Microsoft at ACL 2019
Location: Florence, Italy
Monday, July 29
10:30 – 10:50 | Session 1A: Dialogue and Interactive Systems 1 – Neural Conversation Models
One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues
Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Can Xu, Wenpeng Hu, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan
10:30 – 10:50 | Session 1D: Machine Translation 1
Unsupervised Pivot Translation for Distant Languages
Yichong Leng, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Xiang-Yang Li, Tie-Yan Liu
10:30 – 12:10 | Applications | Poster Session 1
Neural News Recommendation with Long- and Short-term User Representations
Mingxiao An, Fangzhao Wu, Chuhan Wu, Kun Zhang, Zheng Liu, Xing Xie
10:30 – 12:10 | Resources and Evaluation | Poster Session 1
Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis
Tongshuang Wu, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Jeffrey Heer, Daniel Weld
11:50 – 12:10 | Session 1B: Sentence-level Semantics
Learning Compressed Sentence Representations for On-Device Text Processing
Dinghan Shen, Pengyu Cheng, Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Xinyuan Zhang, Qian Yang, Meng Tang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Lawrence Carin
13:50 – 14:10 | Session 2B: Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics
Coupling Retrieval and Meta-Learning for Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing
Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Jian Yin
13:50 – 15:30 | Information Extraction and Text Mining | Poster Session 2
Joint Type Inference on Entities and Relations via Graph Convolutional Networks
Changzhi Sun, Yeyun Gong, Nan Duan, Ming Gong, Daxin Jiang, Shiliang Sun, Man Lan, Yuanbin Wu
13:50 – 15:30 | Applications | Poster Session 2
Neural News Recommendation with Topic-Aware News Representation
Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Mingxiao An, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie
16:00 – 17:40 | Generation | Poster Session 3
Data-to-text Generation with Entity Modeling
Ratish Puduppully, Li Dong, Mirella Lapata
16:00 – 17:40 | Generation | Poster Session 3
Towards Generating Long and Coherent Text with Multi-Level Latent Variable Models
Dinghan Shen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yizhe Zhang, Liqun Chen, Xin Wang, Jianfeng Gao, Lawrence Carin
16:40 – 17:00 | Session 3A: Bias in Language Processing
Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Mitigating Gender Stereotypes in Languages with Rich Morphology
Ran Zmigrod, Sebastian J. Mielke, Hanna Wallach, Ryan Cotterell
16:40 – 17:00 | Session 3B: Word-level Semantics 1
Unsupervised Discovery of Gendered Language through Latent-Variable Modeling
Alexander Miserlis Hoyle, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Hanna Wallach, Isabelle Augenstein, Ryan Cotterell
Tuesday, July 30
10:30 – 10:50 | Session 4C: Evaluation
Sentence Mover’s Similarity: Automatic Evaluation for Multi-Sentence Texts
Elizabeth Clark, Asli Celikyilmaz, Noah A. Smith
10:30 – 12:10 | Multilinguality | Poster Session 4
Multi-Source Cross-Lingual Model Transfer: Learning What to Share
Xilun Chen, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Hany Hassan, Wei Wang, Claire Cardie
10:30 – 12:10 | Word-level Semantics | Poster Session 4
Embedding Imputation with Grounded Language Information
Ziyi Yang, Chenguang Zhu, Vin Sachidananda, Eric Darve
10:30 – 12:10 | Word-level Semantics | Poster Session 4
BERT-based Lexical Substitution
Wangchunshu Zhou, Tao Ge, Ke Xu, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou
11:10 – 11:30 | Session 4B: Question Answering 1 – Multi-Hop
Explore, Propose, and Assemble: An Interpretable Model for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension
Yichen Jiang, Nitish Joshi, Yen-Chun Chen, Mohit Bansal
11:30 – 11:43 | Session 4A: Dialogue and Generation
A Simple Recipe towards Reducing Hallucination in Neural Surface Realisation
Feng Nie, Jin-Ge Yao, Jinpeng Wang, Rong Pan, Chin-Yew Lin
13:50 – 15:30 | Machine Learning | Poster Session 5
Towards Language Agnostic Universal Representations
Armen Aghajanyan, Xia Song, Saurabh Tiwary
13:50 – 15:30 | Dialogue and Interactive Systems | Poster Session 5
Budgeted Policy Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Zhirui Zhang, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Enhong Chen
13:50 – 15:30 | Dialogue and Interactive Systems | Poster Session 5
Retrieval-Enhanced Adversarial Training for Neural Response Generation
Qingfu Zhu, Lei Cui, Wei-Nan Zhang, Furu Wei, Ting Liu
13:50 – 15:30 | Dialogue and Interactive Systems | Poster Session 5
Learning a Matching Model with Co-teaching for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems
Jiazhan Feng, Chongyang Tao, Wei Wu, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan
13:50 – 15:30 | Resources and Evaluation | Poster Session 5
