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Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation

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Cluster-specific Named Entity Transliteration

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Low Cost Portability for Statistical Machine Translation based on N-gram Frequency and TF-IDF

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Automatic Event Reference Identification

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Language and Translation Model Adaptation using Comparable Corpora

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Multi-Document Summarisation Using Generic Relation Extraction

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Robust Compositional Polarity Classification

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Emotion Detection in Email Customer Care

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For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia

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Identifying and Following Expert Investors in Stock Microblogs

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Statistical Machine Translation with Local Language Models

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A Corpus-based Study of the German Recipient Passive

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Many works (of both fiction and non-fiction) span multiple, intersecting narratives, each of which constitutes a story in its own right. In this work I introduce the task of multiple …...

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UOW: Semantically Informed Text Similarity

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Until recently, the application of discrimina- tive training to log linear-based statistical ma- chine translation has been limited to tuning the weights of a limited number of features or training …...

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Edit Distance: A New Data Selection Criterion for Domain Adaptation in SMT

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Most NLP tools are applied to text that is dif- ferent from the kind of text they were eval- uated on. Common evaluation practice pre- scribes significance testing across data …...

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Improving Pivot-Based Statistical Machine Translation Using Random Walk

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In this paper, we describe SemEval-2013 Task 4: the definition, the data, the evaluation and the results. The task is to capture some of the meaning of English noun compounds …...

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Automatically Building a Corpus for Sentiment Analysis on Indonesian Tweets

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The popularity of the user generated content, such as Twitter, has made it a rich source for the sentiment analysis and opinion min- ing tasks. This paper presents our study …...

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Blinov: Distributed Representations of Words for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis at SemEval 2014

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The article describes our system submitted to the SemEval-2014 task on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analy- sis. The methods based on distribut- ed representations of words for the aspect term extraction and …...

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Clustering Aspect-related Phrases by Leveraging Sentiment Distribution Consistency

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Clustering aspect-related phrases in terms of product’s property is a precursor pro- cess to aspect-level sentiment analysis which is a central task in sentiment analy- sis. Most of existing methods …...

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Finnish Native Language Identification

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We outline the first application of Native Language Identification (NLI) to Finnish learner data. NLI is the task of predicting an author’s first language using writings in an acquired language. …...

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Focusing Annotation for Semantic Role Labeling

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AbstractAnnotation of data is a time-consuming process, but necessary for many state-of-the-art solutions to NLP tasks, including semantic role labeling (SRL). In this paper, we show that language models may …...

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Predicting Dialect Variation in Immigrant Contexts Using Light Verb Constructions

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Adapting Phrase-based Machine Translation to Normalise Medical Terms in Social Media Messages

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Previous studies have shown that health reports in social media, such as Dai- lyStrength and Twitter, have potential for monitoring health conditions (e.g. adverse drug reactions, infectious diseases) in par- …...

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English to Chinese Translation: How Chinese Character Matters

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Word segmentation is helpful in Chinese nat- ural language processing in many aspects. However it is showed that different word seg- mentation strategies do not affect the per- formance of …...

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Enriching Word Sense Embeddings with Translational Context

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Vector-space models derived from corpora are an effective way to learn a representa- tion of word meaning directly from data, and these models have many uses in prac- tical applications. …...

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GhostWriter: Using an LSTM for Automatic Rap Lyric Generation

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This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of a Long Short-Term Memory language model in our initial efforts to generate un- constrained rap lyrics. The goal of this model is to generate …...

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Inferring Missing Entity Type Instances for Knowledge Base Completion: New Dataset and Methods

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Most of previous work in knowledge base (KB) completion has focused on the problem of relation extraction. In this work, we focus on the task of inferring missing entity type …...

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Overview of the 2015 ALTA Shared Task: Identifying French Cognates in English Text

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Publication: TIPSTER (2015)

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This paper presents an overview of the 6th ALTA shared task that ran in 2015. The task was to identify in English texts all the potential cognates from the per- …...

