Detailed program | COLING 2018

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Tuesday 21st August
9:00 – 9:30	Opening ceremony
9:30 – 10:30	Invited talk: James Pustejovsky – Sweeney ABCD
10:30 – 11:00	Refreshment break
11:00 – 12:20	Session 1-1-a – Co-reference – Peralta/Lamy	Session 1-1-b – Low-resource languages – Sweeney ABCD	Session 1-1-c – Parsing – *Coronada/Devargas*
	Session 1-1-a – A New Approach to Animacy Detection	Session 1-1-b – Unsupervised Morphology Learning with Statistical Paradigms *	Session 1-1-c – Distance-Free Modeling of Multi-Predicate Interactions in End-to-End Japanese Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis
	Labiba Jahan¹, Geeticka Chauhan², Mark Finlayson³	Hongzhi Xu, Mitchell Marcus, Charles Yang, Lyle Ungar	Yuichiroh Matsubayashi¹ and Kentaro Inui²
	Session 1-1-a – Zero Pronoun Resolution with Attention-based Neural Network	Session 1-1-b – Challenges of language technologies for the indigenous languages of the Americas *	Session 1-1-c – Sprucing up the trees – Error detection in treebanks
	Qingyu Yin¹, Yu Zhang², Wei-Nan Zhang², Ting Liu², William Yang Wang³	Manuel Mager¹, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques², Gerardo Sierra³, Ivan Meza-Ruiz¹	Ines Rehbein¹ and Josef Ruppenhofer²
	Session 1-1-a – They Exist! Introducing Plural Mentions to Coreference Resolution and Entity Linking *	Session 1-1-b – Low-resource Cross-lingual Event Type Detection via Distant Supervision with Minimal Effort	Session 1-1-c – Two Local Models for Neural Constituent Parsing
	Ethan Zhou¹ and Jinho D. Choi²	Aldrian Obaja Muis¹, Naoki Otani¹, Nidhi Vyas², Ruochen Xu¹, Yiming Yang¹, Teruko Mitamura¹, Eduard Hovy³	Zhiyang Teng and Yue Zhang
	Session 1-1-a – Triad-based Neural Network for Coreference Resolution	Session 1-1-b – Neural Transition-based String Transduction for Limited-Resource Setting in Morphology *	Session 1-1-c – RNN Simulations of Grammaticality Judgments on Long-distance Dependencies
	Yuanliang Meng and Anna Rumshisky	Peter Makarov and Simon Clematide	Shammur Absar Chowdhury¹ and Roberto Zamparelli²

11:00 – 12:20	Session 1-1-posters – Application, extraction and knowledge – *Sweeney EF*
	Session 1-1-posters – How Predictable is Your State? Leveraging Lexical and Contextual Information for Predicting Legislative Floor Action at the State Level
	Vladimir Eidelman, Anastassia Kornilova, Daniel Argyle
	Session 1-1-posters – Learning to Search in Long Documents Using Document Structure
	Mor Geva and Jonathan Berant
	Session 1-1-posters – Incorporating Image Matching Into Knowledge Acquisition for Event-Oriented Relation Recognition
	Yu Hong¹, Yang Xu¹, Huibin Ruan¹, Bowei Zou², Jianmin Yao¹, Guodong Zhou¹
	Session 1-1-posters – Representation Learning of Entities and Documents from Knowledge Base Descriptions
	Ikuya Yamada¹, Hiroyuki Shindo², Yoshiyasu Takefuji³
	Session 1-1-posters – Simple Neologism Based Domain Independent Models to Predict Year of Authorship
	Vivek Kulkarni¹, Yingtao Tian², Parth Dandiwala², Steve Skiena²
	Session 1-1-posters – Neural Math Word Problem Solver with Reinforcement Learning
	Danqing Huang¹, Jing Liu², Chin-Yew Lin³, Jian Yin¹
	Session 1-1-posters – Personalizing Lexical Simplification
	John Lee and Chak Yan Yeung
	Session 1-1-posters – From Text to Lexicon: Bridging the Gap between Word Embeddings and Lexical Resources *
	Ilia Kuznetsov and Iryna Gurevych
	Session 1-1-posters – Lexi: A tool for adaptive, personalized text simplification
	Joachim Bingel¹, Gustavo Paetzold², Anders Søgaard¹
	Session 1-1-posters – Identifying Emergent Research Trends by Key Authors and Phrases
	Shenhao Jiang, Animesh Prasad, Min-Yen Kan, Kazunari Sugiyama
	Session 1-1-posters – Embedding WordNet Knowledge for Textual Entailment
	Yunshi Lan and Jing Jiang
	Session 1-1-posters – Attributed and Predictive Entity Embedding for Fine-Grained Entity Typing in Knowledge Bases
	Hailong Jin¹, Lei Hou¹, Juanzi Li¹, Tiansi Dong²
	Session 1-1-posters – Joint Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Information Retrieval
	Bo Li, Ping Cheng, Le Jia
	Session 1-1-posters – Modeling the Readability of German Targeting Adults and Children: An empirically broad analysis and its cross-corpus validation
	Zarah Weiß¹ and Detmar Meurers²
	Session 1-1-posters – Automatic Assessment of Conceptual Text Complexity Using Knowledge Graphs
	Sanja Štajner and Ioana Hulpus
	Session 1-1-posters – Par4Sim — Adaptive Paraphrasing for Text Simplification
	Seid Muhie Yimam¹ and Chris Biemann²
	Session 1-1-posters – Topic or Style? Exploring the Most Useful Features for Authorship Attribution
	Yunita Sari, Mark Stevenson, Andreas Vlachos
	Session 1-1-posters – A Deep Dive into Word Sense Disambiguation with LSTM
	Minh Le¹, Marten Postma², Jacopo Urbani², Piek Vossen¹
	Session 1-1-posters – Enriching Word Embeddings with Domain Knowledge for Readability Assessment
	Zhiwei Jiang, Qing Gu, Yafeng Yin, Daoxu Chen
	Session 1-1-posters – WikiRef: Wikilinks as a route to recommending appropriate references for scientific Wikipedia pages
	Abhik Jana, Pranjal Kanojiya, Pawan Goyal, Animesh Mukherjee
	Session 1-1-posters – Authorship Identification for Literary Book Recommendations
	Haifa Alharthi¹, Diana Inkpen², Stan Szpakowicz³
	Session 1-1-posters – A Nontrivial Sentence Corpus for the Task of Sentence Readability Assessment in Portuguese
	Sidney Evaldo Leal, Magali Sanches Duran, Sandra Maria Aluísio
	Session 1-1-posters – Adopting the Word-Pair-Dependency-Triplets with Individual Comparison for Natural Language Inference
	Qianlong Du¹, Chengqing Zong², Keh-Yih Su³
	Session 1-1-posters – Cooperative Denoising for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction *
	Kai Lei¹, Daoyuan Chen¹, Yaliang Li², Nan Du², Min Yang³, Wei Fan², Ying Shen¹
	Session 1-1-posters – Adversarial Feature Adaptation for Cross-lingual Relation Classification
	Bowei Zou¹, Zengzhuang Xu², Yu Hong², Guodong Zhou²
	Session 1-1-posters – One-shot Learning for Question-Answering in Gaokao History Challenge
	Zhuosheng Zhang and Hai Zhao
	Session 1-1-posters – Dynamic Multi-Level Multi-Task Learning for Sentence Simplification *
	Han Guo¹, Ramakanth Pasunuru², Mohit Bansal¹
	Session 1-1-posters – Interpretation of Implicit Conditions in Database Search Dialogues
	Shunya Fukunaga¹, Hitoshi Nishikawa¹, Takenobu Tokunaga¹, Hikaru Yokono², Tetsuro Takahashi³
	Session 1-1-posters – Few-Shot Charge Prediction with Discriminative Legal Attributes
	Zikun Hu¹, Xiang Li¹, Cunchao Tu¹, Zhiyuan Liu¹, Maosong Sun²
	Session 1-1-posters – Can Taxonomy Help? Improving Semantic Question Matching using Question Taxonomy
	Deepak Gupta¹, Rajkumar Pujari², Asif Ekbal³, Pushpak Bhattacharyya⁴, Anutosh Maitra⁵, Tom Jain⁵, Shubhashis Sengupta⁵
	Session 1-1-posters – Natural Language Interface for Databases Using a Dual-Encoder Model
	Ionel Alexandru Hosu¹, Radu Cristian Alexandru Iacob², Florin Brad³, Stefan Ruseti², Traian Rebedea²

