accepted_papers.md

Oral Session

Machine Learning

• Attending to Future Tokens for Bidirectional Sequence Generation (#1443) [arXiv]
• Attention is Not Not Explanation (#526) [arXiv]
• Practical Obstacles to Deploying Active Learning (#1176) [arXiv]
• Transfer Learning Between Related Tasks Using Expected Label Proportions (#1207) [arXiv]
• Insertion-based Decoding with automatically Inferred Generation Order (#TACL-1732) [arXiv]
• Are We Modeling the Task or the Annotator? An Investigation of Annotator Bias in Natural Language Understanding Datasets (#1092) [arXiv]
• Robust Text Classifier on Test-Time Budgets (#1128) [arXiv]
• Commonsense Knowledge Mining from Pretrained Models (#3289) [arXiv]
• RNN Architecture Learning with Sparse Regularization (#3428) [arXiv]
• Universal Trigger Sequences for Attacking and Analyzing NLP (#1515) [arXiv]
• To Annotate or Not? Unsupervised Prediction of Performance Drop due to Domain Shift (#2756)
• Adaptively Sparse Transformers (#2900) [arXiv]
• Show Your Work: Improved Reporting of Experimental Results (#3277) [arXiv]
• A Deep Factorization of Style and Structure in Fonts (#3999) [arXiv]

Lexical Semantics

• Knowledge Enhanced Contextual Word Representations (#3403) [arXiv]
• How Contextual are Contextualized Word Representations? (#208)
• Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings (#783)
• On Correlations between Word Vector Sets (#3976) [arXiv]
• Game Theory Meets Embeddings: a Unified Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation (#1724)
• Cross-lingual Semantic Specialization via Lexical Relation Induction (#1735)
• Modelling the interplay of metaphor and emotion through multitask learning (#2670)
• How well do NLI models capture verb veridicality? (#3460)
• Modeling Color Terminology Across Thousands of Languages (#3515) [arXiv]
• Negative Focus Detection via Contextual Attention Mechanisms (#1314)
• Exploring Human Gender Stereotypes with Word Association Test (#1912)
• Still a Pain in the Neck: Evaluating Text Representations on Lexical Composition (#TACL-1729) [arXiv]
• Where''s My Head? Definition, Dataset and Models for Numeric Fused-Heads Identification and Resolution (#TACL-1648) [arXiv]

Dialog and Interactive Systems

• Guided Dialog Policy Learning: Reward Estimation for Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialog (#166) [arXiv]
• Multi-hop Selector Network for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots (#554)
• MoEL: Mixture of Empathetic Listeners (#1053) [arXiv]
• Entity-Consistent End-to-end Task-Oriented Dialogue System with KB Retriever (#2430) [arXiv]
• Building Task-Oriented Visual Dialog Systems Through Alternative Optimization Between Dialog Policy and Language Generation (#3756) [arXiv]
• TaskMaster Dialog Corpus: Toward a Realistic and Diverse Dataset (#510)
• MultiDoGO: Multi-Domain Goal-Oriented Dialogues (#1564)
• Build it Break it Fix it for Dialogue Safety: Robustness from Adversarial Human Attack (#1186) [arXiv]
• GECOR: An End-to-End Generative Ellipsis and Co-reference Resolution Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue (#1853) [arXiv]
• Task-Oriented Conversation Generation Using Heterogeneous Memory Networks (#496) [arXiv]

Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining

• DialogueGCN: A Graph-based Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversation (#2092) [arXiv]
• Knowledge-Enriched Transformer for Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations (#1814) [arXiv]
• Interpretable Relevant Emotion Ranking with Event-Driven Attention (#3544)
• Justifying Recommendations using Distantly-Labeled Reviews and Fined-Grained Aspects (#518)
• Using Customer Service Dialogues for Satisfaction Analysis with Context-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning (#204)
• What Gets Echoed? Understanding the “Pointers” in Explanations of Persuasive Arguments (#2089)
• Modeling Frames in Argumentation (#2267)
• AMPERSAND: Argument Mining for PERSuAsive oNline Discussions (#3321)
• Evaluating adversarial attacks against multiple fact verification systems (#427)
• Nonsense!: Quality Control via Two-Step Reason Selection for Annotating Local Acceptability and Related Attributes in News Editorials (#564)
• On the Importance of Delexicalization for Fact Verification (#2984) [arXiv]
• Towards Debiasing Fact Verification Models (#3338) [arXiv]
• Recognizing Conflict Opinions in Aspect-level Sentiment Classification with Dual Attention Networks (#911)
• Investigating Dynamic Routing in Tree-Structured LSTM for Sentiment Analysis (#1395)
• Aspect-based Sentiment Classification with Aspect-specific Graph Convolutional Networks (#381) [arXiv]
• Coupling Global and Local Context for Unsupervised Aspect Extraction (#1988)
• Transferable End-to-End Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Selective Adversarial Learning (#65)
• CAN: Constrained Attention Networks for Multi-Aspect Sentiment Analysis (#1995) [arXiv]
• Leveraging Just a Few Keywords for Fine-Grained Aspect Detection Through Weakly Supervised Co-Training (#3207) [arXiv]

Summarization and Generation

• Neural Text Summarization: A Critical Evaluation (#3687) [arXiv]
• Neural data-to-text generation: A comparison between pipeline and end-to-end architectures (#2586) [arXiv]
• MoverScore: Text Generation Evaluating with Contextualized Embeddings and Earth Mover Distance (#1175) [arXiv]
• Select and Attend: Towards Controllable Content Selection in Text Generation (#3049) [arXiv]
• Sentence-Level Content Planning and Style Specification for Neural Text Generation (#3357) [arXiv]

Sentence-level Semantics

• Translate and Label! An Encoder-Decoder Approach for Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling (#2740) [arXiv]
• Syntax-Enhanced Self-Attention-Based Semantic Role Labeling (#2106)
• VerbAtlas: a Novel Large-Scale Verbal Semantic Resource and Its Application to Semantic Role Labeling (#2213)
• Parameter-free Sentence Embedding via Orthogonal Basis (#1099)
• Evaluation Benchmarks and Learning Criteria for Discourse-Aware Sentence Representations (#3807) [arXiv]
• Learning Semantic Parsers from Denotations with Latent Structured Alignments and Abstract Programs (#2676) [arXiv]
• Broad-Coverage Semantic Parsing as Transduction (#263) [arXiv]
• Core Semantic First: A Top-down Approach for AMR Parsing (#1544) [arXiv]
• Don't paraphrase, detect! Rapid and Effective Data Collection for Semantic Parsing (#2904) [arXiv]
• Massively Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Beyond (#TACL-1742) [arXiv]

Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding

• Extracting Possessions from Social Media: Images Complement Language (#3013)
• Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game (#1243) [arXiv]
• Help, Anna! Vision-based Navigation with Natural Multimodal Assistance via Retrospective Curiosity-Encouraging Imitation Learning (#1542) [arXiv]
• Incorporating Visual Semantics into Sentence Representations within a Grounded Space (#2247)
• Neural Naturalist: Generating Fine-Grained Image Comparisons (#3024) [arXiv]
• LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers (#3048) [arXiv]
• Phrase Grounding by Soft-Label Chain Conditional Random Field (#3765) [arXiv]
• What You See is What You Get: Visual Pronoun Coreference Resolution in Conversations (#549) [arXiv]
• YouMakeup: A Large-Scale Domain-Specific Multimodal Dataset for Fine-Grained Semantic Comprehension (#122)
• DEBUG: A Dense Bottom-Up Grounding Approach for Natural Language Video Localization (#167)