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Predicting Inflectional Paradigms and Lemmata of Unknown Words for Semi-automatic Expansion of Morphological Lexicons

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In this paper we describe a semi-automated approach to extend morphological lexicons by defining the prediction of the correct inflectional paradigm and the lemma for an unknown word as a …...

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Scientific Article Summarization Using Citation-Context and Article’s Discourse Structure

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We propose a summarization approach for scientific articles which takes advantage of citation-context and the document discourse model. While citations have been previously used in generating scientific summaries, they lack …...

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Sentence Compression by Deletion with LSTMs

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We present an LSTM approach to deletion-based sentence compression where the task is to translate a sentence into a sequence of zeros and ones, cor- responding to token deletion decisions. …...

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UFRGS: Identifying Categories and Targets in Customer Reviews

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This paper reports on our participation in SemEval-2015 Task 12, which was devoted to Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Partic- ipants were required to identify the category (entity and attribute), the opinion …...

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Adapting to All Domains at Once: Rewarding Domain Invariance in SMT

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AbstractExisting work on domain adaptation for statistical machine translation has consistently assumed access to a small sample from the test distribution (target domain) at training time. In practice, however, the …...

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Identifying Causal Relations Using Parallel Wikipedia Articles

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The automatic detection of causal relation- ships in text is important for natural lan- guage understanding. This task has proven to be difficult, however, due to the need for world …...

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Incremental Acquisition of Verb Hypothesis Space towards Physical World Interaction

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As a new generation of cognitive robots start to enter our lives, it is important to enable robots to follow human commands and to learn new actions from human lan- …...

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Joint Extraction of Events and Entities within a Document Context

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Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

DOI: nan

Events and entities are closely related; entities are often actors or participants in events and events without entities are uncommon. The interpretation of events and entities is highly contextually dependent. …...

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Multi-prototype Chinese Character Embedding

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Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

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AbstractChinese sentences are written as sequences of characters, which are elementary units of syntax and semantics. Characters are highly polysemous in forming words. We present a position-sensitive skip-gram model to …...

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NileULex: A Phrase and Word Level Sentiment Lexicon for Egyptian and Modern Standard Arabic

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Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis paper presents NileULex, which is an Arabic sentiment lexicon containing close to six thousands Arabic words and compound phrases. Forty five percent of the terms and expressions in the …...

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Prediction of Prospective User Engagement with Intelligent Assistants

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Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

DOI: nan

Intelligent assistants on mobile devices, such as Siri, have recently gained con- siderable attention as novel applications of dialogue technologies. A tremendous amount of real users of intelligent assis- tants …...

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Revisiting the Evaluation for Cross Document Event Coreference

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Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

DOI: nan

AbstractCross document event coreference (CDEC) is an important task that aims at aggregating event-related information across multiple documents. We revisit the evaluation for CDEC, and discover that past works have …...

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SemEval-2016 Task 14: Semantic Taxonomy Enrichment

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Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

DOI: nan

Manually constructed taxonomies provide a crucial resource for many NLP technologies, yet these resources are often limited in their lexical coverage due to their construction pro- cedure. While multiple approaches …...

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UMNDuluth at SemEval-2016 Task 14: WordNet’s Missing Lemmas

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Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

DOI: nan

This paper presents a solution to Semeval 2016 Task 14 which asks for a system that is able to insert new lemmas into WordNet. Our system aims to do this …...

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Comparing Approaches for Automatic Question Identification

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Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

AbstractCollecting spontaneous speech corpora that are open-ended, yet topically constrained, is increasingly popular for research in spoken dialogue systems and speaker state, inter alia. Typically, these corpora are labeled by …...

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Curriculum Learning and Minibatch Bucketing in Neural Machine Translation

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Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe examine the effects of particular orderings of sentence pairs on the on-line training of neural machine translation (NMT). We focus on two types of such orderings: (1) ensuring that …...