12:20 – 13:50	Lunch
13:50 – 15:50	Session 1-2-a – Discourse relations – Peralta/Lamy	Session 1-2-b – Machine translation – Sweeney ABCD	Session 1-2-c – Named entities – *Coronada/Devargas*
	Session 1-2-a – Employing Text Matching Network to Recognise Nuclearity in Chinese Discourse	Session 1-2-b – Modeling Coherence for Neural Machine Translation with Dynamic and Topic Caches	Session 1-2-c – Systematic Study of Long Tail Phenomena in Entity Linking
	Sheng Xu, Peifeng Li, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu	Shaohui Kuang¹, Deyi Xiong¹, Weihua Luo², Guodong Zhou¹	Filip Ilievski¹, Piek Vossen², Stefan Schlobach¹
	Session 1-2-a – Joint Modeling of Structure Identification and Nuclearity Recognition in Macro Chinese Discourse Treebank *	Session 1-2-b – Fusing Recency into Neural Machine Translation with an Inter-Sentence Gate Model	Session 1-2-c – Neural Collective Entity Linking
	Xiaomin Chu, Feng Jiang, Yi Zhou, Guodong Zhou, Qiaoming Zhu	Shaohui Kuang and Deyi Xiong	Yixin Cao, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu
	Session 1-2-a – Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition using Neural Tensor Network with Interactive Attention and Sparse Learning	Session 1-2-b – Improving Neural Machine Translation by Incorporating Hierarchical Subword Features	Session 1-2-c – Exploiting Structure in Representation of Named Entities using Active Learning
	Fengyu Guo¹, Ruifang He¹, Di Jin¹, Jianwu Dang², Longbiao Wang¹, Xiangang Li³	Makoto Morishita¹, Jun Suzuki², Masaaki Nagata³	Nikita Bhutani¹, Kun Qian², Yunyao Li³, H. V. Jagadish¹, Mauricio Hernandez³, Mitesh Vasa³
	Session 1-2-a – Transition-based Neural RST Parsing with Implicit Syntax Features	Session 1-2-b – Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration	Session 1-2-c – A Practical Incremental Learning Framework For Sparse Entity Extraction
	Nan Yu¹, Meishan Zhang², Guohong Fu¹	Yuval Merhav and Stephen Ash	Hussein Al-Olimat¹, Steven Gustafson², Jason Mackay³, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan¹, Amit Sheth¹
	Session 1-2-a – Deep Enhanced Representation for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition	Session 1-2-b – A Comparison of Transformer and Recurrent Neural Networks on Multilingual Neural Machine Translation *	Session 1-2-c – An Empirical Study on Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition
	Hongxiao Bai and Hai Zhao	Surafel Melaku Lakew¹, Mauro Cettolo², Marcello Federico²	Khai Mai¹, Thai-Hoang Pham¹, Minh Trung Nguyen¹, Nguyen Tuan Duc¹, Danushka Bollegala², Ryohei Sasano³, Satoshi Sekine⁴
	Session 1-2-a – A Knowledge-Augmented Neural Network Model for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification *	Session 1-2-b – On Adversarial Examples for Character-Level Neural Machine Translation *	Session 1-2-c – Does Higher Order LSTM Have Better Accuracy for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data?
	Yudai Kishimoto, Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi	Javid Ebrahimi, Daniel Lowd, Dejing Dou	Yi Zhang¹, Xu SUN¹, Shuming Ma², Yang Yang¹, Xuancheng Ren¹

13:50 – 15:50	Session 1-2-posters – Sentiment, NLG, understanding – *Sweeney EF*
	Session 1-2-posters – Ant Colony System for Multi-Document Summarization
	Asma Al-Saleh and Mohamed El Bachir Menai
	Session 1-2-posters – Multi-task dialog act and sentiment recognition on Mastodon
	Christophe Cerisara¹, Somayeh Jafaritazehjani², Adedayo Oluokun², Hoa T. Le²
	Session 1-2-posters – RuSentiment: An Enriched Sentiment Analysis Dataset for Social Media in Russian
	Anna Rogers¹, Alexey Romanov², Anna Rumshisky³, Svitlana Volkova⁴, Mikhail Gronas⁵, Alex Gribov³
	Session 1-2-posters – Self-Normalization Properties of Language Modeling
	Jacob Goldberger¹ and Oren Melamud²
	Session 1-2-posters – A Position-aware Bidirectional Attention Network for Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis
	Shuqin Gu, Lipeng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Yin Song
	Session 1-2-posters – Dynamic Feature Selection with Attention in Incremental Parsing
	Ryosuke Kohita¹, Hiroshi Noji², Yuji Matsumoto³
	Session 1-2-posters – Vocabulary Tailored Summary Generation
	Kundan Krishna¹, Aniket Murhekar², Saumitra Sharma³, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan¹
	Session 1-2-posters – Reading Comprehension with Graph-based Temporal-Casual Reasoning *
	Yawei Sun, Gong Cheng, Yuzhong Qu
	Session 1-2-posters – Projecting Embeddings for Domain Adaption: Joint Modeling of Sentiment Analysis in Diverse Domains
	Jeremy Barnes¹, Roman Klinger², Sabine Schulte im Walde²
	Session 1-2-posters – Cross-lingual Argumentation Mining: Machine Translation (and a bit of Projection) is All You Need!
	Steffen Eger, Johannes Daxenberger, Christian Stab, Iryna Gurevych
	Session 1-2-posters – HL-EncDec: A Hybrid-Level Encoder-Decoder for Neural Response Generation
	Sixing Wu¹, Dawei Zhang², Ying Li³, Xing Xie², Zhonghai Wu³
	Session 1-2-posters – Multi-Perspective Context Aggregation for Semi-supervised Cloze-style Reading Comprehension
	Liang Wang¹, Sujian Li², Wei Zhao¹, Kewei Shen¹, Meng Sun¹, Ruoyu Jia¹, Jingming Liu¹
	Session 1-2-posters – A Lexicon-Based Supervised Attention Model for Neural Sentiment Analysis *
	Yicheng Zou, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
	Session 1-2-posters – Open-Domain Event Detection using Distant Supervision
	Jun Araki and Teruko Mitamura
	Session 1-2-posters – Semi-Supervised Lexicon Learning for Wide-Coverage Semantic Parsing
	Bo Chen¹, Bo An², Le Sun³, Xianpei Han¹
	Session 1-2-posters – Summarization Evaluation in the Absence of Human Model Summaries Using the Compositionality of Word Embeddings
	Elaheh ShafieiBavani¹, Mohammad Ebrahimi², Raymond Wong², Fang Chen³
	Session 1-2-posters – A review of Spanish corpora annotated with negation
	Salud María Jiménez-Zafra¹, Roser Morante², Maite Martin³, L. Alfonso Urena Lopez⁴
	Session 1-2-posters – Document-level Multi-aspect Sentiment Classification by Jointly Modeling Users, Aspects, and Overall Ratings
	Junjie Li¹, Haitong Yang², Chengqing Zong³
	Session 1-2-posters – Leveraging Meta-Embeddings for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction from Specialized Comparable Corpora
	Amir Hazem and Emmanuel Morin
	Session 1-2-posters – Learning Emotion-enriched Word Representations
	Ameeta Agrawal, Aijun An, Manos Papagelis
	Session 1-2-posters – Evaluating the text quality, human likeness and tailoring component of PASS: A Dutch data-to-text system for soccer
	Chris van der Lee, Bart Verduijn, Emiel Krahmer, Sander Wubben
	Session 1-2-posters – Answerable or Not: Devising a Dataset for Extending Machine Reading Comprehension
	Mao Nakanishi, Tetsunori Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Hayashi
	Session 1-2-posters – Style Obfuscation by Invariance
	Chris Emmery¹, Enrique Manjavacas Arevalo², Grzegorz Chrupała³
	Session 1-2-posters – Encoding Sentiment Information into Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis
	Zhe Ye¹, Fang Li², Timothy Baldwin³
	Session 1-2-posters – Multi-Task Neural Models for Translating Between Styles Within and Across Languages
	Xing Niu¹, Sudha Rao², Marine Carpuat¹
	Session 1-2-posters – Towards a Language for Natural Language Treebank Transductions
	Carlos A. Prolo
	Session 1-2-posters – Generating Reasonable and Diversiﬁed Story Ending Using Sequence to Sequence Model with Adversarial Training
	Zhongyang Li, Xiao Ding, Ting Liu
	Session 1-2-posters – Point Precisely: Towards Ensuring the Precision of Data in Generated Texts Using Delayed Copy Mechanism
	Liunian Li and Xiaojun Wan
	Session 1-2-posters – Enhancing General Sentiment Lexicons for Domain-Specific Use
	Tim Kreutz and Walter Daelemans
	Session 1-2-posters – An Operation Network for Abstractive Sentence Compression
	Naitong Yu¹, Jie Zhang², Minlie Huang¹, xiaoyan zhu³
	Session 1-2-posters – Enhanced Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Auxiliary Memory
	Peisong Zhu and Tieyun Qian

