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1906.03538
Seeing Things from a Different Angle: Discovering Diverse Perspectives about Claims
# Seeing Things from a Different Angle: Discovering Diverse Perspectives about Claims ## Abstract One key consequence of the information revolution is a significant increase and a contamination of our information supply. The practice of fact checking won't suffice to eliminate the biases in text data we observe, as t...
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1906.06448
Can neural networks understand monotonicity reasoning?
# Can neural networks understand monotonicity reasoning? ## Abstract Monotonicity reasoning is one of the important reasoning skills for any intelligent natural language inference (NLI) model in that it requires the ability to capture the interaction between lexical and syntactic structures. Since no test set has bee...
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1906.10551
Assessing the Applicability of Authorship Verification Methods
# Assessing the Applicability of Authorship Verification Methods ## Abstract Authorship verification (AV) is a research subject in the field of digital text forensics that concerns itself with the question, whether two documents have been written by the same person. During the past two decades, an increasing number o...
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1907.01413
Speaker-independent classification of phonetic segments from raw ultrasound in child speech
# Speaker-independent classification of phonetic segments from raw ultrasound in child speech ## Abstract Ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) provides a convenient way to visualize the vocal tract during speech production. UTI is increasingly being used for speech therapy, making it important to develop automatic methods...
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1907.08937
Quantifying Similarity between Relations with Fact Distribution
# Quantifying Similarity between Relations with Fact Distribution ## Abstract We introduce a conceptually simple and effective method to quantify the similarity between relations in knowledge bases. Specifically, our approach is based on the divergence between the conditional probability distributions over entity pai...
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1907.09369
Emotion Detection in Text: Focusing on Latent Representation
# Emotion Detection in Text: Focusing on Latent Representation ## Abstract In recent years, emotion detection in text has become more popular due to its vast potential applications in marketing, political science, psychology, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, etc. In this work, we argue that curren...
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1907.11062
HireNet: a Hierarchical Attention Model for the Automatic Analysis of Asynchronous Video Job Interviews
# HireNet: a Hierarchical Attention Model for the Automatic Analysis of Asynchronous Video Job Interviews ## Abstract New technologies drastically change recruitment techniques. Some research projects aim at designing interactive systems that help candidates practice job interviews. Other studies aim at the automatic...
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1908.04042
Evaluating Tag Recommendations for E-Book Annotation Using a Semantic Similarity Metric
# Evaluating Tag Recommendations for E-Book Annotation Using a Semantic Similarity Metric ## Abstract In this paper, we present our work to support publishers and editors in finding descriptive tags for e-books through tag recommendations. We propose a hybrid tag recommendation system for e-books, which leverages sea...
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1908.05828
Named Entity Recognition for Nepali Language
# Named Entity Recognition for Nepali Language ## Abstract Named Entity Recognition (NER) has been studied for many languages like English, German, Spanish, and others but virtually no studies have focused on the Nepali language. One key reason is the lack of an appropriate, annotated dataset. In this paper, we descr...
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1908.06264
EmotionX-IDEA: Emotion BERT -- an Affectional Model for Conversation
# EmotionX-IDEA: Emotion BERT -- an Affectional Model for Conversation ## Abstract In this paper, we investigate the emotion recognition ability of the pre-training language model, namely BERT. By the nature of the framework of BERT, a two-sentence structure, we adapt BERT to continues dialogue emotion prediction tas...
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1908.06267
Message Passing Attention Networks for Document Understanding
# Message Passing Attention Networks for Document Understanding ## Abstract Graph neural networks have recently emerged as a very effective framework for processing graph-structured data. These models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks. Most graph neural networks can be described in terms of mes...
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1908.06606
Question Answering based Clinical Text Structuring Using Pre-trained Language Model
# Question Answering based Clinical Text Structuring Using Pre-trained Language Model ## Abstract Clinical text structuring is a critical and fundamental task for clinical research. Traditional methods such as taskspecific end-to-end models and pipeline models usually suffer from the lack of dataset and error propaga...
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1908.07245
GlossBERT: BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Knowledge
# GlossBERT: BERT for Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Knowledge ## Abstract Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) aims to find the exact sense of an ambiguous word in a particular context. Traditional supervised methods rarely take into consideration the lexical resources like WordNet, which are widely utilized in kno...