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Detecting Online Hate Speech Using Context Aware Models

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Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn the wake of a polarizing election, the cyber world is laden with hate speech. Context accompanying a hate speech text is useful for identifying hate speech, which however has …...

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Improving Machine Translation Quality Estimation with Neural Network Features

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Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

Machine translation quality estimation is a challenging task in the WMT evaluation campaign. Feature extrac- tion plays an important role in auto- matic quality estimation, and in this paper, we …...

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Measuring Thematic Fit with Distributional Feature Overlap

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Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we introduce a new distributional method for modeling predicate-argument thematic fit judgments. We use a syntax-based DSM to build a prototypical representation of verb-specific roles: for every …...

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Neural Post-Editing Based on Quality Estimation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

Automatic post-editing (APE) is a challenging task on WMT evaluation campaign. We find that only a small number of edit operations are required for most machine translation outputs, through analysis …...

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The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2017

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Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis work describes the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system of the RWTH Aachen University developed for the English$German tracks of the evaluation campaign of the International Workshop on Spoken Language …...

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Tweet Extraction for News Production Considering Unreality

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Publication: TIPSTER (2017)

DOI: nan

Acquiring information on incidents and acci- dents from social media can be useful for broadcasters to report news faster. However, many tweets including words related to inci- dents and accidents …...

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CENNLP at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Constrained Vector Space Model in Affects in Tweets

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Publication: TIPSTER (2018)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis paper discusses on task 1, “Affect in Tweets” sharedtask, conducted in SemEval-2018. This task comprises of various subtasks, which required participants to analyse over different emotions and sentiments based …...

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QUEST: A Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases

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Publication: TIPSTER (2018)

DOI: nan

Natural language interfaces to databases systems allow the user to use natural language to interrogate a database. Current systems mainly focus on simple queries but neglect nested queries, which are …...

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Random Decision Syntax Trees at SemEval-2018 Task 3: LSTMs and Sentiment Scores for Irony Detection

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2018)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe propose a Long Short Term Memory Neural Network model for irony detection in tweets in this paper. Our model is trained using word embeddings and emoji embeddings. We show …...

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Trivial Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

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AbstractTransfer learning has been proven as an effective technique for neural machine translation under low-resource conditions. Existing methods require a common target language, language relatedness, or specific training tricks and …...

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An Exploration of Placeholding in Neural Machine Translation

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Publication: TIPSTER (2019)

DOI: nan

Phrase-based machine translation provides the system developer with controls that enable fine-grained control over machine translation output. One approach to provide similar control in neural machine transla- tion is placeholding …...

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Detecting Frames in News Headlines and Its Application to Analyzing News Framing Trends Surrounding U.S. Gun Violence

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Publication: TIPSTER (2019)

DOI: nan

AbstractDifferent news articles about the same topic often offer a variety of perspectives: an article written about gun violence might emphasize gun control, while another might promote 2nd Amendment rights, …...

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Entity Recognition at First Sight: Improving NER with Eye Movement Information

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Publication: TIPSTER (2019)

DOI: nan

AbstractPrevious research shows that eye-tracking data contains information about the lexical and syntactic properties of text, which can be used to improve natural language processing models. In this work, we …...

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Generating Fluent Adversarial Examples for Natural Languages

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Publication: TIPSTER (2019)

DOI: nan

AbstractEfficiently building an adversarial attacker for natural language processing (NLP) tasks is a real challenge. Firstly, as the sentence space is discrete, it is difficult to make small perturbations along …...

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IIT Gandhinagar at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Contextual Emotion Detection Using Deep Learning

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2019)

DOI: nan

AbstractRecent advancements in Internet and Mobile infrastructure have resulted in the development of faster and efficient platforms of communication. These platforms include speech, facial and text-based conversational mediums. Majority of …...

