{"id":589690,"date":"2019-05-28T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=589690"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:56:29","slug":"microsoft-naacl-2019","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/microsoft-naacl-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at NAACL 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Venue:<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Minneapolis (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> NAACL 2019 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of NAACL-HLT 2019 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. Over 30 of our researchers are at the conference. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about\u00a0career opportunities (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Committee chairs<\/h3>\n

T. J. Hazen<\/a>, NLP Applications Area Chair<\/p>\n

Microsoft Research attendees<\/h3>\n

Afroz Ahamad Siddiqui
\nAnanya A
\nAndrew McNamara<\/a>
\nAnuva Agarwal
\nArul Menezes<\/a>
\nAsli Celikyilmaz<\/a>
\nBudhaditya Deb
\nCheng Wu
\nChenguang Zhu<\/a>
\nChristian Borgs<\/a>
\nCliff Wong
\nDan Klein
\nEhsan Zare Borzeshi
\nGuoxin Wang
\nHal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>
\nHamed Khanpour
\nHoifung Poon<\/a>
\nHong Yu
\nJason Lewris
\nJennifer Chayes<\/a>
\nJiali Yao
\nKatsutoshi Ohtsuki
\nKedhar Nath
\nKyle Williams<\/a>
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/a>
\nMichael Davidson
\nParag Agrawal
\nSanket Shah
\nShashank Srivastava
\nSudha Rao<\/a>
\nTal Baumel
\nThomas Manzini
\nTimothy J. Hazen<\/a>
\nTristan Naumann<\/a>
\nXiang Gao<\/a>
\nXiaodong Liu<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft presentation schedule<\/h2>\n
<\/div>\n

Monday, June 3<\/h3>\n

11:00 AM\u201311:18 PM | Nicollet D
\nCyclical Annealing Schedule: A Simple Approach to Mitigate KL Vanishing<\/strong>
\nHao Fu, Chunyuan Li<\/strong><\/a>, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a>, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n

11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nReWE: Regressing Word Embeddings for Regularization of Neural Machine Translation Systems<\/strong>
\nInigo Jauregi Unanue, Ehsan Zare Borzeshi<\/strong>, Nazanin Esmaili, Massimo Piccardi<\/p>\n

11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nLearning to Attend On Essential Terms: An Enhanced Retriever-Reader Model for Open-domain Question Answering<\/strong>
\nJianmo Ni, Chenguang Zhu<\/strong><\/a>, Weizhu Chen<\/strong>, Julian McAuley<\/p>\n

11:18 AM\u201311:36 AM | Northstar A
\n“President Vows to Cut Hair”: Dataset and Analysis of Creative Text Editing for Humorous Headlines<\/strong>
\nNabil Hossain<\/strong>, John Krumm<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Gamon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

11:36 AM\u201311:54 AM | Northstar A
\nAnswer-based Adversarial Training for Generating Clarification Questions<\/strong>
\nSudha Rao<\/strong><\/a>, Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Northstar A
\nTopic-Guided Variational Auto-Encoder for Text Generation <\/strong>
\nWenlin Wang, Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Hongteng Xu, Ruiyi Zhang, Guoyin Wang, Dinghan Shen, Changyou Chen, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n

3:00 PM\u20133:15 PM | Nicollet D
\nCombining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder<\/strong>
\nAlexander Hoyle, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Hanna Wallach<\/strong><\/a>, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein<\/p>\n

3:00 PM\u20134:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nUnsupervised Deep Structured Semantic Models for Commonsense Reasoning<\/strong>
\nShuohang Wang, Sheng Zhang, Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Jing Jiang<\/p>\n

3:00 PM\u20134:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nGenerating Text through Adversarial Training using Skip-Thought Vectors<\/strong>
\nAfroz Ahamad<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:30 PM\u20133:45 PM | Nicollet B\/C
\nBlack is to Criminal as Caucasian is to Police: Detecting and Removing Multiclass Bias in Word Embeddings<\/strong>
\nThomas Manzini<\/strong>, Lim Yao Chong, Alan W. Black, Yulia Tsvetkov<\/p>\n

5:00 PM\u20136:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nSEDTWik: Segmentation-based Event Detection from Tweets Using Wikipedia<\/strong>
\nKeval Morabia<\/strong>, Neti Lalita Bhanu Murthy, Aruna Malapati, Surender Samant<\/p>\n