15:50 – 16:20	Refreshment break
16:20 – 18:00	Session 1-3-a – Aspect-based sentiment, Ethics – Peralta/Lamy	Session 1-3-b – Relation extraction, Summarization – *Coronada/Devargas*	Session 1-3-c – Dialogue systems – *Sweeney ABCD*
	Session 1-3-a – Author Profiling for Abuse Detection	Session 1-3-b – Multilevel Heuristics for Rationale-Based Entity Relation Classification in Sentences	Session 1-3-c – Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Variational Neural Language Generation in Dialogue Systems
	Pushkar Mishra¹, Marco Del Tredici², Helen Yannakoudakis¹, Ekaterina Shutova¹	Shiou Tian Hsu¹, Mandar Chaudhary², Nagiza Samatova²	Van-Khanh Tran and Le-Minh Nguyen
	Session 1-3-a – Automated Scoring: Beyond Natural Language Processing	Session 1-3-b – Adversarial Multi-lingual Neural Relation Extraction	Session 1-3-c – Ask No More: Deciding when to guess in referential visual dialogue
	Nitin Madnani and Aoife Cahill	Xiaozhi Wang¹, Xu Han¹, Yankai Lin¹, Zhiyuan Liu¹, Maosong Sun²	RAVI SHEKHAR¹, Tim Baumgärtner², Aashish Venkatesh², Elia Bruni³, Raffaella Bernardi¹, Raquel Fernández⁴
	Session 1-3-a – Aspect and Sentiment Aware Abstractive Review Summarization	Session 1-3-b – Neural Relation Classification with Text Descriptions	Session 1-3-c – Sequence-to-Sequence Data Augmentation for Dialogue Language Understanding
	Min Yang¹, Qiang Qu², Ying Shen³, Qiao Liu⁴, Wei Zhao², Jia Zhu⁵	Feiliang Ren¹, Di Zhou², Zhihui Liu², Yongcheng Li², Rongsheng Zhao², Yongkang Liu², Xiaobo Liang²	Yutai Hou¹, Yijia Liu², Wanxiang Che¹, Ting Liu¹
	Session 1-3-a – Effective Attention Modeling for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification	Session 1-3-b – Abstract Meaning Representation for Multi-Document Summarization *	Session 1-3-c – Dialogue-act-driven Conversation Model : An Experimental Study *
	Ruidan He¹, Wee Sun Lee¹, Hwee Tou Ng¹, Daniel Dahlmeier²	Kexin Liao, Logan Lebanoff, Fei Liu	Harshit Kumar, Arvind Agarwal, Sachindra Joshi
	Session 1-3-a – Bringing replication and reproduction together with generalisability in NLP: Three reproduction studies for Target Dependent Sentiment Analysis	Session 1-3-b – Abstractive Unsupervised Multi-Document Summarization using Paraphrastic Sentence Fusion *	Session 1-3-c – Structured Dialogue Policy with Graph Neural Networks *
	Andrew Moore and Paul Rayson	Mir Tafseer Nayeem¹, Tanvir Ahmed Fuad¹, Yllias Chali²	Lu Chen, Bowen Tan, Sishan Long, Kai Yu

16:20 – 18:00	Session 1-3-posters – Translation, Variation – *Sweeney EF*
	Session 1-3-posters – JTAV: Jointly Learning Social Media Content Representation by Fusing Textual, Acoustic, and Visual Features
	Hongru Liang¹, Haozheng Wang¹, Jun Wang², Shaodi You³, Zhe Sun⁴, Jin-Mao Wei¹, Zhenglu Yang¹
	Session 1-3-posters – MEMD: A Diversity-Promoting Learning Framework for Short-Text Conversation
	Meng Zou, Xihan Li, Haokun Liu, Zhihong Deng
	Session 1-3-posters – Refining Source Representations with Relation Networks for Neural Machine Translation
	Wen Zhang¹, hu jiawei², Yang Feng³, Qun Liu⁴
	Session 1-3-posters – A Survey of Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation
	Chenhui Chu¹ and Rui Wang²
	Session 1-3-posters – An Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation Models on Historical Spelling Normalization
	Gongbo Tang¹, Fabienne Cap¹, Eva Pettersson², Joakim Nivre¹
	Session 1-3-posters – Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Identification
	Mohammad Salameh¹ and Houda Bouamor²
	Session 1-3-posters – Who Feels What and Why? Annotation of a Literature Corpus with Semantic Roles of Emotions
	Evgeny Kim¹ and Roman Klinger²
	Session 1-3-posters – Local String Transduction as Sequence Labeling
	Joana Ribeiro¹, Shashi Narayan¹, Shay B. Cohen¹, Xavier Carreras²
	Session 1-3-posters – Deep Neural Networks at the Service of Multilingual Parallel Sentence Extraction
	Ahmad Aghaebrahimian
	Session 1-3-posters – Diachronic word embeddings and semantic shifts: a survey *
	Andrey Kutuzov¹, Lilja Øvrelid², Terrence Szymanski³, Erik Velldal¹
	Session 1-3-posters – Interaction-Aware Topic Model for Microblog Conversations through Network Embedding and User Attention
	Ruifang He¹, Xuefei Zhang¹, Di Jin¹, Longbiao Wang¹, Jianwu Dang¹, Xiangang Li²
	Session 1-3-posters – Cross-media User Profiling with Joint Textual and Social User Embedding
	Jingjing Wang¹, Shoushan Li¹, Mingqi Jiang¹, Hanqian Wu², Guodong Zhou¹
	Session 1-3-posters – Incorporating Syntactic Uncertainty in Neural Machine Translation with a Forest-to-Sequence Model
	Poorya Zaremoodi and Gholamreza Haffari
	Session 1-3-posters – Adaptive Weighting for Neural Machine Translation
	Yachao Li¹, Junhui Li², Min Zhang¹
	Session 1-3-posters – Ensure the Correctness of the Summary: Incorporate Entailment Knowledge into Abstractive Sentence Summarization
	Haoran Li¹, Junnan Zhu¹, Jiajun Zhang², Chengqing Zong¹
	Session 1-3-posters – Extracting Parallel Sentences with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks to Improve Machine Translation
	Francis Grégoire and Philippe Langlais
	Session 1-3-posters – Fast and Accurate Reordering with ITG Transition RNN
	Hao Zhang, Axel Ng, Richard Sproat
	Session 1-3-posters – Neural Machine Translation with Decoding History Enhanced Attention
	Mingxuan Wang¹, Jun Xie², Zhixing Tan³, jinsong su⁴, Deyi Xiong⁵, Chao Bian²
	Session 1-3-posters – Transfer Learning for a Letter-Ngrams to Word Decoder in the Context of Historical Handwriting Recognition with Scarce Resources
	Adeline Granet¹, Emmanuel Morin², Harold Mouchère², Solen Quiniou³, Christian Viard-Gaudin²
	Session 1-3-posters – SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions *
	Arman Cohan¹, Bart Desmet², Andrew Yates³, Luca Soldaini¹, Sean MacAvaney¹, Nazli Goharian¹
	Session 1-3-posters – Crowdsourcing a Large Corpus of Clickbait on Twitter
	Martin Potthast¹, Tim Gollub², Kristof Komlossy², Sebastian Schuster², Matti Wiegmann², Erika Patricia Garces Fernandez², Matthias Hagen³, Benno Stein²
	Session 1-3-posters – Cross-lingual Knowledge Projection Using Machine Translation and Target-side Knowledge Base Completion
	Naoki Otani¹, Hirokazu Kiyomaru², Daisuke Kawahara², Sadao Kurohashi²
	Session 1-3-posters – Assessing Quality Estimation Models for Sentence-Level Prediction
	Hoang Cuong and Jia Xu
	Session 1-3-posters – User-Level Race and Ethnicity Predictors from Twitter Text
	Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro and Lyle Ungar
	Session 1-3-posters – Multi-Source Multi-Class Fake News Detection
	Hamid Karimi, Proteek Roy, Sari Saba-Sadiya, Jiliang Tang
	Session 1-3-posters – Killing Four Birds with Two Stones: Multi-Task Learning for Non-Literal Language Detection
	Erik-Lân Do Dinh, Steffen Eger, Iryna Gurevych
	Session 1-3-posters – Twitter corpus of Resource-Scarce Languages for Sentiment Analysis and Multilingual Emoji Prediction
	Nurendra Choudhary¹, Rajat Singh¹, Vijjini Anvesh Rao¹, Manish Shrivastava²