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ltl.uni-due at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Simple but Effective Lexico-Semantic Features for Detecting Hate Speech in Twitter

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2019)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we present our contribution to SemEval 2019 Task 5 Multilingual Detection of Hate, specifically in the Subtask A (English and Spanish). We compare different configurations of shallow …...

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A Large Harvested Corpus of Location Metonymy

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Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractMetonymy is a figure of speech in which an entity is referred to by another related entity. The existing datasets of metonymy are either too small in size or lack …...

14146

ALICE: Active Learning with Contrastive Natural Language Explanations

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractTraining a supervised neural network classifier typically requires many annotated training samples. Collecting and annotating a large number of data points are costly and sometimes even infeasible. Traditional annotation process …...

30373

Bilingual Dictionary Based Neural Machine Translation without Using Parallel Sentences

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we propose a new task of machine translation (MT), which is based on no parallel sentences but can refer to a ground-truth bilingual dictionary. Motivated by the …...

38166

Computational Etymology and Word Emergence

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe developed an extensible, comprehensive Wiktionary parser that improves over several existing parsers. We predict the etymology of a word across the full range of etymology types and languages in …...

14789

Control, Generate, Augment: A Scalable Framework for Multi-Attribute Text Generation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe introduce CGA, a conditional VAE architecture, to control, generate, and augment text. CGA is able to generate natural English sentences controlling multiple semantic and syntactic attributes by combining adversarial …...

32446

Cross-Domain Evaluation of Edge Detection for Biomedical Event Extraction

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractBiomedical event extraction is a crucial task in order to automatically extract information from the increasingly growing body of biomedical literature. Despite advances in the methods in recent years, most …...

15245

Cross-Lingual Dependency Parsing by POS-Guided Word Reordering

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe propose a novel approach to cross-lingual dependency parsing based on word reordering. The words in each sentence of a source language corpus are rearranged to meet the word order …...

32215

Don’t Eclipse Your Arts Due to Small Discrepancies: Boundary Repositioning with a Pointer Network for Aspect Extraction

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractThe current aspect extraction methods suffer from boundary errors. In general, these errors lead to a relatively minor difference between the extracted aspects and the ground-truth. However, they hurt the …...

37771

Humans Keep It One Hundred: an Overview of AI Journey

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractArtificial General Intelligence (AGI) is showing growing performance in numerous applications - beating human performance in Chess and Go, using knowledge bases and text sources to answer questions (SQuAD) and …...

15143

IIE-NLP-NUT at SemEval-2020 Task 4: Guiding PLM with Prompt Template Reconstruction Strategy for ComVE

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis paper introduces our systems for the first two subtasks of SemEval Task4: Commonsense Validation and Explanation. To clarify the intention for judgment and inject contrastive information for selection, we …...

24617

Improving Event Detection via Open-domain Trigger Knowledge

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractEvent Detection (ED) is a fundamental task in automatically structuring texts. Due to the small scale of training data, previous methods perform poorly on unseen/sparsely labeled trigger words and are …...

37456

Multi-hop Question Generation with Graph Convolutional Network

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractMulti-hop Question Generation (QG) aims to generate answer-related questions by aggregating and reasoning over multiple scattered evidence from different paragraphs. It is a more challenging yet under-explored task compared to …...

29638

OPPO’s Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation Task

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we demonstrate our machine translation system applied for the Chinese-Japanese bidirectional translation task (aka. open domain translation task) for the IWSLT 2020. Our model is based on …...

20597

ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractIt is appealing to have a system that generates a story or scripts automatically from a storyline, even though this is still out of our reach. In dialogue systems, it …...

37208

Spelling Error Correction with Soft-Masked BERT

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractSpelling error correction is an important yet challenging task because a satisfactory solution of it essentially needs human-level language understanding ability. Without loss of generality we consider Chinese spelling error …...

