45

Identifying Empathetic Messages in Online Health Communities
Hamed Khanpour, Cornelia Caragea and Prakhar Biyani

P46

NMT or SMT: Case Study of a Narrow-domain English-Latvian Post-editing Project
Inguna Skadina and Mārcis Pinnis

P47Towards Neural Machine Translation with Partially Aligned Corpora
Yining Wang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong and Zhengshan Xue
P48

Boosting Neural Machine Translation
Dakun Zhang, Jungi Kim, Josep Crego and Jean Senellart

P49

Improving Japanese-to-English Neural Machine Translation by Voice Prediction
Hayahide Yamagishi, Shin Kanouchi, Takayuki Sato and Mamoru Komachi

P50

Utilizing Lexical Similarity between Related, Low-resource Languages for Pivot-based SMT
Anoop Kunchukuttan, Maulik Shah, Pradyot Prakash and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

P51

Key-value Attention Mechanism for Neural Machine Translation
Hideya Mino, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Takenobu Tokunaga

P52

Transfer Learning across Low-Resource, Related Languages for Neural Machine Translation
Toan Nguyen and David Chiang

P53

Concept Equalization to Guide Correct Training of Neural Machine Translation
Kangil Kim, Jong-Hun Shin, Seung-Hoon Na and SangKeun Jung

P54Identifying Usage Expression Sentences in Consumer Product Reviews
Shibamouli Lahiri, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran and Rada Mihalcea
P55Fake News Detection Through Multi-Perspective Speaker Profiles
Yunfei Long, Qin Lu, Rong Xiang, Minglei Li and Chu-Ren Huang
P56

Improving Neural Text Normalization with Data Augmentation at Character- and Morphological Levels
Itsumi Saito, Jun Suzuki, Kyosuke Nishida, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Satoshi Kobashikawa, Ryo Masumura, Yuji Matsumoto and Junji Tomita

P57

Using Social Networks to Improve Language Variety Identification with Neural Networks
Yasuhide Miura, Tomoki Taniguchi, Motoki Taniguchi, Shotaro Misawa and Tomoko Ohkuma

P58

WiNER: A Wikipedia Annotated Corpus for Named Entity Recognition
Abbas Ghaddar and Phillippe Langlais

P59

PubMed 200k RCT: a Dataset for Sequential Sentence Classification in Medical Abstracts
Franck Dernoncourt and Ji Young Lee

P60

A Parallel Corpus of Python Functions and Documentation Strings for Automated Code Documentation and Code Generation
Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone and Rico Sennrich

P61

Building Large Chinese Corpus for Spoken Dialogue Research in Specific Domains
Changliang Li and Xiuying Wang

P62

Between Reading Time and Syntactic/Semantic Categories
Masayuki Asahara and Sachi Kato

P63

Identifying Speakers and Listeners of Quoted Speech in Literary Works
Chak Yan Yeung and John Lee

P64

Language-Independent Prediction of Psycholinguistic Properties of Words

Yo Ehara

P65

Correlation Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its Biomarkers Using the Word Embeddings
Byeong-Hun Yoon and Yu-Seop Kim

P66

Reference-based Metrics can be Replaced with Reference-less Metrics in Evaluating Grammatical Error Correction Systems
Hiroki Asano, Tomoya Mizumoto and Kentaro Inui

P67CVBed: Structuring CVs using Word Embeddings
Shweta Garg, Sudhanshu S Singh, Abhijit Mishra and Kuntal Dey
P68Leveraging Diverse Lexical Chains to Construct Essays for Chinese College Entrance Examination
Liunian Li, Xiaojun Wan, Jin-ge Yao and Siming Yan
P69

Can Discourse Relations be Identified Incrementally?
Frances Yung, Hiroshi Noji and Yuji Matsumoto

P70

Speaker Role Contextual Modeling for Language Understanding and Dialogue Policy Learning
Ta Chung Chi, Po Chun Chen, Shang-Yu Su and Yun-Nung Chen

P71

Diversifying Neural Conversation Model with Maximal Marginal Relevance
Yiping Song, Zhiliang Tian, Dongyan Zhao, Ming Zhang and Rui Yan

