ACL 2017 accepted papers_yasuhide miura

Accepted Long Papers

Biomedical

Enriching Complex Networks with Word Embeddings for Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment from Speech Transcripts
Authors: Leandro Santos, Edilson Anselmo Corrêa Júnior, Osvaldo Oliveira Jr, Diego Amancio, Letícia Mansur and Sandra Aluísio
Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics

Alignment at Work: Using Language to Distinguish the Internalization and Self-Regulation Components of Cultural Fit in Organizations
Authors: Gabriel Doyle, Amir Goldberg, Sameer Srivastava and Michael Frank

Representations of language in a model of visually grounded speech signal
Authors: Grzegorz Chrupała, Lieke Gelderloos and Afra Alishahi

Spectral Analysis of Information Density in Dialogue Predicts Collaborative Task Performance
Authors: Yang Xu and David Reitter
Dialog Interactive Systems

Adversarial Adaptation of Synthetic or Stale Data
Authors: Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos and Dongchan Kim

Affect-LM: A Neural Language Model for Customizable Affective Text Generation
Authors: Sayan Ghosh, Mathieu Chollet, Eugene Laksana, Stefan Scherer and Louis-Philippe Morency

Chat Detection in Intelligent Assistant: Combining Task-oriented and Non-task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems
Authors: Satoshi Akasaki and Nobuhiro Kaji

Domain Attention with an Ensemble of Experts
Authors: Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos and Dongchan Kim

Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions
Authors: Martin Villalba, Christoph Teichmann and Alexander Koller

Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning
Authors: Jason D Williams, Kavosh Asadi and Geoffrey Zweig

Joint Modeling of Content and Discourse Relations in Dialogues
Authors: Kechen Qin, Lu Wang, Joseph Kim and Julie Shah

Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders
Authors: Tiancheng Zhao, Ran Zhao and Maxine Eskenazi

Learning Symmetric Collaborative Dialogue Agents with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Authors: He He, Anusha Balakrishnan, Mihail Eric and Percy Liang

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking
Authors: Nikola Mrkšić, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Blaise Thomson and Steve Young

Sequential Matching Network: A New Architecture for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots
Authors: Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Chen Xing, Ming Zhou and Zhoujun Li

Towards an Automatic Turing Test: Learning to Evaluate Dialogue Responses
Authors: Ryan Lowe, Michael Noseworthy, Iulian Vlad Serban, Nicolas Angelard-Gontier, Yoshua Bengio and Joelle Pineau

Towards End-to-End Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Agents for Information Access
Authors: Bhuwan Dhingra, Lihong Li, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yun-Nung Chen, Faisal Ahmed and Li Deng
Discourse Pragmatics

A Neural Local Coherence Model
Authors: Shafiq Joty and Dat Tien Nguyen

Adversarial Connective-exploiting Networks for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification
Authors: Lianhui Qin, Zhisong Zhang, Hai Zhao, Eric Xing and Zhiting Hu

Argument Mining with Structured SVMs and RNNs
Authors: Vlad Niculae, Claire Cardie and Joonsuk Park

Discourse Mode Identification in Essays
Authors: Wei Song

Don’t understand a measure? Learn it: Structured Prediction for Coreference Resolution optimizing its measures
Authors: Iryna Haponchyk and Alessandro Moschitti

Generating and Exploiting Large-scale Pseudo Training Data for Zero Pronoun Resolution
Authors: Ting Liu, Yiming Cui, Qingyu Yin, Wei-Nan Zhang, Shijin Wang and Guoping Hu

Joint Learning for Coreference Resolution
Authors: Jing Lu and Vincent Ng

Neural Discourse Structure for Text Categorization
Authors: Yangfeng Ji and Noah A. Smith

Generation Summarization

Abstractive Document Summarization with a Graph-Based Attentional Neural Model
Authors: Jiwei Tan and Xiaojun Wan

Automatically Generating Rhythmic Verse with Neural Networks
Authors: Jack Hopkins and Douwe Kiela

Can Syntax Help? Improving an LSTM-based Sentence Compression Model for New Domains
Authors: Liangguo Wang, Jing Jiang, Hai Leong Chieu, Hui Ong Ong, Dandan Song and Lejian Liao

Creating Training Corpora for NLG Micro-Planners
Authors: Claire Gardent, Anastasia Shimorina, Shashi Narayan and Laura Perez-Beltrachini

Data-Driven Broad-Coverage Grammars for Opinionated Natural Language Generation (ONLG)
Authors: Tomer Cagan, Stefan L. Frank and Reut Tsarfaty

Diversity driven attention model for query-based abstractive summarization
Authors: Preksha Nema, Mitesh M. Khapra, Balaraman Ravindran and Anirban Laha

Flexible and Creative Chinese Poetry Generation Using Neural Memory
Authors: Jiyuan Zhang, Yang Feng, Dong Wang, Yang Wang, Andrew Abel, Shiyue Zhang and Andi Zhang

Get To The Point: Summarization with Pointer-Generator Networks
Authors: Abigail See, Peter J. Liu and Christopher D. Manning

Joint Optimization of User-desired Content in Multi-document Summaries by Learning from User Feedback
Authors: Avinesh PVS and Christian M. Meyer

Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension
Authors: Xinya Du, Junru Shao and Claire Cardie

Learning to Generate Market Comments from Stock Prices
Authors: Soichiro Murakami, Akihiko Watanabe, Akira Miyazawa, Keiichi Goshima, Toshihiko Yanase, Hiroya Takamura and Yusuke Miyao

Neural AMR: Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Parsing and Generation
Authors: Ioannis Konstas, Srinivasan Iyer, Mark Yatskar, Yejin Choi and Luke Zettlemoyer

PositionRank: An Unsupervised Approach to Keyphrase Extraction from Scholarly Documents
Authors: Corina Florescu and Cornelia Caragea

Program Induction for Rationale Generation: Learning to Solve and Explain Algebraic Word Problems
Authors: Wang Ling, Dani Yogatama, Chris Dyer and Phil Blunsom

Selective Encoding for Abstractive Sentence Summarization
Authors: Qingyu Zhou, Nan Yang, Furu Wei and Ming Zhou

Supervised Learning of Automatic Pyramid for Optimization-Based Multi-Document Summarization
Authors: Maxime Peyrard and Judith Eckle-Kohler

IE QA Text Mining Applications

A Constituent-Centric Neural Architecture for Reading Comprehension
Authors: Pengtao Xie and Eric Xing

