Long presentations (regular papers)


2. Moral Stance Recognition and Polarity Classification from Twitter and Elicited Text Wesley Santos and Ivandré Paraboni
25. Towards functionally similar corpus resources for translation Maria Kunilovskaya and Serge Sharoff
30. Question Similarity in Community Question Answering: A Systematic Exploration of Preprocessing Methods and Models Florian Kunneman, Thiago Castro Ferreira, Emiel Krahmer and Antal van den Bosch
35. A Qualitative Evaluation Framework for Paraphrase Identification Venelin Kovatchev, Toni Marti, Maria Salamo and Javier Beltran
54. Neural Feature Extraction for Contextual Emotion Detection Elham Mohammadi, Hessam Amini and Leila Kosseim
79. Mining the UK Web Archive for Semantic Change Detection Adam Tsakalidis, Marya Bazzi, Mihai Cucuringu, Pierpaolo Basile and Barbara McGillivray
80. Graph Embeddings for Frame Identification Alexander Popov and Jennifer Sikos
88. A Quantum-like approach to Word Sense Disambiguation Fabio Tamburini
90. Compositional Hyponymy with Positive Operators Martha Lewis
93. Tagger for Polish Computer Mediated Communication Texts Wiktor Walentynowicz, Maciej Piasecki and Marcin Oleksy
120. Naive regularizers for low-resource neural machine translation Meriem Beloucif, Ana Valeria Gonzalez, Marcel Bollmann and Anders Søgaard
146. It Takes Nine to Smell a Rat: Neural Multi-Task Learning for Check-Worthiness Prediction Slavena Vasileva, Pepa Atanasova, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Preslav Nakov
153. Discourse-based Approach to Involvement of Background Knowledge for Question Answering Boris Galitsky and Dmitry Ilvovsky
160. Multilingual sentence-level bias detection in Wikipedia Desislava Aleksandrova, François Lareau and Pierre André Ménard
173. Augmenting a BiLSTM tagger with a Morphological Lexicon and a Lexical Category Identification Step Steinþór Steingrímsson, Örvar Kárason and Hrafn Loftsson
208. Automated Text Simplification as a Preprocessing Step for Machine Translation into an Under-resourced Language Sanja Štajner and Maja Popović
213. Cross-Domain Training for Goal-Oriented Conversational Agents Stefania Budulan
215. EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Shahab Raji and Gerard de Melo

Short presentations (short papers)


1. Sparse Victory – A Large Scale Systematic Comparison of count-based and prediction-based vectorizers for text classification Rupak Chakraborty, Ashima Elhence and Kapil Arora
11. Automatic Detection of Translation Direction Ilia Sominsky and Shuly Wintner
16. A Holistic Natural Language Generation Framework for the Semantic Web Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Diego Moussallem and Lorenz Bühmann
21. Turning silver into gold: error-focused corpus reannotation with active learning Pierre André Ménard and Antoine Mougeot
31. Are ambiguous conjunctions problematic for machine translation? Maja Popović and Sheila Castilho
32. Exploring Graph-Algebraic CCG Combinators for Syntactic-Semantic AMR Parsing Sebastian Beschke
48. Diachronic Analysis of Entities by Exploiting Wikipedia Page revisions Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Seamus Lawless and Giovanni Semeraro
52. A Classification-based Approach to Cognate Detection Sofie Labat and Els Lefever
60. Jointly Learning Author and Annotated Character N-gram Embeddings: A Case Study in Literary Text Suraj Maharjan, Deepthi Mave, Prasha Shrestha, Manuel Montes, Fabio A. González and Thamar Solorio
62. Evaluating the consistency of word embeddings from small data Jelke Bloem, Antske Fokkens and Aurélie Herbelot
91. Turkish Tweet Classification with Transformer Encoder Atıf Emre Yüksel, Yaşar Alim Türkmen, Arzucan Özgür and Berna Altınel
92. Summarizing Legal Rulings Diego Feijo and Viviane Moreira
109. Self-Adaptation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Xia Cui and Danushka Bollegala
116. BERT Beyond English-only Reading Comprehension: Experiments in Zero-shot Multilingual Transfer for Bulgarian Momchil Hardalov, Ivan Koychev and Preslav Nakov
117. Building an ASR Corpus Based on Bulgarian Parliament Speeches Diana Geneva, Georgi Shopov and Stoyan Mihov
121. Empirical study of diachronic word embeddings for scarce data Syrielle Montariol and Alexandre Allauzen