Wednesday 22nd August
09:00 – 10:00	Invited talk: Fabiola Henri – *Sweeney ABCD*
10:00 – 10:30	Refreshment break
10:30 – 11:50	Session 2-1-a – Language change, Historical linguistics – Peralta/Lamy	Session 2-1-b – Embedding creation – *Coronada/Devargas*	Session 2-1-c – ML methods – Sweeney ABCD
	Session 2-1-a – Towards identifying the optimal datasize for lexically-based Bayesian inference of linguistic phylogenies	Session 2-1-b – Relation Induction in Word Embeddings Revisited *	Session 2-1-c – Variational Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Models
	Taraka Rama¹ and Søren Wichmann²	Zied Bouraoui¹, Shoaib Jameel², Steven Schockaert³	Hareesh Bahuleyan¹, Lili Mou², Olga Vechtomova¹, Pascal Poupart¹
	Session 2-1-a – The Road to Success: Assessing the Fate of Linguistic Innovations in Online Communities *	Session 2-1-b – Contextual String Embeddings for Sequence Labeling	Session 2-1-c – A New Concept of Deep Reinforcement Learning based Augmented General Tagging System
	Marco Del Tredici¹ and Raquel Fernández²	Alan Akbik, Duncan Blythe, Roland Vollgraf	Yu Wang, Abhishek Patel, Hongxia Jin
	Session 2-1-a – Ab Initio: Automatic Latin Proto-word Reconstruction	Session 2-1-b – Learning Word Meta-Embeddings by Autoencoding	Session 2-1-c – Learning from Measurements in Crowdsourcing Models: Inferring Ground Truth from Diverse Annotation Types
	Alina Maria Ciobanu and Liviu P. Dinu	Danushka Bollegala and Cong Bao	Paul Felt¹, Eric Ringger², Kevin Seppi¹, Jordan Boyd-Graber³
	Session 2-1-a – A Computational Model for the Linguistic Notion of Morphological Paradigm	Session 2-1-b – GenSense: A Generalized Sense Retrofitting Model *	Session 2-1-c – Reproducing and Regularizing the SCRN Model
	Miikka Silfverberg¹, Ling Liu¹, Mans Hulden²	Yang-Yin Lee¹, Ting-Yu Yen², Hen-Hsen Huang³, Yow-Ting Shiue¹, Hsin-Hsi Chen¹	Olzhas Kabdolov¹, Zhenisbek Assylbekov², Rustem Takhanov²

12:00	Lunch and excursion
Thursday 23rd August
09:00 – 10:00	Invited talk: Hannah Rohde – Sweeney ABCD
10:00 – 10:30	Refreshment break
10:30 – 12:10	Session 3-1-a – Generation – Peralta/Lamy	Session 3-1-b – Embedding creation – Sweeney ABCD	Session 3-1-c – Humor, rumor, sarcasm & spam – *Coronada/Devargas*
	Session 3-1-a – Structure-Infused Copy Mechanisms for Abstractive Summarization	Session 3-1-b – Embedding Words as Distributions with a Bayesian Skip-gram Model	Session 3-1-c – CASCADE: Contextual Sarcasm Detection in Online Discussion Forums
	Kaiqiang Song¹, Lin Zhao², Fei Liu¹	Arthur Bražinskas¹, Serhii Havrylov², Ivan Titov³	Devamanyu Hazarika¹, Soujanya Poria², Sruthi Gorantla³, Erik Cambria², Roger Zimmermann¹, Rada Mihalcea⁴
	Session 3-1-a – Measuring the Diversity of Automatic Image Descriptions*	Session 3-1-b – Assessing Composition in Sentence Vector Representations	Session 3-1-c – Recognizing Humour using Word Associations and Humour Anchor Extraction
	Emiel van Miltenburg¹, Desmond Elliott², Piek Vossen³	Allyson Ettinger¹, Ahmed Elgohary², Colin Phillips², Philip Resnik¹	Andrew Cattle¹ and Xiaojuan Ma²
	Session 3-1-a – Extractive Headline Generation Based on Learning to Rank for Community Question Answering	Session 3-1-b – Subword-augmented Embedding for Cloze Reading Comprehension	Session 3-1-c – A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance-Detection Task
	Tatsuru Higurashi, Hayato Kobayashi, Takeshi Masuyama, Kazuma Murao	Zhuosheng Zhang, Yafang Huang, Hai Zhao	Andreas Hanselowski¹, Avinesh PVS¹, Benjamin Schiller¹, Felix Caspelherr¹, Debanjan Chaudhuri², Christian M. Meyer¹, Iryna Gurevych¹
	Session 3-1-a – A Multi-Attention based Neural Network with External Knowledge for Story Ending Predicting Task *	Session 3-1-b – Enhancing Sentence Embedding with Generalized Pooling	Session 3-1-c – Exploiting Syntactic Structures for Humor Recognition
	Qian Li¹, Ziwei Li², Jin-Mao Wei², Yanhui Gu³, Adam Jatowt⁴, Zhenglu Yang²	Qian Chen¹, Zhen-Hua Ling¹, Xiaodan Zhu²	Lizhen Liu¹, Donghai Zhang², Wei Song¹
	Session 3-1-a – A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Natural Question Generation using Bi-discriminators	Session 3-1-b – Treat us like the sequences we are: Prepositional Paraphrasing of Noun Compounds using LSTM	Session 3-1-c – An Attribute Enhanced Domain Adaptive Model for Cold-Start Spam Review Detection
	Zhihao Fan¹, Zhongyu Wei², Siyuan Wang¹, Yang Liu³, Xuanjing Huang¹	Girishkumar Ponkiya¹, Kevin Patel², Pushpak Bhattacharyya³, Girish Palshikar⁴	Zhenni You¹, Tieyun Qian¹, Bing Liu²