A FOFE-based Local Detection Approach for Named Entity Recognition and Mention Detection
Authors: Mingbin Xu, Hui Jiang and Sedtawut Watcharawittayakul

Adversarial Multi-task Learning for Text Classification
Authors: Pengfei Liu, Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang

An End-to-End Model for Question Answering over Knowledge Base with Cross-Attention Combining Global Knowledge
Authors: Yanchao Hao, Yuanzhe Zhang, Shizhu He, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao

Attention-over-Attention Neural Networks for Reading Comprehension
Authors: Yiming Cui, Zhipeng Chen, si wei, Shijin Wang, Ting Liu and Guoping Hu

Automatically Labeled Data Generation for Large Scale Event Extraction
Authors: Yubo Chen, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao

Coarse-to-Fine Question Answering for Long Documents
Authors: Eunsol Choi, Daniel Hewlett, Illia Polosukhin, Alexandre Lacoste, Jakob Uszkoreit and Jonathan Berant

Comparing Apples to Apples: Learning Semantics of Common Entities Through a Novel Comprehension Task
Authors: Omid Bakhshandeh and James Allen

Cross-lingual Distillation for Text Classification
Authors: Ruochen Xu and Yiming Yang

Deep Keyphrase Generation
Authors: Rui Meng, Daqing He, Sanqiang Zhao and Shuguang Han

Deep Pyramid Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Categorization
Authors: Rie Johnson and Tong Zhang

Determining Gains Acquired from Word Embedding Quantitatively using Discrete Distribution Clustering
Authors: Jianbo Ye, Yanran Li, Zhaohui Wu, James Z. Wang and Jia Li

Exploiting Argument Information to Improve Event Detection via Supervised Attention Mechanisms
Authors: Shulin Liu, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao

Gated Self-Matching Networks for Reading Comprehension and Question Answering
Authors: Wenhui Wang, Nan Yang, Furu Wei, Baobao Chang and Ming Zhou

Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension
Authors: Bhuwan Dhingra, Hanxiao Liu, Zhilin Yang, William Cohen and Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Generating Natural Answer by Incorporating Copying and Retrieving Mechanisms in Sequence-to-Sequence Learning
Authors: Shizhu He, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao

Going out on a limb : Joint Extraction of Entity Mentions and Relations without Dependency Trees
Authors: Arzoo Katiyar and Claire Cardie

Improved Neural Relation Detection for Knowledge Base Question Answering
Authors: Mo Yu, Wenpeng Yin, Kazi Saidul Hasan, Cicero dos Santos, Bing Xiang and Bowen Zhou

Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations Based on a Novel Tagging Scheme
Authors: Suncong Zheng, Feng Wang and Hongyun Bao

Joint Extraction of Relations with Class Ties via Effective Deep Ranking
Authors: Hai Ye, Wenhan Chao and Zhunchen Luo

Learning with Noise: Enhance Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Dynamic Transition Matrix
Authors: Bingfeng Luo, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang, Zhanxing Zhu, Songfang Huang, Rui Yan and Dongyan Zhao

Leveraging Knowledge Bases in LSTMs for Improving Machine Reading
Authors: Bishan Yang and Tom Mitchell

Neural End-to-End Learning for Computational Argumentation Mining
Authors: Steffen Eger, Johannes Daxenberger and Iryna Gurevych

Neural Relation Extraction with Multi-lingual Attention
Authors: Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun

Neural Symbolic Machines: Learning Semantic Parsers on Freebase with Weak Supervision
Authors: Chen Liang, Jonathan Berant, Quoc Le, Kenneth D. Forbus and Ni Lao

Prerequisite Relation Learning for Concepts in MOOCs
Authors: Liangming Pan, Chengjiang Li, Juanzi Li and Jie Tang

Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions
Authors: Danqi Chen, Adam Fisch, Jason Weston and Antoine Bordes

Search-based Neural Structured Learning for Sequential Question Answering
Authors: Mohit Iyyer, Wen-tau Yih and Ming-Wei Chang

Tandem Anchoring: a Multiword Anchor Approach for Interactive Topic Modeling
Authors: Jeffrey Lund, Connor Cook, Kevin Seppi and Jordan Boyd-Graber

Time Expression Analysis and Recognition Using Syntactic Token Types and General Heuristic Rules
Authors: Xiaoshi Zhong, Aixin Sun and Erik Cambria

Topical Coherence in LDA-based Models through Induced Segmentation
Authors: Hesam Amoualian, Wei Lu, Eric Gaussier, Massih R Amini, Georgios Balikas and Marianne Clausel

Towards a Seamless Integration of Word Senses into Downstream NLP Applications
Authors: Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Jose Camacho-Collados, Roberto Navigli and Nigel Collier

Transductive Non-linear Learning for Chinese Hypernym Prediction
Authors: Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He and Aoying Zhou

Understanding and Predicting Empathic Behavior in Counseling Therapy
Authors: Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Kenneth Resnicow, Satinder Singh and Lawrence An

Unsupervised Text Segmentation Based on Native Language Characteristics
Authors: Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras, Mark Johnson, Lan Du and Magdalena Wolska

Vancouver Welcomes You! Minimalist Location Metonymy Resolution
Authors: Milan Gritta, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Nut Limsopatham and Nigel Collier

Weakly Supervised Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition via Effective Annotation and Representation Projection
Authors: Jian Ni, Georgiana Dinu and Radu Florian

Machine Learning

An Algebra for Feature Extraction
Authors: Vivek Srikumar

Bayesian Modeling of Lexical Resources for Low-Resource Settings
Authors: Nicholas Andrews, Jason Eisner, Mark Dredze and Benjamin Van Durme

Context Sensitive Lemmatization Using Two Successive Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Networks
Authors: Abhisek Chakrabarty, Onkar Arun Pandit and Utpal Garain

Deep Learning in Semantic Kernel Spaces
Authors: Danilo Croce, Simone Filice, Giuseppe Castellucci and Roberto Basili

From Language to Programs: Bridging Reinforcement Learning and Maximum Marginal Likelihood
Authors: Kelvin Guu, Panupong Pasupat, Evan Liu and Percy Liang

Learning attention for historical text normalization by learning to pronounce
Authors: Marcel Bollmann, Joachim Bingel and Anders Søgaard

Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Neural Language Modeling
Authors: Kazuya Kawakami, Chris Dyer and Phil Blunsom

