{"id":266259,"date":"2016-08-02T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=266259"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:59:53","slug":"acl-2016-conference","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/acl-2016-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2016 and Microsoft Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Main Conference:<\/strong>\u00a0August\u00a08\u201310<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorials:<\/strong>\u00a0August 7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshops and co-located events:<\/strong>\u00a0August\u00a011\u201312<span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to have been part of the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Berlin, Germany, on August 7\u201312, 2016, at Humboldt University. Microsoft was a Gold sponsor and proud to have over 30 researchers attend and present at ACL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2016-08-07","msr_enddate":"2016-08-12","msr_location":"Berlin, Germany","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":true,"msr_private_event":false,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13547],"msr-region":[239178],"msr-event-type":[197941,197947],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-266259","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-systems-and-networking","msr-region-europe","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-event-type-universities","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<!-- wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"ACL 2016 and Microsoft Research\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\"} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tabs --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Overview\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><strong>Main Conference:<\/strong>\u00a0August\u00a08\u201310<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tutorials:<\/strong>\u00a0August 7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshops and co-located events:<\/strong>\u00a0August\u00a011\u201312<span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tabs -->","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"","content":"We are excited to have been part of the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Berlin, Germany, August 7\u201312, 2016, at Humboldt University.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft was a Gold sponsor and proud to have over 30 researchers attend and present at ACL. If you attended\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/acl2016.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACL 2016<\/a>\u00a0we hope you stopped by at the Microsoft booth and chatted with our researchers about the projects and opportunities at Microsoft that involve solving interesting AI, ML and NLP problems for billions of users. You can learn more about our research presented at ACL 2016 via the Accepted papers, as well as on our blog by Bill Dolan:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/microsoft-nlp-researchers-converge-acl-2016-edging-ever-closer-human-like-conversational-experiences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft NLP researchers converge at ACL 2016, edging ever closer to human-like conversational experiences &gt;<\/a>\r\n<h2>Tutorials<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/acl2016.org\/index.php?article_id=60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Understanding Short Texts<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhowang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zhongyuan Wang<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Workshops<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/repl4nlp2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1st Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP<\/a>\r\nPhil Blunsom, Kyunghyun Cho, Shay Cohen, Edward Grefenstette, Karl Moritz Hermann, Laura Rimell, Jason Weston, and Scott Wen-tau Yih\r\nKinosaal<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/workshop.colips.org\/news2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6th NEWS Named Entities Workshop<\/a>\r\nRafael E. Banchs, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, A Kumaran\r\nRoom 1201, Dorotheenstrasse 24<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Accepted papers<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/persona-based-neural-conversation-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Persona-Based Neural Conversation Model<\/a>\"\u00a0by Jiwei Li, Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Jianfeng Gao and Bill Dolan<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/aclweb.org\/anthology\/P16-1069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improved Semantic Parsers for If-Then Statements<\/a>\"\u00a0by I. Beltagy and Chris Quirk<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/compositional-learning-of-embeddings-for-relation-paths-in-knowledge-bases-and-text\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compositional Learning of Embeddings for Relation Paths in Knowledge Base and Text<\/a>\"\u00a0by Kristina Toutanova, Victoria Lin, Wen-tau Yih, Hoifung Poon and Chris Quirk<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"Generating Natural Questions about an Image\"\u00a0by Nasrin Mostafazadeh, Ishan Misra, Jacob Devlin, Margaret Mitchell, Xiaodong He and Lucy Vanderwende<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Natural Language Action Space\"\u00a0by Ji He, Jianshu Chen, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Lihong Li, Li Deng and Mari Ostendorf<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/aclweb.org\/anthology\/P16-2033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Value of Semantic Parse Labeling for Knowledge Base Question Answering<\/a>\"\u00a0by Wen-tau Yih, Matthew Richardson, Chris Meek, Ming-Wei Chang and Jina Suh<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1605.07891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Query Expansion with Locally-Trained Word Embeddings<\/a>\"\u00a0by Fernando Diaz, Bhaskar Mitra and Nick Craswell<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/semi-supervised-query-classification-using-matrix-sketching-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scalable Semi-Supervised Query Classification Using Matrix Sketching<\/a>\"\u00a0by Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos and Ruhi Sarikaya<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/inferring-perceived-demographics-user-emotional-tone-user-environment-emotional-contrast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inferring Perceived Demographics from User Emotional Tone and User-Environment Emotional Contrast<\/a>\"\u00a0by Svitlana Volkova and Yoram Bachrach<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/segment-level-sequence-modeling-using-gated-recursive-semi-markov-conditional-random-fields\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Segment-Level Sequence Modeling using Gated Recursive Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields<\/a>\"\u00a0by Jingwei Zhuo, Jun Zhu, Yong Cao, Zaiqing Nie and Bo Zhang<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u201cHow well do Computers Solve Math Word Problems? Large-Scale Dataset Construction and Evaluation\u201d by Danqing Huang, Shuming Shi, Chin-Yew Lin, Jian Yin and Wei-Ying Ma<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/aclweb.org\/anthology\/P16-1124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knowledge Base Completion via Coupled Path Ranking<\/a>\"\u00a0by Quan Wang, Jing Liu, Yuanfei Luo, Bin Wang and Chin-Yew Lin<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u201cNews Citation Recommendation with Implicit and Explicit Semantics\u201d\u00a0by Hao Peng, Jing Liu and Chin-Yew Lin<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/aclweb.org\/anthology\/P16-1116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RBPB: Regularization-Based Pattern Balancing Method for Event Extraction<\/a>\"\u00a0by Lei Sha, Jing Liu, Chin-Yew Lin, Sujian Li, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/~ai-lab\/pub-view.php?PubID=127577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improved Semantic Parsers For If-Then Statements<\/a>\"\u00a0by Beltagy and Chris Quirk<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/aclweb.org\/anthology\/P16-1049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DocChat: An Information Retrieval Approach for Chatbot Engines Using Unstructured Documents<\/a>\"\u00a0by Zhao Yan, Nan Duan, Junwei Bao, Peng Chen, Ming Zhou, Zhoujun Li and\u00a0Jianshe Zhou<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/aclweb.org\/anthology\/P16-1212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knowledge-Based Semantic Embedding for Machine Translation<\/a>\"\u00a0by Chen Shi, Shujie Liu, Shuo Ren, Shi Feng, Mu Li, Ming Zhou, Xu Sun and Houfeng Wang<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Microsoft attendees<\/h2>\r\n[col-1-2]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hanyh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hany Awadalla<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yobach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yoram Bachrach<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Brockett<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yongc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yong Cao<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.microsoft.com\/#\/detail\/55244337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicola Cancedda<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/minchang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ming-Wei Chang<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fdiaz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fernando Diaz<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nan Duan<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfedermann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Federmann<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cyl\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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