Information Extraction

• Fine-Grained Evaluation for Entity Linking (#116)
• Supervising Unsupervised Open Information Extraction Models (#3069)
• Neural Cross-Lingual Event Detection with Minimal Parallel Resources (#1723) [arXiv]
• KnowledgeNet: A Benchmark Dataset for Knowledge Base Population (#1258)
• Effective Use of Transformer Networks for Entity Tracking (#3308) [arXiv]
• Improving Distantly-Supervised Relation Extraction with Joint Label Embedding (#337)
• Leverage Lexical Knowledge for Chinese Named Entity Recognition via Collaborative Graph Network (#566)
• Looking Beyond Label Noise: Shifted Label Distribution Matters in Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction (#1057) [arXiv]
• Easy First Relation Extraction with Information Redundancy (#1640)
• Dependency-Guided LSTM-CRF for Named Entity Recognition (#2509) [arXiv]
• CrossWeigh: Training Named Entity Tagger from Imperfect Annotations (#2712) [arXiv]
• A Little Annotation does a Lot of Good: A Study in Bootstrapping Low-resource Named Entity Recognizers (#3259) [arXiv]
• Open Domain Web Keyphrase Extraction Beyond Language Modeling (#1119)
• TuckER: Tensor Factorization for Knowledge Graph Completion (#990) [arXiv]
• Weakly Supervised Domain Detection (#TACL-1712) [arXiv]
• Event Detection with Multi-Order Graph Convolution and Aggregated Attention (#835)
• Coverage of Information Extraction from Sentences and Paragraphs (#1285)
• HMEAE: Hierarchical Modular Event Argument Extraction (#2354)
• Entity, Relation, and Event Extraction with Contextualized Span Representations (#3930) [arXiv]

Semantics

• Analytical Methods for Interpretable Ultradense Word Embeddings (#75) [arXiv]
• Investigating Meta-Learning Algorithms for Low-Resource Natural Language Understanding Tasks (#3142) [arXiv]
• Retrofitting Contextualized Word Embeddings with Paraphrases (#3045) [arXiv]
• Incorporating Contextual and Syntactic Structures Improves Semantic Similarity Modeling (#3508)

Discourse, Summarization, and Generation

• Neural Linguistic Steganography (#3399) [arXiv]
• The Feasibility of Embedding Based Automatic Evaluation for Single Document Summarization (#3018)
• Attention Optimization for Abstractive Document Summarization (#1918)
• Rewarding Coreference Resolvers for Being Consistent with World Knowledge (#2020) [arXiv]

Text Mining and NLP Applications

• An Empirical Study of Incorporating Pseudo Data into Grammatical Error Correction (#740) [arXiv]
• A Multilingual Topic Model for Learning Weighted Topic Links Across Incomparable Corpora (#1257)
• Measure Country-Level Socio-Economic Indicators with Streaming News: An Empirical Study (#3730)
• Towards Extracting Medical Family History from Natural Language Interactions: A New Dataset and Baselines (#2903)
• (Male, Bachelor) and (Female, Ph.D) have different connotations: Parallelly Annotated Stylistic Language Dataset with Multiple Personas (#3793) [arXiv]
• Movie Plot Analysis via Turning Point Identification (#244) [arXiv]
• Latent Suicide Risk Detection on Microblog via Suicide-Oriented Word Embeddings and Layered Attention (#2488)
• Deep Ordinal Regression for Pledge Specificity Prediction (#1903) [arXiv]
• Enabling Robust Grammatical Error Correction in New Domains: Datasets, Metrics, and Analyses (#TACL-1677)
• The Myth of Blind Review Revisited: Experiments on ACL vs. EMNLP (#2233)
• Uncover Sexual Harassment Patterns from Personal Stories by Joint Key Element Extraction and Categorization (#2653)
• Identifying Predictive Causal Factors from News Streams (#2864)
• Training Data Augmentation for Detecting Adverse Drug Reactions in User-Generated Content (#3011)
• Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Text Anonymization against Private-Attribute Inference (#3160)

Neural Machine Translation

• Enhancing Context Modeling with a Query-Guided Capsule Network for Document-level NMT (#2416) [arXiv]
• Simple, Scalable Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation (#3252) [arXiv]
• Controlling Text Complexity in Neural Machine Translation (#3177)
• Investigating Multilingual NMT Representations at Scale (#1388) [arXiv]
• Hierarchical Modeling of Global Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation (#1423)

Question Answering

• Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension (#8) [arXiv]
• A Multi-Type Multi-Span Network for Reading Comprehension that Requires Discrete Reasoning (#582) [arXiv]
• Neural Duplicate Question Detection without Labeled Training Data (#880)
• Asking Clarification Questions in Knowledge-Based Question Answering (#889)
• Multi-View Domain Adapted Sentence Embeddings for Low-Resource Unsupervised Duplicate Question Detection (#1646)
• Interactive Language Learning by Question Answering (#1367) [arXiv]
• What's Missing: A Knowledge Gap Guided Approach for Multi-hop Question Answering (#3238) [arXiv]
• KagNet: Learning to Answer Commonsense Questions with Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks (#436)
• Learning with Limited Data for Multilingual Reading Comprehension (#3518)
• A Discrete Hard EM Approach for Weakly Supervised Question Answering (#3778) [arXiv]

Social Media and Computational Social Science

• Multi-label Categorization of Accounts of Sexism using a Neural Framework (#172) [arXiv]
• The Trumpiest Trump? Identifying a Subject's Most Characteristic Tweets (#1462) [arXiv]
• Finding Microaggressions in the Wild: A Case for Locating Elusive Phenomena in Social Media Posts (#2950)
• Reinforced Product Metadata Selection for Helpfulness Assessment of Customer Reviews (#694)
• Learning Invariant Representations of Social Media Users (#3557) [arXiv]

Discourse and Pragmatics

• A Unified Neural Coherence Model (#1792) [arXiv]
• Topic-Guided Coherence Modeling for Sentence Ordering by Preserving Global and Local Information (#2642)
• Neural Generative Rhetorical Structure Parsing (#4060) [arXiv]
• Weak Supervision for Learning Discourse Structure (#2453)
• Predicting Discourse Structure using Distant Supervision from Sentiment (#2625)

Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing

• Designing and Interpreting Probes with Control Tasks (#4063) [arXiv]
• Specializing Word Embeddings (for Parsing) by Information Bottleneck (#1357) [arXiv]
• Deep Contextualized Word Embeddings in Transition-Based and Graph-Based Dependency Parsing - A Tale of Two Parsers Revisited (#2799) [arXiv]
• Semantic graph parsing with recurrent neural network DAG grammars (#2863) [arXiv]
• 75 Languages, 1 Model: Parsing Universal Dependencies Universally (#1221) [arXiv]

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics

• Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts (#2585) [arXiv]
• Investigating BERT's Knowledge of Language: Five Analysis Methods with NPIs (#3650) [arXiv]
• Representation of Constituents in Neural Language Models: - Coordination Phrase as a Case Study (#3929) [arXiv]
• Towards Zero-shot Language Modelling (#1745)
• Neural Network Acceptability Judgments (#TACL-1710) [arXiv]

Machine Translation and Multilinguality

• Lost in Evaluation: Misleading Benchmarks for Bilingual Dictionary Induction (#1131) [arXiv]
• Towards Realistic Practices In Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: The Development Set (#1266) [arXiv]
• Synchronously Generating Two Languages with Interactive Decoding (#1478)
• On NMT Search Errors and Model Errors: Cat Got Your Tongue? (#1868) [arXiv]
• Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Embeddings? (#2459) [arXiv]
• Weakly-Supervised Concept-based Adversarial Learning for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings (#2491) [arXiv]
• Aligning Cross-lingual Entities with Multi-Aspect Information (#3541) [arXiv]
• Contrastive Language Adaptation for Cross-Lingual Stance Detection (#2498) [arXiv]
• Jointly Learning to Align and Translate with Transformer Models (#422) [arXiv]
• Understanding Data Augmentation in Neural Machine Translation: Two Perspectives towards Generalization (#2192)
• Simple and Effective Noisy Channel Modeling for Neural Machine Translation (#2869) [arXiv]
• MultiFiT: Efficient Multi-lingual Language Model Fine-tuning (#745) [arXiv]
• Hint-based Training for Non-AutoRegressive Machine Translation (#1064)
• Two New Evaluation Datasets for Low-Resource Machine Translation: Nepali-English and Sinhala English (#3349) [arXiv]
• Constant-Time Machine Translation with Conditional Masked Language Models (#1204)
• Learning to Copy for Automatic Post-Editing (#777)

