{"id":492497,"date":"2018-06-27T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=492497"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:57:05","slug":"acl-2018","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/acl-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft @ ACL 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Venue:<\/strong> Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\n1 Convention Centre Place
\nSouth Wharf
\nVictoria<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> ACL 2018 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is proud to be a gold sponsor of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (ACL). ACL is the premier conference in the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.<\/p>\n

Committee Chairs<\/h2>\n

Area chairs<\/h3>\n

Dialogue and Interactive Systems<\/p>\n

Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a><\/p>\n

Program Committee Chairs<\/h2>\n

The 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA)<\/h3>\n

Chris Brockett<\/a>, Chen Li<\/p>\n

Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-switching<\/h3>\n

Monojit Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n

The 6th International Workshop on\u00a0Natural Language Processing for Social Media<\/h3>\n

Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, Lei Cui<\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation<\/h3>\n

Shujie Liu<\/p>\n

Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software (NLP-OSS)<\/h3>\n

Christian Federmann<\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

MRQA 2018: Machine Reading for Question Answering (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 |\u00a08:45 AM\u20135:00 PM<\/h4>\n

11:35 AM\u201311:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-switching (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20135:00 PM<\/h4>\n

10:10 AM\u201310:30 AM | Phone Merging for Code-Switched Speech Recognition<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunit Sivasankaran, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava<\/strong>, Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a>, Kalika Bali<\/strong><\/a>, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2:15 PM\u20133:30 PM | Accommodation of Conversational Code-Choice<\/p>\n

Anshul Bawa<\/strong>, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong><\/a>, Kalika Bali<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2:15 PM-3:30 PM | Automatic Detection of Code-switching Style from Acoustics<\/a><\/p>\n

SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a>, Alan W. Black<\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, July 16, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM
\nT2: Neural Approaches to Conversational AI<\/a><\/h4>\n

Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley, Lihong Li<\/p>\n

Monday, July 16, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20135:00 PM
\nT8: Multi-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Dan Roth, Silviu Cucerzan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Triangular Architecture for Rare Language Translation (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:55 AM\u201311:20 AM | Session 1B: Machine Translation 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Shuo Ren, Wenhu Chen, Shujie Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Mu Li,<\/strong> Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n

Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201311:45 AM | Session 1D: Summarization | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Ziqiang Cao, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 2:25 PM\u20132:50 PM | Session 2A: Semantic Parsing 1 | Plenary, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Li Dong, Chris Quirk<\/strong><\/a>, Mirella Lapata<\/p>\n

Identifying Transferable Information Across Domains for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 2:50 PM\u20133:15 PM | Session 2F: Sentiment | Room 220, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Raksha Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sandipan Dandapat, <\/strong>Himanshu Sharad Bhatt<\/p>\n

Straight to the Tree: Constituency Parsing with Neural Syntactic Distance (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:35 PM\u20135:00 PM | Session 3F: Parsing 1 | Room 220, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Yikang Shen, Zhouhan Lin, Athul Paul Jacob, Alessandro Sordoni<\/strong><\/a>, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio<\/p>\n

Fluency Boost Learning and Inference for Neural Grammatical Error Correction (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 5:25 PM\u20135:50 PM | Session 3B: Machine Learning 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Tao Ge<\/strong>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Guess Me if You Can: Acronym Disambiguation for Enterprises (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201311:45 AM | Session 4C: Information Extraction 2 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Yang Li, Bo Zhao<\/strong>, Ariel Fuxman, Fangbo Tao<\/p>\n

Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:00 PM\u20132:15 PM | Session 5D: Dialog System, Discourse | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Yu Wu, Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Judicious Selection of Training Data in Assisting Language for Multilingual Neural NER (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:15 PM\u20132:30 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>\n

Neural Open Information Extraction<\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:30 PM\u20132:45 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Lei Cui<\/strong><\/a>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning<\/a>
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:30 AM\u201310:55 AM | Session 7D: Dialog System 3 | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong<\/p>\n

Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:25 PM\u20134:50 PM | Session 9A: Best Paper Session | Plenary, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Sudha Rao, Hal Daum\u00e9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Intermediate Representations to Solve Math Word Problems (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1B: Semantics<\/h4>\n

Danqing Huang, Jin-Ge Yao, Chin-Yew Lin<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Qingyu Zhou, Jian Yin<\/p>\n

Semantic Parsing with Syntax- and Table-Aware SQL Generation (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1B: Semantics<\/h4>\n

Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Jianshu Ji, Guihong Cao, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Ming Zhou<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Mining Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Social Media (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1F: Summarization, Social Media<\/h4>\n

Yuchen Lin, Frank F. Xu, Kenny Zhu, Seung-won Hwang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neural Document Summarization by Jointly Learning to Score and Select Sentences (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1F: Summarization, Social Media<\/h4>\n

Qingyu Zhou, Nan Yang<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Furu Wei<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Shaohan Huang, Ming Zhou<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Tiejun Zhao<\/p>\n

Language Modeling for Code-Mixing: The Role of Linguistic Theory based Synthetic Data (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2B: Dialog and Interactive Systems, Multilinguality<\/h4>\n

Adithya Pratapa<\/strong>, Gayatri Bhat, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Sunayana Sitaram, Sandipan Dandapat, Kalika Bali<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Unsupervised Semantic Abstractive Summarization (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2A: Student Research Workshop<\/h4>\n

Shibhansh Dohare, Vivek Gupta<\/strong>, Harish Karnick<\/p>\n

Higher-order Relation Schema Induction using Tensor Factorization with Back-off and Aggregation (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2C: Information Extraction, Text Mining<\/h4>\n

Madhav Nimishakavi, Manish Gupta<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Partha Talukdar<\/p>\n

Stochastic Answer Networks for Machine Reading Comprehension (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2E: Question Answering<\/h4>\n

Xiaodong Liu<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Yelong Shen<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Kevin Duh, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Leveraging Orthographic Similarity for Multilingual Neural Transliteration (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2F: Machine Translation<\/h4>\n

Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Mitesh Khapra, Gurneet Singh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>\n

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Venue:<\/strong> Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\n1 Convention Centre Place
\nSouth Wharf
\nVictoria<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> ACL 2018 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is proud to be a gold sponsor of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics<\/a> (ACL). ACL is the premier conference in the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.<\/p>\n

Committee Chairs<\/h2>\n

Area chairs<\/h3>\n

Dialogue and Interactive Systems<\/p>\n

Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a><\/p>\n

Program Committee Chairs<\/h2>\n

The 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA)<\/h3>\n

Chris Brockett<\/a>, Chen Li<\/p>\n

Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-switching<\/h3>\n

Monojit Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n

The 6th International Workshop on\u00a0Natural Language Processing for Social Media<\/h3>\n

Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, Lei Cui<\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation<\/h3>\n

Shujie Liu<\/p>\n

Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software (NLP-OSS)<\/h3>\n

Christian Federmann<\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

MRQA 2018: Machine Reading for Question Answering<\/a>
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 |\u00a08:45 AM\u20135:00 PM<\/h4>\n

11:35 AM\u201311:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-switching<\/a>
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20135:00 PM<\/h4>\n

10:10 AM\u201310:30 AM | Phone Merging for Code-Switched Speech Recognition<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunit Sivasankaran, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava<\/strong>, Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a>, Kalika Bali<\/strong><\/a>, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2:15 PM\u20133:30 PM | Accommodation of Conversational Code-Choice<\/p>\n

Anshul Bawa<\/strong>, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong><\/a>, Kalika Bali<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2:15 PM-3:30 PM | Automatic Detection of Code-switching Style from Acoustics<\/a><\/p>\n

SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a>, Alan W. Black<\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, July 16, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM
\nT2: Neural Approaches to Conversational AI<\/a><\/h4>\n

Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley, Lihong Li<\/p>\n

Monday, July 16, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20135:00 PM
\nT8: Multi-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking<\/a><\/h4>\n

Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Dan Roth, Silviu Cucerzan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Triangular Architecture for Rare Language Translation<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:55 AM\u201311:20 AM | Session 1B: Machine Translation 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Shuo Ren, Wenhu Chen, Shujie Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Mu Li,<\/strong> Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n

Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201311:45 AM | Session 1D: Summarization | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Ziqiang Cao, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 2:25 PM\u20132:50 PM | Session 2A: Semantic Parsing 1 | Plenary, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Li Dong, Chris Quirk<\/strong><\/a>, Mirella Lapata<\/p>\n

Identifying Transferable Information Across Domains for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 2:50 PM\u20133:15 PM | Session 2F: Sentiment | Room 220, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Raksha Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sandipan Dandapat, <\/strong>Himanshu Sharad Bhatt<\/p>\n

Straight to the Tree: Constituency Parsing with Neural Syntactic Distance<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:35 PM\u20135:00 PM | Session 3F: Parsing 1 | Room 220, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Yikang Shen, Zhouhan Lin, Athul Paul Jacob, Alessandro Sordoni<\/strong><\/a>, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio<\/p>\n

Fluency Boost Learning and Inference for Neural Grammatical Error Correction<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 5:25 PM\u20135:50 PM | Session 3B: Machine Learning 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Tao Ge<\/strong>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Guess Me if You Can: Acronym Disambiguation for Enterprises<\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201311:45 AM | Session 4C: Information Extraction 2 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Yang Li, Bo Zhao<\/strong>, Ariel Fuxman, Fangbo Tao<\/p>\n

Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots<\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:00 PM\u20132:15 PM | Session 5D: Dialog System, Discourse | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Yu Wu, Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Judicious Selection of Training Data in Assisting Language for Multilingual Neural NER<\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:15 PM\u20132:30 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>\n

Neural Open Information Extraction<\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:30 PM\u20132:45 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Lei Cui<\/strong><\/a>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning<\/a>
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:30 AM\u201310:55 AM | Session 7D: Dialog System 3 | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong<\/p>\n

Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information<\/a>
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:25 PM\u20134:50 PM | Session 9A: Best Paper Session | Plenary, MCEC<\/h4>\n

Sudha Rao, Hal Daum\u00e9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Intermediate Representations to Solve Math Word Problems (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1B: Semantics<\/h4>\n

Danqing Huang, Jin-Ge Yao, Chin-Yew Lin<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Qingyu Zhou, Jian Yin<\/p>\n

Semantic Parsing with Syntax- and Table-Aware SQL Generation (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1B: Semantics<\/h4>\n

Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Jianshu Ji, Guihong Cao, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Ming Zhou<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Mining Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Social Media (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1F: Summarization, Social Media<\/h4>\n

Yuchen Lin, Frank F. Xu, Kenny Zhu, Seung-won Hwang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neural Document Summarization by Jointly Learning to Score and Select Sentences (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1F: Summarization, Social Media<\/h4>\n

Qingyu Zhou, Nan Yang<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Furu Wei<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Shaohan Huang, Ming Zhou<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Tiejun Zhao<\/p>\n

Language Modeling for Code-Mixing: The Role of Linguistic Theory based Synthetic Data (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2B: Dialog and Interactive Systems, Multilinguality<\/h4>\n

Adithya Pratapa<\/strong>, Gayatri Bhat, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Sunayana Sitaram, Sandipan Dandapat, Kalika Bali<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Unsupervised Semantic Abstractive Summarization (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2A: Student Research Workshop<\/h4>\n

Shibhansh Dohare, Vivek Gupta<\/strong>, Harish Karnick<\/p>\n

Higher-order Relation Schema Induction using Tensor Factorization with Back-off and Aggregation (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2C: Information Extraction, Text Mining<\/h4>\n

Madhav Nimishakavi, Manish Gupta<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Partha Talukdar<\/p>\n

