Main Conference Schedule

Saturday, Dec. 5
8:45-9:00 UTC+8    Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 UTC+8    Keynote #1: Song-Chun Zhu
10:00-11:00 UTC+8    Session 1A - Machine Translation and Multilinguality I (Chair : Qun Liu)
10:00-10:20    Session 1A - Touch Editing: A Flexible One-Time Interaction Approach for Translation Qian Wang1, Jiajun Zhang2, Lemao Liu3, Guoping Huang3, Chengqing Zong1 1Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3Tencent AI Lab
10:20-10:35    Session 1A - Can Monolingual Pretrained Models Help Cross-Lingual Classification? Zewen Chi1, Li Dong2, Furu Wei2, Xianling Mao1, Heyan Huang1 1Beijing Institute of Technology, 2Microsoft Research
10:00-11:00 UTC+8    Session 1B - Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining I (Chair : Ruifeng Xu)
10:00-10:20    Session 1B - Rumor Detection on Twitter Using Multiloss Hierarchical BiLSTM with an Attenuation Factor Yudianto Sujana, Jiawen Li, Hung-Yu Kao National Cheng Kung University
10:20-10:40    Session 1B - Graph Attention Network with Memory Fusion for Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis Li Yuan1, Jin Wang1, Liang-Chih Yu2, Xuejie Zhang1 1Yunnan University, 2Yuan Ze University
10:40-10:55    Session 1B - FERNet: Fine-grained Extraction and Reasoning Network for Emotion Recognition in Dialogues Yingmei Guo1, Zhiyong Wu1, Mingxing Xu2 1Tsinghua University, 2Key Laboratory of Pervasive Computing, Ministry of Education Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList) Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
10:00-11:00 UTC+8    Session 1C - Information Retrieval and Document Analysis I (Chair : JunXu)
10:00-10:20    Session 1C - SentiRec: Sentiment Diversity-aware Neural News Recommendation Chuhan Wu1, Fangzhao Wu2, Tao Qi3, Yongfeng Huang1 1Tsinghua University, 2Microsoft Research Asia, 3Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
10:20-10:40    Session 1C - BCTH: A Novel Text Hashing Approach via Bayesian Clustering ying wenjie1, yuquan le2, Hantao Xiong2 1School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 2Changsha Lvzhidao Information Technology Co., Ltd.
10:40-10:55    Session 1C - Lightweight Text Classifier using Sinusoidal Positional Encoding Byoung-Doo Oh and Yu-Seop Kim Hallym University
11:00-12:00 UTC+8    Session 2A - Machine Learning for NLP I (Chair : Xipeng Qiu)
11:00-11:20    Session 2A - Towards Non-task-specific Distillation of BERT via Sentence Representation Approximation Bowen Wu1, Huan Zhang2, MengYuan Li2, Zongsheng Wang1, qihang feng3, Junhong Huang1, Baoxun Wang1 1Platform and Content Group, Tencent, 2Peking University, 3Platform and Content Group,Tencent
11:20-11:35    Session 2A - A Simple and Effective Usage of Word Clusters for CBOW Model Yukun Feng1, Chenlong Hu1, Hidetaka Kamigaito1, Hiroya Takamura2, Manabu Okumura1 1Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
11:35-11:50    Session 2A - Investigating Learning Dynamics of BERT Fine-Tuning Yaru Hao1, Li Dong2, Furu Wei2, Ke Xu1 1Beihang University, 2Microsoft Research
11:00-12:00 UTC+8    Session 2B - Tagging, Chunking, Syntax, and Parsing I (Chair : Yuji Matsumoto)
11:00-11:15    Session 2B - Second-Order Neural Dependency Parsing with Message Passing and End-to-End Training Xinyu Wang and Kewei Tu ShanghaiTech University
11:15-11:30    Session 2B - High-order Refining for End-to-end Chinese Semantic Role Labeling Hao Fei1, Yafeng Ren2, Donghong Ji1 1Wuhan University, 2Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
11:00-12:00 UTC+8    Session 2C - Knowledge Graph (Chair : Quan Wang)
11:00-11:20    Session 2C - Exploiting WordNet Synset and Hypernym Representations for Answer Selection Weikang Li and Yunfang Wu Peking University
11:20-11:35    Session 2C - A Simple Text-based Relevant Location Prediction Method using Knowledge Base Mei Sasaki, Shumpei Okura, Shingo Ono Yahoo Japan Corporation
12:00-14:00 UTC+8    Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 UTC+8    Session 3A - Dialogue and Interactive Systems I & Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation I (Chair : Weinan Zhang)