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1908.07816
A Multi-Turn Emotionally Engaging Dialog Model
# A Multi-Turn Emotionally Engaging Dialog Model ## Abstract Open-domain dialog systems (also known as chatbots) have increasingly drawn attention in natural language processing. Some of the recent work aims at incorporating affect information into sequence-to-sequence neural dialog modeling, making the response emot...
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1908.08593
Revealing the Dark Secrets of BERT
# Revealing the Dark Secrets of BERT ## Abstract BERT-based architectures currently give state-of-the-art performance on many NLP tasks, but little is known about the exact mechanisms that contribute to its success. In the current work, we focus on the interpretation of self-attention, which is one of the fundamental...
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1908.08717
Gender Representation in French Broadcast Corpora and Its Impact on ASR Performance
# Gender Representation in French Broadcast Corpora and Its Impact on ASR Performance ## Abstract This paper analyzes the gender representation in four major corpora of French broadcast. These corpora being widely used within the speech processing community, they are a primary material for training automatic speech r...
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1908.10084
Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks
# Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks ## Abstract BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) and RoBERTa (Liu et al., 2019) has set a new state-of-the-art performance on sentence-pair regression tasks like semantic textual similarity (STS). However, it requires that both sentences are fed into the network,...
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1908.10449
Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents
# Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents ## Abstract Existing machine reading comprehension (MRC) models do not scale effectively to real-world applications like web-level information retrieval and question answering (QA). We argue that this stems from the nature of MRC datasets: most of th...
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1908.11047
Shallow Syntax in Deep Water
# Shallow Syntax in Deep Water ## Abstract Shallow syntax provides an approximation of phrase-syntactic structure of sentences; it can be produced with high accuracy, and is computationally cheap to obtain. We investigate the role of shallow syntax-aware representations for NLP tasks using two techniques. First, we e...
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1909.00105
Generating Personalized Recipes from Historical User Preferences
# Generating Personalized Recipes from Historical User Preferences ## Abstract Existing approaches to recipe generation are unable to create recipes for users with culinary preferences but incomplete knowledge of ingredients in specific dishes. We propose a new task of personalized recipe generation to help these use...
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1909.00154
Rethinking travel behavior modeling representations through embeddings
# Rethinking travel behavior modeling representations through embeddings ## Abstract This paper introduces the concept of travel behavior embeddings, a method for re-representing discrete variables that are typically used in travel demand modeling, such as mode, trip purpose, education level, family type or occupatio...
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1909.00252
Humor Detection: A Transformer Gets the Last Laugh
# Humor Detection: A Transformer Gets the Last Laugh ## Abstract Much previous work has been done in attempting to identify humor in text. In this paper we extend that capability by proposing a new task: assessing whether or not a joke is humorous. We present a novel way of approaching this problem by building a mode...
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1909.00338
Monitoring stance towards vaccination in twitter messages
# Monitoring stance towards vaccination in twitter messages ## Abstract BACKGROUND ::: We developed a system to automatically classify stance towards vaccination in Twitter messages, with a focus on messages with a negative stance. Such a system makes it possible to monitor the ongoing stream of messages on social me...
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1909.00578
SUM-QE: a BERT-based Summary Quality Estimation Model
# SUM-QE: a BERT-based Summary Quality Estimation Model ## Abstract We propose SumQE, a novel Quality Estimation model for summarization based on BERT. The model addresses linguistic quality aspects that are only indirectly captured by content-based approaches to summary evaluation, without involving comparison with ...
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1909.00694
Minimally Supervised Learning of Affective Events Using Discourse Relations
# Minimally Supervised Learning of Affective Events Using Discourse Relations ## Abstract Recognizing affective events that trigger positive or negative sentiment has a wide range of natural language processing applications but remains a challenging problem mainly because the polarity of an event is not necessarily p...
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1909.01013
Duality Regularization for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction
# Duality Regularization for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction ## Abstract Unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction naturally exhibits duality, which results from symmetry in back-translation. For example, EN-IT and IT-EN induction can be mutually primal and dual problems. Current state-of-the-art methods, how...
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1909.02560
Adversarial Examples with Difficult Common Words for Paraphrase Identification
# Adversarial Examples with Difficult Common Words for Paraphrase Identification ## Abstract Despite the success of deep models for paraphrase identification on benchmark datasets, these models are still vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to generate a new type of adversar...