38284

Table Fact Verification with Structure-Aware Transformer

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractVerifying fact on semi-structured evidence like tables requires the ability to encode structural information and perform symbolic reasoning. Pre-trained language models trained on natural language could not be directly applied …...

30932

What is More Likely to Happen Next? Video-and-Language Future Event Prediction

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractGiven a video with aligned dialogue, people can often infer what is more likely to happen next. Making such predictions requires not only a deep understanding of the rich dynamics …...

29746

Within-Between Lexical Relation Classification

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe propose the novel Within-Between Relation model for recognizing lexical-semantic relations between words. Our model integrates relational and distributional signals, forming an effective sub-space representation for each relation. We show …...

30499

ZPR2: Joint Zero Pronoun Recovery and Resolution using Multi-Task Learning and BERT

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2020)

DOI: nan

AbstractZero pronoun recovery and resolution aim at recovering the dropped pronoun and pointing out its anaphoric mentions, respectively. We propose to better explore their interaction by solving both tasks together, …...

37493

A Few Topical Tweets are Enough for Effective User Stance Detection

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractUser stance detection entails ascertaining the position of a user towards a target, such as an entity, topic, or claim. Recent work that employs unsupervised classification has shown that performing …...

42589

A Neural Few-Shot Text Classification Reality Check

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractModern classification models tend to struggle when the amount of annotated data is scarce. To overcome this issue, several neural few-shot classification models have emerged, yielding significant progress over time, …...

42487

Can Monolingual Pre-trained Encoder-Decoder Improve NMT for Distant Language Pairs?

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

Recently, several studies have proposed pre- trained encoder-decoder models using mono- lingual data, such as BART, which can im- prove the accuracy of seq2seq tasks via fine- tuning with task-specific …...

29406

Differentiable Open-Ended Commonsense Reasoning

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractCurrent commonsense reasoning research focuses on developing models that use commonsense knowledge to answer multiple-choice questions. However, systems designed to answer multiple-choice questions may not be useful in applications that …...

21484

Distributionally Robust Multilingual Machine Translation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractMultilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) learns to translate multiple language pairs with a single model, potentially improving both the accuracy and the memory-efficiency of deployed models. However, the heavy data …...

31615

Feedback Attribution for Counterfactual Bandit Learning in Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractWith counterfactual bandit learning, models can be trained based on positive and negative feedback received for historical predictions, with no labeled data needed. Such feedback is often available in real-world …...

32006

Harnessing Privileged Information for Hyperbole Detection

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractThe detection of hyperbole is an important stepping stone to understanding the intentions of a hyperbolic utterance. We propose a model that combines pre-trained language models with privileged information for …...

28427

Joint Learning of Hyperbolic Label Embeddings for Hierarchical Multi-label Classification

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe consider the problem of multi-label classification, where the labels lie on a hierarchy. However, unlike most existing works in hierarchical multi-label classification, we do not assume that the label-hierarchy …...

42570

KGP at SemEval-2021 Task 8: Leveraging Multi-Staged Language Models for Extracting Measurements, their Attributes and Relations

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractSemEval-2021 Task 8: MeasEval aims at improving the machine understanding of measurements in scientific texts through a set of entity and semantic relation extraction sub-tasks on identifying quantity spans along …...

25706

Linking Entities to Unseen Knowledge Bases with Arbitrary Schemas

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn entity linking, mentions of named entities in raw text are disambiguated against a knowledge base (KB). This work focuses on linking to unseen KBs that do not have training …...

21808

Ranking Online Reviews Based on Their Helpfulness: An Unsupervised Approach

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractOnline reviews are an essential aspect of online shopping for both customers and retailers. However, many reviews found on the Internet lack in quality, informativeness or helpfulness. In many cases, …...

20231

Sensei: Self-Supervised Sensor Name Segmentation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

Sensor names as alphanumeric strings typi- cally encode their key contextual information such as their function or physical location. We focus here on sensors used in smart build- ing applications. …...

