Programme

June 5th, 2018

9:15–9:30 Opening Remarks

9:00–10:30 Session 1 (ROOM: STRAND 10)

9:30–10:30 Invited Talk by Ellie Pavlick (Brown University): Why Should we Care about Linguistics?

10:30–11:00 Coffee Break

11:30–12:30 Session 2 (Enrico Santus)

11:00–11:30 Resolving Event Coreference with Supervised Representation Learning and Clustering-Oriented Regularization

Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Doina Precup

11:30–12:00 Learning distributed event representations with a multi-task approach

Xudong Hong, Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg

12:00–12:15 Assessing Meaning Components in German Complex Verbs: A Collection of Source-Target Domains and Directionality

Sabine Schulte im Walde, Maximilian Köper and Sylvia Springorum

12:15–12:30 Learning Neural Word Salience Scores

Krasen Samardzhiev, Andrew Gargett and Danushka Bollegala

12:30–14:00 Lunch Break

14:00–15:30 Session 3 (Vered Shwartz)

14:00–14:30 Examining Gender and Race Bias in Two Hundred Sentiment Analysis Systems

Svetlana Kiritchenko and Saif Mohammad

14:30–15:00 Graph Algebraic Combinatory Categorial Grammar

Sebastian Beschke and Wolfgang Menzel

15:00–15:15 Mixing Context Granularities for Improved Entity Linking on Question Answering Data across Entity Categories

Daniil Sorokin and Iryna Gurevych

15:15–15:30 Quantitative Semantic Variation in the Contexts of Concrete and Abstract Words

Daniela Naumann, Diego Frassinelli and Sabine Schulte im Walde

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 Session 4 (Malvina Nissim)

16:00–16:50 Poster Booster

16:50–18:00 Poster Session

EmoWordNet: Automatic Expansion of Emotion Lexicon Using English WordNet

Gilbert Badaro, Hussein Jundi, Hazem Hajj and Wassim El-Hajj

The Limitations of Cross-language Word Embeddings Evaluation

Amir Bakarov, Roman Suvorov and Ilya Sochenkov

How Gender and Skin Tone Modifiers Affect Emoji Semantics in Twitter

Francesco Barbieri and Jose Camacho-Collados

Element-wise Bilinear Interaction for Sentence Matching

Jihun Choi, Taeuk Kim and Sang-goo Lee

Named Graphs for Semantic Representation

Richard Crouch and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli

Learning Patient Representations from Text

Dmitriy Dligach and Timothy Miller

Polarity Computations in Flexible Categorial Grammar

Hai Hu and Larry Moss

Coarse Lexical Frame Acquisition at the Syntax–Semantics Interface Using a Latent-Variable PCFG Model

Laura Kallmeyer, Behrang QasemiZadeh and Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Halo: Learning Semantics-Aware Representations for Cross-Lingual Information Extraction

Hongyuan Mei, Sheng Zhang, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme

Exploiting Partially Annotated Data in Temporal Relation Extraction

Qiang Ning, Zhongzhi Yu, Chuchu Fan and Dan Roth

Predicting Word Embeddings Variability

Benedicte Pierrejean and Ludovic Tanguy

Integrating Multiplicative Features into Supervised Distributional Methods for Lexical Entailment

Tu Vu and Vered Shwartz

Deep Affix Features Improve Neural Named Entity Recognizers

Vikas Yadav, Rebecca Sharp and Steven Bethard

Fine-grained Entity Typing through Increased Discourse Context and Adaptive Classification Thresholds

Sheng Zhang, Kevin Duh and Benjamin Van Durme

June 6th, 2018

9:00–10:30 Session 5 (Malvina Nissim)

9:00–10:00 Invited Talk by Christopher Potts (Stanford University): Linguists for Deep Learning; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neural Networks

10:00–10:30 Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language Inference

Adam Poliak, Jason Naradowsky, Aparajita Haldar, Rachel Rudinger and Benjamin Van Durme

10:30–11:00 Coffee Break

11:00–12:15 Session 6 (Adam Poliak)

11:00-11:30 Putting Semantics into Semantic Roles

James Allen and Choh Man Teng

11:30-12:00 Term Definitions Help Hypernymy Detection

Wenpeng Yin and Dan Roth

12:00-12:15 Agree or Disagree: Predicting Judgments on Nuanced Assertions

Michael Wojatzki, Torsten Zesch, Saif Mohammad and Svetlana Kiritchenko

12:15–14:00 Lunch Break

14:00–15:30 Session 7 (Ido Dagan)

14:00-14:30 A Multimodal Translation-Based Approach for Knowledge Graph Representation Learning

Hatem Mousselly Sergieh, Teresa Botschen, Iryna Gurevych and Stefan Roth

14:30-15:00 Quality Signals in Generated Stories

Manasvi Sagarkar, John Wieting, Lifu Tu and Kevin Gimpel

15:00-15:30 Measuring Frame Instance Relatedness

Valerio Basile, Roque Lopez Condori and Elena Cabrio

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–17:30 Session 8 (Nathan Schneider)

16:00-16:30 Solving Feature Sparseness in Text Classification using Core-Periphery Decomposition

Xia Cui, Sadamori Kojaku, Naoki Masuda and Danushka Bollegala

16:30-17:00 Robust Handling of Polysemy via Sparse Representations

Abhijit Mahabal, Dan Roth and Sid Mittal

17:00-17:30 Multiplicative Tree-Structured Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Semantic Representations

Nam Khanh Tran and Weiwei Cheng