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1909.02776
Features in Extractive Supervised Single-document Summarization: Case of Persian News
# Features in Extractive Supervised Single-document Summarization: Case of Persian News ## Abstract Text summarization has been one of the most challenging areas of research in NLP. Much effort has been made to overcome this challenge by using either the abstractive or extractive methods. Extractive methods are more ...
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1909.03526
Multi-Task Bidirectional Transformer Representations for Irony Detection
# Multi-Task Bidirectional Transformer Representations for Irony Detection ## Abstract Supervised deep learning requires large amounts of training data. In the context of the FIRE2019 Arabic irony detection shared task (IDAT@FIRE2019), we show how we mitigate this need by fine-tuning the pre-trained bidirectional enc...
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1909.03582
Clickbait? Sensational Headline Generation with Auto-tuned Reinforcement Learning
# Clickbait? Sensational Headline Generation with Auto-tuned Reinforcement Learning ## Abstract Sensational headlines are headlines that capture people's attention and generate reader interest. Conventional abstractive headline generation methods, unlike human writers, do not optimize for maximal reader attention. In...
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1909.05438
Neural Semantic Parsing in Low-Resource Settings with Back-Translation and Meta-Learning
# Neural Semantic Parsing in Low-Resource Settings with Back-Translation and Meta-Learning ## Abstract Neural semantic parsing has achieved impressive results in recent years, yet its success relies on the availability of large amounts of supervised data. Our goal is to learn a neural semantic parser when only prior ...
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1909.06162
Neural Architectures for Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection in News
# Neural Architectures for Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection in News ## Abstract This paper describes our system (MIC-CIS) details and results of participation in the fine-grained propaganda detection shared task 2019. To address the tasks of sentence (SLC) and fragment level (FLC) propaganda detection, we explore di...
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1909.06200
A Neural Approach to Irony Generation
# A Neural Approach to Irony Generation ## Abstract Ironies can not only express stronger emotions but also show a sense of humor. With the development of social media, ironies are widely used in public. Although many prior research studies have been conducted in irony detection, few studies focus on irony generation...
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1909.06937
CM-Net: A Novel Collaborative Memory Network for Spoken Language Understanding
# CM-Net: A Novel Collaborative Memory Network for Spoken Language Understanding ## Abstract Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) mainly involves two tasks, intent detection and slot filling, which are generally modeled jointly in existing works. However, most existing models fail to fully utilize co-occurrence relati...
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1909.07734
SocialNLP EmotionX 2019 Challenge Overview: Predicting Emotions in Spoken Dialogues and Chats
# SocialNLP EmotionX 2019 Challenge Overview: Predicting Emotions in Spoken Dialogues and Chats ## Abstract We present an overview of the EmotionX 2019 Challenge, held at the 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP), in conjunction with IJCAI 2019. The challenge entailed ...
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1909.08041
Revealing the Importance of Semantic Retrieval for Machine Reading at Scale
# Revealing the Importance of Semantic Retrieval for Machine Reading at Scale ## Abstract Machine Reading at Scale (MRS) is a challenging task in which a system is given an input query and is asked to produce a precise output by "reading" information from a large knowledge base. The task has gained popularity with it...
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1909.08191
Exploring Scholarly Data by Semantic Query on Knowledge Graph Embedding Space
# Exploring Scholarly Data by Semantic Query on Knowledge Graph Embedding Space ## Abstract The trends of open science have enabled several open scholarly datasets which include millions of papers and authors. Managing, exploring, and utilizing such large and complicated datasets effectively are challenging. In recen...
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1909.08824
Modeling Event Background for If-Then Commonsense Reasoning Using Context-aware Variational Autoencoder
# Modeling Event Background for If-Then Commonsense Reasoning Using Context-aware Variational Autoencoder ## Abstract Understanding event and event-centered commonsense reasoning are crucial for natural language processing (NLP). Given an observed event, it is trivial for human to infer its intents and effects, while...
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1909.09484
Generative Dialog Policy for Task-oriented Dialog Systems
# Generative Dialog Policy for Task-oriented Dialog Systems ## Abstract There is an increasing demand for task-oriented dialogue systems which can assist users in various activities such as booking tickets and restaurant reservations. In order to complete dialogues effectively, dialogue policy plays a key role in tas...