Learning to Skim Text
Authors: Adams Wei Yu, Quoc Le and Hongrae Lee

Multi-space Variational Encoder-Decoders for Semi-supervised Labeled Sequence Transduction
Authors: Chunting Zhou and Graham Neubig

Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories
Authors: Ryan Cotterell and Jason Eisner

Scalable Bayesian Learning of Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modeling
Authors: Zhe Gan, Chunyuan Li, Changyou Chen, Yunchen Pu, Qinliang Su and Lawrence Carin

Semi-Supervised QA with Generative Domain-Adaptive Nets
Authors: Zhilin Yang, Junjie Hu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov and William Cohen

Topically Driven Neural Language Model
Authors: Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin and Trevor Cohn

Machine Translation

A Convolutional Encoder Model for Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, David Grangier and Yann Dauphin

A Teacher-Student Framework for Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Yun Chen, Yang Liu, Yong Cheng and Victor O.K. Li

Bandit Structured Prediction for Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Learning
Authors: Julia Kreutzer, Artem Sokolov and Stefan Riezler

Chunk-based Decoder for Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Shonosuke Ishiwatari, Jingtao Yao, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, Naoki Yoshinaga, Masaru Kitsuregawa and Weijia Jia

Deep Neural Machine Translation with Linear Associative Unit
Authors: Mingxuan Wang, Zhengdong Lu, Jie Zhou and Qun Liu

Doubly-Attentive Decoder for Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Iacer Calixto, Qun Liu and Nick Campbell

Improved Neural Machine Translation with a Syntax-Aware Encoder and Decoder
Authors: Huadong Chen, Shujian Huang, David Chiang and Jiajun Chen

Incorporating Word Reordering Knowledge into Attention-based Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Jinchao Zhang, Mingxuan Wang, Qun Liu and Jie Zhou

Lexically Constrained Decoding for Sequence Generation Using Grid Beam Search
Authors: Chris Hokamp and Qun Liu

Modeling Source Syntax for Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Junhui Li, Deyi Xiong, Zhaopeng Tu, Muhua Zhu and Guodong Zhou

Neural Machine Translation via Binary Code Prediction
Authors: Yusuke Oda, Philip Arthur, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura

Prior Knowledge Integration for Neural Machine Translation using Posterior Regularization
Authors: Jiacheng Zhang, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan, Jingfang Xu and Maosong Sun

Sequence-to-Dependency Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Shuangzhi Wu, Dongdong Zhang, Nan Yang, Mu Li and Ming Zhou

Visualizing and Understanding Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Yanzhuo Ding, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan and Maosong Sun

What do Neural Machine Translation Models Learn about Morphology?
Authors: Yonatan Belinkov, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad and James Glass

Multidisciplinary

A Nested Attention Neural Hybrid Model for Grammatical Error Correction
Authors: Jianshu Ji, Qinlong Wang, Kristina Toutanova, Yongen Gong, Steven Truong and Jianfeng Gao

Combating Human Trafficking with Multimodal Deep Models
Authors: Edmund Tong, Amir Zadeh and Louis-Philippe Morency

Friendships, Rivalries, and Trysts: Characterizing Relations between Ideas in Texts
Authors: Chenhao Tan, Dallas Card and Noah A. Smith

TextFlow: A Text Similarity Measure based on Continuous Sequences
Authors: Yassine Mrabet, Halil Kilicoglu and Dina Demner-Fushman

Multilingual

Adversarial Training for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction
Authors: Meng Zhang, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan and Maosong Sun

Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages
Authors: Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Jonathan May, Joel Nothman, Kevin Knight and Heng Ji

Estimating Code-Switching on Twitter with a Novel Generalized Word-Level Language Detection Technique
Authors: Shruti Rijhwani, Royal Sequiera, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali and Chandra Shekhar Maddila

Found in Translation: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Language Trees from Translations
Authors: Ella Rabinovich, Noam Ordan and Shuly Wintner

Predicting Native Language from Gaze
Authors: Yevgeni Berzak, Chie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn and Boris Katz

Using Global Constraints and Reranking to Improve Cognates Detection
Authors: Michael Bloodgood and Benjamin Strauss

Phonology Morphology Word Segmentation

Adversarial Multi-Criteria Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation
Authors: Xinchi Chen, Zhan Shi, Xipeng Qiu and Xuanjing Huang

From Characters to Words to in Between: Do We Capture Morphology?
Authors: Clara Vania and Adam Lopez

Morphological Inflection Generation with Hard Monotonic Attention
Authors: Roee Aharoni and Yoav Goldberg

MORSE: Semantic-ally Drive-n MORpheme SEgment-er
Authors: Tarek Sakakini, Suma Bhat and Pramod Viswanath

One-Shot Neural Cross-Lingual Transfer for Paradigm Completion
Authors: Katharina Kann, Ryan Cotterell and Hinrich Schütze

Resources Evaluation

A Corpus of Annotated Revisions for Studying Argumentative Writing
Authors: Fan Zhang, Homa B. Hashemi, Rebecca Hwa and Diane Litman

Automatic Annotation and Evaluation of Error Types for Grammatical Error Correction
Authors: Christopher Bryant, Mariano Felice and Ted Briscoe

Detecting annotation noise in automatically labelled data
Authors: Ines Rehbein and Josef Ruppenhofer

Evaluation Metrics for Reading Comprehension: Prerequisite Skills and Readability
Authors: Saku Sugawara, Yusuke Kido, Hikaru Yokono and Akiko Aizawa

MalwareTextDB: A Database for Annotated Malware Articles
Authors: Swee Kiat Lim, Aldrian Obaja Muis, Wei Lu and Chen Hui Ong

Polish evaluation dataset for compositional distributional semantics models
Authors: Alina Wróblewska and Katarzyna Krasnowska-Kieraś

Semantics

A Progressive Learning Approach to Chinese SRL Using Heterogeneous Data
Authors: Qiaolin Xia, Zhifang Sui and Baobao Chang

A Transition-Based Directed Acyclic Graph Parser for UCCA
Authors: Daniel Hershcovich, Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport

A Syntactic Neural Model for General-Purpose Code Generation
Authors: Pengcheng Yin and Graham Neubig

Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks
Authors: William Foland and James H. Martin

Abstract Syntax Networks for Code Generation and Semantic Parsing
Authors: Maxim Rabinovich, Mitchell Stern and Dan Klein