5:36 PM\u20135:54 PM | Northstar A
\nJointly Optimizing Diversity and Relevance in Neural Response Generation<\/strong>
\nXiang Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Sungjin Lee<\/strong><\/a>, Yizhe Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Chris Brockett<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Dolan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Tuesday, June 4<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM\u20139:18 AM | Greenway
\nEnabling Real-time Neural IME with Incremental Vocabulary Selection<\/strong>
\nJiali Yao<\/strong>, Raphael Shu, Xinjian Li, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki<\/strong>, Hideki Nakayama<\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nExCL: Extractive Clip Localization Using Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong>
\nSoham Ghosh, Anuva Agarwal<\/strong>, Zarana Parekh, Alexander Hauptmann<\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nHierarchical User and Item Representation with Three-Tier Attention for Recommendation<\/strong>
\nChuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Junxin Liu, Yongfeng Huang<\/p>\n

3:30 PM\u20133:48 PM | Nicollet D
\nDiversifying Reply Suggestions Using a Matching-Conditional Variational Autoencoder<\/strong>
\nBudhaditya Deb<\/strong>, Peter Bailey<\/strong><\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

3:48 PM\u20134:06 PM | Nicollet B\/C
\nMulti-task Learning with Sample Re-weighting for Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong>
\nYichong Xu, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

4:24 PM\u20134:42 PM | Northstar\u00a0 A
\nAdversarial Category Alignment Network for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification<\/strong>
\nXiaoye Qu, Zhikang Zou, Yu Cheng<\/strong>, Yang Yang, Pan Zhou<\/p>\n

4:42 PM\u20135:00 PM | Nicollet A
\nTowards Content Transfer through Grounded Text Generation<\/strong>
\nShrimai Prabhumoye, Chris Quirk<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Wednesday, June 5<\/h3>\n

10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nRelation Discovery with Out-of-Relation Knowledge Base as Supervision<\/strong>
\nYan Liang, Xin Liu, Jianwen Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yangqiu Song<\/p>\n

10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nCAN-NER: Convolutional Attention Network for Chinese Named Entity Recognition<\/strong>
\nYuying Zhu<\/strong>, Guoxin Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nQuestion Answering as an Automatic Evaluation Metric for News Article Summarization<\/strong>
\nMatan Eyal, Tal Baumel<\/strong>, Michael Elhadad<\/p>\n

1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nMulti-Level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs<\/strong>
\nRevanth Gangi Reddy<\/strong>, Danish Contractor, Dinesh Raghu, Sachindra Joshi<\/p>\n

1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nAddressing word-order Divergence in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for extremely Low Resource Languages<\/strong>
\nRudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>\n

2:06 PM\u20132:24 PM | Nicollet B\/C
\nBayesian Learning for Neural Dependency Parsing<\/strong>
\nEhsan Shareghi, Yingzhen Li<\/strong><\/a>, Yi Zhu, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen<\/p>\n

2:24 PM\u20132:42 PM | Nicollet D
\nDocument-Level N-ary Relation Extraction with Multiscale Representation Learning<\/strong>
\nRobin Jia, Cliff Wong<\/strong>, Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:45 PM\u20134:00 PM | Northstar A
\nPragmatically Informative Text Generation<\/strong>
\nSheng Shen, Daniel Fried, Jacob Andreas<\/strong>, Dan Klein<\/strong><\/p>\n

5:57 PM\u20136:15 PM | Nicollet Ballroom
\n*Best Paper Award<\/em>
\nWhat’s in a Name? Reducing Bias in Bios without Access to Protected Attributes<\/strong><\/a>
\nAlexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach<\/strong><\/a>, Jennifer Chayes<\/strong><\/a>, Christian Borgs<\/strong><\/a>, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sahin Geyik, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Anna Rumshisky, Adam Kalai<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Thursday, June 6<\/h3>\n

8:55 AM\u20135:30 PM
\nNeuralGen 2019<\/strong>
\nOrganizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a>
\nInvited Speaker: Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

