{"id":668643,"date":"2020-07-01T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=668643"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:52:42","slug":"acl-2020","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/acl-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at ACL 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/acl2020.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACL 2020<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is proud to be a Diversity and Inclusion Champion sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/acl2020.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (ACL), as well as Silver sponsors of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winlp.org\/winlp-2020-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WiNLP workshop<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. Please see detailed information on our contributions to the program on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=668643&secret=YD7Fu1#!sessions\">Sessions tab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper margin-bottom-sp1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft\u2019s Semantic Machines Showcases New Conversational AI Technology\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/G_v5B_gYceM?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Registered attendees can chat live with a recruiter on our <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/signin.acl2020.org\/login?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fvirtual.acl2020.org%2Fparseauth&response_type=code&client_id=6m12m2p14j079i340ifi6hh1sg&state=eyJub25jZSI6IjE1OTM3OTEyOTVUSkNZSllqZkZ2dkNyRS4tSSIsInJlcXVlc3RlZFVyaSI6Ii9zcG9uc29yXzE3Lmh0bWwifQ&scope=phone%20email%20profile%20openid%20aws.cognito.signin.user.admin&code_challenge_method=S256&code_challenge=b7JRSfW1gV_8OokywFwhb36nssuztO1hLF7hZNYDrz8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sponsor page<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> during these times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 6: 9 AM\u201310 AM PDT & 2 PM\u20133 PM PDT<\/li>\n<li>July 7: 8 AM\u20139 AM PDT & 11 AM-12 PM PDT<\/li>\n<li>July 8: 9 AM\u201311 AM PDT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Organizing Committee members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hao-fang-99778b25\/\">Hao Fang<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Sunday, July 5<\/h2>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-study-of-non-autoregressive-model-for-sequence-generation\/\"><strong>A Study of Non-autoregressive Model for Sequence Generation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sheng-zhao-83689129\/\">Sheng Zhao<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/enhancing-answer-boundary-detection-for-multilingual-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Enhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFei Yuan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Xuanyu\u00a0Bai<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Yan Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-interest-matching-for-neural-news-recommendation\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Interest Matching for Neural News Recommendation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHeyuan\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhengliu\/\">Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/generative-semantic-hashing-enhanced-via-boltzmann-machines\/\"><strong>Generative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann\u00a0Machines<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLin Zheng,\u00a0Qinliang\u00a0Su,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Monday, July 6<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/enhancing-answer-boundary-detection-for-multilingual-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Enhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFei Yuan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Xuanyu\u00a0Bai<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Yan Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-interest-matching-for-neural-news-recommendation\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Interest Matching for Neural News Recommendation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHeyuan\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhengliu\/\">Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning<\/strong><br \/>\nLeyang\u00a0Cui,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>, Yue Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>You Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception<\/strong><br \/>\nQian Liu, Yihong Chen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Zixuan\u00a0Chen, Bin Zhou,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/generative-semantic-hashing-enhanced-via-boltzmann-machines\/\"><strong>Generative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann\u00a0Machines<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLin Zheng,\u00a0Qinliang\u00a0Su,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning<\/strong><br \/>\nLeyang\u00a0Cui,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>, Yue Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>You Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception<\/strong><br \/>\nQian Liu, Yihong Chen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Zixuan\u00a0Chen, Bin Zhou,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-study-of-non-autoregressive-model-for-sequence-generation\/\"><strong>A Study of Non-autoregressive Model for Sequence Generation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sheng-zhao-83689129\/\">Sheng Zhao<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/grounded-conversation-generation-as-guided-traverses-in-commonsense-knowledge-graphs\/\"><strong>Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHouyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Zhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>, Zhiyuan Liu<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Recollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong><br \/>\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0<b>Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weizhu-chen-620b2330\/\">Weizhu\u00a0Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Speak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong><br \/>\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>INSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYichen Huang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oussamaelachqar\">Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/grounded-conversation-generation-as-guided-traverses-in-commonsense-knowledge-graphs\/\"><strong>Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHouyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Zhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>, Zhiyuan Liu<\/p>\n<p>13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong><br \/>\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>INSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYichen Huang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oussamaelachqar\">Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0<b>Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weizhu-chen-620b2330\/\">Weizhu\u00a0Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Speak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Recollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong><br \/>\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/attentive-pooling-with-learnable-norms-for-text-representation\/\"><strong>Attentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gender-bias-in-multilingual-embeddings\/\"><strong>Gender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/geometry-aware-domain-adaptation-for-unsupervised-alignment-of-word-embeddings\/\"><strong>Geometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pratikjawanpuria.com\/\">Pratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mayank127\/\">Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bamdevm\/\">Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Parallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tage\/\">Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-graph-based-coarse-to-fine-method-for-unsupervised-bilingual-lexicon-induction\/\"><strong>A Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-retrieve-and-rewrite-initialization-method-for-unsupervised-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-simple-and-effective-unified-encoder-for-document-level-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/curriculum-pre-training-for-end-to-end-speech-translation\/\"><strong>Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gluecos-an-evaluation-benchmark-for-code-switched-nlp\/\"><strong>GLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0<b>Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/genius1237.github.io\/about\/\">Anirudh