125. Classifying Author Intention for Writer Feedback in Related Work Arlene Casey, Bonnie Webber and Dorota Glowacka
129. An Open, Extendible, and Fast Turkish Morphological Analyzer Olcay Taner Yıldız, Begüm Avar and Gökhan Ercan
130. Linguistic classification: dealing jointly with irrelevance and inconsistency Laura Franzoi, Andrea Sgarro, Anca Dinu and Liviu P. Dinu
131. Detecting toxicity in news articles - a study for news in Bulgarian language Yoan Dinkov, Ivan Koychev and Preslav Nakov
134. Community Perspective on Replicability in Natural Language Processing Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Aurélie Névéol, Cyril Grouin and Kevin Cohen
138. Bigger versus Similar: Selecting a Background Corpus for First Story Detection based on Distributional Similarity Fei Wang, Robert J. Ross and John D. Kelleher
144. Combining Lexical Substitutes in Neural Word Sense Induction Nikolay Arefyev, Boris Sheludko and Alexander Panchenko
147. A Morpho-Syntactically Informed LSTM-CRF Model for Named Entity Recognition Lilia Simeonova, Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova and Preslav Nakov
156. Emoji Powered Capsule Network to Detect Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media Hansi Hettiarachchi and Tharindu Ranasinghe
165. Dependency-based Self-Attention for Transformer NMT Hiroyuki Deguchi, Akihiro Tamura and Takashi Ninomiya
169. Personality-dependent Neural Text Summarization Pablo Costa and Ivandré Paraboni
178. Discourse-aware Hierarchical Attention Network for Extractive Single-Document Summarization Tatsuya Ishigaki, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Hiroya Takamura and Manabu Okumura
179. Named Entity Recognition in Information Security Domain for Russian Anastasiia Sirotina and Natalia Loukachevitch
182. Sequential Graph Dependency Parser Sean Welleck and Kyunghyun Cho
190. Multilingual Dynamic Topic Model Elaine Zosa and Mark Granroth-Wilding
191. Generating Challenge Datasets for Task-Oriented Conversational Agents through Self-Play Sourabh Majumdar, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu and Marco Guerini
196. A Fine-Grained Annotated Multi-Dialectal Arabic Corpus Anis Charfi, Wajdi Zaghouani, Syed Hassan Mehdi and Esraa Mohamed
198. incom.py - A Toolbox for Calculating Linguistic Distances and Asymmetries between Related Languages Marius Mosbach, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova and Dietrich Klakow
199. Evaluation of vector embedding models in clustering of text documents Tomasz Walkowiak and Mateusz Gniewkowski
202. Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings for Morphologically Rich Languages Ahmet Üstün, Gosse Bouma and Gertjan van Noord
214. Combining PBSMT and NMT Back-translated Data for Efficient NMT Alberto Poncelas, Maja Popović, Dimitar Shterionov, Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger and Andy Way
217. Structural Approach to Enhancing WordNet with Conceptual Frame Semantics Svetlozara Leseva and Ivelina Stoyanova
219. Entropy as a proxy for gap complexity in open cloze tests Mariano Felice and Paula Buttery
221. SenZi: A Sentiment Analysis Lexicon for the Latinised Arabic Arabizi Taha Tobaili, Miriam Fernandez, Harith Alani, Goran Glavaš, Sanaa Sharafeddine and Hazem Hajj
229. Quasi Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers for Word Sense Disambiguation Roberto Navigli and Michele Bevilacqua

Poster presentations (poster papers)


4. Improving Neural Machine Translation with Round-Tripping Approach Benyamin Ahmadnia
5. Meta-Embedding Sentence Representation for Textual Similarity Amir Hazem and Nicolas Hernandez
6. Classification of Micro-texts using Sub-Word Embeddings Mihir Joshi and Nur Zincir-Heywood
7. Opinions Summarization: Aspect Similarity Recognition Relaxes The Constraint of Predefined Aspects Nguyen Huy Tien, Le Tung Thanh and Nguyen Minh Le
9. Enhancing Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation by Learning Phrase Representations Utilizing Long Short-Term Memory Network Benyamin Ahmadnia
13. Table Structure Recognition based on Cell Relationship, a bottom-up approach Darshan Adiga, Shabir Ahmad Bhat, Muzaffar Bashir Shah and Viveka Vyeth
14. Summary Refinement through Denoising Nikola Nikolov, Alessandro Calmanovici and Richard Hahnloser