34096

Smart-Start Decoding for Neural Machine Translation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2021)

DOI: nan

AbstractMost current neural machine translation models adopt a monotonic decoding order of either left-to-right or right-to-left. In this work, we propose a novel method that breaks up the limitation of …...

21568

A Deep Transfer Learning Method for Cross-Lingual Natural Language Inference

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractNatural Language Inference (NLI), also known as Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE), has been one of the central tasks in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). RTE between the …...

15443

ASRtrans at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Transformer-based Models for Meme Classification

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractWomen are frequently targeted online with hate speech and misogyny using tweets, memes, and other forms of communication. This paper describes our system for Task 5 of SemEval-2022: Multimedia Automatic …...

25090

Can the Translation Memory Principle Benefit Neural Machine Translation? A Series of Extensive Experiments with Input Sentence Annotation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

Integrating translation memories (TM) into neural machine translation (NMT) has been shown to improve translation quality. We test various schemes to integrate translation sug- gestions into an NMT system without …...

28823

Chapter Ordering in Novels

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractUnderstanding narrative flow and text coherence in long-form documents (novels) remains an open problem in NLP.To gain insight, we explore the task of chapter ordering, reconstructing the original order of …...

31119

Controlled Text Reduction

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractProducing a reduced version of a source text, as in generic or focused summarization, inherently involves two distinct subtasks: deciding on targeted content and generating a coherent text conveying it. …...

30713

daminglu123 at SemEval-2022 Task 2: Using BERT and LSTM to Do Text Classification

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractMultiword expressions (MWEs) or idiomaticity are common phenomenon in natural languages. Current pre-trained language models cannot effectively capture the meaning of these MWEs. The reason is that two normal words, …...

25150

FOAM: A Follower-aware Speaker Model For Vision-and-Language Navigation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractThe speaker-follower models have proven to be effective in vision-and-language navigation, where a speaker model is used to synthesize new instructions to augment the training data for a follower navigation …...

21086

JRLV at SemEval-2022 Task 5: The Importance of Visual Elements for Misogyny Identification in Memes

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractGender discrimination is a serious and widespread problem on social media and online in general. Besides offensive messages, memes are one of the main means of dissemination for such content. …...

25089

Modeling Syntactic-Semantic Dependency Correlations in Semantic Role Labeling Using Mixture Models

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we propose a mixture model-based end-to-end method to model the syntactic-semantic dependency correlation in Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). Semantic dependencies in SRL are modeled as a distribution …...

37142

Multitask Learning for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion of Anglicisms in German Speech Recognition

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractAnglicisms are a challenge in German speech recognition. Due to their irregular pronunciation compared to native German words, automatically generated pronunciation dictionaries often contain incorrect phoneme sequences for Anglicisms. In …...

15340

Papago’s Submission to the WMT22 Quality Estimation Shared Task

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis paper describes anonymous submission to the WMT 2022 Quality Estimation shared task. We participate in Task 1: Quality Prediction for both sentence and word-level quality prediction tasks. Our system …...

27514

Passage-Mask: A Learnable Regularization Strategy for Retriever-Reader Models

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractRetriever-reader models achieve competitive performance across many different NLP tasks such as open question answering and dialogue conversations. In this work, we notice these models easily overfit the top-rank retrieval …...

31060

Quality Estimation via Backtranslation at the WMT 2022 Quality Estimation Task

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis paper describes submission to the WMT 2022 Quality Estimation shared task (Task 1: sentence-level quality prediction). We follow a simple and intuitive approach, which consists of estimating MT quality …...

27519

SSN_NLP_MLRG at SemEval-2022 Task 4: Ensemble Learning strategies to detect Patronizing and Condescending Language

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we describe our efforts at SemEval 2022 Shared Task 4 on Patronizing and Condescending Language (PCL) Detection. This is the first shared task to detect PCL which …...