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1909.09986
Improving Quality and Efficiency in Plan-based Neural Data-to-Text Generation
# Improving Quality and Efficiency in Plan-based Neural Data-to-Text Generation ## Abstract We follow the step-by-step approach to neural data-to-text generation we proposed in Moryossef et al (2019), in which the generation process is divided into a text-planning stage followed by a plan-realization stage. We sugges...
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1909.13104
Attention-based method for categorizing different types of online harassment language
# Attention-based method for categorizing different types of online harassment language ## Abstract In the era of social media and networking platforms, Twitter has been doomed for abuse and harassment toward users specifically women. Monitoring the contents including sexism and sexual harassment in traditional media...
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1909.13362
Language-Agnostic Syllabification with Neural Sequence Labeling
# Language-Agnostic Syllabification with Neural Sequence Labeling ## Abstract The identification of syllables within phonetic sequences is known as syllabification. This task is thought to play an important role in natural language understanding, speech production, and the development of speech recognition systems. T...
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1909.13375
Tag-based Multi-Span Extraction in Reading Comprehension
# Tag-based Multi-Span Extraction in Reading Comprehension ## Abstract With models reaching human performance on many popular reading comprehension datasets in recent years, a new dataset, DROP, introduced questions that were expected to present a harder challenge for reading comprehension models. Among these new typ...
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1910.00458
MMM: Multi-stage Multi-task Learning for Multi-choice Reading Comprehension
# MMM: Multi-stage Multi-task Learning for Multi-choice Reading Comprehension ## Abstract Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) for question answering (QA), which aims to answer a question given the relevant context passages, is an important way to test the ability of intelligence systems to understand human language. ...
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1910.00825
Abstractive Dialog Summarization with Semantic Scaffolds
# Abstractive Dialog Summarization with Semantic Scaffolds ## Abstract The demand for abstractive dialog summary is growing in real-world applications. For example, customer service center or hospitals would like to summarize customer service interaction and doctor-patient interaction. However, few researchers explor...
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1910.01363
Mapping (Dis-)Information Flow about the MH17 Plane Crash
# Mapping (Dis-)Information Flow about the MH17 Plane Crash ## Abstract Digital media enables not only fast sharing of information, but also disinformation. One prominent case of an event leading to circulation of disinformation on social media is the MH17 plane crash. Studies analysing the spread of information abou...
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1910.03042
Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations
# Gunrock: A Social Bot for Complex and Engaging Long Conversations ## Abstract Gunrock is the winner of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize, as evaluated by coherence and engagement from both real users and Amazon-selected expert conversationalists. We focus on understanding complex sentences and having in-depth conversatio...
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1910.03814
Exploring Hate Speech Detection in Multimodal Publications
# Exploring Hate Speech Detection in Multimodal Publications ## Abstract In this work we target the problem of hate speech detection in multimodal publications formed by a text and an image. We gather and annotate a large scale dataset from Twitter, MMHS150K, and propose different models that jointly analyze textual ...
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1910.03891
Learning High-order Structural and Attribute information by Knowledge Graph Attention Networks for Enhancing Knowledge Graph Embedding
# Learning High-order Structural and Attribute information by Knowledge Graph Attention Networks for Enhancing Knowledge Graph Embedding ## Abstract The goal of representation learning of knowledge graph is to encode both entities and relations into a low-dimensional embedding spaces. Many recent works have demonstra...
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1910.04006
Assessing the Efficacy of Clinical Sentiment Analysis and Topic Extraction in Psychiatric Readmission Risk Prediction
# Assessing the Efficacy of Clinical Sentiment Analysis and Topic Extraction in Psychiatric Readmission Risk Prediction ## Abstract Predicting which patients are more likely to be readmitted to a hospital within 30 days after discharge is a valuable piece of information in clinical decision-making. Building a success...
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1910.04601
RC-QED: Evaluating Natural Language Derivations in Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension
# RC-QED: Evaluating Natural Language Derivations in Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension ## Abstract Recent studies revealed that reading comprehension (RC) systems learn to exploit annotation artifacts and other biases in current datasets. This allows systems to "cheat" by employing simple heuristics to answer questions...
