COSC-872: NLP Seminar (S19) - Planning


1	Date (2019)	Topic	Presenter	Papers	More
2	1/22	Commonsense	Sean	2018	SWAG: A Large-Scale Adversarial Dataset for Grounded Commonsense Inference
3				EMNLP	Rowan Zellers, Yonatan Bisk, Roy Schwartz, Yejin Choi
4				2019	ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning
5				AAAI	Maarten Sap, Ronan LeBras, Emily Allaway, Chandra Bhagavatula, Nicholas Lourie, Hannah Rashkin, Brendan Roof, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
6				2018	Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions
7				ACL	Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Emily Allaway, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
8	2/5	What NNs learn	Emma	2018	Did the Model Understand the Question?
9				ACL	Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta, Ankur Taly, Mukund Sundararajan, Kedar Dhamdhere
10				2018	Deep RNNs Encode Soft Hierarchical Syntax
11				ACL	Terra Blevins, Omer Levy, Luke Zettlemoyer
12				2018	LSTMs Can Learn Syntax-Sensitive Dependencies Well, But Modeling Structure Makes Them Better
13				ACL	Adhiguna Kuncoro, Chris Dyer, John Hale, Dani Yogatama, Stephen Clark, Phil Blunsom
14	2/12	Transfer Learning/Embeddings	Austin	2017	Attention is All You Need	Illustrated Transformer
15				NeurIPS	Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin
16				2018	Deep contextualized word representations
17				NAACL	Matthew E. Peters, Mark Neumann, Mohit Iyyer, Matt Gardner, Christopher Clark, Kenton Lee, and Luke Zettlemoyer
18				2018	BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
19				arXiv	Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova
20		Generation & Sentence Pairs
21	2/26	NLG + Paraphrasing	Nathan	2013	Squib: What is a paraphrase?
22				CL	Rahul Bhagat, Eduard Hovy
23				2019	ParaBank: Monolingual bitext generation and sentential paraphrasing via lexically-constrained neural machine translation	DEMO
24				AAAI	J. Edward Hu, Rachel Rudinger, Matt Post, Benjamin Van Durme
25			Emma	2018	The price of debiasing automatic metrics in natural language evaluation
26				ACL	Arun Chaganty, Stephen Mussmann, Percy Liang
27			Jakob	2018	Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning
28				INLG	David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg
29	3/12	MT	Zhiwen	2018	Phrase-Based & Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation
30				EMNLP	Guillaume Lample, Myle Ott, Alexis Conneau, Ludovic Denoyer, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
31				2018	Unsupervised Statistical Machine Translation
32				EMNLP	Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre
33				2018	Unsupervised neural machine translation with weight sharing
34				ACL	Zhen Yang, Wei Chen, Feng Wang, Bo Xu
35		Form & Meaning
36	3/19	Figurative Language	Eugene	2018	Word Embedding and WordNet Based Metaphor Identification and Interpretation
37				ACL	Rui Mao, Chenghua Lin, Frank Guerin
38				2018	Neural Metaphor Detection in Context
39				EMNLP	Ge Gao, Eunsol Choi, Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer
40				2018	A Computational Exploration of Exaggeration
41				EMNLP	Enrica Troiano, Carlo Strapparava, Gözde Özbal, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu
42	3/26	Syntax/Semantics	Logan + Shaobo	2018	Improving Text-to-SQL Evaluation Methodology
43				ACL	Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Li Zhang, Karthik Ramanathan, Sesh Sadasivam, Rui Zhang, Dragomir Radev
44				2018	Semantic Parsing with Syntax- and Table-Aware SQL Generation
45				ACL	Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Jianshu Ji, Guihong Cao, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Ming Zhou
46				2018	Scene Graph Parsing as Dependency Parsing
47				NAACL-HLT	Yu-Siang Wang, Chenxi Liu, Xiaohui Zeng, Alan Yuille
48	4/2	Discourse	Logan	2018	Textual Analogy Parsing: What's Shared and What's Compared among Analogous Facts
49				EMNLP	Matthew Lamm, Arun Chaganty, Christopher D. Manning, Dan Jurafsky, Percy Liang
50				2018	Coherence Modeling of Asynchronous Conversations: A Neural Entity Grid Approach
51				ACL	Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Tasnim Mohiuddin, Dat Tien Nguyen
52				2018	Modeling Sentiment Association in Discourse for Humor Recognition
53				ACL	Lizhen Liu, Donghai Zhang, Wei Song
54	4/9	Event Coreference	Jakob	2017	Joint Learning for Event Coreference Resolution
55				ACL	Jing Lu, Vincent Ng
56				2018	Graph-Based Decoding for Event Coreference and Sequencing Resolution
57				COLING	Zhengzhong Liu, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard Hovy
58				2018	Identifying the Most Dominant Event in a News Article by Mining Event Coreference Relations
59				NAACL-HLT	Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kaushik Raju, Ruihong Huang
60		Advanced ML Topics
61	4/16	Augmented NNs	Shaobo	2018	Learning beyond datasets: Knowledge Graph Augmented Neural Networks for Natural language Processing
62				NAACL	Annervaz K M, Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Ambedkar Dukkipati
63				2018	Predicting News Headline Popularity with Syntactic and Semantic Knowledge Using Multi-Task Learning
64				EMNLP	Sotiris Lamprinidis, Daniel Hardt, Dirk Hovy
65				2018	Neural Argument Generation Augmented with Externally Retrieved Evidence
66				ACL	Xinyu Hua, Lu Wang
67	4/23	GANs	Eugene + Zhiwen	2014	Generative Adversarial Nets
68				NIPS	Ian J. Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio
69				2017	Adversarial Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation
70				EMNLP	Jiwei Li, Will Monroe, Tianlin Shi, Sébastien Jean, Alan Ritter, Dan Jurafsky
71				2018	DSGAN: Generative Adversarial Training for Distant Supervision Relation Extraction
72				ACL	Pengda Qin, Weiran Xu, William Yang Wang
73	4/30	Topic Modeling	Rob	2016	Mixing Dirichlet Topic Models and Word Embeddings to Make lda2vec
74				arXiv	Christopher E. Moody
75				2018	Authorless Topic Models: Biasing Models Away from Known Structure
76				COLING	Laure Thompson, David Mimno
77				2017	Pulling Out the Stops: Rethinking Stopword Removal for Topic Models
78				EACL	Alexandra Schofield, Måns Magnusson, David Mimno