8:30 AM\u20136:00 PM
\nSpLU-RoboNLP 2019<\/strong>
\nOrganizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM
\nThe 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation<\/strong>
\nAccepted Paper: EmoContext – Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
\nAnkush Chatterjee<\/strong>, Kedhar Nath Narahari<\/strong>, Meghana Joshi<\/strong>, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Nicollet D2
\nWorkshop on Extracting Structured Knowledge from Scientific Publications (ESSP)<\/strong>
\nInvited Talk: Machine Reading for Precision Medicine
\nHoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Friday, June 7<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Nicollet D1
\nThe 2nd Clinical NLP Workshop<\/strong>
\nCo-organizer: Tristan Naumann<\/strong><\/a>
\nAccepted Paper: Publicly Available Clinical BERT Embeddings
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Venue:<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Minneapolis (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> NAACL 2019 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of NAACL-HLT 2019<\/a>. Over 30 of our researchers are at the conference. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about\u00a0career opportunities<\/a>\u00a0with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Committee chairs<\/h3>\n

T. J. Hazen<\/a>, NLP Applications Area Chair<\/p>\n

Microsoft Research attendees<\/h3>\n

Afroz Ahamad Siddiqui
\nAnanya A
\nAndrew McNamara<\/a>
\nAnuva Agarwal
\nArul Menezes<\/a>
\nAsli Celikyilmaz<\/a>
\nBudhaditya Deb
\nCheng Wu
\nChenguang Zhu<\/a>
\nChristian Borgs<\/a>
\nCliff Wong
\nDan Klein
\nEhsan Zare Borzeshi
\nGuoxin Wang
\nHal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>
\nHamed Khanpour
\nHoifung Poon<\/a>
\nHong Yu
\nJason Lewris
\nJennifer Chayes<\/a>
\nJiali Yao
\nKatsutoshi Ohtsuki
\nKedhar Nath
\nKyle Williams<\/a>
\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/a>
\nMichael Davidson
\nParag Agrawal
\nSanket Shah
\nShashank Srivastava
\nSudha Rao<\/a>
\nTal Baumel
\nThomas Manzini
\nTimothy J. Hazen<\/a>
\nTristan Naumann<\/a>
\nXiang Gao<\/a>
\nXiaodong Liu<\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft presentation schedule<\/h2>\n
<\/div>\n

Monday, June 3<\/h3>\n

11:00 AM\u201311:18 PM | Nicollet D
\nCyclical Annealing Schedule: A Simple Approach to Mitigate KL Vanishing<\/strong>
\nHao Fu, Chunyuan Li<\/strong><\/a>, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a>, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n

11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nReWE: Regressing Word Embeddings for Regularization of Neural Machine Translation Systems<\/strong>
\nInigo Jauregi Unanue, Ehsan Zare Borzeshi<\/strong>, Nazanin Esmaili, Massimo Piccardi<\/p>\n

11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nLearning to Attend On Essential Terms: An Enhanced Retriever-Reader Model for Open-domain Question Answering<\/strong>
\nJianmo Ni, Chenguang Zhu<\/strong><\/a>, Weizhu Chen<\/strong>, Julian McAuley<\/p>\n

11:18 AM\u201311:36 AM | Northstar A
\n“President Vows to Cut <Taxes> Hair”: Dataset and Analysis of Creative Text Editing for Humorous Headlines<\/strong>
\nNabil Hossain<\/strong>, John Krumm<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Gamon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

11:36 AM\u201311:54 AM | Northstar A
\nAnswer-based Adversarial Training for Generating Clarification Questions<\/strong>
\nSudha Rao<\/strong><\/a>, Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Northstar A
\nTopic-Guided Variational Auto-Encoder for Text Generation <\/strong>
\nWenlin Wang, Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Hongteng Xu, Ruiyi Zhang, Guoyin Wang, Dinghan Shen, Changyou Chen, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n

3:00 PM\u20133:15 PM | Nicollet D
\nCombining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder<\/strong>
\nAlexander Hoyle, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Hanna Wallach<\/strong><\/a>, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein<\/p>\n

3:00 PM\u20134:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nUnsupervised Deep Structured Semantic Models for Commonsense Reasoning<\/strong>
\nShuohang Wang, Sheng Zhang, Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Jing Jiang<\/p>\n