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1910.05154
How Does Language Influence Documentation Workflow? Unsupervised Word Discovery Using Translations in Multiple Languages
# How Does Language Influence Documentation Workflow? Unsupervised Word Discovery Using Translations in Multiple Languages ## Abstract For language documentation initiatives, transcription is an expensive resource: one minute of audio is estimated to take one hour and a half on average of a linguist's work (Austin an...
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1910.05456
Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology in Artificial Neural Networks With Prior Knowledge
# Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology in Artificial Neural Networks With Prior Knowledge ## Abstract How does knowledge of one language's morphology influence learning of inflection rules in a second one? In order to investigate this question in artificial neural network models, we perform experiments with a seque...
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1910.05608
VAIS Hate Speech Detection System: A Deep Learning based Approach for System Combination
# VAIS Hate Speech Detection System: A Deep Learning based Approach for System Combination ## Abstract Nowadays, Social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter are common places where people show their opinions, sentiments and share information with others. However, some people use SNSs to post abuse and haras...
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1910.06592
FacTweet: Profiling Fake News Twitter Accounts
# FacTweet: Profiling Fake News Twitter Accounts ## Abstract We present an approach to detect fake news in Twitter at the account level using a neural recurrent model and a variety of different semantic and stylistic features. Our method extracts a set of features from the timelines of news Twitter accounts by readin...
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1910.07181
BERTRAM: Improved Word Embeddings Have Big Impact on Contextualized Model Performance
# BERTRAM: Improved Word Embeddings Have Big Impact on Contextualized Model Performance ## Abstract Pretraining deep contextualized representations using an unsupervised language modeling objective has led to large performance gains for a variety of NLP tasks. Despite this success, recent work by Schick and Schutze (...
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1910.09399
A Survey and Taxonomy of Adversarial Neural Networks for Text-to-Image Synthesis
# A Survey and Taxonomy of Adversarial Neural Networks for Text-to-Image Synthesis ## Abstract Text-to-image synthesis refers to computational methods which translate human written textual descriptions, in the form of keywords or sentences, into images with similar semantic meaning to the text. In earlier research, i...
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1910.10408
Controlling the Output Length of Neural Machine Translation
# Controlling the Output Length of Neural Machine Translation ## Abstract The recent advances introduced by neural machine translation (NMT) are rapidly expanding the application fields of machine translation, as well as reshaping the quality level to be targeted. In particular, if translations have to fit some given...
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1910.11471
Machine Translation from Natural Language to Code using Long-Short Term Memory
# Machine Translation from Natural Language to Code using Long-Short Term Memory ## Abstract Making computer programming language more understandable and easy for the human is a longstanding problem. From assembly language to present day’s object-oriented programming, concepts came to make programming easier so that ...
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1910.11768
Exploring Multilingual Syntactic Sentence Representations
# Exploring Multilingual Syntactic Sentence Representations ## Abstract We study methods for learning sentence embeddings with syntactic structure. We focus on methods of learning syntactic sentence-embeddings by using a multilingual parallel-corpus augmented by Universal Parts-of-Speech tags. We evaluate the quality...
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1910.11769
DENS: A Dataset for Multi-class Emotion Analysis
# DENS: A Dataset for Multi-class Emotion Analysis ## Abstract We introduce a new dataset for multi-class emotion analysis from long-form narratives in English. The Dataset for Emotions of Narrative Sequences (DENS) was collected from both classic literature available on Project Gutenberg and modern online narratives...
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1910.11949
Automatic Reminiscence Therapy for Dementia.
# Automatic Reminiscence Therapy for Dementia. ## Abstract With people living longer than ever, the number of cases with dementia such as Alzheimer's disease increases steadily. It affects more than 46 million people worldwide, and it is estimated that in 2050 more than 100 million will be affected. While there are n...
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1910.12574
A BERT-Based Transfer Learning Approach for Hate Speech Detection in Online Social Media
# A BERT-Based Transfer Learning Approach for Hate Speech Detection in Online Social Media ## Abstract Generated hateful and toxic content by a portion of users in social media is a rising phenomenon that motivated researchers to dedicate substantial efforts to the challenging direction of hateful content identificat...
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1910.12618
Textual Data for Time Series Forecasting
# Textual Data for Time Series Forecasting ## Abstract While ubiquitous, textual sources of information such as company reports, social media posts, etc. are hardly included in prediction algorithms for time series, despite the relevant information they may contain. In this work, openly accessible daily weather repor...