14:00-14:20    Session 3A - Learning Goal-oriented Dialogue Policy with Opposite Agent Awareness Zheng Zhang1, Lizi Liao2, Xiaoyan Zhu1, Tat-Seng Chua2, Zitao Liu3, Yan Huang4, Minlie Huang1 1Tsinghua University, 2National University of Singapore, 3TAL Education Group, 4TAL AI Lab
14:20-14:40    Session 3A - An Empirical Study of Tokenization Strategies for Various Korean NLP Tasks Kyubyong Park1, Joohong Lee2, Seongbo Jang3, Dawoon Jung4 1Kakao Brain, 2Scatter Lab, 3Pohang University of Science and Technology, 4ScatterLab
14:00-15:00 UTC+8    Session 3B - NLP Applications I (Matiss Rikters)
14:00-14:20    Session 3B - BERT-Based Neural Collaborative Filtering and Fixed-Length Contiguous Tokens Explanation Reinald Adrian Pugoy and Hung-Yu Kao National Cheng Kung University
14:20-14:40    Session 3B - Transformer-based Approach for Predicting Chemical Compound Structures Yutaro Omote1, Kyoumoto Matsushita2, Tomoya Iwakura3, Akihiro Tamura4, Takashi Ninomiya1 1Ehime University, 2Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd., 3Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., 4Doshisha University
14:40-14:55    Session 3B - Chinese Grammatical Correction Using BERT-based Pre-trained Model Hongfei Wang1, Michiki Kurosawa1, Satoru Katsumata2, Mamoru Komachi1 1Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2Retrieva, Inc.
15:00-16:00 UTC+8    Session 4A - Information Extraction and Text Mining I (Chair : Zhongqing Wang)
15:00-15:20    Session 4A - Neural Gibbs Sampling for Joint Event Argument Extraction Xiaozhi Wang1, Shengyu Jia1, Xu Han1, Zhiyuan Liu1, Juanzi Li1, Peng Li2, Jie Zhou3 1Tsinghua University, 2WeChat AI, Tencent Inc., China, 3Tencent Inc.
15:20-15:40    Session 4A - Named Entity Recognition in Multi-level Contexts Yubo Chen1, Chuhan Wu2, Tao Qi3, Zhigang Yuan4, Yongfeng Huang2 1Next Generation Network Lab, Department of E.E., Tsinghua University, 2Tsinghua University, 3Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 4Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
15:00-16:00 UTC+8    Session 4B - Machine Translation and Multilinguality II (Chair : Shujian Huang)
15:00-15:20    Session 4B - A General Framework for Adaptation of Neural Machine Translation to Simultaneous Translation Yun Chen1, Liangyou Li2, Xin Jiang3, Xiao Chen3, Qun Liu3 1Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies, 3Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
15:20-15:40    Session 4B - UnihanLM: Coarse-to-Fine Chinese-Japanese Language Model Pretraining with the Unihan Database Canwen Xu1, Tao Ge2, Chenliang Li3, Furu Wei4 1UC San Diego, 2Microsoft, 3Wuhan University, 4Microsoft Research
15:40-16:00    Session 4B - Towards a Better Understanding of Label Smoothing in Neural Machine Translation Yingbo Gao1, Weiyue Wang1, Christian Herold1, Zijian Yang2, Hermann Ney1 1RWTH Aachen University, 2RWTH
16:00-17:00 UTC+8    Session 5A - Semantics I & Resources and Evaluation I (Chair : Marina Fomicheva)
16:00-16:20    Session 5A - Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation Giulia Rambelli1, Emmanuele Chersoni2, Alessandro Lenci1, Philippe Blache3, Chu-Ren Huang4 1University of Pisa, 2Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 3LPL CNRS, 4The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universiy
16:20-16:40    Session 5A - AMR Quality Rating with a Lightweight CNN Juri Opitz Heidelberg University
16:00-17:00 UTC+8    Session 5B - Summarization and Generation I (Chair : Tim Baldwin)
16:00-16:20    Session 5B - Generating Commonsense Explanation by Extracting Bridge Concepts from Reasoning Paths Haozhe Ji1, Pei Ke1, Shaohan Huang2, Furu Wei3, Minlie Huang1 1Tsinghua University, 2Microsoft Research Asia, 3Microsoft Research
16:20-16:40    Session 5B - Unsupervised KB-to-Text Generation with Auxiliary Triple Extraction using Dual Learning Zihao Fu1, Bei Shi2, Lidong Bing3, Wai Lam1 1The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2Tencent AI Lab, 3Alibaba DAMO Academy
17:00-18:00 UTC+8    Session 6A - Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding I (Chair : Rui Xia)
