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Website:<\/strong> EMNLP 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 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (EMNLP) in Brussels, Belgium, October 31 \u2013 November 4, 2018. Come by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Committee Chair<\/h2>\n

Michel Galley<\/a>, Area ChairOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 4:30 PM\u20134:48 PM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

4D: Visual QA
\nTell-and-Answer: Towards Explainable Visual Question Answering using Attributes and Captions<\/strong>
\nQing Li, Jianlong Fu<\/a><\/strong>, Dongfei Yu, Tao Mei, and Jiebo Luo<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

5D: Machine Learning II
\nDeep Probabilistic Logic: A Unifying Framework for Indirect Supervision<\/strong>
\nHai Wang and Hoifung Poon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 11:18 AM\u201311:36 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

6A: Dialogue I
\nSubgoal Discovery for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning<\/strong><\/a>
\nDa Tang, Xiujun Li<\/a><\/strong>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/strong>, Chong Wang<\/strong>, Lihong Li, and Tony Jebara<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Silver Hall<\/h3>\n

6C: Semantics V
\nPolicy Shaping and Generalized Update Equations for Semantic Parsing from Denotations<\/strong>
\nDipendra Misra, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He<\/strong>, and Wen-tau Yih<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

6D: Multilingual Methods II
\nFine-grained Coordinated Cross-lingual Text Stream Alignment for Endless Language Knowledge Acquisition<\/strong>
\nTao Ge<\/strong>, Qing Dou, Heng Ji, Lei Cui<\/a><\/strong>, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20131:57 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

7A: Dialogue II
\nSession-level Language Modeling for Conversational Speech<\/strong><\/a>
\nWayne Xiong<\/a><\/strong>, Lingfeng Wu<\/strong>, Jun Zhang<\/strong>, and Andreas Stolcke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 5:24 PM\u20135:42 PM | Silver Hall<\/h3>\n

8C: Knowledge Graphs
\nPlaying 20 Question Game with Policy-Based Reinforcement Learning<\/strong>
\nHuang Hu, Xianchao Wu<\/strong>, Bingfeng Luo, Chongyang Tao, Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wu<\/a><\/strong>, and Zhan Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20139:18 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

9A: Machine Translation II
\nBeyond Error Propagation in Neural Machine Translation: Characteristics of Language Also Matter<\/strong>
\nLijun Wu, Xu Tan<\/a><\/strong>, Di He, Fei Tian<\/a><\/strong>, Tao Qin<\/a><\/strong>, Jianhuang Lai, and Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

9A: Machine Translation II
\nA Study of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation<\/strong>
\nLijun Wu, Fei Tian<\/a><\/strong>, <\/strong>Tao Qin<\/a><\/strong>, Jianhuang Lai, and Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

9D: Semantics VI
\nLearning Latent Semantic Annotations for Grounding Natural Language to Structured Data<\/strong>
\nGuanghui Qin, Jin-Ge Yao<\/strong>, Xuening Wang, Jinpeng Wang<\/a><\/strong>, and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 1:57 PM\u20132:09 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

11A: Analyzing Models
\nUnderstanding Deep Learning Performance through an Examination of Test Set Difficulty: A Psychometric Case Study<\/strong>
\nJohn Lalor, Hao Wu, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai<\/a><\/strong>, and Hong YuOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 4:30 PM\u20136:00 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Question Generation from SQL Queries Improves Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong>
\nDaya Guo, Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang<\/a><\/strong>, Nan Duan<\/a><\/strong>, Jian Yin, Hong Chi<\/strong>, James Cao<\/strong>, Peng Cheng<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SemRegex: A Semantics-Based Approach for Generating Regular Expressions from Natural Language Specifications<\/strong><\/a>
\nZexuan Zhong, Jiaqi Guo, Wei Yang, Jian Peng, Tao Xie, Jian-Guang Lou<\/a><\/strong>, Ting Liu, and Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Annotation of Large Clinical Entity Corpus<\/strong>
\nPinal Patel, Disha Davey, Vishal Panchal, and\u00a0Parth Pathak<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attention-Guided Answer Distillation for Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong>
\nMinghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, Zhen Huang, Dongsheng Li, Nan Yang<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Discriminative Deep Dyna-Q: Robust Planning for Dialogue Policy Learning<\/strong>
\nShang-Yu Su, Xiujun Li<\/a><\/strong>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/strong>, Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/strong>, and Yun-Nung Chen<\/p>\n