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1911.00069
Neural Cross-Lingual Relation Extraction Based on Bilingual Word Embedding Mapping
# Neural Cross-Lingual Relation Extraction Based on Bilingual Word Embedding Mapping ## Abstract Relation extraction (RE) seeks to detect and classify semantic relationships between entities, which provides useful information for many NLP applications. Since the state-of-the-art RE models require large amounts of man...
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1911.00133
Dreaddit: A Reddit Dataset for Stress Analysis in Social Media
# Dreaddit: A Reddit Dataset for Stress Analysis in Social Media ## Abstract Stress is a nigh-universal human experience, particularly in the online world. While stress can be a motivator, too much stress is associated with many negative health outcomes, making its identification useful across a range of domains. How...
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1911.00523
What Gets Echoed? Understanding the"Pointers"in Explanations of Persuasive Arguments
# What Gets Echoed? Understanding the"Pointers"in Explanations of Persuasive Arguments ## Abstract Explanations are central to everyday life, and are a topic of growing interest in the AI community. To investigate the process of providing natural language explanations, we leverage the dynamics of the /r/ChangeMyView ...
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1911.00841
Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives
# Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives ## Abstract Privacy policies are long and complex documents that are difficult for users to read and understand, and yet, they have legal effects on how user data is collected, managed and used. Ideally, we would like to empower...
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1911.01188
Analysing Coreference in Transformer Outputs
# Analysing Coreference in Transformer Outputs ## Abstract We analyse coreference phenomena in three neural machine translation systems trained with different data settings with or without access to explicit intra- and cross-sentential anaphoric information. We compare system performance on two different genres: news...
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1911.01680
Improving Slot Filling by Utilizing Contextual Information
# Improving Slot Filling by Utilizing Contextual Information ## Abstract Slot Filling is the task of extracting the semantic concept from a given natural language utterance. Recently it has been shown that using contextual information, either in work representations (e.g., BERT embedding) or in the computation graph ...
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1911.01799
CN-CELEB: a challenging Chinese speaker recognition dataset
# CN-CELEB: a challenging Chinese speaker recognition dataset ## Abstract Recently, researchers set an ambitious goal of conducting speaker recognition in unconstrained conditions where the variations on ambient, channel and emotion could be arbitrary. However, most publicly available datasets are collected under con...
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1911.03243
Crowdsourcing a High-Quality Gold Standard for QA-SRL
# Crowdsourcing a High-Quality Gold Standard for QA-SRL ## Abstract Question-answer driven Semantic Role Labeling (QA-SRL) has been proposed as an attractive open and natural form of SRL, easily crowdsourceable for new corpora. Recently, a large-scale QA-SRL corpus and a trained parser were released, accompanied by a...
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1911.03310
How Language-Neutral is Multilingual BERT?
# How Language-Neutral is Multilingual BERT? ## Abstract Multilingual BERT (mBERT) provides sentence representations for 104 languages, which are useful for many multi-lingual tasks. Previous work probed the cross-linguality of mBERT using zero-shot transfer learning on morphological and syntactic tasks. We instead f...
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1911.03385
Low-Level Linguistic Controls for Style Transfer and Content Preservation
# Low-Level Linguistic Controls for Style Transfer and Content Preservation ## Abstract Despite the success of style transfer in image processing, it has seen limited progress in natural language generation. Part of the problem is that content is not as easily decoupled from style in the text domain. Curiously, in th...
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1911.03562
The State of NLP Literature: A Diachronic Analysis of the ACL Anthology
# The State of NLP Literature: A Diachronic Analysis of the ACL Anthology ## Abstract The ACL Anthology (AA) is a digital repository of tens of thousands of articles on Natural Language Processing (NLP). This paper examines the literature as a whole to identify broad trends in productivity, focus, and impact. It pres...
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1911.03705
CommonGen: A Constrained Text Generation Dataset Towards Generative Commonsense Reasoning
# CommonGen: A Constrained Text Generation Dataset Towards Generative Commonsense Reasoning ## Abstract Rational humans can generate sentences that cover a certain set of concepts while describing natural and common scenes. For example, given {apple(noun), tree(noun), pick(verb)}, humans can easily come up with scene...