An Interpretable Knowledge Transfer Model for Knowledge Base Completion
Authors: Qizhe Xie, Xuezhe Ma, Zihang Dai and Eduard Hovy

Automatic Induction of Synsets from a Graph of Synonyms
Authors: Dmitry Ustalov, Alexander Panchenko and Chris Biemann

Bridge Text and Knowledge by Learning Multi-Prototype Entity Mention Embedding
Authors: Yixin Cao, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Xu Chen and Juanzi Li

Deep Multitask Learning for Semantic Dependency Parsing
Authors: Hao Peng, Sam Thomson and Noah A. Smith

Deep Semantic Role Labeling: What Works and What’s Next
Authors: Luheng He, Kenton Lee, Mike Lewis and Luke Zettlemoyer

Enhanced LSTM for Natural Language Inference
Authors: Qian Chen, Xiaodan Zhu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Si Wei, Hui Jiang and Diana Inkpen

Identifying 1950s American Jazz Composers: Fine-Grained IsA Extraction via Modifier Composition
Authors: Ellie Pavlick and Marius Pasca

Improved Word Representation Learning with Sememes
Authors: Yilin Niu, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun

Inducing Symbolic Meaning Representations for Semantic Parsing
Authors: Jianpeng Cheng, Siva Reddy, Vijay Saraswat and Mirella Lapata

Interactive Learning for Acquisition of Grounded Verb Semantics towards Human-Robot Communication
Authors: Lanbo She and Joyce Chai

Learning a Neural Semantic Parser from User Feedback
Authors: Srinivasan Iyer, Ioannis Konstas, Alvin Cheung, Jayant Krishnamurthy and Luke Zettlemoyer

Learning bilingual word embeddings with (almost) no bilingual data
Authors: Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka and Eneko Agirre

Learning Character-level Compositionality with Visual Features
Authors: Frederick Liu, Han Lu, Chieh Lo and Graham Neubig

Learning Translational Semantic Correspondences in Technical Documentation
Authors: Kyle Richardson and Jonas Kuhn

Morph-fitting: Fine-Tuning Word Vector Spaces with Simple Language-Specific Rules
Authors: Ivan Vulić, Nikola Mrkšić, Roi Reichart, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Steve Young and Anna Korhonen

Multimodal Word Distributions
Authors: Ben Athiwaratkun and Andrew Wilson

Naturalizing a Programming Language via Interactive Learning
Authors: Sida I. Wang, Sam Ginn, Percy Liang and Christopher D. Manning

Neural Modeling of Multi-Predicate Interactions for Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis
Authors: Hiroki Ouchi, Hiroyuki Shindo and Yuji Matsumoto

Revisiting Recurrent Networks for Paraphrastic Sentence Embeddings
Authors: John Wieting and Kevin Gimpel

Riemannian Optimization for Skip-Gram Negative Sampling
Authors: Alexander Fonarev, Oleksii Hrinchuk, Gleb Gusev, Pavel Serdyukov and Ivan Oseledets

Semantic Word Clusters Using Signed Spectral Clustering
Authors: Joao Sedoc, Jean Gallier, Dean Foster and Lyle Ungar

Skip-Gram – Zipf + Uniform = Vector Additivity
Authors: Alex Gittens, Dimitris Achlioptas and Michael W. Mahoney

The State of the Art in Semantic Representation
Authors: Omri Abend and Ari Rappoport

TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension
Authors: Mandar Joshi, Eunsol Choi, Daniel Weld and Luke Zettlemoyer

Using Ontology-Grounded Token Embeddings To Predict Prepositional Phrase Attachments
Authors: Pradeep Dasigi, Waleed Ammar, Chris Dyer and Eduard Hovy

Sentiment Analysis Opinion Mining

A Multidimensional Lexicon for Interpersonal Stancetaking
Authors: Umashanthi Pavalanathan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Scott Kiesling and Jacob Eisenstein

Active Sentiment Domain Adaptation
Authors: Fangzhao Wu and Yongfeng Huang

An Unsupervised Neural Attention Model for Aspect Extraction
Authors: Ruidan He, Wee Sun Lee, Hwee Tou Ng and Daniel Dahlmeier

Handling Cold-Start Problem in Review Spam Detection by Jointly Embedding Texts and Behaviors
Authors: Xuepeng Wang, Jun Zhao and Kang Liu

Learning Cognitive Features from Gaze Data for Sentiment and Sarcasm Classification using Convolutional Neural Network
Authors: Abhijit Mishra, Kuntal Dey and Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Linguistic analysis of differences in portrayal of movie characters
Authors: Anil Ramakrishna, Victor R. Martínez, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Karan Singla and Shrikanth Narayanan

Linguistically Regularized LSTM for Sentiment Classification
Authors: Qiao Qian, Minlie Huang and xiaoyan zhu

Modeling Contextual Relationship Among Utterances in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumder and Erik Cambria

Other Topics You May Also Agree or Disagree: Modeling Inter-Topic Preferences using Tweets and Matrix Factorization
Authors: Akira Sasaki, Kazuaki Hanawa, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui

Sarcasm SIGN: Interpreting Sarcasm with Sentiment Based Monolingual Machine Translation
Authors: Lotem Peled and Roi Reichart

Volatility Prediction using Financial Disclosures Sentiments with Word Embedding-based IR Models
Authors: Navid Rekabsaz, Mihai Lupu, Artem Baklanov, Alexander Dür, Linda Andersson and Allan Hanbury
Social Media

Beyond Binary Labels: Political Ideology Prediction of Twitter Users
Authors: Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Ye Liu, Daniel Hopkins and Lyle Ungar

CANE: Context-Aware Network Embedding for Relation Modeling
Authors: Cunchao Tu, Han Liu, Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun

Detect Rumors in Microblog Posts Using Propagation Structure via Kernel Learning
Authors: Ma Jing, Wei Gao and Kam-Fai Wong

EmoNet: Fine-Grained Emotion Detection with Gated Recurrent Neural Networks
Authors: Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and Lyle Ungar

Leveraging Behavioral and Social Information for Weakly Supervised Collective Classification of Political Discourse on Twitter
Authors: Kristen Johnson and Dan Goldwasser

Unifying Text, Metadata, and User Network Representations with a Neural Network for Geolocation Prediction
Authors: Yasuhide Miura, Motoki Taniguchi, Tomoki Taniguchi and Tomoko Ohkuma