The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: Removing Gender and Number Cues for Difficult Pronominal Anaphora Resolution
Ali Emami, Paul Trichelair, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, Hannes Schulz, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
14:50 – 15:10 | Session 5D: Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining 2
Exploring Sequence-to-Sequence Learning in Aspect Term Extraction
Dehong Ma, Sujian Li, Fangzhao Wu, Xing Xie, Houfeng Wang
Wednesday, July 31
10:30 – 12:10 | Sentence-level Semantics | Poster Session 6
Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding
Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Jianfeng Gao
10:30 – 12:10 | Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics | Poster Session 6
COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction
Antoine Bosselut, Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Chaitanya Malaviya, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yejin Choi
10:30 – 12:10 | Sentence-level Semantics | Poster Session 6
Towards Complex Text-to-SQL in Cross-Domain Database with Intermediate Representation
Jiaqi Guo, Zecheng Zhan, Yan Gao, Yan Xiao, Jian-Guang Lou, Ting Liu, Dongmei Zhang
10:50 – 11:10 | Session 6B: Question Answering 2
Learning to Ask Unanswerable Questions for Machine Reading Comprehension
Haichao Zhu, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Wenhui Wang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu
13:50 – 14:10 | Session 7E: Summarization 2
HIBERT: Document Level Pre-training of Hierarchical Bidirectional Transformers for Document Summarization
Xingxing Zhang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou
13:50 – 15:30 | Machine Learning | Poster Session 7
Soft Contextual Data Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation
Jinhua Zhu, Fei Gao, Lijun Wu, Yingce Xia, Tao Qin, Wengang Zhou, Xueqi Cheng, Tie-Yan Liu
13:50 – 15:30 | Information Extraction and Text Mining | Poster Session 7
Towards Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers
Tianyu Liu, Jin-Ge Yao, Chin-Yew Lin
13:50 – 15:30 | Information Extraction and Text Mining | Poster Session 7
Improving Textual Network Embedding with Global Attention via Optimal Transport
Liqun Chen, Guoyin Wang, Chenyang Tao, Dinghan Shen, Pengyu Cheng, Xinyuan Zhang, Wenlin Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Lawrence Carin
13:50 – 15:30 | Machine Learning | Poster Session 7
Depth Growing for Neural Machine Translation
Lijun Wu, Yiren Wang, Yingce Xia, Fei Tian, Fei Gao, Tao Qin, Jianhuang Lai, Tie-Yan Liu
13:50 – 15:30 | Dialogue and Interactive Systems | Poster Session 7
Conversing by Reading: Contentful Neural Conversation with On-demand Machine Reading
Lianhui Qin, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Xiaodong Liu, Xiang Gao, Bill Dolan, Yejin Choi, Jianfeng Gao
13:50 – 15:30 | Dialogue and Interactive Systems | Poster Session 7
Neural Response Generation with Meta-words
Can Xu, Wei Wu, Chongyang Tao, Huang Hu, Matt Schuerman, Ying Wang
14:30 – 14:50 | Session 7B: Question Answering 3
Simple and Effective Curriculum Pointer-Generator Networks for Reading Comprehension over Long Narratives
Yi Tay, Shuohang Wang, Anh Tuan Luu, Jie Fu, Minh C. Phan, Xingdi Yuan, Jinfeng Rao, Siu Cheung Hui, Aston Zhang
16:00 – 17:40 | Vision, Robotics, Multimodal, Grounding and Speech | Poster Session 8
Dense Procedure Captioning in Narrated Instructional Videos
Botian Shi, Lei Ji, Yaobo Liang, Zhendong Niu, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou
16:00 – 17:40 | Vision, Robotics, Multimodal, Grounding and Speech | Poster Session 8
Multi-step Reasoning via Recurrent Dual Attention for Visual Dialog
Zhe Gan, Yu Cheng, Ahmed Kholy, Linjie Li, Jingjing Liu, Jianfeng Gao
16:00 – 17:40 | Question Answering | Poster Session 8
Are Red Roses Red? Evaluating Consistency of Question-Answering Models
Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Carlos Guestrin, Sameer Singh
16:00 – 17:40 | Generation | Poster Session 8
Automatic Grammatical Error Correction for Sequence-to-sequence Text Generation: An Empirical Study
Tao Ge, Xingxing Zhang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou
16:20 – 16:40 | Session 8C: Resources and Evaluation
Probing for Semantic Classes: Diagnosing the Meaning Content of Word Embeddings
Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Katharina Kann, T. J. Hazen, Eneko Agirre, Hinrich Schütze
16:40 – 17:00 | Session 8A: Dialogue and Interactive Systems 3 – New Tasks
Target-Guided Open-Domain Conversation
Jianheng Tang, Zhiting Hu, Tiancheng Zhao, Chenyan Xiong, Xiaodan Liang, Eric Xing
16:40 – 17:00 | Session 8B: Word-level Semantics 2
Word2Sense: Sparse Interpretable Word Embeddings
Abhishek Panigrahi, Harsha Vardhan Simhadri, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya