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Sunday, July 5<\/h2>\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nA Study of Non-autoregressive Model for Sequence Generation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Xu Tan<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0Sheng Zhao<\/a>,\u00a0Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nEnhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a>\r\nFei Yuan,\u00a0Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0Xuanyu\u00a0Bai<\/b>,\u00a0Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Yan Fu,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nFine-grained Interest Matching for Neural News Recommendation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHeyuan\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nGenerative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann\u00a0Machines<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLin Zheng,\u00a0Qinliang\u00a0Su,\u00a0Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nMonday, July 6<\/h2>\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nEnhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a>\r\nFei Yuan,\u00a0Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0Xuanyu\u00a0Bai<\/b>,\u00a0Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Yan Fu,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nFine-grained Interest Matching for Neural News Recommendation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHeyuan\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nMuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning<\/strong>\r\nLeyang\u00a0Cui,\u00a0Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>, Yue Zhang,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nYou Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception<\/strong>\r\nQian Liu, Yihong Chen,\u00a0Bei Chen<\/a>,\u00a0Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Zixuan\u00a0Chen, Bin Zhou,\u00a0Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nGenerative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann\u00a0Machines<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLin Zheng,\u00a0Qinliang\u00a0Su,\u00a0Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nMuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning<\/strong>\r\nLeyang\u00a0Cui,\u00a0Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>, Yue Zhang,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nYou Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception<\/strong>\r\nQian Liu, Yihong Chen,\u00a0Bei Chen<\/a>,\u00a0Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Zixuan\u00a0Chen, Bin Zhou,\u00a0Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nA Study of Non-autoregressive Model for Sequence Generation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Xu Tan<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0Sheng Zhao<\/a>,\u00a0Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nGrounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHouyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Zhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\nInteractive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents<\/strong>\r\nXingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nRecollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong>\r\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nSMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong>\r\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0Weizhu\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nSpeak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong>\r\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nXtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong>\r\nSubhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\nImproving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong>\r\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nImproving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong>\r\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\nINSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong>\r\nYichen Huang,\u00a0Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<\/a>,\u00a0Yu Cheng<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nGrounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHouyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Zhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\nImproving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong>\r\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nImproving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong>\r\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nINSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong>\r\nYichen Huang,\u00a0Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<\/a>,\u00a0Yu Cheng<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nInteractive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents<\/strong>\r\nXingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nSMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong>\r\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0Weizhu\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nSpeak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong>\r\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nXtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong>\r\nSubhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nRecollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong>\r\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nAttentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nGender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nGeometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a>\r\nPratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<\/a>,\u00a0Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<\/a>,\u00a0Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nParallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong>\r\nYi Zhang,\u00a0Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nA Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nA Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nA Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nCurriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nGLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a>\r\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0Anirudh Srinivasan<\/a>,\u00a0Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nMIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong>\r\nFangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Ying Qiao<\/a>,\u00a0Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0Winnie Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nSimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong>\r\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nTuesday, July 7<\/h2>\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nBayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0Noam Koenigstein<\/a>\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nGLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a>\r\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0Anirudh Srinivasan<\/a>,\u00a0Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nParallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong>\r\nYi Zhang,\u00a0Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nSEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong>\r\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nA Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nA Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nA Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nCurriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nGraph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0Hieu Hoang<\/b>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nGeometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a>\r\nPratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<\/a>,\u00a0Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<\/a>,\u00a0Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nMIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong>\r\nFangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Ying Qiao<\/a>,\u00a0Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0Winnie Wu<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\nParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong>\r\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nAttentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nBayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0Noam Koenigstein<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nGraph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0Hieu Hoang<\/b>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nSEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong>\r\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nSimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong>\r\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nA Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAngela Lin,\u00a0Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nBeyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a>\r\nMarco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nDiscourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Yu Cheng<\/a>,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\nParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong>\r\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nStorytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong>\r\nRevanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<\/a>,\u00a0Peter Bailey<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nLanguage (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong>\r\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nProbabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong>\r\nHao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nBeyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a>\r\nMarco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nProbabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong>\r\nHao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nA Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAngela Lin,\u00a0Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nDiscourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Yu Cheng<\/a>,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nGender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nLanguage (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong>\r\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nStorytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong>\r\nRevanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<\/a>,\u00a0Peter Bailey<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nEvidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a>\r\nDaya Guo,\u00a0Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nLogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nReasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nThe State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong>\r\nPratik Joshi<\/a>,\u00a0Sebastin\u00a0Santy<\/a>, Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<\/a>,\u00a0Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nDocument Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nHarvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong>\r\nZhongli Li,\u00a0Wenhui Wang<\/a>,\u00a0Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nImproving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong>\r\nJian Yang,\u00a0Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nLearning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong>\r\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nRikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong>\r\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nSingle-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong>\r\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nWednesday, July 8<\/h2>\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\nImproving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong>\r\nJian Yang,\u00a0Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nLanguage to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong>\r\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0Zhun\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nFine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a>\r\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nHarvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong>\r\nZhongli Li,\u00a0Wenhui Wang<\/a>,\u00a0Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nLearning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong>\r\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nRikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong>\r\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\nThe State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong>\r\nPratik Joshi<\/a>,\u00a0Sebastin\u00a0Santy<\/a>, Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<\/a>,\u00a0Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\nRAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0Matthew Richardson<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nEvidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a>\r\nDaya Guo,\u00a0Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nFine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a>\r\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nLanguage to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong>\r\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0Zhun\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nLogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nReasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\nSingle-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong>\r\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\nDocument Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nLearning Web-based Procedures by Reasoning over Explanations and Demonstrations in Context<\/strong>\r\nShashank Srivastava,\u00a0Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0Nebojsa\u00a0Jojic<\/a>,\u00a0Christopher Meek<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\nRAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0Matthew Richardson<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\nDistilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for\u00a0Text\u00a0Generation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYen-Chun Chen<\/a>,\u00a0Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Yu Cheng<\/a>, Jingzhou Liu,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\nOne Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of\u00a0Keyphrases<\/strong>\r\nXingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Tong Wang<\/a>, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter\u00a0Brusilovsky, Daqing He,\u00a0Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nPredicting Performance\u00a0for\u00a0Natural Language Processing Tasks<\/strong>\r\nMengzhou\u00a0Xia, Antonios\u00a0Anastasopoulos,\u00a0Ruochen\u00a0Xu<\/a>,\u00a0Yiming\u00a0Yang, Graham Neubig\r\n\r\n11:00 -12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\nScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation<\/strong>\r\nYutao Zhu,\u00a0Ruihua Song<\/a>,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou, Jian-Yun NIE,\u00a0Jin\u00a0Zhou\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 15:00 PDT\r\nSmart\u00a0To-Do: Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails<\/strong>\r\nSudipto\u00a0Mukherjee,\u00a0Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0Marcello Hasegawa<\/b>,\u00a0