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Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models

Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Milica Gašić

Comments 8 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Code at https://gitlab.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/general/dsml/trippy-public

LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization

Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Hsien-chin Lin, Marco Moresi, Carel van Niekerk, Milica Gašić

Comments 15 pages. To be published as long paper in Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020). Code can be accessed at https://gitlab.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/general/dsml/lava-public

Improving Document-Level Sentiment Analysis with User and Product Context

Chenyang Lyu, Jennifer Foster, Yvette Graham

Comments Accepted to COLING 2020 (Oral)

"What is on your mind?" Automated Scoring of Mindreading in Childhood and Early Adolescence

Venelin Kovatchev, Phillip Smith, Mark Lee, Imogen Grumley Traynor, Irene Luque Aguilera, Rory T. Devine

Comments Accepted in COLING 2020

Datasets and Models for Authorship Attribution on Italian Personal Writings

Gaetana Ruggiero, Albert Gatt, Malvina Nissim

Comments Accepted for publication in: 7th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-IT 2020)

Morphologically Aware Word-Level Translation

Paula Czarnowska, Sebastian Ruder, Ryan Cotterell, Ann Copestake

Comments COLING 2020

Words are the Window to the Soul: Language-based User Representations for Fake News Detection

Marco Del Tredici, Raquel Fernández

Comments 9 pages, accepted at COLING 2020

DebateSum: A large-scale argument mining and summarization dataset

Allen Roush, Arvind Balaji

Comments Accepted for oral presentation at the 7th Workshop on Argument Mining (ARGMIN 2020) held at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020)

ScopeIt: Scoping Task Relevant Sentences in Documents

Vishwas Suryanarayanan, Barun Patra, Pamela Bhattacharya, Chala Fufa, Charles Lee

Comments Accepted in COLING 2020

Learning to Few-Shot Learn Across Diverse Natural Language Classification Tasks

Trapit Bansal, Rishikesh Jha, Andrew McCallum

Comments To appear at COLING 2020, camera-ready version

Matching Theory and Data with Personal-ITY: What a Corpus of Italian YouTube Comments Reveals About Personality

Elisa Bassignana, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti

Comments 12 pages, Accepted at PEOPLES 2020 (workshop COLING 2020). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2011.05688

Arabic Dialect Identification Using BERT-Based Domain Adaptation

Ahmad Beltagy, Abdelrahman Wael, Omar ElSherief

Comments 6 pages, 2 figures , WANLP co-located with COLING 2020

Re-framing Incremental Deep Language Models for Dialogue Processing with Multi-task Learning

Morteza Rohanian, Julian Hough

Journal ref The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020)

An Analysis of Dataset Overlap on Winograd-Style Tasks

Ali Emami, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Comments 11 pages with references, accepted at COLING 2020

Journal ref Coling2020

Enabling Interactive Transcription in an Indigenous Community

Éric Le Ferrand, Steven Bird, Laurent Besacier

Comments inproceedings Coling 2020

Identifying Depressive Symptoms from Tweets: Figurative Language Enabled Multitask Learning Framework

Shweta Yadav, Jainish Chauhan, Joy Prakash Sain, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth, Jeremiah Schumm

Comments Accepted for publication in COLING 2020

Exploring the Value of Personalized Word Embeddings

Charles Welch, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea

Comments COLING 2020

Constructing A Multi-hop QA Dataset for Comprehensive Evaluation of Reasoning Steps

Xanh Ho, Anh-Khoa Duong Nguyen, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa

Comments Accepted by COLING 2020

Situated Data, Situated Systems: A Methodology to Engage with Power Relations in Natural Language Processing Research

Lucy Havens, Melissa Terras, Benjamin Bach, Beatrice Alex

Comments Accepted to the 2nd Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing at COLING 2020

Personal-ITY: A Novel YouTube-based Corpus for Personality Prediction in Italian

Elisa Bassignana, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti

Comments 7 pages, accepted at Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2020)

Mixup-Transformer: Dynamic Data Augmentation for NLP Tasks

Lichao Sun, Congying Xia, Wenpeng Yin, Tingting Liang, Philip S. Yu, Lifang He

Comments Accepted by COLING 2020

Situated and Interactive Multimodal Conversations

Seungwhan Moon, Satwik Kottur, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Shivani Poddar, Theodore Levin, David Whitney, Daniel Difranco, Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon Cho, Rajen Subba, Alborz Geramifard

Comments 20 pages, 5 figures, 11 tables, accepted to COLING 2020

DocBank: A Benchmark Dataset for Document Layout Analysis

Minghao Li, Yiheng Xu, Lei Cui, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

Comments COLING 2020

Have Your Text and Use It Too! End-to-End Neural Data-to-Text Generation with Semantic Fidelity

Hamza Harkous, Isabel Groves, Amir Saffari

Comments 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), Online, December 8-13, 2020

DoLFIn: Distributions over Latent Features for Interpretability

Phong Le, Willem Zuidema

Journal ref COLING 2020

Towards Preemptive Detection of Depression and Anxiety in Twitter

David Owen, Jose Camacho Collados, Luis Espinosa-Anke

Comments Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) | COLING 2020

To What Degree Can Language Borders Be Blurred In BERT-based Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding?

Quynh Do, Judith Gaspers, Tobias Roding, Melanie Bradford

Comments COLING 2020

Exploring End-to-End Differentiable Natural Logic Modeling

Yufei Feng, Zi'ou Zheng, Quan Liu, Michael Greenspan, Xiaodan Zhu

Comments 10 pages

Journal ref COLING 2020

CxGBERT: BERT meets Construction Grammar

Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Laurence Romain, Dagmar Divjak, Petar Milin

Comments 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020)

Metrics also Disagree in the Low Scoring Range: Revisiting Summarization Evaluation Metrics

Manik Bhandari, Pranav Gour, Atabak Ashfaq, Pengfei Liu

Comments Accepted at COLING 2020