10:30 – 12:10	Session 3-1-posters – Entities, QA and classification – *Sweeney EF*
	Session 3-1-posters – Robust Lexical Features for Improved Neural Network Named-Entity Recognition
	Abbas Ghaddar and Phillippe Langlais
	Session 3-1-posters – A Pseudo Label based Dataless Naive Bayes Algorithm for Text Classification with Seed Words
	Ximing Li and Bo Yang
	Session 3-1-posters – Visual Question Answering Dataset for Bilingual Image Understanding: A Study of Cross-Lingual Transfer Using Attention Maps *
	Nobuyuki Shimizu¹, Na Rong², Takashi Miyazaki¹
	Session 3-1-posters – Style Detection for Free Verse Poetry from Text and Speech
	Timo Baumann¹, Hussein Hussein², Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek²
	Session 3-1-posters – A Neural Question Answering Model Based on Semi-Structured Tables
	Hao Wang¹, Xiaodong Zhang¹, Shuming Ma², Xu SUN¹, Houfeng WANG¹, wang mengxiang³
	Session 3-1-posters – LCQMC:A Large-scale Chinese Question Matching Corpus
	Xin Liu¹, Qingcai Chen², Chong Deng³, Huajun Zeng⁴, Jing Chen¹, Dongfang Li¹, Buzhou Tang¹
	Session 3-1-posters – Genre Identification and the Compositional Effect of Genre in Literature
	Joseph Worsham and Jugal Kalita
	Session 3-1-posters – Transfer Learning for Entity Recognition of Novel Classes *
	Juan Diego Rodriguez, Adam Caldwell, Alexander Liu
	Session 3-1-posters – Location Name Extraction from Targeted Text Streams using Gazetteer-based Statistical Language Models
	Hussein Al-Olimat, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Valerie Shalin, Amit Sheth
	Session 3-1-posters – The APVA-TURBO Approach To Question Answering in Knowledge Base
	Yue Wang¹, Richong Zhang¹, Cheng Xu¹, Yongyi Mao²
	Session 3-1-posters – An Interpretable Reasoning Network for Multi-Relation Question Answering
	Mantong Zhou¹, Minlie Huang¹, xiaoyan zhu²
	Session 3-1-posters – Task-oriented Word Embedding for Text Classification
	Qian Liu, Heyan Huang, Yang Gao, Xiaochi Wei, Yuxin Tian, Luyang Liu
	Session 3-1-posters – Adaptive Learning of Local Semantic and Global Structure Representations for Text Classification
	Jianyu Zhao¹, Zhiqiang Zhan¹, Qichuan Yang², Yang Zhang³, Changjian Hu⁴, Zhensheng Li³, Liuxin Zhang³, Zhiqiang He⁵
	Session 3-1-posters – Lyrics Segmentation: Textual Macrostructure Detection using Convolutions
	Michael Fell¹, Yaroslav Nechaev², Elena Cabrio¹, Fabien Gandon¹
	Session 3-1-posters – Learning What to Share: Leaky Multi-Task Network for Text Classification
	Liqiang Xiao¹, Honglun Zhang², Wenqing Chen², Yongkun Wang³, Yaohui Jin⁴
	Session 3-1-posters – Towards an argumentative content search engine using weak supervision
	Ran Levy, Ben Bogin, Shai Gretz, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim
	Session 3-1-posters – Improving Named Entity Recognition by Jointly Learning to Disambiguate Morphological Tags
	Onur Gungor, Suzan Uskudarli, Tunga Gungor
	Session 3-1-posters – Farewell Freebase: Migrating the SimpleQuestions Dataset to DBpedia
	Michael Azmy, Peng Shi, Ihab Ilyas, Jimmy Lin
	Session 3-1-posters – An Analysis of Annotated Corpora for Emotion Classification in Text
	Laura Ana Maria Bostan¹ and Roman Klinger²
	Session 3-1-posters – Investigating the Working of Text Classifiers
	Devendra Sachan¹, Manzil Zaheer², Ruslan Salakhutdinov²
	Session 3-1-posters – A Review on Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Answer Selection
	Tuan Manh Lai, Trung Bui, Sheng Li
	Session 3-1-posters – A Survey on Recent Advances in Named Entity Recognition from Deep Learning models
	Vikas Yadav¹ and Steven Bethard²
	Session 3-1-posters – Distantly Supervised NER with Partial Annotation Learning and Reinforcement Learning
	Yaosheng Yang, Wenliang Chen, Zhenghua Li, Zhengqiu He, Min Zhang
	Session 3-1-posters – Joint Neural Entity Disambiguation with Output Space Search
	Hamed Shahbazi¹, Xiaoli Fern¹, Reza Ghaeini¹, Chao Ma², Rasha Mohammad Obeidat², Prasad Tadepalli¹
	Session 3-1-posters – Learning to Progressively Recognize New Named Entities with Sequence to Sequence Models
	Lingzhen Chen¹ and Alessandro Moschitti²
	Session 3-1-posters – Responding E-commerce Product Questions via Exploiting QA Collections and Reviews
	Qian Yu¹, Wai Lam², Zihao Wang²

12:10 – 13:40	Lunch
13:40 – 15:20	Session 3-2-a – Sentiment – Sweeney ABCD	Session 3-2-b – IE – Peralta/Lamy	Session 3-2-c – Multimodal processing, ASR, NLI – *Coronada/Devargas*
	Session 3-2-a – Aff2Vec: Affect–Enriched Distributional Word Representations	Session 3-2-b – Exploratory Neural Relation Classification for Domain Knowledge Acquisition	Session 3-2-c – Multimodal Grounding for Language Processing
	Sopan Khosla, Niyati Chhaya, Kushal Chawla	Yan Fan, Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He	Lisa Beinborn¹, Teresa Botschen², Iryna Gurevych²
	Session 3-2-a – Aspect-based summarization of pros and cons in unstructured product reviews	Session 3-2-b – Who is Killed by Police: Introducing Supervised Attention for Hierarchical LSTMs	Session 3-2-c – Stress Test Evaluation for Natural Language Inference *
	Florian Kunneman¹, Sander Wubben², Antal van den Bosch¹, Emiel Krahmer²	Minh Nguyen¹ and Thien Nguyen²	Aakanksha Naik, Abhilasha Ravichander, Norman Sadeh, Carolyn Rose, Graham Neubig
	Session 3-2-a – Learning Sentiment Composition from Sentiment Lexicons	Session 3-2-b – Open Information Extraction from Conjunctive Sentences	Session 3-2-c – Grounded Textual Entailment
	Orith Toledo-Ronen, Roy Bar-Haim, Alon Halfon, Charles Jochim, Amir Menczel, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim	Swarnadeep Saha¹ and Mausam –²	Hoa Vu¹, Claudio Greco², Aliia Erofeeva², Somayeh Jafaritazehjan¹, Guido Linders², Marc Tanti¹, Alberto Testoni², Raffaella Bernardi², Albert Gatt¹
	Session 3-2-a – Representations and Architectures in Neural Sentiment Analysis for Morphologically Rich Languages: A Case Study from Modern Hebrew	Session 3-2-b – Graphene: Semantically-Linked Propositions in Open Information Extraction	Session 3-2-c – Recurrent One-Hop Predictions for Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs *
	Adam Amram, Anat Ben-David, Reut Tsarfaty	Matthias Cetto¹, Christina Niklaus², André Freitas³, Siegfried Handschuh¹	Wenpeng Yin¹, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh², Hinrich Schütze³
	Session 3-2-a – Scoring and Classifying Implicit Positive Interpretations: A Challenge of Class Imbalance	Session 3-2-b – An Exploration of Three Lightly-supervised Representation Learning Approaches for Named Entity Classification	Session 3-2-c – Hybrid Attention based Multimodal Network for Spoken Language Classification
	Chantal van Son¹, Roser Morante¹, Lora Aroyo¹, Piek Vossen²	Ajay Nagesh and Mihai Surdeanu	Yue Gu, Kangning Yang, Shiyu Fu, Shuhong Chen, Xinyu Li, Ivan Marsic