Reasoning and Question Answering

• Going on a vacation takes longer than “Going for a walk”: A Study of Temporal Commonsense Understanding (#2533) [arXiv]
• QAInfomax: Learning Robust Question Answering System by Mutual Information Maximization (#2798) [arXiv]
• Adapting Meta Knowledge Graph Information for Multi-Hop Reasoning over Few-Shot Relations (#329) [arXiv]
• How Reasonable are Common-Sense Reasoning Tasks: A Case-Study on the Winograd Schema Challenge and SWAG (#586) [arXiv]

Generation

• Pun-GAN: Generative Adversarial Network for Pun Generation (#267)
• Multi-Task Learning with Language Modeling for Question Generation (#3820) [arXiv]
• Autoregressive Text Generation beyond Feedback Loops (#3506) [arXiv]
• The Woman Worked as a Babysitter: On Biases in Language Generation (#3874) [arXiv]
• Counterfactual Story Reasoning and Generation (#3328) [arXiv]
• Encode, Tag, Realize: High-Precision Text Editing (#2395) [arXiv]
• Answer-guided and Semantic Coherent Question Generation in Open-domain Conversation (#128)
• Read, Attend and Comment: A Deep Architecture for Automatic News Comment Generation (#1947) [arXiv]
• A Topic Augmented Text Generation Model: Joint Learning of Semantics and Structural Features (#2822)
• A Modular Architecture for Unsupervised Sarcasm Generation (#2725)
• Interpoetry: Generating Classical Chinese Poems from Vernacular Chinese (#2534) [arXiv]
• Set to Ordered Text: Generating Discharge Instructions from Medical Billing Codes (#724)

Summarization

• Summary Cloze: A New Task for Content Selection in Topic-Focused Summarization (#1178)
• Text Summarization with Pretrained Encoders (#392) [arXiv]
• How to Write Summaries with Patterns? Learning towards Abstractive Summarization through Prototype Editing (#609) [arXiv]
• Unsupervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle (#3219) [arXiv]
• Improving Latent Alignment in Text Summarization by Generalizing the Pointer Generator (#3043)

Information Retrieval and Document Analysis

• Cross-Cultural Transfer Learning for Text Classification (#1036)
• Combining Unsupervised Pre-training and Annotator Rationales to Improve Low-shot Text Classification (#1190)
• Projection Sequence Networks for On-Device Text Classification (#3202)
• Induction Networks for Few-Shot Text Classification (#3562) [arXiv]
• Benchmarking Zero-shot Text Classification: Datasets, Evaluation and Entailment Approach (#2899) [arXiv]
• Human-grounded Evaluations of Explanation Methods for Text Classification (#425) [arXiv]
• A Context-based Framework for Modeling the Role and Function of On-line Resource Citations in Scientific Literature (#793)
• Adversarial Reprogramming of Text Classification Neural Networks (#28) [arXiv]
• Document Hashing with Mixture-Prior Generative Models (#1676) [arXiv]
• Efficient Vector Retrieval under Maximum Inner Product (#3421)

Reasoning

• Social IQa: Commonsense Reasoning about Social Interactions (#1334) [arXiv]
• Self-Assembling Modular Networks for Interpretable Multi-Hop Reasoning (#2866) [arXiv]
• Posing Fair Generalization Tasks for Natural Language Inference (#1413)
• Everything Happens for a Reason: Discovering the Purpose of Actions in Procedural Text (#3279) [arXiv]
• CLUTRR: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Inductive Reasoning from Text (#3183) [arXiv]

Syntax, Parsing, and Linguistic Theories

• Working Hard or Hardly Working: Challenges of Integrating Typology into Neural Dependency Parsers (#3860) [arXiv]
• Cross-Lingual BERT Transformation for Zero-Shot Dependency Parsing (#1832) [arXiv]
• Multilingual Grammar Induction with Continuous Language Identification (#3883)
• Quantifying the Semantic Core of Gender Systems (#2637)

Sentiment and Social Media

• Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis for Detecting Unintended Model Biases (#3447) [arXiv]
• Automatically Inferring Gender Associations from Language (#3519) [arXiv]
• Reporting the Unreported: Event Extraction for Analyzing the Local Representation of Hate Crimes (#3715) [arXiv]
• Minimally Supervised Learning of Affective Events Using Discourse Relations (#3493) [arXiv]

Phonology, Word Segmentation, and Parsing

• Constraint-based Learning of Phonological Processes (#451)
• Detect Camouflaged Spam Content via StoneSkipping: Graph and Text Joint Embedding for Chinese Character Variation Representation (#1340) [arXiv]
• A Generative Model for Punctuation in Dependency Trees (#TACL-1582) [arXiv]

Poster & Demo Session

Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Document Analysis, Linguistic Theories

• Leveraging Dependency Forest for Neural Medical Relation Extraction (#249)
• Open Relation Extraction: Relational Knowledge Transfer from Supervised Data to Unsupervised Data (#569)
• Improving Relation Extraction with Knowledge-attention (#710) [arXiv]
• Jointly Learning Entity and Relation Representations for Entity Alignment (#782) [arXiv]
• Tackling Long-Tailed Relations and Uncommon Entities in Knowledge Graph Completion (#796) [arXiv]
• Low-Resource Name Tagging Learned with Weakly Labeled Data (#821) [arXiv]
• Learning Dynamic Context Augmentation for Global Entity Linking (#841) [arXiv]
• Open Event Extraction from Online Texts using a Generative Adversarial Network (#859) [arXiv]
• Learning to Bootstrap for Entity Set Expansion (#1001)
• Multi-input Multi-output Sequence Labeling for Joint Extraction of Fact and Condition Tuples from Scientific Text (#1149)
• Cross-lingual Structure Transfer for Relation and Event Extraction (#1210)
• Uncover the Ground-Truth Relations in Distant Supervision: A Neural Expectation Maximization Framework (#1365) [arXiv]
• Doc2EDAG: An End-to-End Document-level Framework for Chinese Financial Event Extraction (#1736) [arXiv]
• Event Detection with Trigger-Aware Lattice Neural Network (#1816)
• A Boundary-aware Neural Model for Nested Named Entity Recognition (#1874)
• Learning the Extraction Order of Multiple Relational Facts in a Sentence with Reinforcement Learning (#2024)
• CaRe: Open Knowledge Graph Embeddings (#2439)
• Self-Attention Enhanced CNNs and Collaborative Curriculum Learning for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction (#2793)
• Neural Cross-Lingual Relation Extraction Based on Bilingual Word Embedding Mapping (#3014)
• Leveraging 2-hop Distant Supervision from Table Entity Pairs for Relation Extraction (#3059) [arXiv]
• EntEval: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Entity Representations (#3317) [arXiv]
• Joint Event and Temporal Relation Extraction with Shared Representations and Structured Prediction (#3646) [arXiv]
• Hierarchical Text Classification with Reinforced Label Assignment (#32) [arXiv]
• Investigating Capsule Network and Semantic Feature on Hyperplanes for Text Classification (#314)
• Label-Specific Document Representation for Multi-Label Text Classification (#721)
• Hierarchical Attention Prototypical Networks for Few-Shot Text Classification (#729)
• Many Faces of Feature Importance: Comparing Built-in and Post-hoc Feature Importance in Text Classification (#2087)
• Enhancing Local Feature Extraction with Global Representation for Neural Text Classification (#2273)
• Latent-Variable Generative Text Classifiers for Data-Efficient NLP (#3004)
• PaRe: A Paper-Reviewer Matching Approach Using a Common Topic Space (#3239) [arXiv]
• Linking artificial and human neural representations of language (#2750) [arXiv]

Machine Translation and Mulitilinguality, Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation, Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing

• Explicit Cross-lingual Pre-training for Unsupervised Machine Translation (#233) [arXiv]
• Latent Part-of-Speech Sequences for Neural Machine Translation (#410) [arXiv]
• Improving Back-Translation with Uncertainty-based Confidence Estimation (#798) [arXiv]
• Towards Linear Time Neural Machine Translation with Capsule Networks (#846) [arXiv]
• Modeling Multi-mapping relations for Precise Cross-lingual Entity Alignment (#985)
• Supervised and Nonlinear Alignment of Two Embedding Spaces for Dictionary Induction in Low Resourced Languages (#1226)
• Beto, Bentz, Becas: The Surprising Cross-Lingual Effectiveness of BERT (#1414) [arXiv]
• Iterative Dual Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation (#1427)
• Multi-agent Learning for Neural Machine Translation (#1484) [arXiv]
• Pivot-based Transfer Learning for Neural Machine Translation between non-English Languages (#1869) [arXiv]
• Context-Aware Monolingual Repair for Neural Machine Translation (#1967) [arXiv]
• Multi-Granularity Self-Attention for Neural Machine Translation (#2330) [arXiv]
• The Bottom-up Evolution of Representations in the Transformer: A Study with Machine Translation and Language Modeling Objectives (#2415) [arXiv]
• Improving Deep Transformer with Depth-Scaled Initialization and Merged Attention (#2537) [arXiv]
• A Discriminative Neural Model for Cross-Lingual Word Alignment (#2961) [arXiv]
• One Model to Learn Both: Zero Pronoun Prediction and Translation (#3571) [arXiv]
• Dynamic Past and Future for Neural Machine Translation (#3601) [arXiv]
• Revisit Automatic Error Detection for Wrong and Missing Translation ‐ A Supervised Approach (#3770)
• Towards Understanding Neural Machine Translation with Word Importance (#3857) [arXiv]
• Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Language Clustering (#4056) [arXiv]
• Don't Forget the Long Tail! A Comprehensive Analysis of Morphological Generalization in Bilingual Lexicon Induction (#1065) [arXiv]
• A Functionalist Account of Vowel System Typology (#1268)
• Pushing the Limits of Low-Resource Morphological Inflection (#2230) [arXiv]
• Morphological Analysis Using a Sequence Decoder (#TACL-1654)
• Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing Using Code-Mixed TreeBank (#205) [arXiv]
• Hierarchical Pointer Net Parsing (#531) [arXiv]
• Semi-Supervised Semantic Role Labeling with Cross-View Training (#719)
• Low-Resource Sequence Labeling via Unsupervised Multilingual Contextualized Representations (#809)
• A Lexicon-Based Graph Neural Network for Chinese NER (#863)
• CM-Net: A Novel Collaborative Memory Network for Spoken Language Understanding (#1556) [arXiv]
• Tree Transformer: Integrating Tree Structures into Self-Attention (#1794) [arXiv]
• Semantic Role Labeling with Iterative Structure Refinement (#2179) [arXiv]
• Entity Projection via Machine-Translation for Cross-Lingual NER (#2724) [arXiv]
• A Bayesian Approach for Sequence Tagging with Crowds (#2738) [arXiv]
• A systematic comparison of methods for low-resource dependency parsing on genuinely low-resource languages (#3091) [arXiv]
• Target Language-Aware Constrained Inference for Cross-lingual Dependency Parsing (#3368) [arXiv]
• Look-up and Adapt: A One-shot Semantic Parser (#3711)
• Similarity Based Auxiliary Classifier for Named Entity Recognition (#3886)
• Variable beam search for generative neural parsing and its relevance for neuro-imaging signal analysis (#4015)

Dialog and Interactive Systems, Machine Translation and Multilinuality, Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation, Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding, Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing

• Multi-task Learning for Natural Language Generation in Task-Oriented Dialogue (#242)
• Dirichlet Latent Variable Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder-Decoder in Dialogue Generation (#622)
• Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Dialogue State Trackers for Task-Oriented Modelling (#1011)
• A Progressive Model to Enable Continual Learning for Semantic Slot Filling (#1289)
• CASA-NLU: Context-Aware Self-Attentive Natural Language Understanding for Task-Oriented Chatbots (#1447) [arXiv]
• Sampling Matters! An Empirical Study of Negative Sampling Strategies for Learning of Matching Models in Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems (#2050)
• Zero-shot Cross-lingual Dialogue Systems with Transferable Latent Variables (#2329)
• Modeling Multi-Action Policy for Task-Oriented Dialogues (#2650) [arXiv]
• An Evaluation for Intent Classification and Out-of-Scope Prediction (#3471) [arXiv]
• Automatically Learning Data Augmentation Policies for Dialogue Tasks (#3528) [arXiv]
• uniblock: Scoring and Filtering Corpus with Unicode Block Information (#351) [arXiv]
• Multilingual word translation using auxiliary languages (#533)
• Towards Better Modeling Hierarchical Structure for Self-Attention with Ordered Neurons (#801) [arXiv]
• Improved Sentence Alignment in Linear Time and Space (#1284)
• Simpler and Faster Learning of Adaptive Policies for Simultaneous Translation (#1603) [arXiv]
• Adversarial Learning with Contextual Embeddings for Zero-resource Cross-lingual Classification and NER (#1889) [arXiv]
• Recurrent Embedding for Neural Machine Translation (#2114)
• Machine Translation for Machines: the Sentiment Classification Use Case (#2413) [arXiv]
• Investigating the Effectiveness of BPE: The Power of Shorter Sequences (#2552)
• HABLex: Human Annotated Bilingual Lexicons for Experiments in Machine Translation (#3022)
• Handling Syntactic Divergence in Low-resource Machine Translation (#3336) [arXiv]
• Speculative Beam Search for Simultaneous Translation (#3487) [arXiv]
• Self-Attention with Structural Position Representations (#3548) [arXiv]
• Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation by Exploiting Multilingualism through Multi-Step Fine-Tuning Using N-way Parallel Corpora (#3590)
• Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation with Domain-Aware Feature Embeddings (#3716) [arXiv]
• A Regularization-based Framework for Bilingual Grammar Induction (#4061)
• Encoders Help You Disambiguate Word Senses in Neural Machine Translation (#4083) [arXiv]
• Korean Morphological Analysis with Tied Sequence-to-Sequence Multi-Task Model (#2376)
• Convolutional Neural Networks for Diacritic Restoration (#3733)
• Improving Visual Dialog by Learning to Answer Diverse Questions (#459)
• Cross-lingual Transfer Learning with Data Selection for Large-Scale Spoken Language Understanding (#790) [arXiv]
• Multi-Head Attention with Diversity for Learning Grounded Multilingual Multimodal Representations (#2786) [arXiv]
• Decoupled Box Proposal and Featurization with Ultrafine-Grained Semantic Labels Improve Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering (#3263) [arXiv]
• REO-Relevance, Extraness, Omission: A Fine-grained Evaluation for Image Captioning (#3293) [arXiv]
• WSLLN: Weakly Supervised Natural Language Localization Networks (#3398) [arXiv]
• Grounding learning of modifier dynamics: An application to colour naming. (#3748) [arXiv]
• Efficient Navigation with Language Pre-training and Stochastic Sampling (#3830) [arXiv]
• Towards Making a Dependency Parser See (#413) [arXiv]
• Unsupervised Labeled Parsing with Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders (#1234) [arXiv]
• Dependency Parsing for Spoken Dialog Systems (#3171) [arXiv]
• Span-based Hierarchical Semantic Parsing for Task-Oriented Dialog (#3240)

Dialog and Interactive Systems, Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding

• Data-Efficient Goal-Oriented Conversation with Dialogue Knowledge Transfer Networks (#9) [arXiv]
• Multi-Granularity Representations of Dialog (#64) [arXiv]
• Are You for Real? Detecting Identity Fraud via Dialogue Interactions (#111) [arXiv]
• Hierarchy Response Learning for Neural Conversation Generation (#124)
• Knowledge Aware Conversation Generation with Explainable Reasoning on Augmented Graphs (#138) [arXiv]
• Adaptive Parameterization for Neural Dialogue Generation (#298)
• Towards Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System (#316) [arXiv]
• Structuring latent spaces for stylized response generation (#419) [arXiv]
• Improving Open-Domain Dialogue Systems via Multi-Turn Incomplete Utterance Restoration (#537)
• Unsupervised Context Rewriting for Open Domain Conversation (#771)
• Dually Interactive Matching Network for Personalized Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots (#866) [arXiv]
• DyKgChat: Benchmarking Dialogue Generation Grounding on Dynamic Knowledge Graphs (#1432) [arXiv]
• Retrieval-guided Dialogue Response Generation via a Matching-to-Generation Framework (#1550)
• Scalable and Accurate Dialogue State Tracking via Hierarchical Sequence Generation (#1842) [arXiv]
• Low-Resource Response Generation with Template Prior (#1931) [arXiv]
• A Discrete CVAE for Response Generation on Short-Text Conversation (#2039)
• Who Is Speaking to Whom? Learning to Identify Utterance Addressee in Multi-Party Conversations (#2495)
• A Semi-Supervised Stable Variational Network for Promoting Replier-Consistency in Dialogue Generation (#2594)
• Modeling Personalization in Continuous Space for Response Generation via Augmented Wasserstein Autoencoders (#2685)
• Variational Hierarchical User-based Conversation Model (#3513)
• Recommendation as a Communication Game: Self-Supervised Role-Playing for Goal-oriented Dialogue (#3727) [arXiv]
• CoSQL: A Conversational Text-to-SQL Challenge Towards Cross-Domain Natural Language Interfaces to Databases (#3881) [arXiv]
• A Practical Dialogue-Act-Driven Conversation Model for Multi-Turn Response Selection (#3954)
• How to Build User Simulators to Train RL-based Dialog Systems (#4003) [arXiv]
• Graph Convolutional Network with Sequential Attention for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems (#TACL-1676)
• Low-Rank HOCA: Efficient High-Order Cross-Modal Attention for Video Captioning (#294)
• Image Captioning with Very Scarce Supervised Data: Adversarial Semi-Supervised Learning Approach (#370) [arXiv]
• Dual Attention Networks for Visual Reference Resolution in Visual Dialog (#401) [arXiv]
• Unsupervised Discovery of Multimodal Links in Multi-image, Multi-sentence Documents (#942) [arXiv]
• UR-FUNNY: A Multimodal Language Dataset for Understanding Humor (#996) [arXiv]
• Partners in Crime: Multi-view Sequential Inference for Movie Understanding (#1923)
• Guiding the Flowing of Semantics: Interpretable Video Captioning via POS Tag (#2097)
• A Stack-Propagation Framework with Token-Level Intent Detection for Spoken Language Understanding (#2414) [arXiv]
• Talk2Car: Taking Control Of Your Self Driving Car (#2718) [arXiv]
• Fact-Checking Meets Fauxtography: Verifying Claims About Images (#2739) [arXiv]
• Video Dialog via Progressive Inference and Cross-Transformer (#2766)
• Executing Instructions in Situated Collaborative Interactions (#2884) [arXiv]
• Fusion of Detected Objects in Text for Visual Question Answering (#3099) [arXiv]
• TIGEr: Text-to-Image Grounding for Image Caption Evaluation (#3260) [arXiv]

Question Answering, Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics

• Tree-structured Decoding for Solving Math Word Problems (#56)
• PullNet: Open Domain Question Answering with Iterative Retrieval on Knowledge Bases and Text (#86) [arXiv]
• Cosmos QA: Machine Reading Comprehension with Contextual Commonsense Reasoning (#107) [arXiv]
• Finding Generalizable Evidence by Learning to Convince Q&A Models (#179) [arXiv]
• Ranking and Sampling in Open-domain Question Answering (#468)
• A Non-commutative Bilinear Model for Answering Path Queries in Knowledge Graphs (#618) [arXiv]
• Generating Questions for Knowledge Bases via Incorporating Diversified Contexts and Answer-Aware Loss (#807)
• Multi-task Learning for Conversational Question Answering Over a Large-Scale Knowledge Base (#924) [arXiv]
• BiPaR: A Bilingual Parallel Dataset for Multilingual and Cross-lingual Reading Comprehension on Novels (#1930) [arXiv]
• Language Models as Knowledge Bases? (#2085) [arXiv]
• NumNet: Machine Reading Comprehension with Numerical Reasoning (#2237) [arXiv]
• Unicoder: A Universal Language Encoder by Pre-training with Multiple Cross-lingual Tasks (#2277) [arXiv]
• Addressing Semantic Drift in Question Generation for Semi-Supervised Question Answering (#2390) [arXiv]
• Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Machine Reading Comprehension (#2764) [arXiv]
• Incorporating External Knowledge into Machine Reading for Generative Question Answering (#2820) [arXiv]
• Answering questions by learning to rank - Learning to rank by answering questions (#2825) [arXiv]
• Discourse-Aware Semantic Self-Attention for Narrative Reading Comprehension (#2940) [arXiv]
• Revealing the Importance of Semantic Retrieval for Machine Reading at Scale (#2945) [arXiv]
• PubMedQA: A Dataset for Biomedical Research Question Answering (#2978) [arXiv]
• Quick and (not so) Dirty: Unsupervised Selection of Justification Sentences for Multi-hop Question Answering (#3164)
• Answering Complex Open-domain Questions Through Iterative Query Generation (#3417) [arXiv]
• NL2pSQL: Generating Pseudo-SQL Queries from Under-specified Natural Language Questions (#3489)
• Leveraging Frequent Query Substructures to Generate Formal Queries for Complex Question Answering (#4004) [arXiv]
• Incorporating Graph Attention Mechanism into Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (#147)
• Learning to Update Knowledge Graph by Reading News (#493)
• DIVINE: A Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning Framework for Knowledge Graph Reasoning (#709)
• Original Semantics-Oriented Attention and Deep Fusion Network for Sentence Matching (#829)
• Representation Learning with Ordered Relation Paths for Knowledge Graph Completion (#972) [arXiv]
• Collaborative Policy Learning for Open Knowledge Graph Reasoning (#1018) [arXiv]
• Modeling Event Background for If-Then Commonsense Reasoning Using Context-aware Variational Autoencoder (#1444) [arXiv]
• Asynchronous Deep Interaction Network for Natural Language Inference (#2257)
• Keep Calm and Switch On! Preserving Sentiment and Fluency in Semantic Text Exchange (#2830) [arXiv]
• Query-focused Scenario Construction (#3550) [arXiv]
• Semi-supervised Entity Alignment via Joint Knowledge Embedding Model and Cross-graph Model (#3819)

Discourse and Pragmatics, Summarization and Generation

• Evaluating Pronominal Anaphora in Machine Translation: An Evaluation Measure and a Test Suite (#723) [arXiv]
• A Regularization Approach for Incorporating Event Knowledge and Coreference Relations into Neural Discourse Parsing (#2916)
• Weakly Supervised Multilingual Causality Extraction fromWikipedia (#3994)
• Attribute-aware Sequence Network for Review Summarization (#210)
• Extractive Summarization of Long Documents by Combining Global and Local Context (#268) [arXiv]
• Enhancing Neural Data-To-Text Generation Models with External Background Knowledge (#313)
• Reading Like HER: Human Reading Inspired Extractive Summarization (#346)
• Contrastive Attention Mechanism for Abstractive Sentence Summarization (#361)
• NCLS: Neural Cross-Lingual Summarization (#703) [arXiv]
• Clickbait? Sensational Headline Generation with Auto-tuned Reinforcement Learning (#749) [arXiv]
• Concept Pointer Network for Abstractive Summarization (#845)
• Surface Realisation Using Full Delexicalisation (#1139)
• Unsupervised Text Attribute Transfer via Iterative Matching and Translation (#1169) [arXiv]
• Better Rewards Yield Better Summaries: Learning to Summarise Without References (#1191) [arXiv]
• Mixture Content Selection for Diverse Sequence Generation (#1369) [arXiv]
• An End-to-End Generative Architecture for Paraphrase Generation (#1375)
• Table-to-Text Generation with Effective Hierarchical Encoder on Three dimensions (Row, Column and Time) (#1726) [arXiv]
• Subtopic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization (#1779)
• Referring Expression Generation Using Entity Profiles (#1805) [arXiv]
• Exploring Diverse Expressions for Paraphrase Generation (#1834)
• Enhancing AMR-to-Text Generation with Dual Graph Representations (#1852) [arXiv]
• Keeping Consistency of Sentence Generation and Document Classification with Multi-Task Learning (#1881)
• Toward a task of feedback comment generation for writing learning (#2031)
• Improving Question Generation With to the Point Context (#2033) [arXiv]
• Deep Copycat Networks for Text-to-Text Generation (#2121)
• Towards Controllable and Personalized Review Generation (#2412) [arXiv]
• Answers Unite! Unsupervised Metrics for Reinforced Summarization Models (#2604) [arXiv]
• Long and Diverse Text Generation with Planning-based Hierarchical Variational Model (#2746) [arXiv]
• “Transforming” Delete, Retrieve, Generate Approach for Controlled Text Style Transfer (#2932) [arXiv]
• An Entity-Driven Framework for Abstractive Summarization (#3275) [arXiv]
• Neural Extractive Text Summarization with Syntactic Compression (#3334) [arXiv]
• Domain Adaptive Text Style Transfer (#3511) [arXiv]
• Let's Ask Again: Refine Network for Automatic Question Generation (#3754) [arXiv]
• Earlier Isn't Always Better: Submodular Analysis on Corpus and System Biases in Summarization (#3846) [arXiv]