Generating More Interesting Responses in Neural Conversation Models with Distributional Constraints<\/strong>
\nAshutosh Baheti, Alan Ritter, Jiwei Li, and Bill Dolan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Operation Guided Neural Networks for High Fidelity Data-To-Text Generation<\/strong>
\nFeng Nie, Jinpeng Wang<\/a><\/strong>, Jin-Ge<\/strong> Yao<\/strong>, Rong Pan, and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paragraph-level Neural Question Generation with Maxout Pointer and Gated Self-attention Networks<\/strong>
\nYao Zhao<\/strong>, Xiaochuan Ni<\/strong>, Yuanyuan Ding<\/strong>, and Qifa Ke<\/a><\/strong>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20132:45 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Auto-Dialabel: Labeling Dialogue Data with Unsupervised Learning<\/strong>
\nChen Shi, Qi Chen<\/a><\/strong>, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Xu Sun, Houfeng WANG, and Lintao Zhang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Neural Latent Extractive Document Summarization<\/strong>
\nXingxing Zhang<\/strong>, Mirella Lapata, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20132:45 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Accelerating Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent for Neural Machine Translation<\/strong>
\nNikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, Alham Fikri Aji, and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Multi-Multi-View Learning: Multilingual and Multi-Representation Entity Typing<\/strong>
\nYadollah Yaghoobzadeh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Hinrich Sch\u00fctze<\/p>\n

Word Embeddings for Code-Mixed Language Processing<\/strong>
\nAdithya Pratapa<\/strong>, Monojit Choudhury<\/a><\/strong>, and Sunayana Sitaram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Data2Text Studio: Automated Text Generation from Structured Data<\/strong>
\nLongxu Dou, Guanghui Qin, Jinpeng Wang<\/a>, Jin-Ge Yao<\/strong> and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20139:30 AM<\/h3>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nFindings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)
\nOnd\u0159ej Bojar, Christian Federmann (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn and Christof Monz<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201311:40 AM<\/h3>\n

Search-Oriented Conversational AI<\/strong>
\nDialogues, Speech and Vision: Communication to make AI more human
\nInvited speaker: Mithun Das Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM<\/h3>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nPoster: Microsoft\u2019s Submission to the WMT2018 News Translation Task: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 1, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM<\/h3>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nPoster: MS-UEdin Submission to the WMT2018 APE Shared Task: Dual-Source Transformer for Automatic Post-Editing
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong> and Roman Grundkiewicz<\/p>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nPoster: Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 1, 2018 | 2:00 PM\u20135:30 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

T6: Deep Chit-Chat: Deep Learning for ChatBots.<\/strong>
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Website:<\/strong> EMNLP 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 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing<\/a> (EMNLP) in Brussels, Belgium, October 31 \u2013 November 4, 2018. Come by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Committee Chair<\/h2>\n

Michel Galley<\/a>, Area ChairOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 4:30 PM\u20134:48 PM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

4D: Visual QA
\nTell-and-Answer: Towards Explainable Visual Question Answering using Attributes and Captions<\/strong>
\nQing Li, Jianlong Fu<\/a><\/strong>, Dongfei Yu, Tao Mei, and Jiebo Luo<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

5D: Machine Learning II
\nDeep Probabilistic Logic: A Unifying Framework for Indirect Supervision<\/strong>
\nHai Wang and Hoifung Poon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 11:18 AM\u201311:36 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

6A: Dialogue I
\nSubgoal Discovery for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning<\/strong><\/a>
\nDa Tang, Xiujun Li<\/a><\/strong>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/strong>, Chong Wang<\/strong>, Lihong Li, and Tony Jebara<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Silver Hall<\/h3>\n