1

Date (2019)

Topic

Presenter

Papers

More

2

1/22

Commonsense

Sean

2018

SWAG: A Large-Scale Adversarial Dataset for Grounded Commonsense Inference

3

EMNLP

Rowan Zellers, Yonatan Bisk, Roy Schwartz, Yejin Choi

4

2019

ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning

5

AAAI

Maarten Sap, Ronan LeBras, Emily Allaway, Chandra Bhagavatula, Nicholas Lourie, Hannah Rashkin, Brendan Roof, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi

6

2018

Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions

7

ACL

Hannah Rashkin, Maarten Sap, Emily Allaway, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi

8

2/5

What NNs learn

Emma

2018

Did the Model Understand the Question?

9

ACL

Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta, Ankur Taly, Mukund Sundararajan, Kedar Dhamdhere

10

2018

Deep RNNs Encode Soft Hierarchical Syntax

11

ACL

Terra Blevins, Omer Levy, Luke Zettlemoyer

12

2018

LSTMs Can Learn Syntax-Sensitive Dependencies Well, But Modeling Structure Makes Them Better

13

ACL

Adhiguna Kuncoro, Chris Dyer, John Hale, Dani Yogatama, Stephen Clark, Phil Blunsom

14

2/12

Transfer Learning/Embeddings

Austin

2017

Attention is All You Need

Illustrated Transformer

15

NeurIPS

Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin

16

2018

Deep contextualized word representations

17

NAACL

Matthew E. Peters, Mark Neumann, Mohit Iyyer, Matt Gardner, Christopher Clark, Kenton Lee, and Luke Zettlemoyer

18

2018

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

19

arXiv

Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova

20

Generation & Sentence Pairs

21

2/26

NLG + Paraphrasing

Nathan

2013

Squib: What is a paraphrase?