Stochastic Answer Networks for Machine Reading Comprehension (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2E: Question Answering<\/h4>\n

Xiaodong Liu<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Yelong Shen<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Kevin Duh, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Leveraging Orthographic Similarity for Multilingual Neural Transliteration (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2F: Machine Translation<\/h4>\n

Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Mitesh Khapra, Gurneet Singh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>\n

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Committee Chairs<\/h2>\r\n

Area chairs<\/h3>\r\nDialogue and Interactive Systems\r\n

Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Program Committee Chairs<\/h2>\r\n

The 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA)<\/h3>\r\n

Chris Brockett<\/a>, Chen Li<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-switching<\/h3>\r\n

Monojit Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The 6th International Workshop on\u00a0Natural Language Processing for Social Media<\/h3>\r\n

Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, Lei Cui<\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation<\/h3>\r\n

Shujie Liu<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software (NLP-OSS)<\/h3>\r\n

Christian Federmann<\/a><\/p>"},{"id":1,"name":"Workshops","content":"

MRQA 2018: Machine Reading for Question Answering<\/a>\r\nThursday, July 18, 2018 |\u00a08:45 AM\u20135:00 PM<\/h4>\r\n11:35 AM\u201311:50 AM | Invited Speaker: Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>\r\n

Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-switching<\/a>\r\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20135:00 PM<\/h4>\r\n10:10 AM\u201310:30 AM | Phone Merging for Code-Switched Speech Recognition<\/a>\r\n

Sunit Sivasankaran, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava<\/strong>, Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a>, Kalika Bali<\/strong><\/a>, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n2:15 PM\u20133:30 PM | Accommodation of Conversational Code-Choice\r\n

Anshul Bawa<\/strong>, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong><\/a>, Kalika Bali<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n2:15 PM-3:30 PM | Automatic Detection of Code-switching Style from Acoustics<\/a>\r\n

SaiKrishna Rallabandi, Sunayana Sitaram<\/strong><\/a>, Alan W. Black<\/p>"},{"id":2,"name":"Tutorials","content":"

Monday, July 16, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201312:30 PM\r\nT2: Neural Approaches to Conversational AI<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley, Lihong Li<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Monday, July 16, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20135:00 PM\r\nT8: Multi-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Avirup Sil, Heng Ji, Dan Roth, Silviu Cucerzan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>"},{"id":3,"name":"Oral Presentations","content":"

Triangular Architecture for Rare Language Translation<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:55 AM\u201311:20 AM | Session 1B: Machine Translation 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Shuo Ren, Wenhu Chen, Shujie Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Mu Li,<\/strong> Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201311:45 AM | Session 1D: Summarization | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Ziqiang Cao, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 2:25 PM\u20132:50 PM | Session 2A: Semantic Parsing 1 | Plenary, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Li Dong, Chris Quirk<\/strong><\/a>, Mirella Lapata<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Identifying Transferable Information Across Domains for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 2:50 PM\u20133:15 PM | Session 2F: Sentiment | Room 220, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Raksha Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Sandipan Dandapat, <\/strong>Himanshu Sharad Bhatt<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Straight to the Tree: Constituency Parsing with Neural Syntactic Distance<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:35 PM\u20135:00 PM | Session 3F: Parsing 1 | Room 220, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Yikang Shen, Zhouhan Lin, Athul Paul Jacob, Alessandro Sordoni<\/strong><\/a>, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Fluency Boost Learning and Inference for Neural Grammatical Error Correction<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 5:25 PM\u20135:50 PM | Session 3B: Machine Learning 1 | Room 203, 204, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Tao Ge<\/strong>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Guess Me if You Can: Acronym Disambiguation for Enterprises<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201311:45 AM | Session 4C: Information Extraction 2 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Yang Li, Bo Zhao<\/strong>, Ariel Fuxman, Fangbo Tao<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Learning Matching Models with Weak Supervision for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Chatbots<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:00 PM\u20132:15 PM | Session 5D: Dialog System, Discourse | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Yu Wu, Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Judicious Selection of Training Data in Assisting Language for Multilingual Neural NER<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:15 PM\u20132:30 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Rudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Neural Open Information Extraction<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:30 PM\u20132:45 PM | Session 5C: Information Extraction 1 | Room 210\/211, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Lei Cui<\/strong><\/a>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning<\/a>\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:30 AM\u201310:55 AM | Session 7D: Dialog System 3 | Room 212\/213, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Baolin Peng, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information<\/a>\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:25 PM\u20134:50 PM | Session 9A: Best Paper Session | Plenary, MCEC<\/h4>\r\n

