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Eduardo De Leon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nate Kushman, Microsoft Research; Regina Barzilay,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/31.html\">Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory Network<\/a>\" by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duyu Tang<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bing Qin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ting Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Harbin Institute of Technology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/1037.html\" target=\"_blank\">Learning from Explicit and Implicit Supervision Jointly For Algebra Word Problems<\/a>\" by\u00a0Shyam Upadhyay, UIUC; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/minchang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ming-Wei Chang<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Kai-Wei Chang, University of Virginia; Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/1132.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Dataset and Evaluation Metrics for Abstractive Compression of Sentences and Short Paragraphs<\/a>\" by\u00a0Kristina Toutanova\u00a0and Chris Brockett, Microsoft Research; Ke M. Tran, University of Amsterdam; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/samershi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saleema Amershi<\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/177.html\">Solving Verbal Questions in IQ Test by Knowledge-Powered Word Embedding<\/a>\" by Huazheng Wang, University of Virginia; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fetia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fei Tian<\/a>, Microsoft Research; Bin Gao, Microsoft; Chengjieren Zhu, University of California\u2013San Diego; Jiang Bian, Yidian Inc.;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/216.html\" target=\"_blank\">Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification<\/a>\" by\u00a0Yequan Wang and Minlie Huang, Tsinghua University; xiaoyan zhu;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lizo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Li Zhao<\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft Research Asia<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/315.html\" target=\"_blank\">Identifying Dogmatism in Social Media: Signals and Models<\/a>\" by Ethan Fast, Stanford University;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/116.html\" target=\"_blank\">Detecting and Characterizing Events<\/a>\" by\u00a0Allison Chaney, Princeton University; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hanna Wallach<\/a>, Microsoft Research;\u00a0Matthew Connelly and David Blei,\u00a0Columbia University<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/390.html\" target=\"_blank\">Solving and Generating Chinese Character Riddles<\/a>\" by\u00a0Chuanqi Tan, Beihang University; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\" target=\"_blank\">Furu Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft Research Asia; Li Dong, University of Edinburgh; Weifeng Lv, Beihang University;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Microsoft Research Asia<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/1091.html\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding Language Preference for Expression of Opinion and Sentiment: What do Hindi-English Speakers do on Twitter?<\/a>\" by Koustav Rudra, Indian Institute of Technology\u2013Kharagpur; Shruti Rijhwani,\u00a0Carnegie Mellon University; Rafiya Begum, Kalika Bali, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, Microsoft Research India; Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology\u2013Kharagpur<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/150.html\" target=\"_blank\">Recurrent Residual Learning for Sequence Classification<\/a>\" by\u00a0Yiren Wang,\u00a0University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;\u00a0Fei Tian, Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/632.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Generation<\/a>\" by\u00a0Jiwei Li and Will Monroe, Stanford University; Alan Ritter, The Ohio State University; Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University;\u00a0Michel Galley,\u00a0Microsoft Research;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Microsoft<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/1053.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toward Socially-Infused Information Extraction: Embedding Authors, Mentions, and Entities<\/a>\" by\u00a0Yi Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology;\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang,\u00a0Microsoft Research; Jacob Eisenstein,\u00a0Georgia Institute of Technology<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/1100.html\" target=\"_blank\">Character-Level Question Answering with Attention<\/a>\" by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaohe\/\">Xiaodong He<\/a>, Microsoft Research;\u00a0David Golub, University of Washington<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/1190.html\" target=\"_blank\">Syntactic Parsing of Web Queries<\/a>\" by\u00a0Xiangyan Sun, Fudan University; Haixun Wang, Facebook; Yanghua Xiao, Fudan University; Zhongyuan Wang, Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/364.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Combinatorial Action Space for Predicting Popular Reddit Threads<\/a>\" by\u00a0Ji He and Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington; Xiaodong He, Jianshu Chen,\u00a0Jianfeng Gao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lihongli\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lihong Li<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/deng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Li Deng<\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/901.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Language Model Re-usability for Scaling to Different Domains<\/a>\" by Young-Bum Kim,\u00a0Alexandre Rochette, and Ruhi Sarikaya,\u00a0Microsoft<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/845.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bi-directional Attention with Agreement for Dependency Parsing<\/a>\" by\u00a0Hao Cheng and Hao Fang, University of Washington;\u00a0Xiaodong He, Microsoft Research;\u00a0Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research Redmond;\u00a0Li Deng,\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emnlp2016.net\/program\/561.html\" target=\"_blank\">News Stream Summarization using Burst Information Networks<\/a>\" by Tao Ge, Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics\u2013Peking University;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lecu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lei Cui<\/a>, Microsoft Research; 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