P72

Dialog for Language to Code
Shobhit Chaurasia and Raymond Mooney

P73

Using Analytic Scoring Rubrics in the Automatic Assessment of College-Level Summary Writing Tasks in L2
Tamara Sladoljev Agejev and Jan Šnajder

D1

MASSAlign: Alignment and Annotation of Comparable Documents

Gustavo Paetzold, Fernando Alva-Manchego and Lucia Specia

D2

CADET: Computer Assisted Discovery Extraction and Translation

Benjamin Van Durme, Tom Lippincott, Kevin Duh, Deana Burchfield, Adam Poliak, Cash Costello, Tim Finin, Scott Miller, James Mayfield, Philipp Koehn, Craig Harman, Dawn Lawrie, Chandler May, Max Thomas, Julianne Chaloux, Tongfei Chen, Alex Comerford, Benjamin Glass, Shudong Hao, Patrick Martin, Rashmi Sankepally, Ying-Ying Tran and Ted Zhang

D3

WiseReporter: A Korean Report Generation System

Yunseok Noh, Su Jeong Choi, Seong-Bae Park and Se-Young Park

D4

Encyclolink: A Cross-Encyclopedia, Cross-language Article-Linking System and Web-based Search Interface

Yu-Chun Wang, Ka Ming Wong, Chun-Kai Wu, Chao-Lin Pan and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai

D5

A Telecom-Domain Online Customer Service Assistant Based on Question Answering with Word Embedding and Intent Classification

Jui-Yang Wang, Min-Feng Kuo, Jen-Chieh Han, Chao-Chuang Shih, Chun-Hsun Chen, Po-Ching Lee and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai

D6

TOTEMSS: Topic-based, Temporal Sentiment Summarisation for Twitter

Bo Wang, Maria Liakata, Adam Tsakalidis, Spiros Georgakopoulos Kolaitis, Symeon Papadopoulos, Lazaros Apostolidis, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Rob Procter and Yiannis Kompatsiaris

D7

MUSST: A Multilingual Syntactic Simplification Tool

Carolina Scarton, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Sara Tonelli, Tamara Martín Wanton and Lucia Specia

D8

XMU Neural Machine Translation Online Service

Boli Wang, Zhixing Tan, Jinming Hu, Yidong Chen and Xiaodong Shi

D9

Semantics-Enhanced Task-Oriented Dialogue Translation: A Case Study on Hotel Booking

Longyue Wang, Jinhua Du, Liangyou Li, Zhaopeng Tu, Andy Way and Qun Liu

D10

NNVLP: A Neural Network-Based Vietnamese Language Processing Toolkit

Hoang Pham, Phạm Xuân Khoái, Tuan Anh Nguyen and Phuong Le-Hong

D11

ClassifierGuesser: A Context-based Classifier Prediction System for Chinese Language Learners

Nicole Peinelt, Maria Liakata and Shu-Kai Hsieh

D12

Automatic Difficulty Assessment for Chinese Texts

John Lee, Meichun Liu, Chun Yin Lam, Tak On Lau, Bing Li and Keying Li

D13

Verb Replacer: An English Verb Error Correction System

Yu-Hsuan Wu, Jhih-Jie Chen and Jason Chang

D14

Learning Synchronous Grammar Patterns for Assisted Writing for Second Language Learners

Chi-En Wu, Jhih-Jie Chen, Jim Chang and Jason Chang

D15

Guess What: A Question Answering Game via On-demand Knowledge Validation

Yu-Sheng Li, Chien-Hui Tseng, Chian-Yun Huang and Wei-Yun Ma

D16

STCP: Simplified-Traditional Chinese Conversion and Proofreading

Jiarui Xu, Xuezhe Ma, Chen-Tse Tsai and Eduard Hovy

D17

Deep Neural Network Based System for Solving Arithmetic Word Problems

Purvanshi Mehta, Pruthwik Mishra, vinayak athavale, Manish Shrivastava and Dipti Sharma