6C: Semantics V
\nPolicy Shaping and Generalized Update Equations for Semantic Parsing from Denotations<\/strong>
\nDipendra Misra, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He<\/strong>, and Wen-tau Yih<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

6D: Multilingual Methods II
\nFine-grained Coordinated Cross-lingual Text Stream Alignment for Endless Language Knowledge Acquisition<\/strong>
\nTao Ge<\/strong>, Qing Dou, Heng Ji, Lei Cui<\/a><\/strong>, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20131:57 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

7A: Dialogue II
\nSession-level Language Modeling for Conversational Speech<\/strong><\/a>
\nWayne Xiong<\/a><\/strong>, Lingfeng Wu<\/strong>, Jun Zhang<\/strong>, and Andreas Stolcke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 5:24 PM\u20135:42 PM | Silver Hall<\/h3>\n

8C: Knowledge Graphs
\nPlaying 20 Question Game with Policy-Based Reinforcement Learning<\/strong>
\nHuang Hu, Xianchao Wu<\/strong>, Bingfeng Luo, Chongyang Tao, Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wu<\/a><\/strong>, and Zhan Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20139:18 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

9A: Machine Translation II
\nBeyond Error Propagation in Neural Machine Translation: Characteristics of Language Also Matter<\/strong>
\nLijun Wu, Xu Tan<\/a><\/strong>, Di He, Fei Tian<\/a><\/strong>, Tao Qin<\/a><\/strong>, Jianhuang Lai, and Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

9A: Machine Translation II
\nA Study of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation<\/strong>
\nLijun Wu, Fei Tian<\/a><\/strong>, <\/strong>Tao Qin<\/a><\/strong>, Jianhuang Lai, and Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Hall 100<\/h3>\n

9D: Semantics VI
\nLearning Latent Semantic Annotations for Grounding Natural Language to Structured Data<\/strong>
\nGuanghui Qin, Jin-Ge Yao<\/strong>, Xuening Wang, Jinpeng Wang<\/a><\/strong>, and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 1:57 PM\u20132:09 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

11A: Analyzing Models
\nUnderstanding Deep Learning Performance through an Examination of Test Set Difficulty: A Psychometric Case Study<\/strong>
\nJohn Lalor, Hao Wu, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai<\/a><\/strong>, and Hong YuOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 4:30 PM\u20136:00 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Question Generation from SQL Queries Improves Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong>
\nDaya Guo, Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang<\/a><\/strong>, Nan Duan<\/a><\/strong>, Jian Yin, Hong Chi<\/strong>, James Cao<\/strong>, Peng Cheng<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SemRegex: A Semantics-Based Approach for Generating Regular Expressions from Natural Language Specifications<\/strong><\/a>
\nZexuan Zhong, Jiaqi Guo, Wei Yang, Jian Peng, Tao Xie, Jian-Guang Lou<\/a><\/strong>, Ting Liu, and Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Annotation of Large Clinical Entity Corpus<\/strong>
\nPinal Patel, Disha Davey, Vishal Panchal, and\u00a0Parth Pathak<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attention-Guided Answer Distillation for Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong>
\nMinghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, Zhen Huang, Dongsheng Li, Nan Yang<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Discriminative Deep Dyna-Q: Robust Planning for Dialogue Policy Learning<\/strong>
\nShang-Yu Su, Xiujun Li<\/a><\/strong>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/strong>, Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/strong>, and Yun-Nung Chen<\/p>\n

Generating More Interesting Responses in Neural Conversation Models with Distributional Constraints<\/strong>
\nAshutosh Baheti, Alan Ritter, Jiwei Li, and Bill Dolan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Operation Guided Neural Networks for High Fidelity Data-To-Text Generation<\/strong>
\nFeng Nie, Jinpeng Wang<\/a><\/strong>, Jin-Ge<\/strong> Yao<\/strong>, Rong Pan, and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paragraph-level Neural Question Generation with Maxout Pointer and Gated Self-attention Networks<\/strong>
\nYao Zhao<\/strong>, Xiaochuan Ni<\/strong>, Yuanyuan Ding<\/strong>, and Qifa Ke<\/a><\/strong>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20132:45 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Auto-Dialabel: Labeling Dialogue Data with Unsupervised Learning<\/strong>
\nChen Shi, Qi Chen<\/a><\/strong>, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Xu Sun, Houfeng WANG, and Lintao Zhang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Neural Latent Extractive Document Summarization<\/strong>
\nXingxing Zhang<\/strong>, Mirella Lapata, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20132:45 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Accelerating Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent for Neural Machine Translation<\/strong>
\nNikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, Alham Fikri Aji, and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Multi-Multi-View Learning: Multilingual and Multi-Representation Entity Typing<\/strong>
\nYadollah Yaghoobzadeh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Hinrich Sch\u00fctze<\/p>\n