Information Retrieval and Document Analysis, Lexical Semantics, Sentence-level Semantics, Machine Learning

• A Label Informative Wide & Deep Classifier for Scientific Publications (#542)
• Text Level Graph Neural Network for Text Classification (#573) [arXiv]
• Semantic Relatedness based Re-ranker for Text Spotting (#875) [arXiv]
• Delta-training: Simple Semi-Supervised Text Classification using Pretrained Word Embeddings (#1306) [arXiv]
• Visual Detection with Context for Document Layout Analysis (#1342)
• Evaluating Topic Quality with Posterior Variability (#1562) [arXiv]
• Neural Topic Model with Reinforcement Learning (#2494)
• Modelling Stopping Criteria using Poisson Processes (#2705) [arXiv]
• Cross-Domain Modeling of Sentence-Level Evidence for Document Retrieval (#3533)
• The Challenges of Optimizing Machine Translation for Low Resource Cross-Language Information Retrieval (#4151)
• Rotate King to get Queen: Word Relationships as Orthogonal Transformations in Embedding Space (#170) [arXiv]
• GlossBERT: BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Knowledge (#362) [arXiv]
• Leveraging Adjective-Noun Phrasing Knowledge for Comparison Relation Prediction in Text-to-SQL (#670)
• Bridging the Defined and the Defining: Exploiting Implicit Lexical Semantic Relations in Definition Modeling (#1461)
• Don't Just Scratch the Surface: Enhancing Word Representations for Korean with Hanja (#1615) [arXiv]
• Challenging Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation with Lexical-Semantic Combinations (#2219)
• Hierarchical Meta-Embeddings for Code-switching Named Entity Recognition (#2419) [arXiv]
• Context-Aware Conversation Thread Detection in Group Chat (#162)
• Fine-tune BERT with Sparse Self-Attention Mechanism (#327)
• Feature-Dependent Confusion Matrices for Low-Resource NER Labeling with Noisy Labels (#806) [arXiv]
• A Multi-Pairwise Extension of Procrustes Analysis for Multilingual Word Translation (#819)
• Out-of-Domain Detection for Low-Resource Text Classification Tasks (#1063) [arXiv]
• An Empirical Study of Harnessing Pre-Trained Neural Networks with Rules for Formality Style Transfer (#1877)
• Multiple Text Style Transfer by using Word-level Conditional Generative Adversarial Network with Two-Phase Training (#1925)
• Improved Differentiable Architecture Search for Language Model and Named Entity Recognition (#2104)
• Using Pairwise Occurrence Information to Improve Knowledge Graph Completion on Large-Scale Datasets (#2696)
• Single Training Dimension Selection for Word Embedding with PCA (#2741) [arXiv]
• A Surprisingly Effective Fix for Deep Latent Variable Modeling of Text (#3040) [arXiv]
• SciBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Scientific Text (#3115) [arXiv]
• Humor Detection: A Transformer Gets the Last Laugh (#3265) [arXiv]
• Combining Global Sparse Gradients with Local Gradients in Distributed Neural Network Training (#3585)
• Small and Practical BERT models for Sequence Labeling (#3631) [arXiv]
• Data Augmentation with Atomic Templates for Spoken Language Understanding (#3776) [arXiv]
• PaLM: A Hybrid Parser and Language Model (#4026) [arXiv]
• A Pilot Study for Chinese SQL Semantic Parsing (#1593) [arXiv]
• Global Reasoning over Database Structures for Text-to-SQL Parsing (#1616) [arXiv]
• Transductive Learning of Neural Language Models for Syntactic and Semantic Analysis (#1712)
• Efficient Sentence Embedding using Discrete Cosine Transform (#2287) [arXiv]
• A Search-based Neural Model for Biomedical Nested and Overlapping Event Detection (#2393)
• PAWS-X: A Cross-lingual Adversarial Dataset for Paraphrase Identification (#3233) [arXiv]
• Pretrained Language Models for Sequential Sentence Classification (#3887) [arXiv]
• Emergent Linguistic Phenomena in Multi-Agent Communication Games (#2402) [arXiv]

Machine Learning

• A Logic-Driven Framework for Consistency of Neural Models (#6) [arXiv]
• Style Transfer for Texts: to Err is Human, but Error Margins Matter (#109)
• Implicit Deep Latent Variable Models for Text Generation (#161) [arXiv]
• Text Emotion Distribution Learning from Small Sample: A Meta-Learning Approach (#200)
• Judge the Judges: A Large-Scale Evaluation Study of Neural Language Models for Online Review Generation (#247) [arXiv]
• Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks (#373) [arXiv]
• Learning Only from Relevant Keywords and Unlabeled Documents (#399) [arXiv]
• Denoising-based Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Text Generation (#592) [arXiv]
• Dialog Intent Induction with Deep Multi-View Clustering (#686) [arXiv]
• Nearly-Unsupervised Hashcode Representations for Biomedical Relation Extraction (#718) [arXiv]
• Auditing Deep Learning processes through Kernel-based Explanatory Models (#888)
• Enhancing Recurrent Variational Autoencoders with Mutual Information Estimation for Text Generation (#1060)
• Sampling Bias in Deep Active Classification: An Empirical Study (#1286) [arXiv]
• Don't Take the Easy Way Out: Ensemble Based Methods for Avoiding Known Dataset Biases (#1321) [arXiv]
• Achieving Verified Robustness to Symbol Substitutions via Interval Bound Propagation (#1360) [arXiv]
• Rethinking Cooperative Rationalization: Introspective Extraction and Complement Control (#1422)
• Experimenting with Power Divergences for Language Modeling (#1435)
• Hierarchically-Refined Label Attention Network for Sequence Labeling (#1590) [arXiv]
• Certified Robustness to Adversarial Word Substitutions (#1709) [arXiv]
• Visualizing and Understanding the Effectiveness of BERT (#1846) [arXiv]
• Topics to Avoid: Demoting Latent Confounds in Text Classification (#2147) [arXiv]
• Learning to Ask for Conversational Machine Learning (#2168)
• Language Modeling for Code-Switching: Evaluation, Integration of Monolingual Data, and Discriminative Training (#2270) [arXiv]
• Using Local Knowledge Graph Construction to Scale Seq2Seq Models to Multi-Document Inputs (#2394)
• Fine-grained Knowledge Fusion for Sequence Labeling Domain Adaptation (#2441) [arXiv]
• Exploiting Monolingual Data at Scale for Neural Machine Translation (#2477)
• Meta Relational Learning for Few-Shot Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs (#2554) [arXiv]
• Distributionally Robust Language Modeling (#2660) [arXiv]
• Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Contextualized Embeddings for Sequence Labeling (#2686) [arXiv]
• Learning Latent Parameters without Human Response Patterns: Item Response Theory with Artificial Crowds (#2706) [arXiv]
• Parallel Iterative Edit Models for Local Sequence Transduction (#2716) [arXiv]
• ARAML: A Stable Adversarial Training Framework for Text Generation (#2882) [arXiv]
• FlowSeq: Non-Autoregressive Conditional Sequence Generation with Generative Flow (#2905) [arXiv]
• Compositional Generalization for Premitive Substitutions (#3039) [arXiv]
• WikiCREM: A large unsupervised corpus for co-reference resolution (#3089) [arXiv]
• Identifying and Explaining Discriminative Attributes (#3146) [arXiv]
• Patient Knowledge Distillation for BERT Model Compression (#3194) [arXiv]
• Neural Gaussian Copula for Variational Autoencoder (#3254) [arXiv]
• Empirical Study of Transformer's Attention Mechanism via the Lens of Kernel (#3261)
• Learning to Learn and Predict: A Meta-Learning Approach for Multi-Label Classification (#3478) [arXiv]
• Revealing the Dark Secrets of BERT (#3494) [arXiv]
• Machine Translation With Weakly Paired Documents (#4149)
• Countering Language Drift via Grounding (#2201)