17:00-17:20    Session 6A - Modality-Transferable Emotion Embeddings for Low-Resource Multimodal Emotion Recognition Wenliang Dai1, Zihan Liu1, Tiezheng Yu2, Pascale Fung1 1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
17:20-17:40    Session 6A - All-in-One: A Deep Attentive Multi-task Learning Framework for Humour, Sarcasm, Offensive, Motivation, and Sentiment on Memes Dushyant Singh Chauhan1, Dhanush S R1, Asif Ekbal2, Pushpak Bhattacharyya3 1Indian Institute of Technology Patna, 2IIT Patna, 3Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Patna
17:00-18:00 UTC+8    Session 6B - Summarization and Generation II (Chair : Pushpak Bhattacharyya)
17:00-17:20    Session 6B - Identifying Implicit Quotes for Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Conversations Ryuji Kano, Yasuhide Miura, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tomoko Ohkuma Fuji Xerox
17:20-17:40    Session 6B - Unsupervised Aspect-Level Sentiment Controllable Style Transfer Mukuntha Narayanan Sundararaman, Zishan Ahmad, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya Indian Institute of Technology Patna
18:00-20:00 UTC+8    Dinner Break
20:00-21:00 UTC+8    Plenary session: NLP Review 2020 Tim Baldwin, Kyunghyun Cho, Chris Dyer, Qun Liu, Jian Su (session moderated by Kevin Knight and Hua Wu)
21:00-22:00 UTC+8    Session 7A - Dialogue and Interactive Systems II (Chair : Minlie Huang)
21:00-21:20    Session 7A - Energy-based Self-attentive Learning of Abstractive Communities for Spoken Language Understanding Guokan Shang1, Antoine Tixier2, Michalis Vazirgiannis3, Jean-Pierre Lorré4 1École Polytechnique, 2Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 3Ecole Polytechnique, 4Linagora
21:20-21:35    Session 7A - Intent Detection with WikiHow Li Zhang, Qing Lyu, Chris Callison-Burch University of Pennsylvania
22:00-23:00 UTC+8    Session 8A - NLP Applications II (Chair : Li Zhang)
22:00-22:20    Session 8A - A Systematic Characterization of Sampling Algorithms for Open-ended Language Generation Moin Nadeem1, Tianxing He2, Kyunghyun Cho3, James Glass4 1MIT CSAIL, 2MIT, 3New York University, 4Massachusetts Institute of Technology
22:20-22:40    Session 8A - Chinese Content Scoring: Open-Access Datasets and Features on Different Segmentation Levels Yuning Ding1, Andrea Horbach2, Torsten Zesch3 1University Duisburg Essen, 2University of Duisburg-Essen, 3Language Technology Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen
22:40-22:55    Session 8A - Analysis of Hierarchical Multi-Content Text Classification Model on B-SHARP Dataset for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Renxuan "Albert" Li1, Ihab Hajjar2, Felicia Goldstein3, Jinho D. Choi1 1Emory University, 2Emory, 3Emory University School of Medicine
22:00-23:00 UTC+8    Session 8B - Machine Translation and Multilinguality III (Chair : John Ortega)
22:00-22:20    Session 8B - An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation Shuo Sun1, Marina Fomicheva2, Frédéric Blain3, Vishrav Chaudhary4, Ahmed El-Kishky5, Adithya Renduchintala1, Francisco Guzmán4, Lucia Specia6 1Johns Hopkins University, 2University of Sheffield, 3University of Wolverhampton, 4Facebook, 5Facebook AI, 6Imperial College London
22:20-22:40    Session 8B - English-to-Chinese Transliteration with Phonetic Auxiliary Task Yuan He1 and Shay B. Cohen2 1University of Oxford, 2University of Edinburgh
22:40-22:55    Session 8B - Predicting and Using Target Length in Neural Machine Translation Zijian Yang1, Yingbo Gao2, Weiyue Wang2, Hermann Ney2 1RWTH, 2RWTH Aachen University
22:00-23:00 UTC+8    Session 8C - Tagging, Chunking, Syntax, and Parsing II & Social Media I (Chair : Clara Vania)
22:00-22:20    Session 8C - Grounded PCFG Induction with Images Lifeng Jin and William Schuler The Ohio State University
22:20-22:40    Session 8C - Heads-up! Unsupervised Constituency Parsing via Self-Attention Heads Bowen Li1, Taeuk Kim2, Reinald Kim Amplayo1, Frank Keller1 1University of Edinburgh, 2Seoul National University
22:40-23:00    Session 8C - Building Location Embeddings from Physical Trajectories and Textual Representations Laura Biester1, Carmen Banea2, Rada Mihalcea1 1University of Michigan, 2Initium AI Inc.