Speech

Joint CTC-attention End-to-end Speech Recognition
Authors: Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori and John Hershey

Learning Word-Like Units from Joint Audio-Visual Analysis
Authors: David Harwath and James Glass
Tagging Chunking Syntax Parsing

A Full Non-Monotonic Transition System for Unrestricted Non-Projective Parsing
Authors: Daniel Fernández-González and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

A Minimal Span-Based Neural Constituent Parser
Authors: Mitchell Stern, Jacob Andreas and Dan Klein

A* CCG Parsing with a Supertag and Dependency Factored Model
Authors: Masashi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Noji and Yuji Matsumoto

Aggregating and Predicting Sequence Labels from Crowd Annotations
Authors: An Thanh Nguyen, Byron Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova and Matthew Lease

Generic Axiomatization of Families of Noncrossing Graphs in Dependency Parsing
Authors: Anssi Yli-Jyrä and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Neural Joint Model for Transition-based Chinese Syntactic Analysis
Authors: Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara and Sadao Kurohashi

Neural Word Segmentation with Rich Pretraining
Authors: Jie Yang, Yue Zhang and Fei Dong

Robust Incremental Neural Semantic Graph Parsing
Authors: Jan Buys and Phil Blunsom

Parsing to 1-Endpoint-Crossing, Pagenumber-2 Graphs
Authors: Junjie Cao, Sheng Huang, Weiwei Sun and Xiaojun Wan

Semantic Dependency Parsing via Book Embedding
Authors: Weiwei Sun, Junjie Cao and Xiaojun Wan

Semantic Parsing of Pre-university Math Problems
Authors: Takuya Matsuzaki, Takumi Ito, Hidenao Iwane, Hirokazu Anai and Noriko H. Arai

Semi-supervised Multitask Learning for Sequence Labeling
Authors: Marek Rei

Semi-supervised sequence tagging with bidirectional language models
Authors: Matthew Peters, Waleed Ammar, Chandra Bhagavatula and Russell Power

Universal Dependencies Parsing for Colloquial Singaporean English
Authors: Hongmin Wang, Yue Zhang, GuangYong Leonard Chan, Jie Yang and Hai Leong Chieu
Vision Robots Grounding

Combining distributional and referential information for naming objects through cross-modal mapping and direct word prediction
Authors: Sina Zarrieß and David Schlangen

FOIL it! Find One mismatch between Image and Language caption
Authors: Ravi Shekhar, Sandro Pezzelle, Yauhen Klimovich, Aurélie Herbelot, Moin Nabi, Enver Sangineto and Raffaella Bernardi

Multi-Task Video Captioning with Visual and Textual Entailment
Authors: Ramakanth Pasunuru and Mohit Bansal

Translating Neuralese
Authors: Jacob Andreas, Anca Dragan and Dan Klein

Verb Physics: Relative Physical Knowledge of Actions and Objects
Authors: Maxwell Forbes and Yejin Choi

Accepted Short Papers

Biomedical

Neural Architecture for Temporal Relation Extraction: A Bi-LSTM Approach for Detecting Narrative Containers
Authors: Julien Tourille, Olivier Ferret, Aurelie Neveol and Xavier Tannier

Vector space models for evaluating semantic fluency in autism
Authors: Emily Prud’hommeaux, Jan van Santen and Douglas Gliner
Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics

The Role of Prosody and Speech Register in Word Segmentation: A Computational Modelling Perspective
Authors: Bogdan Ludusan, Reiko Mazuka, Mathieu Bernard, Alejandrina Cristia and Emmanuel Dupoux

Dialog Interactive Systems

A Conditional Variational Framework for Dialog Generation
Authors: Xiaoyu Shen, Hui Su, Yanran Li, Wenjie Li, Shuzi Niu and Akiko Aizawa

How to Make Contexts More Useful? An Empirical Study to Context-Aware Neural Conversation Models
Authors: Zhiliang Tian, Rui Yan, Lili Mou, Yiping Song, Yansong Feng and Dongyan Zhao

MeChat: A Sequence to Sequence and Rerank based Chatbot Engine
Authors: Minghui Qiu and Feng-Lin Li
Discourse Pragmatics

A Recurrent Neural Model with Attention for the Recognition of Chinese Implicit Discourse Relations
Authors: Niko Schenk and Samuel Rönnqvist

A Two-stage Parsing Method for Text-level Discourse Analysis
Authors: Yizhong Wang and Sujian Li

Argumentation Quality Assessment: Theory vs. Practice
Authors: Henning Wachsmuth, Nona Naderi, Ivan Habernal, Yufang Hou, Graeme Hirst, Iryna Gurevych and Benno Stein

Cross-lingual and cross-domain discourse segmentation of entire documents
Authors: Chloé Braud, Ophélie Lacroix and Anders Søgaard

Detecting Good Arguments in a Non-Topic-Specific Way: An Oxymoron?
Authors: Beata Beigman Klebanov, Binod Gyawali and Yi Song

Discourse Annotation of Non-native Spontaneous Spoken Responses Using the Rhetorical Structure Theory Framework
Authors: Xinhao Wang, James Bruno, Hillary Molloy, Keelan Evanini and Klaus Zechner

Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Discourse-specific Word Embeddings
Authors: Changxing Wu, xiaodong shi, Yidong Chen, jinsong su and Boli Wang

Lexical Features in Coreference Resolution: To be Used With Caution
Authors: Nafise Sadat Moosavi and Michael Strube

Generation Summarization

A Principled Framework for Evaluating Summarizers: Comparing Models of Summary Quality against Human Judgments
Authors: Maxime Peyrard and Judith Eckle-Kohler

Japanese Sentence Compression with a Large Training Dataset
Authors: Shun Hasegawa, Yuta Kikuchi, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura

Learning to Generate Natural Language Descriptions From Source Code Changes
Authors: Pablo Loyola, Edison Marrese-Taylor and Yutaka Matsuo

Oracle Summaries of Compressive Summarization
Authors: Tsutomu Hirao, Masaaki Nishino and Masaaki Nagata

IE QA Text Mining Applications

A Generative Attentional Neural Network Model for Dialogue Act Classification
Authors: Quan Hung Tran, Gholamreza Haffari and Ingrid Zukerman

Bootstrapping for Numerical Open IE
Authors: Swarnadeep Saha, Harinder Pal and Mausam

Cardinal Virtues: Extracting Relation Cardinalities from Text
Authors: Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski, Fariz Darari and Gerhard Weikum

