{"id":488204,"date":"2018-04-27T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&p=488204"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:26:59","slug":"nw-nlp-2018-compositional-language-modeling-icon-based-augmentative-alternative-communication","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/nw-nlp-2018-compositional-language-modeling-icon-based-augmentative-alternative-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"NW-NLP 2018: Compositional Language Modeling for Icon-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Keep your bearings: Lightly-supervised Information Extraction with Ladder Networks that avoids Semantic Drift, and more."},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth Pacific Northwest Regional Natural Language Processing Workshop will be held on Friday, April 27, 2018, in Redmond, WA. We accepted abstracts and papers on all aspects of natural language text and speech processing, computational linguistics, and human language technologies.<\/p>\n

As with past four workshops, the goal of this one-day NW-NLP event is to provide a less-formal setting in the Pacific Northwest to present research ideas, make new acquaintances, and learn about the breadth of exciting work currently being pursued in North-West area.<\/p>\n

Short Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Title: Compositional Language Modeling for Icon-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication
\nSpeakers: Shiran Dudy and Steven Bedrick<\/p>\n

Title: Keep your bearings: Lightly-supervised Information Extraction with Ladder Networks that avoids Semantic Drift
\nSpeakers: Ajay Nagesh and Mihai Surdeanu.<\/p>\n

Title: Infrequent Discourse Relation Identification Using Data Programming
\nSpeakers: Xing Zeng, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng and Hyeju Jang<\/p>\n

Title: Community Member Retrieval on Social Media using Textual Information
\nSpeakers: Aaron Jaech, Shobhit Hathi, and Mari Ostendorf<\/p>\n

Title: Semantic similarity of conversational speech between children with and without ASD
\nSpeakers: Joel Adams and Alexandra Salem.<\/p>\n

For more information, schedule, abstracts, etc, please visit the website: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/nwnlp18\/home (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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