Social Media and Computational Social Science, Text Mining and NLP Applications

• Integrating Text and Image: Determining Multimodal Document Intent in Instagram Posts (#52) [arXiv]
• Neural Conversation Recommendation with Online Interaction Modeling (#705)
• Different Acquisition from the Same Sharing: Sifting Multi-task Learning for Fake News Detection (#720) [arXiv]
• Text-based inference of moral sentiment change (#965)
• Detecting Causal Language Use in Science Findings (#1439)
• Multilingual and Multi-aspect Hate Speech Analysis (#1468) [arXiv]
• MultiFC: A Real-World Multi-Domain Dataset for Evidence-Based Fact Checking of Claims (#1969) [arXiv]
• A Deep Neural Information Fusion Architecture for Textual Network Embeddings (#2006) [arXiv]
• You Shall Know a User by the Company It Keeps: Dynamic Representations for Social Media Users in NLP (#2186) [arXiv]
• Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Political Document Analysis (#2606)
• Macrocosm: Social Media Persona Linking for OSINT Applications (#2659)
• A Hierarchical Location Prediction Neural Network for Twitter User Geolocation (#2693)
• Trouble on the Horizon: Forecasting the Derailment of Online Conversations as they Develop (#2828) [arXiv]
• A Benchmark Dataset for Learning to Intervene in Online Hate Speech (#3391) [arXiv]
• Detecting and Reducing Bias in a High Stakes Domain (#3461) [arXiv]
• CodeSwitch-Reddit: Exploration of Written Multilingual Discourse in Online Discussion Forums (#3566) [arXiv]
• Modeling Conversation Structure and Temporal Dynamics for Jointly Predicting Rumor Stance and Veracity (#3592) [arXiv]
• Measuring Online Debaters' Persuasive Skill from Text over Time (#TACL-1639)
• Reconstructing Capsule Networks for Zero-shot Intent Classification (#142)
• Domain Adaptation for Person-Job Fit with Transferable Deep Global Match Network (#239)
• Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks for Semi-supervised Short Text Classification (#299)
• Comparing and Developing Tools to Measure the Readability of Domain-Specific Texts (#438)
• News2vec: News Network Embedding with Subnode Information (#473)
• Recursive Context-Aware Lexical Simplification (#732)
• Transfer Learning from Medical Literature for Section Prediction in Electronic Health Records (#1103)
• Neural News Recommendation with Heterogeneous User Behavior (#1459)
• Reviews Meet Graphs: Enhancing User and Item Representations for Recommendation with Hierarchical Attentive Graph Neural Network (#1470)
• Event Representation Learning Enhanced with External Commonsense Knowledge (#1551) [arXiv]
• Learning to Discriminate Perturbations for Blocking Adversarial Attacks in Text Classification (#1572) [arXiv]
• A Neural Citation Count Prediction Model based on Peer Review Text (#1661)
• Connecting the Dots: Document-level Neural Relation Extraction with Edge-oriented Graphs (#2044) [arXiv]
• Semi-supervised Text Style Transfer: Cross Projection in Latent Space (#2052) [arXiv]
• Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives (#2129)
• Stick to the Facts: Learning towards a Fidelity-oriented E-Commerce Product Description Generation (#2381)
• Fine-Grained Entity Typing via Hierarchical Multi Graph Convolutional Networks (#2389)
• Learning to Infer Entities, Properties and their Relations from Clinical Conversations (#2942) [arXiv]
• Practical Correlated Topic Modeling via the Rectified Anchor Word Algorithm (#3072)
• Modeling the Relationship between User Comments and Edits in Document Revision (#3128)
• PRADO: Projection Attention Networks for Document Classification On-Device (#3218)
• Subword Language Model for Query Auto-Completion (#3873) [arXiv]
• Enhancing Dialogue Symptom Diagnosis with Global Attention and Symptom Graph (#4069)

Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining, Lexical Semantics, Sentence-level Semantics

• Multi-Relational Word Embeddings for Selectional Preferences (#623)
• MulCode: A Multiplicative Multi-way Model for Compressing Neural Language Model (#700)
• It's All in the Name: Mitigating Gender Bias with Name-Based Counterfactual Data Augmentation (#1220) [arXiv]
• Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender (#1741) [arXiv]
• Weakly Supervised Cross-lingual Semantic Relation Classification via Knowledge Distillation (#3071)
• Improved Word Sense Disambiguation Using Pre-Trained Contextualized Word Representations (#3702) [arXiv]
• Do Neural NLP Models Know Numbers? Probing Numeracy in Embeddings (#3972) [arXiv]
• A Split-and-Recombine Approach for Follow-up Query Analysis (#552) [arXiv]
• Text2Math: End-to-end Parsing Text into Math Expressions (#1086) [arXiv]
• Editing-based SQL Query Generation for Cross-Domain Context-Dependent Questions (#1287) [arXiv]
• Syntax-aware Multilingual Semantic Role Labeling (#1351) [arXiv]
• Cloze-driven Pretraining of Self-attention Networks (#1446) [arXiv]
• Bridging the Gap between Relevance Matching and Semantic Matching for Short Text Similarity Modeling (#1558)
• A Syntax-aware Multi-task Learning Framework for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling (#1836)
• Injecting Phrasal Paraphrase Relation into Sentence Representation for Semantic Equivalence Assessment (#2060)
• Data-Anonymous Encoding for Text-to-SQL Generation (#2231)
• Capturing Argument Interaction in Semantic Role Labeling with Capsule Networks (#2993) [arXiv]
• Learning Programmatic Idioms for Scalable Semantic Parsing (#3121) [arXiv]
• Jupyter: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Dataset for Open Domain Context Based Code Generation (#3451) [arXiv]
• Model-based Interactive Semantic Parsing: A Unified Formulation and A Text-to-SQL Case Study (#3527) [arXiv]
• Modeling Graph Structure in Transformer for Better AMR-to-Text Generation (#3835) [arXiv]
• Syntax-Aware Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Graph Attention Networks (#72) [arXiv]
• Learning Explicit and Implicit Structures for Targeted Sentiment Analysis (#281) [arXiv]
• Capsule Network with Interactive Attention for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification (#317)
• Emotion Detection with Neural Personal Discrimination (#402) [arXiv]
• Specificity-Driven Cascading Approach for Unsupervised Sentiment Modification (#475)
• Lexical-Based Adversarial Reinforcement Training for Robust Sentiment Classification (#891)
• Leveraging Structural and Semantic Correspondence for Attribute-Oriented Aspect Sentiment Discovery (#896) [arXiv]
• From the Token to the Review: A Hierarchical Multimodal approach to Opinion Mining (#936) [arXiv]
• Shallow Domain Adaptive Embeddings for Sentiment Analysis (#1477) [arXiv]
• Domain-Invariant Feature Distillation for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification (#1691) [arXiv]
• A Novel Aspect-Guided Deep Transition Model for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (#1705) [arXiv]
• Human-Like Decision Making: Document-level Aspect Sentiment Classification via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (#1713)
• A Dataset of General-Purpose Rebuttal (#1840) [arXiv]
• Rethinking Attribute Representation and Injection for Sentiment Classification (#1992) [arXiv]
• A Knowledge Regularized Hierarchical Approach for Emotion Cause Analysis (#2236)
• Automatic Argument Quality Assessment - New Datasets and Methods (#2447) [arXiv]
• Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Articles (#2493)
• Context-aware Interactive Attention for Multi-modal Sentiment and Emotion Analysis (#2707)
• Sequential Learning of Convolutional Features for Effective Text Classification (#3182) [arXiv]
• The Role of Pragmatic and Discourse Context in Determining Argument Impact (#3909)
• Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis Via Convolution over Dependency Tree (#4182)