Wednesday, November 29
08:00-17:00Registration (5F)
09:00-10:00Invited Talk by Trevor Cohn (Room 504abc)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break 
10:30-12:00Machine Learning 1 (Room 501)
10:30-10:50Reusing Neural Speech Representations for Auditory Emotion Recognition
Egor Lakomkin, Cornelius Weber, Sven Magg and Stefan Wermter
10:50-11:10Local Monotonic Attention Mechanism for End-to-End Speech And Language Processing
Andros Tjandra, Sakriani Sakti and Satoshi Nakamura
11:10-11:30Attentive Language Models
Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross and John Kelleher
11:30-11:50Diachrony-aware Induction of Binary Latent Representations from Typological Features
Yugo Murawaki
11:50-12:00Grammatical Error Correction with Neural Reinforcement Learning
Keisuke Sakaguchi, Matt Post and Benjamin Van Durme
10:30-12:00Discourse 1 (Room 502)
10:30-10:50Image-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
10:50-11:10A Neural Language Model for Dynamically Representing the Meanings of Unknown Words and Entities in a Discourse
Sosuke Kobayashi, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui
11:10-11:30Using Explicit Discourse Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Wei Shi, Frances Yung, Raphael Rubino and Vera Demberg
11:30-11:50Tag-Enhanced Tree-Structured Neural Networks for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Yizhong Wang, Sujian Li, Jingfeng Yang, Xu Sun and Houfeng Wang
11:50-12:00Coreference Resolution on Math Problem Text in Japanese
Takumi Ito, Takuya Matsuzaki and Satoshi Sato
10:30-12:00Sentiment and Opinion 1 (Room 503)
10:30-10:50Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis Without (Good) Translation
Mohamed Abdalla and Graeme Hirst
10:50-11:10Implicit Syntactic Features for Target-dependent Sentiment Analysis
Yuze Gao, Yue Zhang and Tong Xiao
11:10-11:30Graph Based Sentiment Aggregation using ConceptNet Ontology
Srikanth Tamilselvam, Seema Nagar, Abhijit Mishra and Kuntal Dey
11:30-11:50Sentence Modeling with Deep Neural Architecture using Lexicon and Character Attention Mechanism for Sentiment Classification
Huy-Thanh Nguyen and Minh-Le Nguyen
11:50-12:00Utilizing Visual Forms of Japanese Characters for Neural Review Classification
Yota Toyama, Makoto Miwa and Yutaka Sasaki
12:00-13:30Lunch Break (Room 504abc)
13:30-15:00Machine Learning 2 (Room 501)
13:30-13:50Combining Lightly-Supervised Text Classification Models for Accurate Contextual Advertising
Yiping Jin, Dittaya Wanvarie and Phu Le
13:50-14:10Capturing Long-range Contextual Dependencies with Memory-enhanced Conditional Random Fields
Fei Liu, Timothy Baldwin and Trevor Cohn
14:10-14:30Named Entity Recognition with Stack Residual LSTM and Trainable Bias Decoding
Quan Tran, Andrew MacKinlay and Antonio Jimeno Yepes
14:30-14:50Neuramanteau: A Neural Network Ensemble Model for Lexical Blends
Kollol Das and Shaona Ghosh
14:50-15:00A Multi-task Learning Approach to Adapting Bilingual Word Embeddings for Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition
Dingquan Wang, Nanyun Peng and Kevin Duh
13:30-15:00Discourse 2 (Room 502)
13:30-13:50Leveraging Discourse Information Effectively for Authorship Attribution
Elisa Ferracane, Su Wang and Raymond Mooney
13:50-14:10Lightly-Supervised Modeling of Argument Persuasiveness
Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng
14:10-14:30Multi-Task Learning for Speaker-Role Adaptation in Neural Conversation Models
Yi Luan, Chris Brockett, Bill Dolan, Jianfeng Gao and Michel Galley
14:30-14:50Chat Disentanglement: Identifying Semantic Reply Relationships with Random Forests and Recurrent Neural Networks
Shikib Mehri and Giuseppe Carenini
14:50-15:00Investigating the Effect of Conveying Understanding Results in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems
Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Junji Tomita
13:30-15:00Sentiment and Opinion 2 (Room 503)
13:30-13:50Towards Bootstrapping a Polarity Shifter Lexicon using Linguistic Features