Word Embeddings for Code-Mixed Language Processing<\/strong>
\nAdithya Pratapa<\/strong>, Monojit Choudhury<\/a><\/strong>, and Sunayana Sitaram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\n

Data2Text Studio: Automated Text Generation from Structured Data<\/strong>
\nLongxu Dou, Guanghui Qin, Jinpeng Wang<\/a>, Jin-Ge Yao<\/strong> and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20139:30 AM<\/h3>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nFindings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)
\nOnd\u0159ej Bojar, Christian Federmann (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn and Christof Monz<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201311:40 AM<\/h3>\n

Search-Oriented Conversational AI<\/strong>
\nDialogues, Speech and Vision: Communication to make AI more human
\nInvited speaker: Mithun Das Gupta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM<\/h3>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nPoster: Microsoft\u2019s Submission to the WMT2018 News Translation Task: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 1, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM<\/h3>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nPoster: MS-UEdin Submission to the WMT2018 APE Shared Task: Dual-Source Transformer for Automatic Post-Editing
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong> and Roman Grundkiewicz<\/p>\n

EMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>
\nPoster: Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 1, 2018 | 2:00 PM\u20135:30 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\n

T6: Deep Chit-Chat: Deep Learning for ChatBots.<\/strong>
\nWei Wu<\/a> and Rui Yan<\/strong>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing<\/a> (EMNLP) in Brussels, Belgium, October 31 \u2013 November 4, 2018. Come by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.\r\n

Committee Chair<\/h2>\r\nMichel Galley<\/a>, Area Chair"},{"id":1,"name":"Oral Presentations","content":"

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 4:30 PM\u20134:48 PM | Hall 100<\/h3>\r\n4D: Visual QA\r\nTell-and-Answer: Towards Explainable Visual Question Answering using Attributes and Captions<\/strong>\r\nQing Li, Jianlong Fu<\/a><\/strong>, Dongfei Yu, Tao Mei, and Jiebo Luo\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Hall 100<\/h3>\r\n5D: Machine Learning II\r\nDeep Probabilistic Logic: A Unifying Framework for Indirect Supervision<\/strong>\r\nHai Wang and Hoifung Poon<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 11:18 AM\u201311:36 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\r\n6A: Dialogue I\r\nSubgoal Discovery for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nDa Tang, Xiujun Li<\/a><\/strong>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/strong>, Chong Wang<\/strong>, Lihong Li, and Tony Jebara\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Silver Hall<\/h3>\r\n6C: Semantics V\r\nPolicy Shaping and Generalized Update Equations for Semantic Parsing from Denotations<\/strong>\r\nDipendra Misra, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He<\/strong>, and Wen-tau Yih\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Hall 100<\/h3>\r\n6D: Multilingual Methods II\r\nFine-grained Coordinated Cross-lingual Text Stream Alignment for Endless Language Knowledge Acquisition<\/strong>\r\nTao Ge<\/strong>, Qing Dou, Heng Ji, Lei Cui<\/a><\/strong>, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20131:57 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\r\n7A: Dialogue II\r\nSession-level Language Modeling for Conversational Speech<\/strong><\/a>\r\nWayne Xiong<\/a><\/strong>, Lingfeng Wu<\/strong>, Jun Zhang<\/strong>, and Andreas Stolcke<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 5:24 PM\u20135:42 PM | Silver Hall<\/h3>\r\n8C: Knowledge Graphs\r\nPlaying 20 Question Game with Policy-Based Reinforcement Learning<\/strong>\r\nHuang Hu, Xianchao Wu<\/strong>, Bingfeng Luo, Chongyang Tao, Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wu<\/a><\/strong>, and Zhan Chen<\/strong>\r\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20139:18 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\r\n9A: Machine Translation II\r\nBeyond Error Propagation in Neural Machine Translation: Characteristics of Language Also Matter<\/strong>\r\nLijun Wu, Xu Tan<\/a><\/strong>, Di He, Fei Tian<\/a><\/strong>, Tao Qin<\/a><\/strong>, Jianhuang Lai, and Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\r\n9A: Machine Translation II\r\nA Study of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation<\/strong>\r\nLijun Wu, Fei Tian<\/a><\/strong>, <\/strong>Tao Qin<\/a><\/strong>, Jianhuang Lai, and Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:18 AM\u20139:36 AM | Hall 100<\/h3>\r\n9D: Semantics VI\r\nLearning Latent Semantic Annotations for Grounding Natural Language to Structured Data<\/strong>\r\nGuanghui Qin, Jin-Ge Yao<\/strong>, Xuening Wang, Jinpeng Wang<\/a><\/strong>, and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 1:57 PM\u20132:09 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\r\n11A: Analyzing Models\r\nUnderstanding Deep Learning Performance through an Examination of Test Set Difficulty: A Psychometric Case Study<\/strong>\r\nJohn Lalor, Hao Wu, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai<\/a><\/strong>, and Hong Yu"},{"id":2,"name":"Demos","content":"