Srinivasan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>MIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ying-qiao-15ab4716\/\">Ying Qiao<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<b>Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jialia\/\">Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/winnie-wu-b471487a\">Winnie Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Tuesday, July 7<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bayesian-hierarchical-words-representation-learning\/\"><strong>Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Oren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noamko.org\/\">Noam Koenigstein<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gluecos-an-evaluation-benchmark-for-code-switched-nlp\/\"><strong>GLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0<b>Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/genius1237.github.io\/about\/\">Anirudh Srinivasan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Parallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tage\/\">Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun<\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lihe\/\">Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/binshao\/\">Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-graph-based-coarse-to-fine-method-for-unsupervised-bilingual-lexicon-induction\/\"><strong>A Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-retrieve-and-rewrite-initialization-method-for-unsupervised-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-simple-and-effective-unified-encoder-for-document-level-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/curriculum-pre-training-for-end-to-end-speech-translation\/\"><strong>Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-neural-news-recommendation-with-unsupervised-preference-disentanglement\/\"><strong>Graph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/geometry-aware-domain-adaptation-for-unsupervised-alignment-of-word-embeddings\/\"><strong>Geometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pratikjawanpuria.com\/\">Pratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mayank127\/\">Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bamdevm\/\">Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>MIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ying-qiao-15ab4716\/\">Ying Qiao<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<b>Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jialia\/\">Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/winnie-wu-b471487a\">Winnie Wu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong><br \/>\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/attentive-pooling-with-learnable-norms-for-text-representation\/\"><strong>Attentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bayesian-hierarchical-words-representation-learning\/\"><strong>Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Oren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noamko.org\/\">Noam Koenigstein<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-neural-news-recommendation-with-unsupervised-preference-disentanglement\/\"><strong>Graph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lihe\/\">Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/binshao\/\">Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-recipe-for-creating-multimodal-aligned-datasets-for-sequential-tasks\/\"><strong>A Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAngela Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/elnouri\/\">Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\">Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/beyond-accuracy-behavioral-testing-of-nlp-models-with-checklist\/\"><strong>Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/marcotcr\/\">Marco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discourse-aware-neural-extractive-text-summarization\/\"><strong>Discourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong><br \/>\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/revanthrameshkumar\">Revanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\">Peter Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong><br \/>\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Hao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/beyond-accuracy-behavioral-testing-of-nlp-models-with-checklist\/\"><strong>Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/marcotcr\/\">Marco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Hao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova<\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-recipe-for-creating-multimodal-aligned-datasets-for-sequential-tasks\/\"><strong>A Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAngela Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/elnouri\/\">Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\">Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discourse-aware-neural-extractive-text-summarization\/\"><strong>Discourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gender-bias-in-multilingual-embeddings\/\"><strong>Gender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong><br \/>\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/revanthrameshkumar\">Revanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\">Peter Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/evidence-aware-inferential-text-generation-with-vector-quantised-variational-autoencoder\/\"><strong>Evidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDaya Guo,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/pratik-joshi-645305150\">Pratik Joshi<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastinsanty\">Sebastin\u00a0Santy<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/amarbudhiraja\">Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/document-modeling-with-graph-attention-networks-for-multi-grained-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Harvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong><br \/>\nZhongli Li,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/wenhui-wang-064411121\">Wenhui Wang<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong><br \/>\nJian Yang,\u00a0<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong><br \/>\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>RikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yegong\/\">Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<b>Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jiusheng-chen-40869815\/\">Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Single-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong><br \/>\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borjekar\/\">B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Wednesday, July 8<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong><br \/>\nJian Yang,\u00a0<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong><br \/>\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhun-liu-716626117\">Zhun\u00a0Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-fact-verification-with-kernel-graph-attention-network\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Harvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong><br \/>\nZhongli Li,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/wenhui-wang-064411121\">Wenhui Wang<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong><br \/>\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>RikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yegong\/\">Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<b>Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jiusheng-chen-40869815\/\">Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/pratik-joshi-645305150\">Pratik Joshi<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastinsanty\">Sebastin\u00a0Santy<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/amarbudhiraja\">Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/rat-sql-relation-aware-schema-encoding-and-linking-for-text-to-sql-parsers\/\"><strong>RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mattri\/\">Matthew Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/evidence-aware-inferential-text-generation-with-vector-quantised-variational-autoencoder\/\"><strong>Evidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDaya Guo,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-fact-verification-with-kernel-graph-attention-network\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong><br \/>\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhun-liu-716626117\">Zhun\u00a0Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Single-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong><br \/>\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borjekar\/\">B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/document-modeling-with-graph-attention-networks-for-multi-grained-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Web-based Procedures by Reasoning over Explanations and Demonstrations in Context<\/strong><br \/>\nShashank Srivastava,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jojic\/\">Nebojsa\u00a0Jojic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/meek\/\">Christopher Meek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/rat-sql-relation-aware-schema-encoding-and-linking-for-text-to-sql-parsers\/\"><strong>RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mattri\/\">Matthew Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distilling-knowledge-learned-in-bert-for-text-generation\/\"><strong>Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for\u00a0Text\u00a0Generation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yen-chun-chen\">Yen-Chun Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Jingzhou Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of\u00a0Keyphrases<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tonwang\/\">Tong Wang<\/a>, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter\u00a0Brusilovsky, Daqing He,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Predicting Performance\u00a0for\u00a0Natural Language Processing Tasks<\/strong><br \/>\nMengzhou\u00a0Xia, Antonios\u00a0Anastasopoulos,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ruox\/\">Ruochen\u00a0Xu<\/a>,\u00a0Yiming\u00a0Yang, Graham Neubig<\/p>\n<p>11:00 -12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation<\/strong><br \/>\nYutao Zhu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rsong\/\">Ruihua Song<\/a>,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou, Jian-Yun NIE,\u00a0Jin\u00a0Zhou<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Smart\u00a0To-Do: Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails<\/strong><br \/>\nSudipto\u00a0Mukherjee,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Marcello Hasegawa<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\">Ryen White<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distilling-knowledge-learned-in-bert-for-text-generation\/\"><strong>Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for\u00a0Text\u00a0Generation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yen-chun-chen\">Yen-Chun Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Jingzhou Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Web-based Procedures by Reasoning over Explanations and Demonstrations in Context<\/strong><br \/>\nShashank Srivastava,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jojic\/\">Nebojsa\u00a0Jojic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/meek\/\">Christopher Meek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of\u00a0Keyphrases<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tonwang\/\">Tong Wang<\/a>, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter\u00a0Brusilovsky, Daqing He,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Predicting Performance\u00a0for\u00a0Natural Language Processing Tasks<\/strong><br \/>\nMengzhou\u00a0Xia, Antonios\u00a0Anastasopoulos,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ruox\/\">Ruochen\u00a0Xu<\/a>,\u00a0Yiming\u00a0Yang, Graham Neubig<\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation<\/strong><br \/>\nYutao Zhu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rsong\/\">Ruihua Song<\/a>,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou, Jian-Yun NIE,\u00a0Jin\u00a0Zhou<\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Smart\u00a0To-Do: Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails<\/strong><br \/>\nSudipto\u00a0Mukherjee,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Marcello Hasegawa<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\">Ryen White<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>July 5<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winlp.org\/winlp-2020-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fourth Widening NLP Workshop<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAdvisory Board Member: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>July 9<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/2ndnlp4convai\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2nd Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizing Committee Member: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/alvr-workshop.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizing Committee Member: <a 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Please see detailed information on our contributions to the program on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&amp;p=668643&amp;secret=YD7Fu1#!sessions\">Sessions tab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper margin-bottom-sp1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft\u2019s Semantic Machines Showcases New Conversational AI Technology\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/G_v5B_gYceM?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Registered attendees can chat live with a recruiter on our <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hao-fang-99778b25\/\">Hao Fang<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Sessions\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h2>Sunday, July 5<\/h2>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-study-of-non-autoregressive-model-for-sequence-generation\/\"><strong>A Study of Non-autoregressive Model for Sequence Generation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sheng-zhao-83689129\/\">Sheng Zhao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/enhancing-answer-boundary-detection-for-multilingual-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Enhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFei Yuan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Xuanyu\u00a0Bai<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Yan Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-interest-matching-for-neural-news-recommendation\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Interest Matching for Neural News Recommendation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHeyuan\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhengliu\/\">Zheng Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/generative-semantic-hashing-enhanced-via-boltzmann-machines\/\"><strong>Generative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann\u00a0Machines<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLin Zheng,\u00a0Qinliang\u00a0Su,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Monday, July 6<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/enhancing-answer-boundary-detection-for-multilingual-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Enhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFei Yuan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Xuanyu\u00a0Bai<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Yan Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a 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href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>, Yue Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>You Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception<\/strong><br \/>\nQian Liu, Yihong Chen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Zixuan\u00a0Chen, Bin Zhou,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/generative-semantic-hashing-enhanced-via-boltzmann-machines\/\"><strong>Generative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann\u00a0Machines<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLin Zheng,\u00a0Qinliang\u00a0Su,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning<\/strong><br \/>\nLeyang\u00a0Cui,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>, Yue Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>You Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception<\/strong><br \/>\nQian Liu, Yihong Chen,\u00a0<a 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href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Recollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong><br \/>\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0<b>Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weizhu-chen-620b2330\/\">Weizhu\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Speak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong><br \/>\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>INSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYichen Huang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oussamaelachqar\">Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/grounded-conversation-generation-as-guided-traverses-in-commonsense-knowledge-graphs\/\"><strong>Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHouyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Zhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>, Zhiyuan Liu<\/p>\n<p>13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong><br \/>\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>INSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYichen Huang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oussamaelachqar\">Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0<b>Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weizhu-chen-620b2330\/\">Weizhu\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Speak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Recollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong><br \/>\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/attentive-pooling-with-learnable-norms-for-text-representation\/\"><strong>Attentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gender-bias-in-multilingual-embeddings\/\"><strong>Gender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/geometry-aware-domain-adaptation-for-unsupervised-alignment-of-word-embeddings\/\"><strong>Geometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pratikjawanpuria.com\/\">Pratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mayank127\/\">Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bamdevm\/\">Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Parallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tage\/\">Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-graph-based-coarse-to-fine-method-for-unsupervised-bilingual-lexicon-induction\/\"><strong>A Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-retrieve-and-rewrite-initialization-method-for-unsupervised-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-simple-and-effective-unified-encoder-for-document-level-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/curriculum-pre-training-for-end-to-end-speech-translation\/\"><strong>Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gluecos-an-evaluation-benchmark-for-code-switched-nlp\/\"><strong>GLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0<b>Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/genius1237.github.io\/about\/\">Anirudh Srinivasan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>MIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ying-qiao-15ab4716\/\">Ying Qiao<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jialia\/\">Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/winnie-wu-b471487a\">Winnie Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Tuesday, July 7<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bayesian-hierarchical-words-representation-learning\/\"><strong>Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Oren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noamko.org\/\">Noam Koenigstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gluecos-an-evaluation-benchmark-for-code-switched-nlp\/\"><strong>GLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0<b>Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/genius1237.github.io\/about\/\">Anirudh Srinivasan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Parallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tage\/\">Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun<\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lihe\/\">Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/binshao\/\">Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-graph-based-coarse-to-fine-method-for-unsupervised-bilingual-lexicon-induction\/\"><strong>A Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-retrieve-and-rewrite-initialization-method-for-unsupervised-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-simple-and-effective-unified-encoder-for-document-level-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/curriculum-pre-training-for-end-to-end-speech-translation\/\"><strong>Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-neural-news-recommendation-with-unsupervised-preference-disentanglement\/\"><strong>Graph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/geometry-aware-domain-adaptation-for-unsupervised-alignment-of-word-embeddings\/\"><strong>Geometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pratikjawanpuria.com\/\">Pratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mayank127\/\">Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bamdevm\/\">Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>MIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ying-qiao-15ab4716\/\">Ying Qiao<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jialia\/\">Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/winnie-wu-b471487a\">Winnie Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong><br \/>\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/attentive-pooling-with-learnable-norms-for-text-representation\/\"><strong>Attentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bayesian-hierarchical-words-representation-learning\/\"><strong>Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Oren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noamko.org\/\">Noam Koenigstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-neural-news-recommendation-with-unsupervised-preference-disentanglement\/\"><strong>Graph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lihe\/\">Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/binshao\/\">Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong><br \/>\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-recipe-for-creating-multimodal-aligned-datasets-for-sequential-tasks\/\"><strong>A Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAngela Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/elnouri\/\">Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\">Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/beyond-accuracy-behavioral-testing-of-nlp-models-with-checklist\/\"><strong>Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/marcotcr\/\">Marco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discourse-aware-neural-extractive-text-summarization\/\"><strong>Discourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong><br \/>\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/revanthrameshkumar\">Revanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\">Peter Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong><br \/>\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Hao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/beyond-accuracy-behavioral-testing-of-nlp-models-with-checklist\/\"><strong>Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/marcotcr\/\">Marco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\n<b>Hao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova<\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-recipe-for-creating-multimodal-aligned-datasets-for-sequential-tasks\/\"><strong>A Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAngela Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/elnouri\/\">Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\">Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discourse-aware-neural-extractive-text-summarization\/\"><strong>Discourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gender-bias-in-multilingual-embeddings\/\"><strong>Gender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong><br \/>\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/revanthrameshkumar\">Revanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\">Peter Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/evidence-aware-inferential-text-generation-with-vector-quantised-variational-autoencoder\/\"><strong>Evidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDaya Guo,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/pratik-joshi-645305150\">Pratik Joshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastinsanty\">Sebastin\u00a0Santy<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/amarbudhiraja\">Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/document-modeling-with-graph-attention-networks-for-multi-grained-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Harvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong><br \/>\nZhongli Li,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/wenhui-wang-064411121\">Wenhui Wang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong><br \/>\nJian Yang,\u00a0<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong><br \/>\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong<\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>RikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yegong\/\">Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<b>Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jiusheng-chen-40869815\/\">Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Single-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong><br \/>\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borjekar\/\">B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Wednesday, July 8<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Improving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong><br \/>\nJian Yang,\u00a0<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong><br \/>\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhun-liu-716626117\">Zhun\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-fact-verification-with-kernel-graph-attention-network\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Harvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong><br \/>\nZhongli Li,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/wenhui-wang-064411121\">Wenhui Wang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong><br \/>\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong<\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>RikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong><br \/>\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yegong\/\">Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<b>Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jiusheng-chen-40869815\/\">Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/pratik-joshi-645305150\">Pratik Joshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastinsanty\">Sebastin\u00a0Santy<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/amarbudhiraja\">Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/rat-sql-relation-aware-schema-encoding-and-linking-for-text-to-sql-parsers\/\"><strong>RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mattri\/\">Matthew Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/evidence-aware-inferential-text-generation-with-vector-quantised-variational-autoencoder\/\"><strong>Evidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDaya Guo,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-fact-verification-with-kernel-graph-attention-network\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Language to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong><br \/>\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhun-liu-716626117\">Zhun\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong><br \/>\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Single-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong><br \/>\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borjekar\/\">B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/document-modeling-with-graph-attention-networks-for-multi-grained-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Web-based Procedures by Reasoning over Explanations and Demonstrations in Context<\/strong><br \/>\nShashank Srivastava,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jojic\/\">Nebojsa\u00a0Jojic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/meek\/\">Christopher Meek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/rat-sql-relation-aware-schema-encoding-and-linking-for-text-to-sql-parsers\/\"><strong>RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mattri\/\">Matthew Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distilling-knowledge-learned-in-bert-for-text-generation\/\"><strong>Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for\u00a0Text\u00a0Generation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yen-chun-chen\">Yen-Chun Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>, Jingzhou Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of\u00a0Keyphrases<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tonwang\/\">Tong Wang<\/a>, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter\u00a0Brusilovsky, Daqing He,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Predicting Performance\u00a0for\u00a0Natural Language Processing Tasks<\/strong><br \/>\nMengzhou\u00a0Xia, Antonios\u00a0Anastasopoulos,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ruox\/\">Ruochen\u00a0Xu<\/a>,\u00a0Yiming\u00a0Yang, Graham Neubig<\/p>\n<p>11:00 -12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation<\/strong><br \/>\nYutao Zhu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rsong\/\">Ruihua Song<\/a>,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou, Jian-Yun NIE,\u00a0Jin\u00a0Zhou<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Smart\u00a0To-Do: Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails<\/strong><br \/>\nSudipto\u00a0Mukherjee,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Marcello Hasegawa<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\">Ryen White<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distilling-knowledge-learned-in-bert-for-text-generation\/\"><strong>Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for\u00a0Text\u00a0Generation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yen-chun-chen\">Yen-Chun Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" 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NIE,\u00a0Jin\u00a0Zhou<\/p>\n<p>14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Smart\u00a0To-Do: Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails<\/strong><br \/>\nSudipto\u00a0Mukherjee,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Marcello Hasegawa<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\">Ryen White<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Workshops\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h2>July 5<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winlp.org\/winlp-2020-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fourth Widening NLP Workshop<\/a><br \/>\nAdvisory Board Member: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>July 9<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/2ndnlp4convai\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2nd Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI<\/a><br \/>\nOrganizing Committee Member: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/alvr-workshop.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research<\/a><br \/>\nOrganizing Committee Member: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a 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Please see detailed information on our contributions to the program on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&amp;p=668643&amp;secret=YD7Fu1#!sessions\">Sessions tab<\/a>.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/G_v5B_gYceM\r\n\r\nRegistered attendees can chat live with a recruiter on our <a href=\"https:\/\/signin.acl2020.org\/login?