Marc Schulder, Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer and Benjamin Roth
13:50-14:10Cascading Multiway Attentions for Document-level Sentiment Classification
Dehong Ma, Sujian Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Houfeng Wang and Xu Sun
14:10-14:30An Ensemble Method with Sentiment Features and Clustering Support
Nguyen Huy Tien and Nguyen Minh Le
14:30-14:50Leveraging Auxiliary Tasks for Document-Level Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification
Jianfei Yu and Jing Jiang
14:50-15:00Extracting and Understanding Contrastive Opinion through Topic Relevant Sentences
Ebuka Ibeke, Chenghua Lin, Adam Wyner and Mohamad Hardyman Barawi
15:00-15:30Coffee Break 
15:30-17:00Word (Room 501)
15:30-15:50Measuring Semantic Relations between Human Activities
Steven Wilson and Rada Mihalcea
15:50-16:10Learning Transferable Representation for Bilingual Relation Extraction via Convolutional Neural Networks
Bonan Min, Zhuolin Jiang, Marjorie Freedman and Ralph Weischedel
16:10-16:30Bilingual Word Embeddings for Bilingual Terminology Extraction from Specialized Comparable Corpora
Amir Hazem and Emmanuel Morin
16:30-16:50A Bambara Tonalization System for Word Sense Disambiguation Using Differential Coding, Segmentation and Edit Operation Filtering
Luigi (Yu-Cheng) LIU and Damien Nouvel
16:50-17:00CWIG3G2 - Complex Word Identification Task across Three Text Genres and Two User Groups
Seid Muhie Yimam, Sanja Štajner, Martin Riedl and Chris Biemann
15:30-17:00Dialogue (Room 502)
15:30-15:50Joint Learning of Dialog Act Segmentation and Recognition in Spoken Dialog Using Neural Networks
Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara
15:50-16:10Predicting Users' Negative Feedbacks in Multi-Turn Human-Computer Dialogues
Xin Wang, Jianan Wang, Yuanchao Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Zhuoran Wang and Baoxun Wang
16:10-16:30Finding Dominant User Utterances And System Responses in Conversations
Dhiraj Madan and Sachindra Joshi
16:30-16:50End-to-End Task-Completion Neural Dialogue Systems
Xiujun Li, Yun-Nung Chen, Lihong Li, Jianfeng Gao and Asli Celikyilmaz
16:50-17:00Generating Stylistically Consistent Dialog Responses with Transfer Learning
Reina Akama, Kazuaki Inada, Naoya Inoue, Sosuke Kobayashi and Kentaro Inui
15:30-17:00Web and Social Media (Room 503)
15:30-15:50End-to-end Network for Twitter Geolocation Prediction and Hashing
Jey Han Lau, Lianhua Chi, Khoi-Nguyen Tran and Trevor Cohn
15:50-16:10Assessing the Verifiability of Attributions in News Text
Edward Newell, Ariane Schang, Drew Margolin and Derek Ruths
16:10-16:30Domain Adaptation from User-level Facebook Models to County-level Twitter Predictions
Daniel Rieman, Kokil Jaidka, H. Andrew Schwartz and Lyle Ungar
16:30-16:50Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach
Lei Gao, Alexis Kuppersmith and Ruihong Huang
16:50-17:00Learning to Explain Non-Standard English Words and Phrases
Ke Ni and William Yang Wang
18:00-20:00Banquet (Le Xuan Banquet Hall, 3F)
Thursday, November 30 
08:00-17:00Registration (5F)
09:00-10:00Invited Talk by Jason Eisner (Room 504abc)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break 
10:30-12:00Summarization (Room 501)
10:30-10:50Estimating Reactions and Recommending Products with Generative Models of Reviews
Jianmo Ni, Zachary C. Lipton, Sharad Vikram and Julian McAuley
10:50-11:10Summarizing Lengthy Questions
Tatsuya Ishigaki, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
11:10-11:30Concept-Map-Based Multi-Document Summarization using Concept Coreference Resolution and Global Importance Optimization
Tobias Falke, Christian M. Meyer and Iryna Gurevych
11:30-11:50Abstractive Multi-document Summarization by Partial Tree Extraction, Recombination and Linearization
Litton J Kurisinkel, Yue Zhang and Vasudeva Varma
11:50-12:00Towards Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization Using Submodular Function-Based Framework, Sentence Compression and Merging
Yllias Chali, Moin Tanvee and Mir Tafseer Nayeem