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 4:30 PM\u20136:00 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\r\nQuestion Generation from SQL Queries Improves Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong>\r\nDaya Guo, Yibo Sun, Duyu Tang<\/a><\/strong>, Nan Duan<\/a><\/strong>, Jian Yin, Hong Chi<\/strong>, James Cao<\/strong>, Peng Cheng<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nSemRegex: A Semantics-Based Approach for Generating Regular Expressions from Natural Language Specifications<\/strong><\/a>\r\nZexuan Zhong, Jiaqi Guo, Wei Yang, Jian Peng, Tao Xie, Jian-Guang Lou<\/a><\/strong>, Ting Liu, and Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\r\nAnnotation of Large Clinical Entity Corpus<\/strong>\r\nPinal Patel, Disha Davey, Vishal Panchal, and\u00a0Parth Pathak<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAttention-Guided Answer Distillation for Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong>\r\nMinghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, Zhen Huang, Dongsheng Li, Nan Yang<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\r\nDiscriminative Deep Dyna-Q: Robust Planning for Dialogue Policy Learning<\/strong>\r\nShang-Yu Su, Xiujun Li<\/a><\/strong>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/strong>, Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/strong>, and Yun-Nung Chen\r\n\r\nGenerating More Interesting Responses in Neural Conversation Models with Distributional Constraints<\/strong>\r\nAshutosh Baheti, Alan Ritter, Jiwei Li, and Bill Dolan<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nOperation Guided Neural Networks for High Fidelity Data-To-Text Generation<\/strong>\r\nFeng Nie, Jinpeng Wang<\/a><\/strong>, Jin-Ge<\/strong> Yao<\/strong>, Rong Pan, and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nParagraph-level Neural Question Generation with Maxout Pointer and Gated Self-attention Networks<\/strong>\r\nYao Zhao<\/strong>, Xiaochuan Ni<\/strong>, Yuanyuan Ding<\/strong>, and Qifa Ke<\/a><\/strong>"},{"id":3,"name":"Posters","content":"

