Architecturally stunning Seafarers Bridge and brand new Melbourne Convention Centre.
July 15, 2018 July 20, 2018

Microsoft @ ACL 2018

Location: Melbourne, Australia

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Triangular Architecture for Rare Language Translation (opens in new tab)
Monday, July 16, 2018 | 10:55 AM–11:20 AM | Session 1B: Machine Translation 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC

Shuo Ren, Wenhu Chen, Shujie Liu, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, Shuai Ma

Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization (opens in new tab)
Monday, July 16, 2018 | 11:20 AM–11:45 AM | Session 1D: Summarization | Room 212/213, MCEC

Ziqiang Cao, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li, Furu Wei

Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing (opens in new tab)
Monday, July 16, 2018 | 2:25 PM–2:50 PM | Session 2A: Semantic Parsing 1 | Plenary, MCEC

Li Dong, Chris Quirk, Mirella Lapata

Identifying Transferable Information Across Domains for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification (opens in new tab)
Monday, July 16, 2018 | 2:50 PM–3:15 PM | Session 2F: Sentiment | Room 220, MCEC

Raksha Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sandipan Dandapat, Himanshu Sharad Bhatt

Straight to the Tree: Constituency Parsing with Neural Syntactic Distance (opens in new tab)
Monday, July 16, 2018 | 4:35 PM–5:00 PM | Session 3F: Parsing 1 | Room 220, MCEC

Yikang Shen, Zhouhan Lin, Athul Paul Jacob, Alessandro Sordoni, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio

Fluency Boost Learning and Inference for Neural Grammatical Error Correction (opens in new tab)
Monday, July 16, 2018 | 5:25 PM–5:50 PM | Session 3B: Machine Learning 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC

Tao Ge, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Guess Me if You Can: Acronym Disambiguation for Enterprises (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM–11:45 AM | Session 4C: Information Extraction 2 | Room 210/211, MCEC

Yang Li, Bo Zhao, Ariel Fuxman, Fangbo Tao

Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:00 PM–2:15 PM | Session 5D: Dialog System, Discourse | Room 212/213, MCEC

Yu Wu, Wei Wu, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

Judicious Selection of Training Data in Assisting Language for Multilingual Neural NER (opens in new tab)
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:15 PM–2:30 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210/211, MCEC

Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Neural Open Information Extraction
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:30 PM–2:45 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210/211, MCEC

Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou

Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:30 AM–10:55 AM | Session 7D: Dialog System 3 | Room 212/213, MCEC

Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Jingjing Liu, Kam-Fai Wong

Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information (opens in new tab)
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:25 PM–4:50 PM | Session 9A: Best Paper Session | Plenary, MCEC

Sudha Rao, Hal Daumé