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fvirtual.acl2020.org%2Fparseauth&amp;response_type=code&amp;client_id=6m12m2p14j079i340ifi6hh1sg&amp;state=eyJub25jZSI6IjE1OTM3OTEyOTVUSkNZSllqZkZ2dkNyRS4tSSIsInJlcXVlc3RlZFVyaSI6Ii9zcG9uc29yXzE3Lmh0bWwifQ&amp;scope=phone%20email%20profile%20openid%20aws.cognito.signin.user.admin&amp;code_challenge_method=S256&amp;code_challenge=b7JRSfW1gV_8OokywFwhb36nssuztO1hLF7hZNYDrz8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sponsor page<\/a> during these times:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>July 6: 9 AM\u201310 AM PDT &amp; 2 PM\u20133 PM PDT<\/li>\r\n \t<li>July 7: 8 AM\u20139 AM PDT &amp; 11 AM-12 PM PDT<\/li>\r\n \t<li>July 8: 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href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-study-of-non-autoregressive-model-for-sequence-generation\/\"><strong>A Study of Non-autoregressive Model for Sequence Generation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sheng-zhao-83689129\/\">Sheng Zhao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/enhancing-answer-boundary-detection-for-multilingual-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Enhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a>\r\nFei Yuan,\u00a0<a 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Yuan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Xuanyu\u00a0Bai<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Yan Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-interest-matching-for-neural-news-recommendation\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Interest Matching for Neural News Recommendation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHeyuan\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a 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href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sheng-zhao-83689129\/\">Sheng Zhao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/grounded-conversation-generation-as-guided-traverses-in-commonsense-knowledge-graphs\/\"><strong>Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHouyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Zhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Recollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong>\r\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong>\r\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0<b>Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weizhu-chen-620b2330\/\">Weizhu\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Speak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong>\r\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Improving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong>\r\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong>\r\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Monday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>INSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong>\r\nYichen Huang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oussamaelachqar\">Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/grounded-conversation-generation-as-guided-traverses-in-commonsense-knowledge-graphs\/\"><strong>Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHouyu\u00a0Zhang,\u00a0Zhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Improving\u00a0Adversarial\u00a0Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future<\/strong>\r\nRuiyi Zhang,\u00a0Changyou\u00a0Chen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0Wenlin\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>,\u00a0Guoyin\u00a0Wang, Zheng Wen, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with\u00a0Information-Theoretic\u00a0Guidance<\/strong>\r\nPengyu Cheng, Martin\u00a0Renqiang\u00a0Min,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dinghan-shen-02016183\">Dinghan\u00a0Shen<\/a>, Christopher\u00a0Malon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Yitong Li, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>INSET: Sentence Infilling with\u00a0INter-SEntential\u00a0Transformer<\/strong>\r\nYichen Huang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe\u00a0Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oussamaelachqar\">Oussama\u00a0Elachqar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre\u00a0C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>,\u00a0Yi Tay, Chris Pal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization<\/strong>\r\nHaoming\u00a0Jiang,\u00a0<b>Pengcheng\u00a0He<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weizhu-chen-620b2330\/\">Weizhu\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Tuo Zhao\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Speak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback<\/strong>\r\nAhmed\u00a0Elgohary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Recollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models<\/strong>\r\nMaarten Sap,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric\u00a0Horvitz<\/a>, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/attentive-pooling-with-learnable-norms-for-text-representation\/\"><strong>Attentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gender-bias-in-multilingual-embeddings\/\"><strong>Gender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/geometry-aware-domain-adaptation-for-unsupervised-alignment-of-word-embeddings\/\"><strong>Geometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pratikjawanpuria.com\/\">Pratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mayank127\/\">Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bamdevm\/\">Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Parallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong>\r\nYi Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tage\/\">Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-graph-based-coarse-to-fine-method-for-unsupervised-bilingual-lexicon-induction\/\"><strong>A Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-retrieve-and-rewrite-initialization-method-for-unsupervised-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-simple-and-effective-unified-encoder-for-document-level-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/curriculum-pre-training-for-end-to-end-speech-translation\/\"><strong>Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gluecos-an-evaluation-benchmark-for-code-switched-nlp\/\"><strong>GLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a>\r\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0<b>Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genius1237.github.io\/about\/\">Anirudh Srinivasan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>MIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ying-qiao-15ab4716\/\">Ying Qiao<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jialia\/\">Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/winnie-wu-b471487a\">Winnie Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<strong>SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong>\r\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h2>Tuesday, July 7<\/h2>\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bayesian-hierarchical-words-representation-learning\/\"><strong>Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<b>Oren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noamko.org\/\">Noam Koenigstein<\/a>\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gluecos-an-evaluation-benchmark-for-code-switched-nlp\/\"><strong>GLUECoS: An Evaluation Benchmark for\u00a0Code-Switched\u00a0NLP<\/strong><\/a>\r\nSimran\u00a0Khanuja,\u00a0<b>Sandipan\u00a0Dandapat<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genius1237.github.io\/about\/\">Anirudh Srinivasan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/susitara\/\">Sunayana\u00a0Sitaram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Parallel Data Augmentation for Formality Style Transfer<\/strong>\r\nYi Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tage\/\">Tao Ge<\/a>, Xu Sun\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<strong>SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong>\r\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lihe\/\">Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/binshao\/\">Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-graph-based-coarse-to-fine-method-for-unsupervised-bilingual-lexicon-induction\/\"><strong>A Graph-based Coarse-to-fine Method for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-retrieve-and-rewrite-initialization-method-for-unsupervised-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Retrieve-and-Rewrite Initialization Method for Unsupervised Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShuo Ren,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Shuai Ma\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-simple-and-effective-unified-encoder-for-document-level-machine-translation\/\"><strong>A Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/curriculum-pre-training-for-end-to-end-speech-translation\/\"><strong>Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChengyi\u00a0Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-wu-5a099475\">Yu Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shujliu\/\">Shujie\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Zhenglu\u00a0Yang\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-neural-news-recommendation-with-unsupervised-preference-disentanglement\/\"><strong>Graph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/geometry-aware-domain-adaptation-for-unsupervised-alignment-of-word-embeddings\/\"><strong>Geometry-aware