Classifying Temporal Relations by Bidirectional LSTM over Dependency Paths
Authors: Fei Cheng and Yusuke Miyao

Complex Question Answering by Reasoning over Open Information Extraction
Authors: Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal and Peter Clark

English Event Detection With Translated Language Features
Authors: Sam Wei, Igor Korostil, Joel Nothman and Ben Hachey

EviNets: Evidence Neural Networks for Combining Evidence Signals for Factoid Question Answering
Authors: Denis Savenkov and Eugene Agichtein

Feature-Rich Deep Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Completion
Authors: Alexandros Komninos and Suresh Manandhar

Fine-Grained Entity Typing with High-Multiplicity Assignments
Authors: Maxim Rabinovich and Dan Klein

Group Sparse CNNs for Question Classification with Answer Sets
Authors: Mingbo Ma, Liang Huang, Bing Xiang and Bowen Zhou

Improving Native Language Identification by Using Spelling Errors
Authors: Lingzhen Chen, Carlo Strapparava and Vivi Nastase

Integrating Deep Linguistic Features in Factuality Prediction over Unified Datasets
Authors: Gabriel Stanovsky, Judith Eckle-Kohler, Yevgeniy Puzikov, Ido Dagan and Iryna Gurevych

List-only Entity Linking
Authors: Ying Lin, Chin-Yew Lin and Heng Ji

Multi-Task Learning of Keyphrase Boundary Classification
Authors: Isabelle Augenstein and Anders Søgaard

Pocket Knowledge Base Population
Authors: Travis Wolfe, Mark Dredze and Benjamin Van Durme

Question Answering through Transfer Learning from Large Fine-grained Supervision Data
Authors: Sewon Min, Minjoon Seo and Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Question Answering with Universal Schema and Memory Networks
Authors: Rajarshi Das, Manzil Zaheer, Siva Reddy and Andrew McCallum

Salience Rank: Efficient Keyphrase Extraction with Topic Modeling
Authors: Nedelina Teneva and Weiwei Cheng

Self-Crowdsourcing Training for Relation Extraction
Authors: Azad Abad, Moin Nabi and Alessandro Moschitti

Machine Learning

A Deep Network with Visual Text Composition Behavior
Authors: Hongyu GUO

Differentiable Scheduled Sampling for Credit Assignment
Authors: Kartik Goyal, Chris Dyer and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Disfluency Detection using a Noisy Channel Model and a Deep Neural Language Model
Authors: Paria Jamshid Lou and Mark Johnson

Implicitly-Defined Neural Networks for Sequence Labeling
Authors: Michaeel Kazi and Brian Thompson

Information-Theory Interpretation of the Skip-Gram Negative-Sampling Objective Function
Authors: Oren Melamud and Jacob Goldberger

On the Equivalence of Holographic and Complex Embeddings for Knowledge Graph Completion
Authors: Katsuhiko Hayashi and Masashi Shimbo

Machine Translation

Alternative Objective Functions for Training MT Evaluation Metrics
Authors: Miloš Stanojević and Khalil Sima’an

An Empirical Comparison of Domain Adaptation Methods for Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Chenhui Chu, Raj Dabre and Sadao Kurohashi

Attention Strategies for Multi-Source Sequence-to-Sequence Learning
Authors: Jindřich Libovický and Jindřich Helcl

Chunk-Based Bi-Scale Decoder for Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Hao Zhou, Zhaopeng Tu, Shujian Huang, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li and Jiajun Chen

Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Marzieh Fadaee, Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz

Efficient Extraction of Pseudo-Parallel Sentences from Raw Monolingual Data Using Word Embeddings
Authors: Benjamin Marie and Atsushi Fujita

Hybrid Neural Network Alignment and Lexicon Model in Direct HMM for Statistical Machine Translation
Authors: Weiyue Wang, Derui Zhu and Hermann Ney

Learning to Parse and Translate Improves Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Akiko Eriguchi, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Kyunghyun Cho

Neural System Combination for Machine Translation
Authors: Long Zhou, Wenpeng Hu, Jiajun Zhang and Chengqing Zong

Sentence Embedding for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation
Authors: Rui Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita

Speeding up Neural Machine Translation Decoding by Shrinking Run-time Vocabulary
Authors: Xing Shi and Kevin Knight

Towards String-To-Tree Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Roee Aharoni and Yoav Goldberg

Multidisciplinary

Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare
Authors: Maria Ryskina, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Dan Garrette and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Detection of Chinese Word Usage Errors for Non-Native Chinese Learners with Bidirectional LSTM
Authors: Yow-Ting Shiue, Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen

Error-repair Dependency Parsing for Ungrammatical Texts
Authors: Keisuke Sakaguchi, Matt Post and Benjamin Van Durme

Exploring Neural Text Simplification Models
Authors: Sergiu Nisioi, Sanja Štajner, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Liviu P. Dinu

Feature Hashing for Language and Dialect Identification
Authors: Shervin Malmasi

On the Challenges of Translating NLP Research into Commercial Products
Authors: Daniel Dahlmeier

Multilingual

EuroSense: Automatic Harvesting of Multilingual Sense Annotations from Parallel Text
Authors: Claudio Delli Bovi, Jose Camacho-Collados, Alessandro Raganato and Roberto Navigli

Incorporating Dialectal Variability for Socially Equitable Language Identification
Authors: David Jurgens, Yulia Tsvetkov and Dan Jurafsky

Model Transfer for Tagging Low-resource Languages without Bilingual Corpora
Authors: Meng Fang and Trevor Cohn

Phonology Morphology Word Segmentation

Challenging Language-Dependent Segmentation for Arabic: An Application to Machine Translation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
Authors: Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Abdelali, Yonatan Belinkov and Stephan Vogel

Evaluation of Compound Splitting with Textual Entailment
Authors: Glorianna Jagfeld, Patrick Ziering and Lonneke van der Plas

Fast and Accurate Neural Word Segmentation
Authors: Deng Cai and Hai Zhao

Resources Evaluation

“Liar, Liar Pants on Fire”: A New Benchmark Dataset for Fake News Detection
Authors: William Yang Wang

Constructing Large-Scale Japanese Image Caption Dataset
Authors: Yuya Yoshikawa, Yutaro Shigeto and Akikazu Takeuchi

English Multiword Expression-aware Dependency Parsing including Named Entities
Authors: Akihiko Kato, Hiroyuki Shindo and Yuji Matsumoto