15. Text-based Joint Prediction of Numeric and Categorical Attributes of Entities in Knowledge Bases V Thejas, Abhijeet Gupta and Sebastian Padó
23. Large-scale Hierarchical Alignment for Text Simplification and Style Transfer Nikola Nikolov and Richard Hahnloser
24. Detecting Anorexia in Spanish Tweets Pilar López Úbeda, Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, Manuel Carlos Díaz Galiano, L. Alfonso Urena Lopez and Maite Martin
26. Predicting Sentiment of Polish Language Short Texts Aleksander Wawer and Julita Sobiczewska
29. Learning Sentence Embeddings for Coherence Modelling and Beyond Tanner Bohn, Yining Hu, Jinhang Zhang and Charles Ling
34. Multi-level analysis and classification of the text sentiment on the example of consumer opinions Jan Kocoń, Monika Zaśko-Zielińska and Piotr Miłkowski
36. Term-Based Extraction of Medical Information: pre-operative patient education use case Martin Wolf, Volha Petukhova and Dietrich Klakow
38. Sentiment and Emotion Based Representations for Fake Reviews Detection Alimuddin Melleng, Anna Jurek-Loughrey and Deepak P
39. Assessing the socioeconomic status of Twitter users: A survey Dhouha GHAZOUANI, Luigi LANCIERI, Habib OUNELLI and Chaker JEBARI
42. Term Based Semantic Clusters for Very Short Text Classification Jasper Paalman, Shantanu Mullick, Kalliopi Zervanou and Yingqian Zhang
44. Machine Learning Approach to Fact-checking in West Slavic Languages Pavel Přibáň, Tomáš Hercig and Josef Steinberger
45. Is Similarity Visually Grounded? Computational Model of Similarity for the Estonian language Claudia Kittask and Eduard Barbu
46. Offence in Dialogues: A Corpus-based Study Johannes Schäfer and Ben Burtenshaw
55. Validation of Facts Against Textual Sources Vamsi Krishna Pendyala, Simran Sinha, Satya Prakash, Shriya Reddy and Anupam Jamatia
58. Language-independent Twitter-Bot Detection Jürgen Knauth and Stefan Ziehe
59. NE-Table: A Neural key-value table for Named Entities Janarthanan Rajendran, Jatin Ganhotra, Xiaoxiao Guo, Mo Yu, Satinder Singh and Lazaros Polymenakos
61. Automatic Propbank Generation for Turkish Koray AK and Olcay Taner Yıldız
63. Study on Unsupervised Statistical Machine Translation for Backtranslation Anush Kumar, Nihal V. Nayak, Aditya Chandra and Mydhili K. Nair
64. Development of a Recognizing Textual Entailment Tool for Arabic Question/Answering Systems Mabrouka Ben-Sghaier, WIDED BAKARI and Mahmoud Neji
65. Self-Knowledge Distillation in Natural Language Processing Sangchul Hahn and Heeyoul Choi
66. Sentiment Polarity Detection in Azerbaijani Social News Articles Sevda Mammadli, Shamsaddin Huseynov, Huseyn Alkaramov, Ulviyya Jafarli, Umid Suleymanov and Samir Rustamov
67. The Impact of Supervised Machine Learning on Automatic Term Extraction Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Patrick Drouin, Veronique Hoste and Els Lefever
69. Distant Supervision for Sentiment Attitude Extraction Nicolay Rusnachenko, Natalia Loukachevitch and Elena Tutubalina
71. Song Lyrics Summarization Inspired by Audio Thumbnailing Michael Fell, Elena Cabrio, Fabien Gandon and Alain Giboin
72. Comparing Automated Methods to Detect Explicit Content in Song Lyrics Michael Fell, Elena Cabrio, Michele Corazza and Fabien Gandon
73. Approaches to text normalization for social media text Claudia Matos Veliz, Orphee De Clercq and Veronique Hoste
75. Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches for Industry Classification Based on Textual Descriptions of Companies Andrey Tagarev, Nikola Tulechki and Svetla Boytcheva
76. From Image to Text in Sentiment Analysis via Regression and Deep Learning Daniela Onita, Liviu P. Dinu and Adriana Birlutiu
77. Improving Named Entity Linking Corpora Quality Albert Weichselbraun, Adrian Brasoveanu, Philipp Kuntschik and Lyndon J.B. Nixon
78. Supervised Morphological Segmentation using Rich Annotated Lexicon Ebrahim Ansari, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Mohammad Mahmoudi, Hamid Haghdoost and Jonáš Vidra
81. A Neural Network Component for Knowledge-Based Semantic Representations of Text Alejandro Piad-Morffis, Rafael Muñoz, Yoan Gutiérrez, Yudivian Almeida-Cruz, Suilan Estevez-Velarde and Andrés Montoyo