domain adaptation for unsupervised alignment of word embeddings<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pratikjawanpuria.com\/\">Pratik\u00a0Jawanpuria<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mayank127\/\">Mayank\u00a0Meghwanshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bamdevm\/\">Bamdev\u00a0Mishra<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>MIND: A Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ying-qiao-15ab4716\/\">Ying Qiao<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Jiun-Hung Chen<\/b>,\u00a0Chuhan\u00a0Wu, Tao Qi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jialia\/\">Jianxun\u00a0Lian<\/a>,\u00a0Danyang\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/winnie-wu-b471487a\">Winnie Wu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n<strong>ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong>\r\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/attentive-pooling-with-learnable-norms-for-text-representation\/\"><strong>Attentive Pooling with Learnable Norms for Text Representation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChuhan\u00a0Wu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao\u00a0Wu<\/a>, Tao Qi, Xiaohui Cui, Yongfeng Huang\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bayesian-hierarchical-words-representation-learning\/\"><strong>Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<b>Oren Barkan<\/b>, Idan\u00a0Rejwan,\u00a0Avi\u00a0Caciularu,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noamko.org\/\">Noam Koenigstein<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-neural-news-recommendation-with-unsupervised-preference-disentanglement\/\"><strong>Graph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLinmei\u00a0Hu,\u00a0Siyong\u00a0Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang,\u00a0Chuan\u00a0Shi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing\u00a0Xie<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<strong>SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs<\/strong>\r\nWentao Xu, Shun Zheng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lihe\/\">Liang He<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/binshao\/\">Bin Shao<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<strong>SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation<\/strong>\r\nYi Ren,\u00a0Jinglin\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Chen Zhang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Zhou Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-recipe-for-creating-multimodal-aligned-datasets-for-sequential-tasks\/\"><strong>A Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAngela Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/elnouri\/\">Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\">Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/beyond-accuracy-behavioral-testing-of-nlp-models-with-checklist\/\"><strong>Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/marcotcr\/\">Marco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discourse-aware-neural-extractive-text-summarization\/\"><strong>Discourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n<strong>ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora<\/strong>\r\nMarta\u00a0Ba\u00f1\u00f3n,\u00a0Pinzhen\u00a0Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth\u00a0Heafield,\u00a0<b>Hieu Hoang<\/b>, Miquel\u00a0Espl\u00e0-Gomis, Mikel L.\u00a0Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem\u00a0Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo\u00a0Pla\u00a0Sempere,\u00a0Gema\u00a0Ram\u00edrez-S\u00e1nchez, Elsa\u00a0Sarr\u00edas, Marek\u00a0Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins,\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Zaragoza\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/revanthrameshkumar\">Revanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\">Peter Bailey<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Language (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong>\r\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Tuesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong>\r\n<b>Hao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/beyond-accuracy-behavioral-testing-of-nlp-models-with-checklist\/\"><strong>Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with\u00a0CheckList<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/marcotcr\/\">Marco Tulio Ribeiro<\/a>,\u00a0Tongshuang\u00a0Wu, Carlos\u00a0Guestrin, Sameer Singh\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised\u00a0Document-Level Question Answering<\/strong>\r\n<b>Hao Cheng<\/b>,\u00a0Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-recipe-for-creating-multimodal-aligned-datasets-for-sequential-tasks\/\"><strong>A Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAngela Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sudhra\/\">Sudha Rao<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli\u00a0Celikyilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/elnouri\/\">Elnaz\u00a0Nouri<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\">Debadeepta\u00a0Dey<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discourse-aware-neural-extractive-text-summarization\/\"><strong>Discourse-Aware\u00a0Neural Extractive Text Summarization<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJiacheng\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gender-bias-in-multilingual-embeddings\/\"><strong>Gender Bias in Multilingual Embeddings and Cross-Lingual Transfer<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJieyu\u00a0Zhao,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sahoss\/\">Saghar\u00a0Hosseini<\/a>, Kai-Wei Chang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Language (technology) is power: The need to be explicit about NLP\u00a0harms<\/strong>\r\nSu\u00a0Lin Blodgett,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon\u00a0Barocas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal\u00a0Daum\u00e9\u00a0III<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/revanthrameshkumar\">Revanth\u00a0Rameshkumar<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pbailey\/\">Peter Bailey<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/evidence-aware-inferential-text-generation-with-vector-quantised-variational-autoencoder\/\"><strong>Evidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a>\r\nDaya Guo,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 23:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/pratik-joshi-645305150\">Pratik Joshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastinsanty\">Sebastin\u00a0Santy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/amarbudhiraja\">Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/document-modeling-with-graph-attention-networks-for-multi-grained-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Harvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong>\r\nZhongli Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/wenhui-wang-064411121\">Wenhui Wang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Improving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong>\r\nJian Yang,\u00a0<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Learning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong>\r\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>RikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong>\r\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yegong\/\">Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<b>Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jiusheng-chen-40869815\/\">Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 00:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Single-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong>\r\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borjekar\/\">B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h2>Wednesday, July 8<\/h2>\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Improving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction<\/strong>\r\nJian Yang,\u00a0<b>Shuming\u00a0Ma<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dozhang\/\">Dongdong Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhoujun\u00a0Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 02:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Language