3:00 PM\u20134:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nGenerating Text through Adversarial Training using Skip-Thought Vectors<\/strong>
\nAfroz Ahamad<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:30 PM\u20133:45 PM | Nicollet B\/C
\nBlack is to Criminal as Caucasian is to Police: Detecting and Removing Multiclass Bias in Word Embeddings<\/strong>
\nThomas Manzini<\/strong>, Lim Yao Chong, Alan W. Black, Yulia Tsvetkov<\/p>\n

5:00 PM\u20136:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nSEDTWik: Segmentation-based Event Detection from Tweets Using Wikipedia<\/strong>
\nKeval Morabia<\/strong>, Neti Lalita Bhanu Murthy, Aruna Malapati, Surender Samant<\/p>\n

5:36 PM\u20135:54 PM | Northstar A
\nJointly Optimizing Diversity and Relevance in Neural Response Generation<\/strong>
\nXiang Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Sungjin Lee<\/strong><\/a>, Yizhe Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Chris Brockett<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Dolan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Tuesday, June 4<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM\u20139:18 AM | Greenway
\nEnabling Real-time Neural IME with Incremental Vocabulary Selection<\/strong>
\nJiali Yao<\/strong>, Raphael Shu, Xinjian Li, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki<\/strong>, Hideki Nakayama<\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nExCL: Extractive Clip Localization Using Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong>
\nSoham Ghosh, Anuva Agarwal<\/strong>, Zarana Parekh, Alexander Hauptmann<\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nHierarchical User and Item Representation with Three-Tier Attention for Recommendation<\/strong>
\nChuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Junxin Liu, Yongfeng Huang<\/p>\n

3:30 PM\u20133:48 PM | Nicollet D
\nDiversifying Reply Suggestions Using a Matching-Conditional Variational Autoencoder<\/strong>
\nBudhaditya Deb<\/strong>, Peter Bailey<\/strong><\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

3:48 PM\u20134:06 PM | Nicollet B\/C
\nMulti-task Learning with Sample Re-weighting for Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong>
\nYichong Xu, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

4:24 PM\u20134:42 PM | Northstar\u00a0 A
\nAdversarial Category Alignment Network for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification<\/strong>
\nXiaoye Qu, Zhikang Zou, Yu Cheng<\/strong>, Yang Yang, Pan Zhou<\/p>\n

4:42 PM\u20135:00 PM | Nicollet A
\nTowards Content Transfer through Grounded Text Generation<\/strong>
\nShrimai Prabhumoye, Chris Quirk<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Wednesday, June 5<\/h3>\n

10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nRelation Discovery with Out-of-Relation Knowledge Base as Supervision<\/strong>
\nYan Liang, Xin Liu, Jianwen Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yangqiu Song<\/p>\n

10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nCAN-NER: Convolutional Attention Network for Chinese Named Entity Recognition<\/strong>
\nYuying Zhu<\/strong>, Guoxin Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nQuestion Answering as an Automatic Evaluation Metric for News Article Summarization<\/strong>
\nMatan Eyal, Tal Baumel<\/strong>, Michael Elhadad<\/p>\n

1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nMulti-Level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs<\/strong>
\nRevanth Gangi Reddy<\/strong>, Danish Contractor, Dinesh Raghu, Sachindra Joshi<\/p>\n

1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall
\nAddressing word-order Divergence in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for extremely Low Resource Languages<\/strong>
\nRudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Pushpak Bhattacharyya<\/p>\n

2:06 PM\u20132:24 PM | Nicollet B\/C
\nBayesian Learning for Neural Dependency Parsing<\/strong>
\nEhsan Shareghi, Yingzhen Li<\/strong><\/a>, Yi Zhu, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen<\/p>\n

2:24 PM\u20132:42 PM | Nicollet D
\nDocument-Level N-ary Relation Extraction with Multiscale Representation Learning<\/strong>
\nRobin Jia, Cliff Wong<\/strong>, Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:45 PM\u20134:00 PM | Northstar A
\nPragmatically Informative Text Generation<\/strong>
\nSheng Shen, Daniel Fried, Jacob Andreas<\/strong>, Dan Klein<\/strong><\/p>\n

5:57 PM\u20136:15 PM | Nicollet Ballroom
\n*Best Paper Award<\/em>
\nWhat’s in a Name? Reducing Bias in Bios without Access to Protected Attributes<\/strong><\/a>
\nAlexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach<\/strong><\/a>, Jennifer Chayes<\/strong><\/a>, Christian Borgs<\/strong><\/a>, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sahin Geyik, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Anna Rumshisky, Adam Kalai<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Thursday, June 6<\/h3>\n