Sentence Alignment Methods for Improving Text Simplification Systems
Authors: Sanja Štajner, Marc Franco-Salvador, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Paolo Rosso and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Understanding Task Design Trade-offs in Crowdsourced Paraphrase Collection
Authors: Youxuan Jiang, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld and Walter S. Lasecki

Semantics

AMR-to-text Generation with Synchronous Node Replacement Grammar
Authors: Linfeng Song, Xiaochang Peng, Yue Zhang, Zhiguo Wang and Daniel Gildea

Geometry of Sentences
Authors: Jiaqi Mu, Suma Bhat and Pramod Viswanath

Improving Semantic Composition with Offset Inference
Authors: Thomas Kober, Julie Weeds, Jeremy Reffin and David Weir

Learning Topic-Sensitive Word Representations
Authors: Marzieh Fadaee, Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz

Methodical Evaluation of Arabic Word Embeddings
Authors: Mohammed Elrazzaz, Chadi Helwe, Shady Elbassuoni and Khaled Shaban

Neural Architectures for Multilingual Semantic Parsing
Authors: Raymond Hendy Susanto and Wei Lu

Neural Semantic Parsing over Multiple Knowledge-bases
Authors: Jonathan Herzig and Jonathan Berant

Temporal Word Analogies: Identifying Lexical Replacement with Diachronic Word Embeddings
Authors: Terrence Szymanski

The Value of Curated Negative Examples: Strong Baselines for Story Cloze Tasks
Authors: Zheng Cai, Lifu Tu and Kevin Gimpel

Sentiment Analysis Opinion Mining

Best-Worst Scaling More Reliable than Rating Scales: A Case Study on Sentiment Intensity Annotation
Authors: Svetlana Kiritchenko and Saif Mohammad

Exploiting Domain Knowledge via Grouped Weight Sharing with Application to Text Categorization
Authors: Ye Zhang, Matthew Lease and Byron C. Wallace

Learning Lexical-Functional Patterns for First-Person Affect
Authors: Lena Reed, Jiaqi Wu, Shereen Oraby, Pranav Anand and Marilyn Walker

Multilingual Connotation Frames: A Case Study on Social Media for Targeted Sentiment Analysis and Forecast
Authors: Hannah Rashkin, Eric Bell, Yejin Choi and Svitlana Volkova

Supervised Aspect Extraction with Knowledge Retention
Authors: Lei Shu, Hu Xu and Bing Liu

Understanding and Detecting Diverse Supporting Arguments on Controversial Issues
Authors: Xinyu Hua and Lu Wang

Social Media

A Network Framework for Noisy Label Aggregation in Social Media
Authors: Xueying Zhan, Yaowei Wang, Yanghui Rao, Haoran Xie, Qing Li, Fu Lee Wang and Tak-Lam Wong

A Neural Model for User Geolocation and Lexical Dialectology
Authors: Afshin Rahimi, Trevor Cohn and Timothy Baldwin

Demographic Inference on Twitter using Recursive Neural Networks
Authors: Sunghwan Mac Kim, Qiongkai Xu, Lizhen Qu and Stephen Wan

Determining Whether and When People Participate in the Events They Tweet About
Authors: krishna sanagavarapu, Alakananda Vempala and Eduardo Blanco

Improving Semantic Relevance for Chinese Social Media Text Summarization
Authors: Shuming Ma and Xu Sun

On the Distribution of Lexical Features in Social Media
Authors: Fatemeh Almodaresi, Lyle Ungar, Vivek Kulkarni, Mohsen Zakeri, Salvatore Giorgi and H. Andrew
Schwartz

Recognizing Counterfactual Thinking in Social Media Texts
Authors: Youngseo Son, Anneke Buffone, H. Andrew Schwartz and Lyle Ungar

Separating Facts from Fiction: Linguistic Models to Classify Suspicious and Trusted News Posts on Twitter
Authors: Kyle Shaffer, Jin Yea Jang, Nathan Hodas and Svitlana Volkova

Temporal Orientation of Tweets for Predicting Income of User
Authors: Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Sabyasachi Kamila, Mandeep Kaur, Sriparna Saha and Asif Ekbal

Twitter Demographic Classification using deep Multi-modal Multi-task Learning
Authors: Soroush Vosoughi, Prashanth Vijayaraghavan and Deb Roy
Speech

Incorporating Uncertainty into Deep Learning for Spoken Language Assessment
Authors: Andrey Malinin, Anton Ragni, Kate Knill and Mark Gales
Tagging Chunking Syntax Parsing

A Generative Parser with a Discriminative Recognition Algorithm
Authors: Jianpeng Cheng, Adam Lopez and Mirella Lapata

Arc-swift: A Novel Transition System for Dependency Parsing
Authors: Peng Qi and Christopher D. Manning

Character Composition Model with Convolutional Neural Networks for Dependency Parsing on Morphologically Rich Languages
Authors: Xiang Yu and Ngoc Thang Vu

Character-Aware Neural Morphological Disambiguation
Authors: Alymzhan Toleu, Gulmira Tolegen and Aibek Makazhanov

How (not) to train a dependency parser: The curious case of jackknifing part-of-speech taggers
Authors: Željko Agić and Natalie Schluter

Parser Adaptation for Social Media by Integrating Normalization
Authors: Rob van der Goot and Gertjan van Noord

Separating Reranking Effects from Model Combination Effects in Generative Neural Constituency Parsers
Authors: Daniel Fried, Mitchell Stern and Dan Klein

Vision Robots Grounding

A Corpus of Compositional Language for Visual Reasoning
Authors: Alane Suhr, Mike Lewis, James Yeh and Yoav Artzi

A Survey on Action Recognition Datasets and Tasks for Still Images
Authors: Spandana Gella and Frank Keller

Accepted Software Demonstrations

Extended Named Entity Recognition API and Its Applications in Language Education
Authors: Tuan Duc Nguyen, Khai Mai, Thai-Hoang Pham, Minh Trung Nguyen, Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Takashi
Eguchi, Ryohei Sasano and Satoshi Sekine

Swanson linking revisited: Accelerating literature-based discovery across domains using a conceptual influence graph
Authors: Gus Hahn-Powell, Marco A. Valenzuela-Escárcega and Mihai Surdeanu

OpenNMT: Open-Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Guillaume Klein, Yoon Kim, Yuntian Deng, Jean Senellart and Alexander M. Rush