13:40 – 15:20	Session 3-2-posters – Distributional information – *Sweeney EF*
	Session 3-2-posters – Exploring the Influence of Spelling Errors on Lexical Variation Measures
	Ryo Nagata¹, Taisei Sato¹, Hiroya Takamura²
	Session 3-2-posters – Stance Detection with Hierarchical Attention Network
	Qingying Sun, Zhongqing Wang, Qiaoming Zhu, Guodong Zhou
	Session 3-2-posters – Correcting Chinese Word Usage Errors for Learning Chinese as a Second Language
	Yow-Ting Shiue¹, Hen-Hsen Huang², Hsin-Hsi Chen¹
	Session 3-2-posters – Retrofitting Distributional Embeddings to Knowledge Graphs with Functional Relations
	Ben Lengerich¹, Andrew Maas², Christopher Potts²
	Session 3-2-posters – Context-Sensitive Generation of Open-Domain Conversational Responses
	Wei-Nan Zhang¹, Yiming Cui², Yifa Wang¹, Qingfu Zhu¹, Lingzhi Li¹, Lianqiang Zhou³, Ting Liu¹
	Session 3-2-posters – A LSTM Approach with Sub-Word Embeddings for Mongolian Phrase Break Prediction
	Rui Liu¹, Feilong Bao¹, Guanglai Gao², Hui Zhang³, Yonghe Wang¹
	Session 3-2-posters – Synonymy in Bilingual Context: The CzEngClass Lexicon
	Zdenka Uresova, Eva Fucikova, Eva Hajicova, Jan Hajic
	Session 3-2-posters – Convolutional Neural Network for Universal Sentence Embeddings
	Xiaoqi Jiao, Fang Wang, Dan Feng
	Session 3-2-posters – Rich Character-Level Information for Korean Morphological Analysis and Part-of-Speech Tagging
	Andrew Matteson¹, Chanhee Lee¹, Youngbum Kim², Heuiseok Lim¹
	Session 3-2-posters – Why does PairDiff work? – A Mathematical Analysis of Bilinear Relational Compositional Operators for Analogy Detection
	Huda Hakami¹, Kohei Hayashi², Danushka Bollegala³
	Session 3-2-posters – Real-time Change Point Detection using On-line Topic Models
	Yunli Wang and Cyril Goutte
	Session 3-2-posters – Automatically Creating a Lexicon of Verbal Polarity Shifters: Mono- and Cross-lingual Methods for German
	Marc Schulder¹, Michael Wiegand¹, Josef Ruppenhofer²
	Session 3-2-posters – Part-of-Speech Tagging on an Endangered Language: a Parallel Griko-Italian Resource
	Antonios Anastasopoulos¹, Marika Lekakou², Josep Quer³, Eleni Zimianiti², Justin DeBenedetto¹, David Chiang¹
	Session 3-2-posters – One vs. Many QA Matching with both Word-level and Sentence-level Attention Network
	Lu Wang¹, Shoushan Li¹, Changlong Sun², Luo Si², Xiaozhong Liu², Min Zhang¹, Guodong Zhou¹
	Session 3-2-posters – Learning to Generate Word Representations using Subword Information
	Yeachan Kim, Kang-Min Kim, Ji-Min Lee, SangKeun Lee
	Session 3-2-posters – Urdu Word Segmentation using Conditional Random Fields (CRFs)
	Haris Bin Zia¹, Agha Ali Raza², Awais Athar³
	Session 3-2-posters – ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms
	Mokhtar Boumedyen BILLAMI¹, Thomas François², Nuria Gala³
	Session 3-2-posters – If you’ve seen some, you’ve seen them all: Identifying variants of multiword expressions
	Caroline Pasquer¹, Agata Savary¹, Carlos Ramisch², Jean-Yves Antoine³
	Session 3-2-posters – Learning Multilingual Topics from Incomparable Corpora
	Shudong Hao¹ and Michael J. Paul²
	Session 3-2-posters – Using Word Embeddings for Unsupervised Acronym Disambiguation
	Jean Charbonnier and Christian Wartena
	Session 3-2-posters – Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes
	Patrick Littell¹, Anna Kazantseva², Roland Kuhn¹, Aidan Pine³, Antti Arppe⁴, Christopher Cox⁵, Marie-Odile Junker⁵
	Session 3-2-posters – Pluralizing Nouns across Agglutinating Bantu Languages
	Joan Byamugisha¹, C. Maria Keet¹, Brian DeRenzi²
	Session 3-2-posters – Automatically Extracting Qualia Relations for the Rich Event Ontology *
	Ghazaleh Kazeminejad¹, Claire Bonial², Susan Windisch Brown³, Martha Palmer⁴
	Session 3-2-posters – SeVeN: Augmenting Word Embeddings with Unsupervised Relation Vectors *
	Luis Espinosa Anke and Steven Schockaert
	Session 3-2-posters – Evaluation of Unsupervised Compositional Representations
	Hanan Aldarmaki¹ and Mona Diab²
	Session 3-2-posters – Using Formulaic Expressions in Writing Assistance Systems
	Kenichi Iwatsuki¹ and Akiko Aizawa²
	Session 3-2-posters – What’s in Your Embedding, And How It Predicts Task Performance
	Anna Rogers¹, Shashwath Hosur Ananthakrishna², Anna Rumshisky²
	Session 3-2-posters – Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Word Similarity Calculation Using Word Vector Representation from a Knowledge-based Graph
	Dongsuk O¹, Sunjae Kwon², Kyungsun Kim¹, Youngjoong Ko³
	Session 3-2-posters – Learning Semantic Sentence Embeddings using Sequential Pair-wise Discriminator
	Badri Narayana Patro¹, Vinod Kumar Kurmi¹, Sandeep Kumar², Vinay Namboodiri¹
	Session 3-2-posters – A Reassessment of Reference-Based Grammatical Error Correction Metrics
	Shamil Chollampatt and Hwee Tou Ng
	Session 3-2-posters – Information Aggregation via Dynamic Routing for Sequence Encoding
	Jingjing Gong, Xipeng Qiu, Shaojing Wang, Xuanjing Huang
	Session 3-2-posters – A Full End-to-End Semantic Role Labeler, Syntactic-agnostic Over Syntactic-aware?
	Jiaxun Cai, Shexia He, Zuchao Li, Hai Zhao

15:20 – 15:50	Refreshment break
15:50 – 17:30	Session 3-3-a – Applications – Peralta/Lamy	Session 3-3-b – Distributional semantics – *Coronada/Devargas*	Session 3-3-c – Emotion – Sweeney ABCD
	Session 3-3-a – Authorship Attribution By Consensus Among Multiple Features	Session 3-3-b – Learning Target-Specific Representations of Financial News Documents For Cumulative Abnormal Return Prediction	Session 3-3-c – Folksonomication: Predicting Tags for Movies from Plot Synopses using Emotion Flow Encoded Neural Network
	Jagadeesh Patchala and Raj Bhatnagar	Junwen Duan¹, Yue Zhang², Xiao Ding¹, Ching-Yun Chang², Ting Liu¹	Sudipta Kar¹, Suraj Maharjan¹, Thamar Solorio²
	Session 3-3-a – Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks for Open Vocabulary Slots	Session 3-3-b – Model-Free Context-Aware Word Composition	Session 3-3-c – Emotion Representation Mapping for Automatic Lexicon Construction (Mostly) Performs on Human Level
	Jun-Seong Kim¹, Junghoe Kim², SeungUn Park², Kwangyong Lee², Yoonju Lee²	Bo An¹, Xianpei Han¹, Le Sun²	Sven Buechel¹ and Udo Hahn²
	Session 3-3-a – Challenges and Opportunities of Applying Natural Language Processing in Business Process Management	Session 3-3-b – Learning Features from Co-occurrences: A Theoretical Analysis	Session 3-3-c – Emotion Detection and Classification in a Multigenre Corpus with Joint Multi-Task Deep Learning
	Han Van der Aa¹, Josep Carmona², Henrik Leopold³, Jan Mendling⁴, Lluís Padró²	Yanpeng Li	Shabnam Tafreshi¹ and Mona Diab²
	Session 3-3-a – Novelty Goes Deep. A Deep Neural Solution To Document Level Novelty Detection	Session 3-3-b – Towards a unified framework for bilingual terminology extraction of single-word and multi-word terms	Session 3-3-c – How emotional are you? Neural Architectures for Emotion Intensity Prediction in Microblogs
	Tirthankar Ghosal¹, Vignesh Edithal¹, Asif Ekbal¹, Pushpak Bhattacharyya¹, Srinivasa Satya Sameer Kumar Chivukula², George Tsatsaronis²	Jingshu Liu¹, Emmanuel Morin², Peña Saldarriaga³	Devang Kulshreshtha¹, Pranav Goel², Anil Kumar Singh³
	Session 3-3-a – What represents “style” in authorship attribution? *	Session 3-3-b – Neural Activation Semantic Models: Computational lexical semantic models of localized neural activations	Session 3-3-c – Expressively vulgar: The socio-dynamics of vulgarity and its effects on sentiment analysis in social media *
	Kalaivani Sundararajan and Damon Woodard	Nikos Athanasiou¹, Elias Iosif², Alexandros Potamianos¹	Isabel Cachola¹, Eric Holgate¹, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro², Junyi Jessy Li¹