8:55 AM\u20135:30 PM
\nNeuralGen 2019<\/strong>
\nOrganizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a>
\nInvited Speaker: Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

8:30 AM\u20136:00 PM
\nSpLU-RoboNLP 2019<\/strong>
\nOrganizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM
\nThe 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation<\/strong>
\nAccepted Paper: EmoContext – Contextual Emotion Detection in Text
\nAnkush Chatterjee<\/strong>, Kedhar Nath Narahari<\/strong>, Meghana Joshi<\/strong>, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Nicollet D2
\nWorkshop on Extracting Structured Knowledge from Scientific Publications (ESSP)<\/strong>
\nInvited Talk: Machine Reading for Precision Medicine
\nHoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Friday, June 7<\/h3>\n

9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Nicollet D1
\nThe 2nd Clinical NLP Workshop<\/strong>
\nCo-organizer: Tristan Naumann<\/strong><\/a>
\nAccepted Paper: Publicly Available Clinical BERT Embeddings
\nEmily Alsentzer, John Murphy, William Boag, Wei-Hung Weng, Di Jindi, Tristan Naumann<\/strong><\/a>, Matthew McDermottOpens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of NAACL-HLT 2019<\/a>. Over 30 of our researchers are at the conference. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about\u00a0career opportunities<\/a>\u00a0with Microsoft.\r\n

Committee chairs<\/h3>\r\nT. J. Hazen<\/a>, NLP Applications Area Chair\r\n

Microsoft Research attendees<\/h3>\r\nAfroz Ahamad Siddiqui\r\nAnanya A\r\nAndrew McNamara<\/a>\r\nAnuva Agarwal\r\nArul Menezes<\/a>\r\nAsli Celikyilmaz<\/a>\r\nBudhaditya Deb\r\nCheng Wu\r\nChenguang Zhu<\/a>\r\nChristian Borgs<\/a>\r\nCliff Wong\r\nDan Klein\r\nEhsan Zare Borzeshi\r\nGuoxin Wang\r\nHal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>\r\nHamed Khanpour\r\nHoifung Poon<\/a>\r\nHong Yu\r\nJason Lewris\r\nJennifer Chayes<\/a>\r\nJiali Yao\r\nKatsutoshi Ohtsuki\r\nKedhar Nath\r\nKyle Williams<\/a>\r\nMarcin Junczys-Dowmunt<\/a>\r\nMichael Davidson\r\nParag Agrawal\r\nSanket Shah\r\nShashank Srivastava\r\nSudha Rao<\/a>\r\nTal Baumel\r\nThomas Manzini\r\nTimothy J. Hazen<\/a>\r\nTristan Naumann<\/a>\r\nXiang Gao<\/a>\r\nXiaodong Liu<\/a>"},{"id":1,"name":"Presentations","content":"