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1911.03894
CamemBERT: a Tasty French Language Model
# CamemBERT: a Tasty French Language Model ## Abstract Pretrained language models are now ubiquitous in Natural Language Processing. Despite their success, most available models have either been trained on English data or on the concatenation of data in multiple languages. This makes practical use of such models—in a...
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1911.05960
Contextual Recurrent Units for Cloze-style Reading Comprehension
# Contextual Recurrent Units for Cloze-style Reading Comprehension ## Abstract Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are known as powerful models for handling sequential data, and especially widely utilized in various natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we propose Contextual Recurrent Units (CRU) for enhancin...
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1911.06171
Unsupervised Pre-training for Natural Language Generation: A Literature Review
# Unsupervised Pre-training for Natural Language Generation: A Literature Review ## Abstract Recently, unsupervised pre-training is gaining increasing popularity in the realm of computational linguistics, thanks to its surprising success in advancing natural language understanding (NLU) and the potential to effective...
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1911.07555
Short Text Language Identification for Under Resourced Languages
# Short Text Language Identification for Under Resourced Languages ## Abstract The paper presents a hierarchical naive Bayesian and lexicon based classifier for short text language identification (LID) useful for under resourced languages. The algorithm is evaluated on short pieces of text for the 11 official South A...
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1911.09419
Learning Hierarchy-Aware Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Link Prediction
# Learning Hierarchy-Aware Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Link Prediction ## Abstract Knowledge graph embedding, which aims to represent entities and relations as low dimensional vectors (or matrices, tensors, etc.), has been shown to be a powerful technique for predicting missing links in knowledge graphs. Existing ...
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1911.09483
MUSE: Parallel Multi-Scale Attention for Sequence to Sequence Learning
# MUSE: Parallel Multi-Scale Attention for Sequence to Sequence Learning ## Abstract In sequence to sequence learning, the self-attention mechanism proves to be highly effective, and achieves significant improvements in many tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism is not without its own flaws. Although self-atte...
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1911.09886
Effective Modeling of Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction
# Effective Modeling of Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction ## Abstract A relation tuple consists of two entities and the relation between them, and often such tuples are found in unstructured text. There may be multiple relation tuples present in a text and they may share one or bot...
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1911.11698
Doc2Vec on the PubMed corpus: study of a new approach to generate related articles
# Doc2Vec on the PubMed corpus: study of a new approach to generate related articles ## Abstract PubMed is the biggest and most used bibliographic database worldwide, hosting more than 26M biomedical publications. One of its useful features is the "similar articles" section, allowing the end-user to find scientific a...
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1911.12569
Emotion helps Sentiment: A Multi-task Model for Sentiment and Emotion Analysis
# Emotion helps Sentiment: A Multi-task Model for Sentiment and Emotion Analysis ## Abstract In this paper, we propose a two-layered multi-task attention based neural network that performs sentiment analysis through emotion analysis. The proposed approach is based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory and uses Dist...
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1911.12579
A New Corpus for Low-Resourced Sindhi Language with Word Embeddings
# A New Corpus for Low-Resourced Sindhi Language with Word Embeddings ## Abstract Representing words and phrases into dense vectors of real numbers which encode semantic and syntactic properties is a vital constituent in natural language processing (NLP). The success of neural network (NN) models in NLP largely rely ...
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1911.13087
Kurdish (Sorani) Speech to Text: Presenting an Experimental Dataset
# Kurdish (Sorani) Speech to Text: Presenting an Experimental Dataset ## Abstract We present an experimental dataset, Basic Dataset for Sorani Kurdish Automatic Speech Recognition (BD-4SK-ASR), which we used in the first attempt in developing an automatic speech recognition for Sorani Kurdish. The objective of the pr...
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1912.00423
Semantic Enrichment of Streaming Healthcare Data
# Semantic Enrichment of Streaming Healthcare Data ## Abstract In the past decade, the healthcare industry has made significant advances in the digitization of patient information. However, a lack of interoperability among healthcare systems still imposes a high cost to patients, hospitals, and insurers. Currently, m...