23:00-24:00 UTC+8    Session 9A - Machine Learning for NLP II (Chair : Katharina Kann)
23:00-23:20    Session 9A - Self-Supervised Learning for Pairwise Data Refinement Gustavo Hernandez Abrego1, Bowen Liang1, Wei Wang1, Zarana Parekh2, Yinfei Yang1, Yunhsuan Sung1 1Google, 2Google Research
23:20-23:40    Session 9A - A Survey of the State of Explainable AI for Natural Language Processing Marina Danilevsky1, Kun Qian2, Ranit Aharonov1, Yannis Katsis2, Ban Kawas1, Prithviraj Sen1 1IBM Research, 2IBM Research - Almaden
23:40-23:55    Session 9A - Beyond Fine-tuning: Few-Sample Sentence Embedding Transfer Siddhant Garg1, Rohit Kumar Sharma2, Yingyu Liang2 1University of Wisconsin Madison, 2University of Wisconsin-Madison
23:00-24:00 UTC+8    Session 9B - Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal Grounding II (Chair : Juan Pino)
23:00-23:20    Session 9B - Multimodal Pretraining for Dense Video Captioning Gabriel Huang1, Bo Pang2, Zhenhai Zhu3, Clara Rivera2, Radu Soricut4 1University of Montreal, 2Google, 3Google Research, 4Google LLC
23:20-23:40    Session 9B - Systematic Generalization on gSCAN with Language Conditioned Embedding Tong Gao1, Qi Huang2, Raymond Mooney1 1University of Texas at Austin, 2The University of Texas at Austin
23:40-24:00    Session 9B - Are scene graphs good enough to improve Image Captioning? Victor Siemen Janusz Milewski1, Marie-Francine Moens1, Iacer Calixto2 1KU Leuven, 2New York University
23:00-24:00 UTC+8    Session 9C - Summarization and Generation III (Chair : Jinge Yao)
23:00-23:20    Session 9C - Systematically Exploring Redundancy Reduction in Summarizing Long Documents Wen Xiao and Giuseppe Carenini University of British Columbia
23:20-23:35    Session 9C - A Cascade Approach to Neural Abstractive Summarization with Content Selection and Fusion Logan Lebanoff1, Franck Dernoncourt2, Doo Soon Kim2, Walter Chang2, Fei Liu1 1University of Central Florida, 2Adobe Research
23:35-23:50    Session 9C - Mixed-Lingual Pre-training for Cross-lingual Summarization Ruochen Xu1, Chenguang Zhu2, Yu Shi1, Michael Zeng3, Xuedong Huang4 1Microsoft, 2Microsoft Cognitive Services Research Group, 3Microsoft Corp, 4Microsoft Cloud and AI
23:00-24:00 UTC+8    Session 9D - Demo 1 (4 papers: 3 N.America, 1 Europe)(Chair : Daniel Preotiuc Pietro)
Sunday, Dec. 6
8:00-9:00 UTC+8    Session 10A - Question Answering I (Chair : Ahmed El Kishky)
8:00-8:20    Session 10A - Point-of-Interest Oriented Question Answering with Joint Inference of Semantic Matching and Distance Correlation Yifei Yuan1, Jingbo Zhou2, Wai Lam1 1The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2Baidu Research
8:20-8:35    Session 10A - Leveraging Structured Metadata for Improving Question Answering on the Web Xinya Du1, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah2, Adam Fourney2, Robert Sim2, Paul Bennett2, Claire Cardie1 1Cornell University, 2Microsoft Research
8:00-9:00 UTC+8    Session 10B - Machine Translation and Multilinguality IV (Chair : Zhongjun He)
8:00-8:20    Session 10B - English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Too Jason Phang1, Iacer Calixto1, Phu Mon Htut1, Yada Pruksachatkun2, Haokun Liu1, Clara Vania1, Katharina Kann3, Samuel R. Bowman1 1New York University, 2NYU, 3University of Colorado Boulder
8:20-8:35    Session 10B - STIL - Simultaneous Slot Filling, Translation, Intent Classification, and Language Identification: Initial Results using mBART on MultiATIS++ Jack FitzGerald Amazon.com
8:35-8:50    Session 10B - SimulMT to SimulST: Adapting Simultaneous Text Translation to End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation Xutai Ma1, Juan Pino2, Philipp Koehn1 1Johns Hopkins University, 2Facebook