87. ETNLP: a visual-aided systematic approach to select pre-trained embeddings for a downstream task Son Vu Xuan, Thanh Vu, Son Tran and Lili Jiang
89. Development and Evaluation of Three Named Entity Recognition Systems for Serbian - the case of Personal Names Branislava Šandrih, Cvetana Krstev and Ranka Stankovic
95. Exploiting Open IE for deriving Multiple Premises Entailment Corpus Martin Víta and Jakub Klímek
96. Identification of Good and Bad News on Twitter Piush Aggarwal and Ahmet Aker
97. Know Your Graph. State-of-the-art Knowledge-based WSD Alexander Popov, Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova
99. v-trel: Vocabulary Trainer for Tracing Word Relations - a Crowdsourcing Approach Verena Lyding, Christos Rodosthenous, Federico Sangati, Umair ul Hassan, Lionel Nicolas, Alexander König, Jolita Horbacauskiene and Anisia Katinskaia
103. Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labelling and Information Extraction Richard Evans and Constantin Orasan
104. Unsupervised dialogue intent detection via hierarchical topic model Artem Popov, Victor Bulatov, Darya Polyudova and Eugenia Veselova
105. Semi-Supervised Induction of POS-Tag Lexicons with Tree Models Maciej Sumalvico
107. Building a morphological analyser for Laz Esra Onal and Francis Tyers
110. Automatic Question Answering for Medical MCQs: Can It go Further than Information Retrieval? Le An Ha and Victoria Yaneva
112. Unsupervised Data Augmentation for Less-Resourced Languages with no Standardized Spelling Alice Millour and Karën Fort
113. Enhancing Unsupervised Sentence Similarity Methods with Deep Contextualised Word Representations Tharindu Ranasinghe and Constantin Orasan
114. Toponym Detection in the Bio-Medical Domain: A Hybrid Approach with Deep Learning Alistair Plum, Tharindu Ranasinghe and Constantin Orasan
115. Semantic Textual Similarity with Siamese Neural Networks Tharindu Ranasinghe and Constantin Orasan
118. OlloBot - Towards A Text-based Arabic Health Conversational Agent: Evaluation and Results Ahmed Fadhil and Ahmed AbuRa'ed
119. Detecting Clitics Related Orthographic Errors in Turkish Ugurcan Arikan, Onur Gungor and Suzan Uskudarli
124. From the Paft to the Fiiture: a Fully Automatic NMT and Word Embeddings Method for OCR Post-Correction Mika Hämäläinen and Simon Hengchen
127. Building a Comprehensive Romanian Knowledge Base for Drug Administration Bogdan Nicula, Mihai Dascalu, Maria-Dorinela Sîrbu, Ștefan Trăușan-Matu and Alexandru Nuță
128. Deep learning contextual models for prediction of sport event outcome from sportsman's interviews Boris Velichkov, Ivan Koychev and Svetla Boytcheva
133. Porting Mutlinligual Morphological Resources to OntoLex-Lemon Thierry Declerck
137. Semantic Language Model for Tunisian Dialect Abir MASMOUDI, Rim Laatar, Mariem ellouze and lamia hadrich belguith
139. Persistence pays off: Paying Attention to What the LSTM Gating Mechanism Persists Giancarlo Salton and John Kelleher
140. Automatic diacritization of Tunisian dialect text using Recurrent Neural Network Abir Masmoudi, Mariem Ellouze and Lamia Hadrich belguith
142. Risk Factors Extraction from Clinical Texts based on Linked Open Data Svetla Boytcheva, Galia Angelova and Zhivko Angelov
143. Quotation Detection and Classification with a Corpus-Agnostic Model Sean Papay and Sebastian Padó
148. Semantic Role Labeling with Pretrained Language Models for Known and Unknown Predicates Artem Shelmanov, Daniil Larionov, Elena Chistova and Ivan Smirnov
150. De-Identification of Emails: Pseudonymizing Privacy-Sensitive Data in a German Email Corpus Elisabeth Eder, Ulrike Krieg-Holz and Udo Hahn
151. Two Discourse Tree - based Approaches to Indexing Answers Boris Galitsky and Dmitry Ilvovsky
152. Tweaks and Tricks for Word Embedding Disruptions Amir Hazem
155. Sparse Coding in Authorship Attribution for Polish Tweets Piotr Grzybowski, Ewa Juralewicz and Maciej Piasecki
161. EoANN: Lexical semantic Relation Classification using an Ensemble of Artificial Neural Networks Rayehe Hosseini Pour and Mehrnoush Shamsfard
162. Dependency-based Relative Positional Encoding for Transformer NMT Yutaro Omote, Akihiro Tamura and Takashi Ninomiya
163. Investigating Multilingual Abusive Language Detection: A Cautionary Tale Kenneth Steimel, Daniel Dakota, Yue Chen and Sandra Kübler