25120

The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT)

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractThe University of Edinburgh participated in the WMT22 shared task on code-mixed translation. This consists of two subtasks: i) generating code-mixed Hindi/English (Hinglish) text generation from parallel Hindi and English …...

27432

Topic Modeling With Topological Data Analysis

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractRecent unsupervised topic modelling ap-proaches that use clustering techniques onword, token or document embeddings can ex-tract coherent topics. A common limitationof such approaches is that they reveal noth-ing about inter-topic …...

29900

UAEM-ITAM at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Vision-Language Approach to Recognize Misogynous Content in Memes

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn the context of the Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification (MAMI) competition 2022, we developed a framework for extracting lexical-semantic features from text and combine them with semantic descriptions of images, …...

24320

UoR-NCL at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Using ensemble loss with BERT for intended sarcasm detection

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractSarcasm has gained notoriety for being difficult to detect by machine learning systems due to its figurative nature. In this paper, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model has been …...

25052

Visualizing the Relationship Between Encoded Linguistic Information and Task Performance

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractProbing is popular to analyze whether linguistic information can be captured by a well-trained deep neural model, but it is hard to answer how the change of the encoded linguistic …...

32951

XLM-E: Cross-lingual Language Model Pre-training via ELECTRA

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2022)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we introduce ELECTRA-style tasks to cross-lingual language model pre-training. Specifically, we present two pre-training tasks, namely multilingual replaced token detection, and translation replaced token detection. Besides, we …...

38961

A Simple and Flexible Modeling for Mental Disorder Detection by Learning from Clinical Questionnaires

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractSocial media is one of the most highly sought resources for analyzing characteristics of the language by its users. In particular, many researchers utilized various linguistic features of mental health …...

37932

Characterizing the Entities in Harmful Memes: Who is the Hero, the Villain, the Victim?

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractMemes can sway people’s opinions over social media as they combine visual and textual information in an easy-to-consume manner. Since memes instantly turn viral, it becomes crucial to infer their …...

42930

Efficiently Upgrading Multilingual Machine Translation Models to Support More Languages

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractWith multilingual machine translation (MMT) models continuing to grow in size and number of supported languages, it is natural to reuse and upgrade existing models to save computation as data …...

42976

FramingFreaks at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Detecting the Category and the Framing of Texts as Subword Units with Traditional Machine Learning

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractThis paper describes our participation as team FramingFreaks in the SemEval-2023 task 3 “Category and Framing Predictions in online news in a multi-lingual setup.” We participated in subtasks 1 and …...

24841

Improving Formality-Sensitive Machine Translation Using Data-Centric Approaches and Prompt Engineering

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractIn this paper, we present the KU x Upstage team’s submission for the Special Task on Formality Control on Spoken Language Translation, which involves translating English into four languages with …...

20563

RedHOT: A Corpus of Annotated Medical Questions, Experiences, and Claims on Social Media

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe present Reddit Health Online Talk (RedHOT), a corpus of 22,000 richly annotated social media posts from Reddit spanning 24 health conditions. Annotations include demarcations of spans corresponding to medical …...

33389

Sakura at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Data Augmentation via Translation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe demonstrate a simple yet effective approach to augmenting training data for multilingual named entity recognition using translations. The named entity spans from the original sentences are transferred to translations …...

24732

SUTNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 4: LG-Transformer for Human Value Detection

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractWhen we interact with other humans, humanvalues guide us to consider the human element. As we shall see, value analysis in NLP hasbeen applied to personality profiling but not toargument …...

24923

YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2023 Task 6: LEGAL-BERT Based Hierarchical BiLSTM with CRF for Rhetorical Roles Prediction

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2023)

DOI: nan

AbstractTo understand a legal document for real-world applications, SemEval-2023 Task 6 proposes a shared Subtask A, rhetorical roles (RRs) prediction, which requires a system to automatically assign a RR label …...

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