15:50 – 17:30	Session 3-3-posters – ML, parsing, MT – *Sweeney EF*
	Session 3-3-posters – Clausal Modifiers in the Grammar Matrix
	Kristen Howell and Olga Zamaraeva
	Session 3-3-posters – Sliced Recurrent Neural Networks
	Zeping Yu and Gongshen Liu
	Session 3-3-posters – Multi-Task Learning for Sequence Tagging: An Empirical Study
	Soravit Changpinyo¹, Hexiang Hu², Fei Sha³
	Session 3-3-posters – Using J-K-fold Cross Validation To Reduce Variance When Tuning NLP Models *
	Henry Moss, David Leslie, Paul Rayson
	Session 3-3-posters – Incremental Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Strategies, and Evaluation
	Arne Köhn
	Session 3-3-posters – Gold Standard Annotations for Preposition and Verb Sense with Semantic Role Labels in Adult-Child Interactions
	Lori Moon¹, Christos Christodoulopoulos², Fisher Cynthia³, Sandra Franco¹, Dan Roth³
	Session 3-3-posters – Multi-layer Representation Fusion for Neural Machine Translation
	Qiang Wang¹, Fuxue Li¹, Tong Xiao², Yanyang Li¹, Yinqiao Li¹, Jingbo Zhu¹
	Session 3-3-posters – Toward Better Loanword Identification in Uyghur Using Cross-lingual Word Embeddings
	Chenggang Mi¹, Yating Yang², Lei Wang², Xi Zhou², Tonghai Jiang²
	Session 3-3-posters – Generic refinement of expressive grammar formalisms with an application to discontinuous constituent parsing
	Kilian Gebhardt
	Session 3-3-posters – Double Path Networks for Sequence to Sequence Learning
	Kaitao Song¹, Xu Tan², Di He³, Jianfeng Lu¹, Tao QIN², Tie-Yan Liu⁴
	Session 3-3-posters – An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Vietnamese Parsing
	Quy Nguyen¹, Yusuke Miyao², Hiroshi Noji³, Nhung Nguyen⁴
	Session 3-3-posters – Learning with Noise-Contrastive Estimation: Easing training by learning to scale *
	Matthieu Labeau¹ and Alexandre Allauzen²
	Session 3-3-posters – Parallel Corpora for bi-lingual English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation
	Michael Melese¹, Solomon Teferra Abate¹, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie¹, Million Meshesha¹, Wondwossen Mulugeta¹, Yaregal Assibie¹, Solomon Atinafu¹, Binyam Ephrem¹, Tewodros Abebe¹, Hafte Abera¹, Amanuel Lemma², Tsegaye Andargie³, Seifedin Shifaw³, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye⁴
	Session 3-3-posters – Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Task-Specific Attention
	Graeme Blackwood, Miguel Ballesteros, Todd Ward
	Session 3-3-posters – Combining Information-Weighted Sequence Alignment and Sound Correspondence Models for Improved Cognate Detection
	Johannes Dellert
	Session 3-3-posters – Tailoring Neural Architectures for Translating from Morphologically Rich Languages
	Peyman Passban¹, Andy Way², Qun Liu²
	Session 3-3-posters – deepQuest: A Framework for Neural-based Quality Estimation
	Julia Ive, Frédéric Blain, Lucia Specia
	Session 3-3-posters – Butterfly Effects in Frame Semantic Parsing: impact of data processing on model ranking
	Alexandre Kabbach¹, Corentin Ribeyre², Aurélie Herbelot³
	Session 3-3-posters – Sensitivity to Input Order: Evaluation of an Incremental and Memory-Limited Bayesian Cross-Situational Word Learning Model
	Sepideh Sadeghi and Matthias Scheutz
	Session 3-3-posters – Sentence Weighting for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation
	Shiqi Zhang and Deyi Xiong
	Session 3-3-posters – Quantifying training challenges of dependency parsers
	Lauriane Aufrant¹, Guillaume Wisniewski², François Yvon³
	Session 3-3-posters – Seq2seq Dependency Parsing
	Zuchao Li, Jiaxun Cai, Shexia He, Hai Zhao
	Session 3-3-posters – Revisiting the Hierarchical Multiscale LSTM
	Ákos Kádár¹, Marc-Alexandre Côté², Grzegorz Chrupała¹, Afra Alishahi¹
	Session 3-3-posters – Character-Level Feature Extraction with Densely Connected Networks
	Chanhee Lee¹, Young-Bum Kim², Dongyub Lee³, Heuiseok Lim¹
	Session 3-3-posters – Neural Machine Translation Incorporating Named Entity
	Arata Ugawa¹, Akihiro Tamura², Takashi Ninomiya², Hiroya Takamura³, Manabu Okumura¹
	Session 3-3-posters – Semantic Parsing for Technical Support Questions
	Abhirut Gupta¹, Anupama Ray¹, Gargi Dasgupta¹, Gautam Singh¹, Pooja Aggarwal¹, Prateeti Mohapatra²
	Session 3-3-posters – Deconvolution-Based Global Decoding for Neural Machine Translation
	Junyang Lin¹, Xu SUN¹, Xuancheng Ren¹, Shuming Ma², jinsong su³, Qi Su¹

Friday 24th August
09:00 – 10:00	Invited talk: Min-Yen Kan – Sweeney ABCD
10:00 – 10:30	Refreshment break
10:30 – 12:30	Session 4-1-a – Question answering – Sweeney ABCD	Session 4-1-b – Rumor – Peralta/Lamy	Session 4-1-c – Second language, Biomedical – *Coronada/Devargas*
	Session 4-1-a – Pattern-revising Enhanced Simple Question Answering over Knowledge Bases	Session 4-1-b – Automated Fact Checking: Task Formulations, Methods and Future Directions	Session 4-1-c – Open Information Extraction on Scientific Text: An Evaluation
	Yanchao Hao¹, Hao Liu², Shizhu He³, Kang Liu⁴, Jun Zhao⁴	James Thorne and Andreas Vlachos	Paul Groth, Mike Lauruhn, Antony Scerri, Ron Daniel, Jr.
	Session 4-1-a – Integrating Question Classification and Deep Learning for improved Answer Selection	Session 4-1-b – Can Rumour Stance Alone Predict Veracity?	Session 4-1-c – Simple Algorithms For Sentiment Analysis On Sentiment Rich, Data Poor Domains.
	Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Mark Lee, John Barnden	Sebastian Dungs¹, Ahmet Aker¹, Norbert Fuhr¹, Kalina Bontcheva²	Prathusha K Sarma¹ and William Sethares²
	Session 4-1-a – Knowledge as A Bridge: Improving Cross-domain Answer Selection with External Knowledge	Session 4-1-b – Attending Sentences to detect Satirical Fake News	Session 4-1-c – Word-Level Loss Extensions for Neural Temporal Relation Classification
	Yang Deng¹, Ying Shen¹, Min Yang², Yaliang Li³, Nan Du³, Wei Fan³, Kai Lei¹	Sohan De Sarkar¹, Fan Yang², Arjun Mukherjee²	Artuur Leeuwenberg and Marie-Francine Moens
	Session 4-1-a – Modeling Semantics with Gated Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering	Session 4-1-b – Predicting Stances from Social Media Posts using Factorization Machines	Session 4-1-c – Personalized Text Retrieval for Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language
	Daniil Sorokin and Iryna Gurevych	Akira Sasaki¹, Kazuaki Hanawa², Naoaki Okazaki³, Kentaro Inui⁴	Chak Yan Yeung and John Lee
	Session 4-1-a – Rethinking the Agreement in Human Evaluation Tasks	Session 4-1-b – Automatic Detection of Fake News	Session 4-1-c – Punctuation as Native Language Interference
	Jacopo Amidei¹, Paul Piwek², Alistair Willis²	Verónica Pérez-Rosas¹, Bennett Kleinberg², Alexandra Lefevre¹, Rada Mihalcea¹	Ilia Markov¹, Vivi Nastase², Carlo Strapparava³
	Session 4-1-a – Dependent Gated Reading for Cloze-Style Question Answering	Session 4-1-b – All-in-one: Multi-task Learning for Rumour Verification	Session 4-1-c – Investigating Productive and Receptive Knowledge: A Profile for Second Language Learning
	Reza Ghaeini, Xiaoli Fern, Hamed Shahbazi, Prasad Tadepalli	Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Arkaitz Zubiaga	Leonardo Zilio¹, Rodrigo Wilkens¹, Cédrick Fairon²