to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong>\r\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhun-liu-716626117\">Zhun\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-fact-verification-with-kernel-graph-attention-network\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a>\r\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Harvesting and Refining\u00a0Question-Answer\u00a0Pairs for Unsupervised QA<\/strong>\r\nZhongli Li,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cn.linkedin.com\/in\/wenhui-wang-064411121\">Wenhui Wang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu\u00a0Wei<\/a>,\u00a0Ke\u00a0Xu\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Learning Efficient Dialogue Policy from Demonstrations through Shaping<\/strong>\r\nHuimin Wang,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, Kam-Fai Wong\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>RikiNet: Reading Wikipedia Pages for Natural Question Answering<\/strong>\r\nDayiheng\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yegong\/\">Yeyun\u00a0Gong<\/a>,\u00a0Jie\u00a0Fu,\u00a0<b>Yu Yan<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jiusheng-chen-40869815\/\">Jiusheng\u00a0Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiancheng\u00a0Lv,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>\r\n\r\n02:00 \u2013 03:00 PDT\r\n<strong>The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/pratik-joshi-645305150\">Pratik Joshi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/sebastinsanty\">Sebastin\u00a0Santy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/in.linkedin.com\/in\/amarbudhiraja\">Amar\u00a0Budhiraja<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kalikab\/\">Kalika\u00a0Bali<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit\u00a0Choudhury<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/rat-sql-relation-aware-schema-encoding-and-linking-for-text-to-sql-parsers\/\"><strong>RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mattri\/\">Matthew Richardson<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/evidence-aware-inferential-text-generation-with-vector-quantised-variational-autoencoder\/\"><strong>Evidence-Aware Inferential Text Generation with Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder<\/strong><\/a>\r\nDaya Guo,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Jian Yin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/fine-grained-fact-verification-with-kernel-graph-attention-network\/\"><strong>Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network<\/strong><\/a>\r\nZhenghao\u00a0Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan\u00a0Xiong<\/a>,\u00a0Maosong\u00a0Sun, Zhiyuan Liu\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Language to Network: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Natural Language Descriptions<\/strong>\r\nTian\u00a0Jin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhun-liu-716626117\">Zhun\u00a0Liu<\/a>,\u00a0Shengjia\u00a0Yan, Alexandre Eichenberger, Louis-Philippe Morency\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zhangyin\u00a0Feng,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun\u00a0Shou<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking<\/strong>\r\nWanjun Zhong,\u00a0Jingjing\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dutang\/\">Duyu\u00a0Tang<\/a>,\u00a0Zenan\u00a0Xu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>,\u00a0Jiahai\u00a0Wang, Jian Yin\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Single-\/Multi-Source Cross-Lingual NER via Teacher-Student Learning on Unlabeled Data in Target Language<\/strong>\r\nQianhui\u00a0Wu,\u00a0Zijia\u00a0Lin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/borjekar\/\">B\u00f6rje\u00a0Karlsson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang\u00a0Lou<\/a>,\u00a0Biqing\u00a0Huang\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/document-modeling-with-graph-attention-networks-for-multi-grained-machine-reading-comprehension\/\"><strong>Document Modeling with Graph Attention Networks for Multi-grained Machine Reading Comprehension<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBo Zheng,\u00a0Haoyang\u00a0Wen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo\u00a0Liang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanduan\/\">Nan\u00a0Duan<\/a>, Wanxiang Che,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin\u00a0Jiang<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 07:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Learning Web-based Procedures by Reasoning over Explanations and Demonstrations in Context<\/strong>\r\nShashank Srivastava,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jojic\/\">Nebojsa\u00a0Jojic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/meek\/\">Christopher Meek<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/rat-sql-relation-aware-schema-encoding-and-linking-for-text-to-sql-parsers\/\"><strong>RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBailin Wang, Richard Shin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mattri\/\">Matthew Richardson<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distilling-knowledge-learned-in-bert-for-text-generation\/\"><strong>Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for\u00a0Text\u00a0Generation<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yen-chun-chen\">Yen-Chun Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>, Jingzhou Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 13:00 -14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of\u00a0Keyphrases<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tonwang\/\">Tong Wang<\/a>, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter\u00a0Brusilovsky, Daqing He,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Predicting Performance\u00a0for\u00a0Natural Language Processing Tasks<\/strong>\r\nMengzhou\u00a0Xia, Antonios\u00a0Anastasopoulos,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ruox\/\">Ruochen\u00a0Xu<\/a>,\u00a0Yiming\u00a0Yang, Graham Neubig\r\n\r\n11:00 -12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation<\/strong>\r\nYutao Zhu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rsong\/\">Ruihua Song<\/a>,\u00a0Zhicheng\u00a0Dou, Jian-Yun NIE,\u00a0Jin\u00a0Zhou\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 12:00 PDT\r\n2nd session: Wednesday, 14:00 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Smart\u00a0To-Do: Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails<\/strong>\r\nSudipto\u00a0Mukherjee,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/submukhe\/\">Subhabrata\u00a0Mukherjee<\/a>,\u00a0<b>Marcello Hasegawa<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Hassan\u00a0Awadallah<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\">Ryen White<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distilling-knowledge-learned-in-bert-for-text-generation\/\"><strong>Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for\u00a0Text\u00a0Generation<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yen-chun-chen\">Yen-Chun Chen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zhe-gan-a2229a78\">Zhe Gan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chengyu05\">Yu Cheng<\/a>, Jingzhou Liu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing\u00a0Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Learning Web-based Procedures by Reasoning over Explanations and Demonstrations in Context<\/strong>\r\nShashank Srivastava,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr\u00a0Polozov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jojic\/\">Nebojsa\u00a0Jojic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/meek\/\">Christopher Meek<\/a>\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 PDT\r\n<strong>One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of\u00a0Keyphrases<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eryua\/\">Xingdi\u00a0Yuan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tonwang\/\">Tong Wang<\/a>, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter\u00a0Brusilovsky, Daqing He,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adtrisch\/\">Adam\u00a0Trischler<\/a>\r\n\r\n14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT\r\n<strong>Predicting Performance\u00a0for\u00a0Natural Language Processing Tasks<\/strong>\r\nMengzhou\u00a0Xia, Antonios\u00a0Anastasopoulos,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ruox\/\">Ruochen\u00a0Xu<\/a>,\u00a0Yiming\u00a0Yang, 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