Microsoft presentation schedule<\/h2>\r\n
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Monday, June 3<\/h3>\r\n11:00 AM\u201311:18 PM | Nicollet D\r\nCyclical Annealing Schedule: A Simple Approach to Mitigate KL Vanishing<\/strong>\r\nHao Fu, Chunyuan Li<\/strong><\/a>, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a>, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nReWE: Regressing Word Embeddings for Regularization of Neural Machine Translation Systems<\/strong>\r\nInigo Jauregi Unanue, Ehsan Zare Borzeshi<\/strong>, Nazanin Esmaili, Massimo Piccardi\r\n\r\n11:00 AM\u201312:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nLearning to Attend On Essential Terms: An Enhanced Retriever-Reader Model for Open-domain Question Answering<\/strong>\r\nJianmo Ni, Chenguang Zhu<\/strong><\/a>, Weizhu Chen<\/strong>, Julian McAuley\r\n\r\n11:18 AM\u201311:36 AM | Northstar A\r\n\"President Vows to Cut <Taxes> Hair\": Dataset and Analysis of Creative Text Editing for Humorous Headlines<\/strong>\r\nNabil Hossain<\/strong>, John Krumm<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Gamon<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n11:36 AM\u201311:54 AM | Northstar A\r\nAnswer-based Adversarial Training for Generating Clarification Questions<\/strong>\r\nSudha Rao<\/strong><\/a>, Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n12:12 PM\u201312:30 PM | Northstar A\r\nTopic-Guided Variational Auto-Encoder for Text Generation <\/strong>\r\nWenlin Wang, Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Hongteng Xu, Ruiyi Zhang, Guoyin Wang, Dinghan Shen, Changyou Chen, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n3:00 PM\u20133:15 PM | Nicollet D\r\nCombining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder<\/strong>\r\nAlexander Hoyle, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Hanna Wallach<\/strong><\/a>, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein\r\n\r\n3:00 PM\u20134:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nUnsupervised Deep Structured Semantic Models for Commonsense Reasoning<\/strong>\r\nShuohang Wang, Sheng Zhang, Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Jing Jiang\r\n\r\n3:00 PM\u20134:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nGenerating Text through Adversarial Training using Skip-Thought Vectors<\/strong>\r\nAfroz Ahamad<\/strong>\r\n\r\n3:30 PM\u20133:45 PM | Nicollet B\/C\r\nBlack is to Criminal as Caucasian is to Police: Detecting and Removing Multiclass Bias in Word Embeddings<\/strong>\r\nThomas Manzini<\/strong>, Lim Yao Chong, Alan W. Black, Yulia Tsvetkov\r\n\r\n5:00 PM\u20136:30 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nSEDTWik: Segmentation-based Event Detection from Tweets Using Wikipedia<\/strong>\r\nKeval Morabia<\/strong>, Neti Lalita Bhanu Murthy, Aruna Malapati, Surender Samant\r\n\r\n5:36 PM\u20135:54 PM | Northstar A\r\nJointly Optimizing Diversity and Relevance in Neural Response Generation<\/strong>\r\nXiang Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Sungjin Lee<\/strong><\/a>, Yizhe Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Chris Brockett<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Dolan<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n
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Tuesday, June 4<\/h3>\r\n9:00 AM\u20139:18 AM | Greenway\r\nEnabling Real-time Neural IME with Incremental Vocabulary Selection<\/strong>\r\nJiali Yao<\/strong>, Raphael Shu, Xinjian Li, Katsutoshi Ohtsuki<\/strong>, Hideki Nakayama\r\n\r\n9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nExCL: Extractive Clip Localization Using Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong>\r\nSoham Ghosh, Anuva Agarwal<\/strong>, Zarana Parekh, Alexander Hauptmann\r\n\r\n9:00 AM\u201310:30 AM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nHierarchical User and Item Representation with Three-Tier Attention for Recommendation<\/strong>\r\nChuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Junxin Liu, Yongfeng Huang\r\n\r\n3:30 PM\u20133:48 PM | Nicollet D\r\nDiversifying Reply Suggestions Using a Matching-Conditional Variational Autoencoder<\/strong>\r\nBudhaditya Deb<\/strong>, Peter Bailey<\/strong><\/a>, Milad Shokouhi<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n3:48 PM\u20134:06 PM | Nicollet B\/C\r\nMulti-task Learning with Sample Re-weighting for Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong>\r\nYichong Xu, Xiaodong Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu<\/strong><\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n4:24 PM\u20134:42 PM | Northstar\u00a0 A\r\nAdversarial Category Alignment Network for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification<\/strong>\r\nXiaoye Qu, Zhikang Zou, Yu Cheng<\/strong>, Yang Yang, Pan Zhou\r\n\r\n4:42 PM\u20135:00 PM | Nicollet A\r\nTowards Content Transfer through Grounded Text Generation<\/strong>\r\nShrimai Prabhumoye, Chris Quirk<\/strong><\/a>, Michel Galley<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n
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Wednesday, June 5<\/h3>\r\n10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nRelation Discovery with Out-of-Relation Knowledge Base as Supervision<\/strong>\r\nYan Liang, Xin Liu, Jianwen Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yangqiu Song\r\n\r\n10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nCAN-NER: Convolutional Attention Network for Chinese Named Entity Recognition<\/strong>\r\nYuying Zhu<\/strong>, Guoxin Wang<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nQuestion Answering as an Automatic Evaluation Metric for News Article Summarization<\/strong>\r\nMatan Eyal, Tal Baumel<\/strong>, Michael Elhadad\r\n\r\n1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nMulti-Level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs<\/strong>\r\nRevanth Gangi Reddy<\/strong>, Danish Contractor, Dinesh Raghu, Sachindra Joshi\r\n\r\n1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM | Hyatt Exhibit Hall\r\nAddressing word-order Divergence in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for extremely Low Resource Languages<\/strong>\r\nRudra Murthy, Anoop Kunchukuttan<\/strong>, Pushpak Bhattacharyya\r\n\r\n2:06 PM\u20132:24 PM | Nicollet B\/C\r\nBayesian Learning for Neural Dependency Parsing<\/strong>\r\nEhsan Shareghi, Yingzhen Li<\/strong><\/a>, Yi Zhu, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen\r\n\r\n2:24 PM\u20132:42 PM | Nicollet D\r\nDocument-Level N-ary Relation Extraction with Multiscale Representation Learning<\/strong>\r\nRobin Jia, Cliff Wong<\/strong>, Hoifung Poon<\/strong>\r\n\r\n3:45 PM\u20134:00 PM | Northstar A\r\nPragmatically Informative Text Generation<\/strong>\r\nSheng Shen, Daniel Fried, Jacob Andreas<\/strong>, Dan Klein<\/strong>\r\n\r\n5:57 PM\u20136:15 PM | Nicollet Ballroom\r\n*Best Paper Award<\/em>\r\nWhat's in a Name? Reducing Bias in Bios without Access to Protected Attributes<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAlexey Romanov, Maria De-Arteaga, Hanna Wallach<\/strong><\/a>, Jennifer Chayes<\/strong><\/a>, Christian Borgs<\/strong><\/a>, Alexandra Chouldechova, Sahin Geyik, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Anna Rumshisky, Adam Kalai<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n
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Thursday, June 6<\/h3>\r\n8:55 AM\u20135:30 PM\r\nNeuralGen 2019<\/strong>\r\nOrganizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a>\r\nInvited Speaker: Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n8:30 AM\u20136:00 PM\r\nSpLU-RoboNLP 2019<\/strong>\r\nOrganizing Committee Member: Asli Celikyilmaz<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM\r\nThe 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation<\/strong>\r\nAccepted Paper: EmoContext - Contextual Emotion Detection in Text\r\nAnkush Chatterjee<\/strong>, Kedhar Nath Narahari<\/strong>, Meghana Joshi<\/strong>, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong>\r\n\r\n9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Nicollet D2\r\nWorkshop on Extracting Structured Knowledge from Scientific Publications (ESSP)<\/strong>\r\nInvited Talk: Machine Reading for Precision Medicine\r\nHoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a>\r\n\r\n
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Friday, June 7<\/h3>\r\n9:00 AM\u20135:30 PM | Nicollet D1\r\nThe 2nd Clinical NLP Workshop<\/strong>\r\nCo-organizer: Tristan Naumann<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAccepted Paper: Publicly Available Clinical BERT Embeddings\r\nEmily Alsentzer, John Murphy, William Boag, Wei-Hung Weng, Di Jindi, Tristan Naumann<\/strong><\/a>, Matthew McDermott"}],"msr_startdate":"2019-06-02","msr_enddate":"2019-06-07","msr_event_time":"","msr_location":"Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA","msr_event_link":"https:\/\/naacl2019.org\/registration\/","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_startdate_formatted":"June 2, 2019","msr_register_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_link":"https:\/\/naacl2019.org\/registration\/","msr_cta_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_bi_name":"Event Register","featured_image_thumbnail":"\"City","event_excerpt":"Microsoft is excited to be a Silver sponsor of NAACL-HLT 2019. Over 30 of our researchers are at the conference. Stop by our booth to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about\u00a0career opportunities\u00a0with Microsoft. Committee chairs T. J. Hazen, NLP Applications Area Chair Microsoft Research attendees Afroz Ahamad Siddiqui Ananya A Andrew McNamara Anuva Agarwal Arul Menezes Asli Celikyilmaz Budhaditya Deb Cheng Wu Chenguang Zhu Christian Borgs Cliff…","msr_research_lab":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[],"related-projects":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-publications":[600900],"related-videos":[],"related-posts":[578602,584920,589285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/589690","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":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/589690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147043,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event\/589690\/revisions\/1147043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"msr-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-region?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"msr-event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-event-type?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"msr-program-audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-program-audience?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=589690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}