10:30 – 12:30	Session 4-1-posters – Dialog, discourse, argumentation and applications – *Sweeney EF*
	Session 4-1-posters – iParaphrasing: Extracting Visually Grounded Paraphrases via an Image
	Chenhui Chu¹, Mayu Otani², Yuta Nakashima¹
	Session 4-1-posters – MCDTB: A Macro-level Chinese Discourse TreeBank
	Feng Jiang, Sheng Xu, Xiaomin Chu, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu, Guodong Zhou
	Session 4-1-posters – Corpus-based Content Construction
	Balaji Vasan Srinivasan¹, Pranav Maneriker¹, Kundan Krishna¹, Natwar Modani²
	Session 4-1-posters – Bridging resolution: Task definition, corpus resources and rule-based experiments
	Ina Roesiger¹, Arndt Riester¹, Jonas Kuhn²
	Session 4-1-posters – Semi-Supervised Disfluency Detection
	Feng Wang, Zhen Yang, Wei Chen, Shuang Xu, Bo Xu, Qianqian Dong
	Session 4-1-posters – ISO-Standard Domain-Independent Dialogue Act Tagging for Conversational Agents
	Stefano Mezza, Alessandra Cervone, Evgeny Stepanov, Giuliano Tortoreto, Giuseppe Riccardi
	Session 4-1-posters – Arrows are the Verbs of Diagrams
	Malihe Alikhani and Matthew Stone
	Session 4-1-posters – Improving Feature Extraction for Pathology Reports with Precise Negation Scope Detection
	Olga Zamaraeva¹, Kristen Howell¹, Adam Rhine²
	Session 4-1-posters – Bridge Video and Text with Cascade Syntactic Structure
	Guolong Wang, Zheng Qin, Kaiping Xu, Kai Huang, Shuxiong Ye
	Session 4-1-posters – Multi-task and Multi-lingual Joint Learning of Neural Lexical Utterance Classification based on Partially-shared Modeling
	Ryo Masumura¹, Tomohiro Tanaka¹, Ryuichiro Higashinaka², Hirokazu Masataki¹, Yushi Aono¹
	Session 4-1-posters – Source Critical Reinforcement Learning for Transferring Spoken Language Understanding to a New Language
	He Bai¹, Yu Zhou², Jiajun Zhang¹, Liang Zhao³, Mei-Yuh Hwang³, Chengqing Zong²
	Session 4-1-posters – A Prospective-Performance Network to Alleviate Myopia in Beam Search for Response Generation
	Zongsheng Wang¹, Yunzhi Bai², Bowen Wu³, Zhen Xu⁴, Zhuoran Wang¹, Baoxun Wang⁵
	Session 4-1-posters – Adaptive Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation in Medical Text
	Junjie Xing¹, Kenny Zhu¹, Shaodian Zhang²
	Session 4-1-posters – Addressee and Response Selection for Multilingual Conversation
	Motoki Sato¹, Hiroki Ouchi², Yuta Tsuboi¹
	Session 4-1-posters – Graph Based Decoding for Event Sequencing and Coreference Resolution
	Zhengzhong Liu¹, Teruko Mitamura¹, Eduard Hovy²
	Session 4-1-posters – DIDEC: The Dutch Image Description and Eye-tracking Corpus
	Emiel van Miltenburg¹, Ákos Kádár², Ruud Koolen², Emiel Krahmer²
	Session 4-1-posters – Narrative Schema Stability in News Text
	Dan Simonson¹ and Anthony Davis²
	Session 4-1-posters – NIPS Conversational Intelligence Challenge 2017 Winner System: Skill-based Conversational Agent with Supervised Dialog Manager
	Idris Yusupov and Yurii Kuratov
	Session 4-1-posters – AMR Beyond the Sentence: the Multi-sentence AMR corpus
	Tim O’Gorman¹, Michael Regan², Kira Griffitt³, Martha Palmer⁴, Ulf Hermjakob⁵, Kevin Knight⁶
	Session 4-1-posters – Incorporating Argument-Level Interactions for Persuasion Comments Evaluation using Co-attention Model
	Lu Ji¹, Zhongyu Wei², Xiangkun Hu¹, Yang Liu³, Qi Zhang¹, Xuanjing Huang¹
	Session 4-1-posters – Learning Visually-Grounded Semantics from Contrastive Adversarial Samples
	Haoyue Shi¹, Jiayuan Mao², Tete Xiao³, Yuning Jiang⁴, Jian Sun⁴
	Session 4-1-posters – Structured Representation Learning for Online Debate Stance Prediction
	Chang Li, Aldo Porco, Dan Goldwasser
	Session 4-1-posters – Modeling Multi-turn Conversation with Deep Utterance Aggregation
	Zhuosheng Zhang¹, Jiangtong Li¹, Pengfei Zhu², Hai Zhao¹
	Session 4-1-posters – Argumentation Synthesis following Rhetorical Strategies
	Henning Wachsmuth¹, Manfred Stede², Roxanne El Baff³, Khalid Al Khatib³, Maria Skeppstedt⁴, Benno Stein³
	Session 4-1-posters – A Dataset for Building Code-Mixed Goal Oriented Conversation Systems
	Suman Banerjee¹, Nikita Moghe², Siddhartha Arora¹, Mitesh M. Khapra²
	Session 4-1-posters – Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue with Dialogue State Representation
	Haoyang Wen¹, Yijia Liu¹, Wanxiang Che², Libo Qin², Ting Liu²
	Session 4-1-posters – Incorporating Deep Visual Features into Multiobjective based Multi-view Search Results Clustering
	Sayantan Mitra¹, Mohammed Hasanuzzaman², Sriparna Saha¹, Andy Way²
	Session 4-1-posters – Integrating Tree Structures and Graph Structures with Neural Networks to Classify Discussion Discourse Acts
	Yasuhide Miura¹, Ryuji Kano², Motoki Taniguchi³, Tomoki Taniguchi¹, Shotaro Misawa³, Tomoko Ohkuma³

12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:20	Session 4-2-bp – Best papers opening – Sweeney ABCD
	Session 4-2-bp – AnlamVer: Semantic Model Evaluation Dataset for Turkish – Word Similarity and Relatedness
	Gökhan Ercan¹ and Olcay Taner Yıldız²
	Session 4-2-bp – Arguments and Adjuncts in Universal Dependencies
	Adam Przepiórkowski¹ and Agnieszka Patejuk²
	Session 4-2-bp – Distinguishing affixoid formations from compounds
	Josef Ruppenhofer¹, Michael Wiegand², Rebecca Wilm³, Katja Markert³
	Session 4-2-bp – A Survey on Open Information Extraction
	Christina Niklaus¹, Matthias Cetto², André Freitas³, Siegfried Handschuh²

15:20 – 15:50	Refreshment break
15:50 – 17:10	Session 4-3-bp – Best papers closing – Sweeney ABCD
	Session 4-3-bp – Design Challenges and Misconceptions in Neural Sequence Labeling
	Jie Yang, Shuailong Liang, Yue Zhang
	Session 4-3-bp – Neural Network Models for Paraphrase Identification, Semantic Textual Similarity, Natural Language Inference, and Question Answering
	Wuwei Lan¹ and Wei Xu²
	Session 4-3-bp – Authorless Topic Models: Biasing Models Away from Known Structure
	Laure Thompson and David Mimno
	Session 4-3-bp – SGM: Sequence Generation Model for Multi-label Classification
	Pengcheng Yang¹, Xu SUN¹, Wei Li², Shuming Ma³, Wei Wu⁴, Houfeng WANG¹

17:10 – 17:25	Closing ceremony