Microsoft presentation schedule
Monday, June 3
11:00 AM–11:18 PM | Nicollet D
Cyclical Annealing Schedule: A Simple Approach to Mitigate KL Vanishing
Hao Fu, Chunyuan Li, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Asli Celikyilmaz, Lawrence Carin
11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
ReWE: Regressing Word Embeddings for Regularization of Neural Machine Translation Systems
Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Ehsan Zare Borzeshi, Nazanin Esmaili, Massimo Piccardi
11:00 AM–12:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Learning to Attend On Essential Terms: An Enhanced Retriever-Reader Model for Open-domain Question Answering
Jianmo Ni, Chenguang Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Julian McAuley
11:18 AM–11:36 AM | Northstar A
“President Vows to Cut
Nabil Hossain, John Krumm, Michael Gamon
11:36 AM–11:54 AM | Northstar A
Answer-based Adversarial Training for Generating Clarification Questions
Sudha Rao, Hal Daumé III
12:12 PM–12:30 PM | Northstar A
Topic-Guided Variational Auto-Encoder for Text Generation
Wenlin Wang, Zhe Gan, Hongteng Xu, Ruiyi Zhang, Guoyin Wang, Dinghan Shen, Changyou Chen, Lawrence Carin
3:00 PM–3:15 PM | Nicollet D
Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder
Alexander Hoyle, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Hanna Wallach, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein
3:00 PM–4:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Unsupervised Deep Structured Semantic Models for Commonsense Reasoning
Shuohang Wang, Sheng Zhang, Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu, Jingjing Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Jing Jiang
3:00 PM–4:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Generating Text through Adversarial Training using Skip-Thought Vectors
Afroz Ahamad
3:30 PM–3:45 PM | Nicollet B/C
Black is to Criminal as Caucasian is to Police: Detecting and Removing Multiclass Bias in Word Embeddings
Thomas Manzini, Lim Yao Chong, Alan W. Black, Yulia Tsvetkov
5:00 PM–6:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
SEDTWik: Segmentation-based Event Detection from Tweets Using Wikipedia
Keval Morabia, Neti Lalita Bhanu Murthy, Aruna Malapati, Surender Samant
5:36 PM–5:54 PM | Northstar A
Jointly Optimizing Diversity and Relevance in Neural Response Generation
Xiang Gao, Sungjin Lee, Yizhe Zhang, Chris Brockett, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, Bill Dolan
Tuesday, June 4
9:00 AM–9:18 AM | Greenway
Enabling Real-time Neural IME with Incremental Vocabulary Selection
Jiali Yao, Raphael Shu, Xinjian Li, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki, Hideki Nakayama
9:00 AM–10:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
ExCL: Extractive Clip Localization Using Natural Language Descriptions
Soham Ghosh, Anuva Agarwal, Zarana Parekh, Alexander Hauptmann
9:00 AM–10:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Hierarchical User and Item Representation with Three-Tier Attention for Recommendation
Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Junxin Liu, Yongfeng Huang
3:30 PM–3:48 PM | Nicollet D
Diversifying Reply Suggestions Using a Matching-Conditional Variational Autoencoder
Budhaditya Deb, Peter Bailey, Milad Shokouhi
3:48 PM–4:06 PM | Nicollet B/C
Multi-task Learning with Sample Re-weighting for Machine Reading Comprehension
Yichong Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu, Jianfeng Gao
4:24 PM–4:42 PM | Northstar A
Adversarial Category Alignment Network for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification
Xiaoye Qu, Zhikang Zou, Yu Cheng, Yang Yang, Pan Zhou
4:42 PM–5:00 PM | Nicollet A
Towards Content Transfer through Grounded Text Generation
Shrimai Prabhumoye, Chris Quirk, Michel Galley
Wednesday, June 5
10:30 AM–12:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Relation Discovery with Out-of-Relation Knowledge Base as Supervision
Yan Liang, Xin Liu, Jianwen Zhang, Yangqiu Song
10:30 AM–12:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
CAN-NER: Convolutional Attention Network for Chinese Named Entity Recognition
Yuying Zhu, Guoxin Wang
1:30 PM–3:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Question Answering as an Automatic Evaluation Metric for News Article Summarization
Matan Eyal, Tal Baumel, Michael Elhadad
1:30 PM–3:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Multi-Level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Danish Contractor, Dinesh Raghu, Sachindra Joshi
1:30 PM–3:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
Addressing word-order Divergence in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for extremely Low Resource Languages
Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
2:06 PM–2:24 PM | Nicollet B/C
Bayesian Learning for Neural Dependency Parsing
Ehsan Shareghi, Yingzhen Li, Yi Zhu, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen
2:24 PM–2:42 PM | Nicollet D
Document-Level N-ary Relation Extraction with Multiscale Representation Learning
Robin Jia, Cliff Wong, Hoifung Poon
3:45 PM–4:00 PM | Northstar A
Pragmatically Informative Text Generation
Sheng Shen, Daniel Fried, Jacob Andreas, Dan Klein
5:57 PM–6:15 PM | Nicollet Ballroom
*Best Paper Award
What’s in a Name? Reducing Bias in Bios without Access to Protected Attributes
Alexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Chayes, Christian Borgs, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sahin Geyik, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Anna Rumshisky, Adam Kalai
Thursday, June 6
8:55 AM–5:30 PM
NeuralGen 2019
Organizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz
Invited Speaker: Hal Daumé III
8:30 AM–6:00 PM
SpLU-RoboNLP 2019
Organizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz
9:00 AM–5:30 PM
The 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Accepted Paper: EmoContext – Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
Ankush Chatterjee, Kedhar Nath Narahari, Meghana Joshi, Puneet Agrawal
9:00 AM–5:30 PM | Nicollet D2
Workshop on Extracting Structured Knowledge from Scientific Publications (ESSP)
Invited Talk: Machine Reading for Precision Medicine
Hoifung Poon
Friday, June 7
9:00 AM–5:30 PM | Nicollet D1
The 2nd Clinical NLP Workshop
Co-organizer: Tristan Naumann
Accepted Paper: Publicly Available Clinical BERT Embeddings
Emily Alsentzer, John Murphy, William Boag, Wei-Hung Weng, Di Jindi, Tristan Naumann, Matthew McDermott