Sudha Rao, Hal Daum\u00e9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>"},{"id":4,"name":"Poster Sessions","content":"

Using Intermediate Representations to Solve Math Word Problems<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1B: Semantics<\/h4>\r\n

Danqing Huang, Jin-Ge Yao, Chin-Yew Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Qingyu Zhou, Jian Yin<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Semantic Parsing with Syntax- and Table-Aware SQL Generation<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1B: Semantics<\/h4>\r\n

Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang, Nan Duan<\/strong><\/a>, Jianshu Ji, Guihong Cao, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Mining Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Social Media<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1F: Summarization, Social Media<\/h4>\r\n

Yuchen Lin, Frank F. Xu, Kenny Zhu, Seung-won Hwang<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Neural Document Summarization by Jointly Learning to Score and Select Sentences<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 1F: Summarization, Social Media<\/h4>\r\n

Qingyu Zhou, Nan Yang<\/strong><\/a>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Shaohan Huang, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a>, Tiejun Zhao<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Language Modeling for Code-Mixing: The Role of Linguistic Theory based Synthetic Data<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2B: Dialog and Interactive Systems, Multilinguality<\/h4>\r\n

Adithya Pratapa<\/strong>, Gayatri Bhat, Monojit Choudhury<\/strong><\/a>, Sunayana Sitaram, Sandipan Dandapat, Kalika Bali<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Unsupervised Semantic Abstractive Summarization<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2A: Student Research Workshop<\/h4>\r\n

Shibhansh Dohare, Vivek Gupta<\/strong>, Harish Karnick<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Higher-order Relation Schema Induction using Tensor Factorization with Back-off and Aggregation<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2C: Information Extraction, Text Mining<\/h4>\r\n

Madhav Nimishakavi, Manish Gupta<\/strong><\/a>, Partha Talukdar<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Stochastic Answer Networks for Machine Reading Comprehension<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2E: Question Answering<\/h4>\r\n

Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Yelong Shen<\/strong><\/a>, Kevin Duh, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Leveraging Orthographic Similarity for Multilingual Neural Transliteration<\/a>\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM\u20132:00 PM | Poster Session 2F: Machine Translation<\/h4>\r\n

Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Mitesh Khapra, Gurneet Singh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>"}],"msr_startdate":"2018-07-15","msr_enddate":"2018-07-20","msr_event_time":"","msr_location":"Melbourne, Australia","msr_event_link":"https:\/\/icmsaust.eventsair.com\/acl-2018\/registration-form\/Site\/Register","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_startdate_formatted":"July 15, 2018","msr_register_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_link":"https:\/\/icmsaust.eventsair.com\/acl-2018\/registration-form\/Site\/Register","msr_cta_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_bi_name":"Event Register","featured_image_thumbnail":"\"Architecturally","event_excerpt":"Microsoft is proud to be a gold sponsor of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). ACL is the premier conference in the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.","msr_research_lab":[199560,199562,199565],"related-researchers":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[],"related-projects":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-publications":[],"related-videos":[],"related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/492497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/492497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147098,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/492497\/revisions\/1147098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=492497"},{"taxonomy":"msr-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-region?post=492497"},{"taxonomy":"msr-event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event-type?post=492497"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=492497"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=492497"},{"taxonomy":"msr-program-audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-program-audience?post=492497"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=492497"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=492497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}