10:30-12:00Information Extraction (Room 502)
10:30-10:50Event Argument Identification on Dependency Graphs with Bidirectional LSTMs
Alex Judea and Michael Strube
10:50-11:10Selective Decoding for Cross-lingual Open Information Extraction
Sheng Zhang, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme
11:10-11:30Event Ordering with a Generalized Model for Sieve Prediction Ranking
Bill McDowell, Nathanael Chambers, Alexander Ororbia II and David Reitter
11:30-11:50Open Relation Extraction and Grounding
Dian Yu, Lifu Huang and Heng Ji
11:50-12:00Domain Adaptation for Relation Extraction with Domain Adversarial Neural Network
Lisheng Fu, Thien Huu Nguyen, Bonan Min and Ralph Grishman
10:30-12:00NLP Applications (Room 503)
10:30-10:50Extraction of Gene-Environment Interaction from the Biomedical Literature
Jinseon You, Jin-Woo Chung, Wonsuk Yang and Jong C. Park
10:50-11:10Course Concept Extraction in MOOCs via Embedding-Based Graph Propagation
Liangming Pan, Xiaochen Wang, Chengjiang Li, Juanzi Li and Jie Tang
11:10-11:30Identity Deception Detection
Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Quincy Davenport, Anna Mengdan Dai, Mohamed Abouelenien and Rada Mihalcea
11:30-11:50Learning 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
11:50-12:00Lexical Simplification with the Deep Structured Similarity Model
Lis Pereira, Xiaodong Liu and John Lee
12:00-13:30Lunch Break (Room 504abc)
13:30-15:00Generation (Room 501)
13:30-13:50Dataset for a Neural Natural Language Interface for Databases (NNLIDB)
Florin Brad, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob, Ionel Alexandru Hosu and Traian Rebedea
13:50-14:10Acquisition 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
14:10-14:30Demographic Word Embeddings for Racism Detection on Twitter
Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Gaël Dias and Andy Way
14:30-14:50Automatically Extracting Variant-Normalization Pairs for Japanese Text Normalization
Itsumi Saito, Kyosuke Nishida, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Kuniko Saito and Junji Tomita
14:50-15:00Proofread Sentence Generation as Multi-Task Learning with Editing Operation Prediction
Yuta Hitomi, Hideaki Tamori, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui
13:30-15:00Documents and Questions (Room 502)
13:30-13:50Semantic Document Distance Measures and Unsupervised Document Revision Detection
Xiaofeng Zhu, Diego Klabjan and Patrick Bless
13:50-14:10An Empirical Analysis of Multiple-Turn Reasoning Strategies in Reading Comprehension Tasks
Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu, Kevin Duh and Jianfeng Gao
14:10-14:30Automated Historical Fact-Checking by Passage Retrieval, Word Statistics, and Virtual Question-Answering
Mio Kobayashi, Ai Ishii, Chikara Hoshino, Hiroshi Miyashita and Takuya Matsuzaki
14:30-14:50Integrating Subject, Type, and Property Identification for Simple Question Answering over Knowledge Base
Wei-Chuan Hsiao, Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen
14:50-15:00An Exploration of Data Augmentation and RNN Architectures for Question Ranking in Community Question Answering
Charles Chen and Razvan Bunescu
13:30-15:00Resources and Tools (Room 503)
13:30-13:50DailyDialog: A Manually Labelled Multi-turn Dialogue Dataset
Yanran Li, Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen, Wenjie Li, Ziqiang Cao and Shuzi Niu
13:50-14:10Inference is Everything: Recasting Semantic Resources into a Unified Evaluation Framework
Aaron Steven White, Pushpendre Rastogi, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme
14:10-14:30Generating a Training Corpus for OCR Post-Correction Using Encoder-Decoder Model
Eva D'hondt, Cyril Grouin and Brigitte Grau
14:30-14:40Deriving Consensus for Multi-Parallel Corpora: an English Bible Study
Patrick Xia and David Yarowsky
15:00-15:30Coffee Break 
15:30-16:20Best Paper Session (Room 504abc)
15:30-15:55Best Paper
15:55-16:20Best Student Paper
16:20-16:50Closing Remarks (Room 504abc)

 

 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