RelTextRank: An Open Source Framework for Building Relational Syntactic-Semantic Text Pair Representations
Authors: Kateryna Tymoshenko, Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Nicosia and Aliaksei Severyn

Scattertext: a Browser-Based Tool for Visualizing how Corpora Differ
Authors: Jason Kessler

Benben: A Chinese Intelligent Conversational Robot
Authors: Wei-Nan Zhang, Ting Liu, Bing Qin, Yu Zhang, Wanxiang Che, Yanyan Zhao and Xiao Ding

Zara Returns: Improved Personality Induction and Adaptation by an Empathetic Virtual Agent
Authors: Pascale Fung, Farhad Bin Siddique, Onno Kampman, Yang Yang and Anik Dey

Hafez: an interactive poetry generation system
Authors: Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Jay Priyadarshi and Kevin Knight

SuperAgent: A Customer Service Chatbot for E-commerce Websites
Authors: Lei Cui, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, Chuanqi Tan, Chaoqun Duan and Ming Zhou

End-to-End Non-Factoid Question Answering with an Interactive Visualization of Neural Attention Weights
Authors: Andreas Rücklé and Iryna Gurevych

Automating Biomedical Evidence Synthesis: RobotReviewer
Authors: Iain Marshall, Joël Kuiper, Edward Banner and Byron C. Wallace

Interactive Visual Analysis of Transcribed Multi-Party Discourse
Authors: Mennatallah El-Assady, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Valentin Gold, Miriam Butt, Katharina Holzinger and Daniel Keim

CU-PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit
Authors: Stefan Ultes, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Dongho Kim, Iñigo Casanueva, Pawe? Budzianowski, Nikola Mrk¨i?, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic and Steve Young

UCCAApp: Web-application for Syntactic and Semantic Phrase-based Annotation
Authors: Omri Abend, Shai Yerushalmi and Ari Rappoport

Multi-level Semantic Literature Search for the Life Sciences with Semedico
Authors: Erik Faessler and Udo Hahn

Olelo: A Question Answering Application for Biomedicine
Authors: Mariana Neves, Hendrik Folkerts, Marcel Jankrift, Julian Niedermeier, Toni Stachewicz, Sören Tietböhl and Milena Kraus

Exploring Diachronic Lexical Semantics with JEDISEM
Authors: Johannes Hellrich and Udo Hahn

LifeNet: A Structured Network-Based Knowledge Exploration and Analytics System for Life Sciences
Authors: Xiang Ren, Jiaming Shen, Meng Qu, Xuan Wang, Zeqiu Wu, Qi Zhu, Meng Jiang, Fangbo Tao, Saurabh Sinha, David Liem, Peipei Ping, Richard Weinshilboum and Jiawei Han

Annotating tense, mood and voice for English, French and German
Authors: Anita Ramm, Sharid Loáiciga, Annemarie Friedrich and Alexander Fraser

ESTEEM: A Novel Framework for Qualitatively Evaluating and Visualizing Spatiotemporal Embeddings in Social Media
Authors: Dustin Arendt and Svitlana Volkova

WebChild++ : Fine-Grained Commonsense Knowledge Distillation
Authors: Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum

Transactions of the ACL articles to be presented at ACL 2017

These articles have been accepted and published by the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics and will be featured as oral presentations at ACL 2017.

Decoding Anagrammed Texts Written in an Unknown Language and Script
Authors: Bradley Hauer and Grzegorz Kondrak

Visually Grounded and Textual Semantic Models Differentially Decode Brain Activity Associated with Concrete and Abstract Nouns
Authors: Andrew J. Anderson, Douwe Kiela, Stephen Clark, Massimo Poesio

Evaluating Visual Representations for Topic Understanding and Their Effects on Manually Generated Labels
Authors: Alison Smith, Tak Yeon Lee, Forough-Poursabzi Sangdeh, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Niklas Elmqvist, Leah Findlater

Joint Semantic Synthesis and Morphological Analysis of the Derived Word
Authors: Ryan Cotterell and Hinrich Schütze

Learning to Prune: Exploring the Frontier of Fast and Accurate Parsing
Authors: Tim Vieira, Jason Eisner

Head-Lexicalized Bidirectional Tree LSTMs
Authors: Zhiyang Teng and Yue Zhang

Context Gates for Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Zhengdong Lu, Xiaohua Liu, and Hang Li

Modeling Semantic Expectation: Using Script Knowledge for Referent Prediction
Authors: Ashutosh Modi, Ivan Titov, Vera Demberg, Asad Sayeed, Manfred Pinkal

Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information
Authors: Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin and Tomas Mikolov

Winning on the Merits: The Joint Effects of Content and Style on Debate Outcomes
Authors: Lu Wang, Nick Beauchamp, Sarah Shugars, Kechen Qin

Overcoming Language Variation in Sentiment Analysis with Social Attention
Authors: Yi Yang, Jacob Eisenstein

Cross-Sentence N-ary Relation Extraction with Graph LSTMs
Authors: Nanyun Peng, Hoifung Poon, Chris Quirk, Kristina Toutanova, Wen-Tau Yih

Unsupervised Learning of Morphological Forests
Authors: Jiaming Luo, Karthik Narasimhan, Regina Barzilay

Fully Character-Level Neural Machine Translation without Explicit Segmentation
Authors: Jason Lee, Kyunghyun Cho, Thomas Hofmann

Fine-Grained Prediction of Syntactic Typology: Discovering Latent Structure with Supervised Learning
Authors: Dingquan Wang and Jason Eisner

Sparse Coding of Neural Word Embeddings for Multilingual Sequence Labeling
Authors: Gábor Berend

Domain-Targeted, High Precision Knowledge Extraction
Authors: Bhavana Dalvi, Niket Tandon, Peter Clark

Ordinal Common-sense Inference
Authors: Sheng Zhang, Rachel Rudinger, Kevin Duh, Benjamin Van Durme

Pushing the Limits of Translation Quality Estimation
Authors: André F. T. Martins, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Fabio N. Kepler, Ramón Astudillo, Chris Hokamp, Roman Grundkiewicz

A Generative Model of Phonotactics
Authors: Richard Futrell, Adam Albright, Peter Graff, and Timothy J. O’Donnell

A Polynomial-Time Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Phrase-Based Decoding with a Fixed Distortion Limit
Authors: Yin-Wen Chang and Michael Collins