164. The Impact of Semantic Linguistic Features in Relation Extraction: A Logical Relational Learning Approach Rinaldo Lima, Bernard Espinasse and Frederico Freitas
166. Divide and Extract – Disentangling Clause Splitting and Proposition Extraction Darina Gold and Torsten Zesch
167. Cross-Family Similarity Learning for Cognate Identification in Low-Resource Languages Eliel Soisalon-Soininen and Mark Granroth-Wilding
170. Terminology Translation in Statistical and Neural Machine Translation: A Case Study on English-to-Hindi and Hindi-to-English Rejwanul Haque, Md Hasanuzzaman and Andy Way
175. Using a Lexical Semantic Network for the Ontology Building Nadia Bebeshina-Clairet
185. Speculation and Negation detection in French biomedical corpora Clément Dalloux, Vincent Claveau and Natalia Grabar
186. Developing the Old Tibetan Treebank Christian Faggionato and Marieke Meelen
189. The "jump and stay" method to discover proper verb centered constructions in corpus lattices Bálint Sass
192. Exploiting Frame-Semantics and Frame-Semantic Parsing for Automatic Extraction of Typological Information from Descriptive Grammars of Natural Languages Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Azam Sheikh Muhammad, Lars Borin, Muhammad Irfan Aslam, Saania Iqbal and Nazia Khurram
193. Benchmark Dataset for Propaganda Detection in Czech Newspaper Texts Vít Baisa, Ondřej Herman and Ales Horak
195. Building a Tunisian Dialect into Arabic Language Parallel Corpus For a Phrase-based Machine Translation Mohamed ali Sghaier and Mounir Zrigui
197. Parallel sentences retrieval from comparable corpora for biomedical text simplification Rémi Cardon and Natalia Grabar
201. Whom to Learn From? Graph- vs. Text-based Word Embeddings Małgorzata Salawa, António Branco, Ruben Branco, João António Rodrigues and Chakaveh Saedi
203. Dependency Parser for Bengali-English Code-Mixed Data enhanced with a Synthetic Treebank Urmi Ghosh and Dipti Sharma
206. Resolving Pronouns for a Resource-Poor Language, Malayalam Using Resource-Rich Language, Tamil. Sobha Lalitha Devi
207. Semantic-Based Text Complexity Measure Maksim Eremeev and Konstantin Vorontsov
209. Using Syntax to Resolve NPE in English Payal Khullar and Allen Antony
211. Towards Adapting Automatic Text Summarization for L2 Learners: Does Compression Rate Affect Summary Readability? Tatiana Vodolazova and Elena Lloret
216. Self-Attention Networks for Intent Detection Sevinj Yolchuyeva, Géza Németh and Bálint Gyires-Tóth
218. The Effect of Various Straightforward Summarization Techniques on Informativeness of Abstractive Summaries Tatiana Vodolazova and Elena Lloret
220. Word Sense Disambiguation based on Constrained Random Walks in Linked Semantic Networks Maciej Piasecki and Arkadiusz Janz
222. Self-attentional Models Application in Task-oriented Dialogue Generation Systems Mansour Saffar Mehrjardi, Amine Trabelsi and Osmar R. Zaiane
223. A Fast and Accurate Partially Deterministic Morphological Analysis Hajime Morita and Tomoya Iwakura
224. Understanding Neural Machine Translation by Simplification: The Case of Encoder-free Models Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich and Joakim Nivre
226. A type-theoretical reduction of morphological, syntactic and semantic compositionality to a single level of description Erkki Luuk
228. A Survey of the Perceived Text Adaptation Needs of Adults with Autism Victoria Yaneva, Constantin Orasan, Le An Ha and Natalia Ponomareva

Demo presentations (demo papers)


8. ULSAna: Universal Language Semantic Analyzer Ondřej Pražák and Miloslav Konopik
20. A Wide-Coverage Context-Free Grammar for Icelandic and an Accompanying Parsing System Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson, Hulda Óladóttir and Hrafn Loftsson
40. Inforex — a Collaborative Systemfor Text Corpora Annotation and Analysis Goes Open Michał Marcińczuk
50. Corpus lexicography in a wider context Chen Gafni
51. A universal system for automatic text-to-pronunciation conversion Chen Gafni
82. Demo Application for LETO: Learning Engine Through Ontologies Suilan Estevez-Velarde, Andrés Montoyo, Yudivian Almeida-Cruz, Yoan Gutiérrez, Alejandro Piad-Morffis and Rafael Muñoz
154. On a Chatbot Providing Virtual Dialogues Boris Galitsky and Dmitry Ilvovsky