Discourse and Pragmatics, Linguistic Theories, Textual Inference, Question Answering, Summarization and Generation

• Next Sentence Prediction helps Implicit Discourse Relation Classification within and across Domains (#982)
• Split or Merge: Which is Better for Unsupervised RST Parsing? (#1701)
• BERT for Coreference Resolution: Baselines and Analysis (#3731) [arXiv]
• Linguistic Versus Latent Relations for Modeling a Flow in Paragraphs (#3815) [arXiv]
• Event Causality Recognition Exploiting Multiple Annotators' Judgments and Background Knowledge (#4125)
• What Part of the Neural Network Does This? Understanding LSTMs by Measuring and Dissecting Memory Cells (#1181)
• Quantity doesn't buy quality syntax with neural language models (#1227) [arXiv]
• Higher-order Comparisons of Sentence Encoder Representations (#2000) [arXiv]
• Text Genre and Training Data Size in Human-Like Parsing (#2379)
• Feature2Vec: Distributional semantic modelling of human property knowledge (#2535) [arXiv]
• Has Pepperoni and Still Vegan?! Improving Answer Consistency in VQA through Entailed Question Generation (#424) [arXiv]
• GeoSQA: A Benchmark for Scenario-based Question Answering in the Geography Domain at High School Level (#961) [arXiv]
• Revisiting the Evaluation of Theory of Mind through Question Answering (#1069)
• Multi-passage BERT: A Globally Normalized BERT Model for Open-domain Question Answering (#1319) [arXiv]
• A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension (#2131) [arXiv]
• CLAR: Contextualized and Lexicalized Aspect Representation for Non-factoid Question Answering (#2177)
• Machine Reading Comprehension Using Structural Knowledge Graph-aware Network (#2229)
• Answering Conversational Questions on Structured Data without Logical Forms (#2851) [arXiv]
• Improving Answer Selection and Answer Triggering using Hard Negatives (#2859)
• Can You Unpack That? Learning to Rewrite Questions-in-Context (#3163)
• Quoref: A Reading Comprehension Dataset with Questions Requiring Coreferential Reasoning (#3203) [arXiv]
• Zero-shot Reading Comprehension by Cross-lingual Transfer Learning with Multi-lingual Language Representation Model (#3303) [arXiv]
• QuaRTz: An Open-Domain Dataset of Qualitative Relationship Questions (#3355) [arXiv]
• Giving BERT a Calculator: Finding Operations and Arguments with Reading Comprehension (#3470) [arXiv]
• A Gated Self-attention Memory Network for Answer Selection (#4067) [arXiv]
• Polly Want a Cracker: Analyzing Performance of Parroting on Paraphrase Generation Datasets (#91) [arXiv]
• Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time (#482) [arXiv]
• Generating Personalized Recipes from Historical User Preferences (#1255) [arXiv]
• Generating Highly Relevant Questions (#1644) [arXiv]
• Improving Neural Story Generation by Targeted Common Sense Grounding (#1674) [arXiv]
• Abstract Text Summarization: A Low Resource Challenge (#1963)
• Generating Modern Poetry Automatically in Finnish (#2083)
• SUM-QE: a BERT-based Summary Quality Estimation Model (#2422) [arXiv]
• An Empirical Comparison on Imitation Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Paraphrase Generation (#2870) [arXiv]
• Countering the effects of lead bias in news summarization via multi-stage training and auxiliary losses (#3236) [arXiv]
• Learning Rhyming Constraints using Structured Adversaries (#3950) [arXiv]
• Question-type Driven Question Generation (#4105) [arXiv]
• Deep Reinforcement Learning with Distributional Semantic Rewards for Abstractive Summarization (#4107) [arXiv]
• Clause-Wise and Recursive Decoding for Complex and Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generation (#285) [arXiv]
• Do Nuclear Submarines Have Nuclear Captains? A Challenge Dataset for Commonsense Reasoning over Adjectives and Objects (#1774)
• Aggregating Bidirectional Encoder Representations Using MatchLSTM for Sequence Matching (#2244)
• What Does This Word Mean? Explaining Contextualized Embeddings with Natural Language Definition (#2765)
• Pre-Training BERT on Domain Resources for Short Answer Grading (#3058)
• WIQA: A dataset for “What if...” reasoning over procedural text (#3276) [arXiv]
• Evaluating BERT for natural language inference: a case study on the CommitmentBank (#3606)
• Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Medical NLI using Knowledge Graphs (#3974) [arXiv]

Information Extraction, Text Mining and NLP Applications, Social Media and Computational Social Science, Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining

• An Attentive Fine-Grained Entity Typing Model with Latent Type Representation (#189)
• An Improved Neural Baseline for Temporal Relation Extraction (#193) [arXiv]
• Improving Fine-grained Entity Typing with Entity Linking (#822) [arXiv]
• Combining Spans into Entities: A Neural Two-Stage Approach for Recognizing Discontiguous Entities (#1222) [arXiv]
• Cross-Sentence N-ary Relation Extraction using Lower-Arity Universal Schemas (#1686)
• GEANN: Gazetteer-Enhanced Attentive Neural Networks for Named Entity Recognition (#1760)
• “A Buster Keaton of Linguistics”: First Automated Approaches for the Extraction of Vossian Antonomasia (#1782)
• Multi-Task Learning for Chemical Named Entity Recognition with Chemical Compound Paraphrase (#1799)
• FewRel 2.0: Towards More Challenging Few-Shot Relation Classification (#2697) [arXiv]
• ner and pos when nothing is capitalized (#2992) [arXiv]
• CaRB: A Crowdsourced Benchmark for Open IE (#4099)
• Weakly Supervised Attention Networks for Entity Extraction (#4158)
• Revealing and Predicting Online Persuasion Strategy with Elementary Units (#19)
• A Challenge Dataset and Effective Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (#849)
• Learning with Noisy Labels for Sentence-level Sentiment Classification (#1157) [arXiv]
• DENS: A Dataset for Multi-class Emotion Analysis (#1347)
• Multi-Task Stance Detection with Sentiment and Stance Lexicons (#3016)
• A Robust Self-Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Text Classification (#3085)
• Learning to Flip the Sentiment of Reviews from Non-Parallel Corpora (#3869)
• Label Embedding using Hierarchical Structure of Labels for Twitter Classification (#80)
• Interpretable Word Embeddings via Informative Priors (#393) [arXiv]
• TalkDown: A Corpus for Condescension Detection in Context (#1526) [arXiv]
• Adversarial Removal of Demographic Attributes Revisited (#2101) [arXiv]
• A deep-learning framework to detect sarcasm targets (#2170)
• In Plain Sight: Media Bias through the Lens of Factual Reporting (#2759) [arXiv]
• Incorporating Label Dependencies in Multilabel Stance Detection (#3333)
• Investigating Sports Commentator Bias within a Large Corpus of American Football Broadcasts (#3345)
• Charge-Based Prison Term Prediction with Deep Gating Network (#759) [arXiv]
• Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy (#1020) [arXiv]
• Embedding Lexical Features via Tensor Decomposition for Small Sample Humor Recognition (#1068)
• EDA: Easy Data Augmentation Techniques for Boosting Performance on Text Classification Tasks (#1192) [arXiv]
• Neural News Recommendation with Multi-Head Self-Attention (#1581)
• What Matters for Neural Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition: An Empirical Analysis (#1611) [arXiv]
• Telling the Whole Story: A Manually Annotated Chinese Dataset for the Analysis of Humor in Jokes (#1737)
• Generating Natural Anagrams: Towards Language Generation under Hard Combinatorial Constraints (#1763)
• STANCY: Stance Classification Based on Consistency Cues (#2013) [arXiv]
• Cross-lingual intent classification in a low resource industrial setting (#2551)
• SoftRegex: Generating Regex from Natural Language Description using Softened Regex Equivalence (#2839)
• Using Clinical Notes with Multimodal Learning for ICU Management. (#2907)
• Spelling-Aware Construction of Mixed-Language Texts for Teaching Foreign-Language Vocabulary (#3639)
• Towards Machine Reading for Interventions from Humanitarian-Assistance Program Literature (#3718)
• RUN through the Streets: Dataset and Models for Realistic Urban Navigation (#4014) [arXiv]