Friday, November 2, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20132:45 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\r\nAuto-Dialabel: Labeling Dialogue Data with Unsupervised Learning<\/strong>\r\nChen Shi, Qi Chen<\/a><\/strong>, Lei Sha, Sujian Li, Xu Sun, Houfeng WANG, and Lintao Zhang<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nNeural Latent Extractive Document Summarization<\/strong>\r\nXingxing Zhang<\/strong>, Mirella Lapata, Furu Wei<\/a><\/strong>, and Ming Zhou<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Saturday, November 3, 2018 | 1:45 PM\u20132:45 PM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\r\nAccelerating Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent for Neural Machine Translation<\/strong>\r\nNikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, Alham Fikri Aji, and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nMulti-Multi-View Learning: Multilingual and Multi-Representation Entity Typing<\/strong>\r\nYadollah Yaghoobzadeh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Hinrich Sch\u00fctze\r\n\r\nWord Embeddings for Code-Mixed Language Processing<\/strong>\r\nAdithya Pratapa<\/strong>, Monojit Choudhury<\/a><\/strong>, and Sunayana Sitaram<\/a><\/strong>\r\n

Sunday, November 4, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Grand Hall 2<\/h3>\r\nData2Text Studio: Automated Text Generation from Structured Data<\/strong>\r\nLongxu Dou, Guanghui Qin, Jinpeng Wang<\/a>, Jin-Ge Yao<\/strong> and Chin-Yew Lin<\/a>"},{"id":4,"name":"Workshops","content":"

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 9:00 AM\u20139:30 AM<\/h3>\r\nEMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>\r\nFindings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)\r\nOnd\u0159ej Bojar, Christian Federmann<\/a><\/strong>, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn and Christof Monz\r\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201311:40 AM<\/h3>\r\nSearch-Oriented Conversational AI<\/strong>\r\nDialogues, Speech and Vision: Communication to make AI more human\r\nInvited speaker: Mithun Das Gupta<\/strong>\r\n

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM<\/h3>\r\nEMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>\r\nPoster: Microsoft\u2019s Submission to the WMT2018 News Translation Task: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data\r\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong>\r\n

Thursday, November 1, 2018 | 11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM<\/h3>\r\nEMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>\r\nPoster: MS-UEdin Submission to the WMT2018 APE Shared Task: Dual-Source Transformer for Automatic Post-Editing\r\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong> and Roman Grundkiewicz\r\n\r\nEMNLP 2018 Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)<\/strong>\r\nPoster: Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora\r\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/strong>"},{"id":5,"name":"Tutorials","content":"

Thursday, November 1, 2018 | 2:00 PM\u20135:30 PM | Gold Hall<\/h3>\r\nT6: Deep Chit-Chat: Deep Learning for ChatBots.<\/strong>\r\nWei Wu<\/a> and Rui Yan<\/strong>"}],"msr_startdate":"2018-10-31","msr_enddate":"2018-11-04","msr_event_time":"","msr_location":"Brussels, Belgium","msr_event_link":"http:\/\/emnlp2018.org\/registration\/","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_startdate_formatted":"October 31, 2018","msr_register_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_link":"http:\/\/emnlp2018.org\/registration\/","msr_cta_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_bi_name":"Event Register","featured_image_thumbnail":"\"Historic","event_excerpt":"Microsoft is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) in Brussels, Belgium October 31 \u2013 November 4. Come by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.","msr_research_lab":[199560,199562,199565],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Qi Chen","user_id":36990,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"cheqi"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Peng Cheng","user_id":33225,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"pengc"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Lei Cui","user_id":32631,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"lecu"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Jianlong Fu","user_id":32260,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"jianf"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Michel Galley","user_id":32887,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"mgalley"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Jianfeng Gao","user_id":32246,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"jfgao"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt","user_id":37290,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"marcinjd"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Chin-Yew Lin","user_id":31493,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"cyl"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Hoifung Poon","user_id":32016,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"hoifung"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Sunayana Sitaram","user_id":37287,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"susitara"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Furu Wei","user_id":31830,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"fuwei"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Nan Yang","user_id":33054,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"nanya"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Dongmei Zhang","user_id":31665,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"dongmeiz"}],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[],"related-projects":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-publications":[],"related-videos":[],"related-posts":[546372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/511391","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/511391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147069,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/511391\/revisions\/1147069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=511391"},{"taxonomy":"msr-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-region?post=511391"},{"taxonomy":"msr-event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event-type?post=511391"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=511391"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=511391"},{"taxonomy":"msr-program-audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-program-audience?post=511391"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=511391"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=511391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}