22

CL

Rahul Bhagat, Eduard Hovy

23

2019

ParaBank: Monolingual bitext generation and sentential paraphrasing via lexically-constrained neural machine translation

DEMO

24

AAAI

J. Edward Hu, Rachel Rudinger, Matt Post, Benjamin Van Durme

25

Emma

2018

The price of debiasing automatic metrics in natural language evaluation

26

ACL

Arun Chaganty, Stephen Mussmann, Percy Liang

27

Jakob

2018

Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning

28

INLG

David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg

29

3/12

MT

Zhiwen

2018

Phrase-Based & Neural Unsupervised Machine Translation

30

EMNLP

Guillaume Lample, Myle Ott, Alexis Conneau, Ludovic Denoyer, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

31

2018

Unsupervised Statistical Machine Translation

32

EMNLP

Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre

33

2018

Unsupervised neural machine translation with weight sharing

34

ACL

Zhen Yang, Wei Chen, Feng Wang, Bo Xu

35

Form & Meaning

36

3/19

Figurative Language

Eugene

2018

Word Embedding and WordNet Based Metaphor Identification and Interpretation

37

ACL

Rui Mao, Chenghua Lin, Frank Guerin

38

2018

Neural Metaphor Detection in Context

39

EMNLP

Ge Gao, Eunsol Choi, Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer

40

2018

A Computational Exploration of Exaggeration

41

EMNLP

Enrica Troiano, Carlo Strapparava, Gözde Özbal, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu

42

3/26

Syntax/Semantics

Logan + Shaobo

2018

Improving Text-to-SQL Evaluation Methodology

43

ACL

Catherine Finegan-Dollak, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Li Zhang, Karthik Ramanathan, Sesh Sadasivam, Rui Zhang, Dragomir Radev

44

2018

Semantic Parsing with Syntax- and Table-Aware SQL Generation

45

ACL

Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Jianshu Ji, Guihong Cao, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Ming Zhou

46

2018

Scene Graph Parsing as Dependency Parsing

47

NAACL-HLT

Yu-Siang Wang, Chenxi Liu, Xiaohui Zeng, Alan Yuille

48

4/2

Discourse

Logan

2018

Textual Analogy Parsing: What's Shared and What's Compared among Analogous Facts

49

EMNLP

Matthew Lamm, Arun Chaganty, Christopher D. Manning, Dan Jurafsky, Percy Liang

50

2018

Coherence Modeling of Asynchronous Conversations: A Neural Entity Grid Approach

51

ACL

Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Tasnim Mohiuddin, Dat Tien Nguyen

52

2018

Modeling Sentiment Association in Discourse for Humor Recognition

53

ACL

Lizhen Liu, Donghai Zhang, Wei Song

54

4/9

Event Coreference

Jakob

2017

Joint Learning for Event Coreference Resolution

55

ACL

Jing Lu, Vincent Ng

56

2018

Graph-Based Decoding for Event Coreference and Sequencing Resolution

57

COLING

Zhengzhong Liu, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard Hovy

58

2018

Identifying the Most Dominant Event in a News Article by Mining Event Coreference Relations

59

NAACL-HLT

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kaushik Raju, Ruihong Huang

60

Advanced ML Topics

61

4/16

Augmented NNs

Shaobo

2018

Learning beyond datasets: Knowledge Graph Augmented Neural Networks for Natural language Processing

62

NAACL

Annervaz K M, Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Ambedkar Dukkipati

63

2018

Predicting News Headline Popularity with Syntactic and Semantic Knowledge Using Multi-Task Learning

64

EMNLP

Sotiris Lamprinidis, Daniel Hardt, Dirk Hovy

65

2018

Neural Argument Generation Augmented with Externally Retrieved Evidence

66

ACL

Xinyu Hua, Lu Wang

67

4/23

GANs

Eugene + Zhiwen

2014

Generative Adversarial Nets

68

NIPS

Ian J. Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio

69

2017

Adversarial Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation

70

EMNLP

Jiwei Li, Will Monroe, Tianlin Shi, Sébastien Jean, Alan Ritter, Dan Jurafsky

71

2018

DSGAN: Generative Adversarial Training for Distant Supervision Relation Extraction

72

ACL

Pengda Qin, Weiran Xu, William Yang Wang

73

4/30

Topic Modeling

Rob

2016

Mixing Dirichlet Topic Models and Word Embeddings to Make lda2vec

74

arXiv

Christopher E. Moody

75

2018

Authorless Topic Models: Biasing Models Away from Known Structure

76

COLING

Laure Thompson, David Mimno

77

2017

Pulling Out the Stops: Rethinking Stopword Removal for Topic Models

78

EACL

Alexandra Schofield, Måns Magnusson, David Mimno