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1912.00667
A Human-AI Loop Approach for Joint Keyword Discovery and Expectation Estimation in Micropost Event Detection
# A Human-AI Loop Approach for Joint Keyword Discovery and Expectation Estimation in Micropost Event Detection ## Abstract Microblogging platforms such as Twitter are increasingly being used in event detection. Existing approaches mainly use machine learning models and rely on event-related keywords to collect the da...
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1912.00819
Enriching Existing Conversational Emotion Datasets with Dialogue Acts using Neural Annotators.
# Enriching Existing Conversational Emotion Datasets with Dialogue Acts using Neural Annotators. ## Abstract The recognition of emotion and dialogue acts enrich conversational analysis and help to build natural dialogue systems. Emotion makes us understand feelings and dialogue acts reflect the intentions and perform...
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1912.00871
Solving Arithmetic Word Problems Automatically Using Transformer and Unambiguous Representations
# Solving Arithmetic Word Problems Automatically Using Transformer and Unambiguous Representations ## Abstract Constructing accurate and automatic solvers of math word problems has proven to be quite challenging. Prior attempts using machine learning have been trained on corpora specific to math word problems to prod...
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1912.01046
TutorialVQA: Question Answering Dataset for Tutorial Videos
# TutorialVQA: Question Answering Dataset for Tutorial Videos ## Abstract Despite the number of currently available datasets on video question answering, there still remains a need for a dataset involving multi-step and non-factoid answers. Moreover, relying on video transcripts remains an under-explored topic. To ad...
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1912.01673
COSTRA 1.0: A Dataset of Complex Sentence Transformations
# COSTRA 1.0: A Dataset of Complex Sentence Transformations ## Abstract COSTRA 1.0 is a dataset of Czech complex sentence transformations. The dataset is intended for the study of sentence-level embeddings beyond simple word alternations or standard paraphrasing. ::: The dataset consist of 4,262 unique sentences wit...
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1912.03804
Women in ISIS Propaganda: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Topics and Emotions in a Comparison with Mainstream Religious Group
# Women in ISIS Propaganda: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Topics and Emotions in a Comparison with Mainstream Religious Group ## Abstract Online propaganda is central to the recruitment strategies of extremist groups and in recent years these efforts have increasingly extended to women. To investigate ISI...
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1912.05066
Event Outcome Prediction using Sentiment Analysis and Crowd Wisdom in Microblog Feeds
# Event Outcome Prediction using Sentiment Analysis and Crowd Wisdom in Microblog Feeds ## Abstract Sentiment Analysis of microblog feeds has attracted considerable interest in recent times. Most of the current work focuses on tweet sentiment classification. But not much work has been done to explore how reliable the...
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1912.05238
BERT has a Moral Compass: Improvements of ethical and moral values of machines
# BERT has a Moral Compass: Improvements of ethical and moral values of machines ## Abstract Allowing machines to choose whether to kill humans would be devastating for world peace and security. But how do we equip machines with the ability to learn ethical or even moral choices? Jentzsch et al.(2019) showed that app...
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1912.07976
A Multi-task Learning Model for Chinese-oriented Aspect Polarity Classification and Aspect Term Extraction
# A Multi-task Learning Model for Chinese-oriented Aspect Polarity Classification and Aspect Term Extraction ## Abstract Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) task is a multi-grained task of natural language processing and consists of two subtasks: aspect term extraction (ATE) and aspect polarity classification (APC...
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1912.08320
Garbage In, Garbage Out? Do Machine Learning Application Papers in Social Computing Report Where Human-Labeled Training Data Comes From?
# Garbage In, Garbage Out? Do Machine Learning Application Papers in Social Computing Report Where Human-Labeled Training Data Comes From? ## Abstract Many machine learning projects for new application areas involve teams of humans who label data for a particular purpose, from hiring crowdworkers to the paper's autho...
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1912.08904
Macaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform
# Macaw: An Extensible Conversational Information Seeking Platform ## Abstract Conversational information seeking (CIS) has been recognized as a major emerging research area in information retrieval. Such research will require data and tools, to allow the implementation and study of conversational systems. This paper...
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1912.09713
Measuring Compositional Generalization: A Comprehensive Method on Realistic Data
# Measuring Compositional Generalization: A Comprehensive Method on Realistic Data ## Abstract State-of-the-art machine learning methods exhibit limited compositional generalization. At the same time, there is a lack of realistic benchmarks that comprehensively measure this ability, which makes it challenging to find...
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