8:00-9:00 UTC+8    Session 10C - Summarization and Generation IV (Chair : Bo Pang)
8:00-8:20    Session 10C - Cue Me In: Content-Inducing Approaches to Interactive Story Generation Faeze Brahman1, Alexandru Petrusca1, Snigdha Chaturvedi2 1UC Santa Cruz, 2University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
8:20-8:40    Session 10C - Liputan6: A Large-scale Indonesian Dataset for Text Summarization Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin The University of Melbourne
8:40-8:55    Session 10C - Generating Sports News from Live Commentary: A Chinese Dataset for Sports Game Summarization Kuan-Hao Huang1, Chen Li2, Kai-Wei Chang3 1University of California, Los Angeles, 2Tencent, 3UCLA
8:00-9:00 UTC+8    Session 10D - Demo II (3 N.America, 1 Asia) (Chair : Shuyi Wang)
9:00-10:00 UTC+8    Session 11A - Information Retrieval and Document Analysis II (Chair : Fei Liu)
9:00-9:20    Session 11A - Massively Multilingual Document Alignment with Cross-lingual Sentence-Mover’s Distance Ahmed El-Kishky1 and Francisco Guzmán2 1Facebook AI, 2Facebook
9:20-9:40    Session 11A - Improving Context Modeling in Neural Topic Segmentation Linzi Xing1, Brad Hackinen2, Giuseppe Carenini1, Francesco Trebbi3 1University of British Columbia, 2Ivey Business School, 3University of California Berkeley
9:40-9:55    Session 11A - Contextualized End-to-End Neural Entity Linking Haotian Chen1, Xi Li1, Andrej Zukov Gregoric1, Sahil Wadhwa2 1BlackRock, 2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:00-10:00 UTC+8    Session 11B - Discourse and Pragmatics I (Chair : Sujian Li)
9:00-9:20    Session 11B - DAPPER: Learning Domain-Adapted Persona Representation Using Pretrained BERT and External Memory Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Eric Chu, Deb Roy MIT
9:20-9:40    Session 11B - Event Coreference Resolution with Non-Local Information Jing Lu and Vincent Ng University of Texas at Dallas
9:40-9:55    Session 11B - Neural RST-based Evaluation of Discourse Coherence Grigorii Guz, Peyman Bateni, Darius Muglich, Giuseppe Carenini University of British Columbia
9:00-10:00 UTC+8    Session 11C - Resources and Evaluation II (Chair : Fei Xia)
9:00-9:20    Session 11C - Asking Crowdworkers to Write Entailment Examples: The Best of Bad Options Clara Vania, Ruijie Chen, Samuel R. Bowman New York University
10:00-11:00 UTC+8    Session 12A - Question Answering II (Chair : Liu Jing)
10:00-10:20    Session 12A - MaP: A Matrix-based Prediction Approach to Improve Span Extraction in Machine Reading Comprehension Huaishao Luo1, Yu Shi2, Ming Gong3, Linjun Shou4, Tianrui Li1 1Southwest Jiaotong University, 2Microsoft, 3STCA NLP Group, Microsoft (China), 4STCA NLP Group, Microsoft
10:20-10:40    Session 12A - Answering Product-related Questions with Heterogeneous Information Wenxuan Zhang, Qian Yu, Wai Lam The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:00-12:00 UTC+8    Keynote #2: Percy Liang
12:00-14:00 UTC+8    Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 UTC+8    Session 13A - Semantics II (Chair : Yo Ehara)
14:00-14:20    Session 13A - Two-Step Classification using Recasted Data for Low Resource Settings Shagun Uppal1, Vivek Gupta2, Avinash Swaminathan3, Haimin Zhang4, Debanjan Mahata4, Rakesh Gosangi5, Rajiv Ratn Shah6, Amanda Stent4 1MIDAS IIITD, 2School of Computing, University of Utah, 3NSIT Delhi, 4Bloomberg, 5Bloomberg LP, 6IIIT Delhi
14:20-14:35    Session 13A - Explaining Word Embeddings via Disentangled Representation Keng-Te Liao, Cheng-Syuan Lee, Zhong-Yu Huang, Shou-de Lin National Taiwan University
14:00-15:00 UTC+8    Session 13B - Knowledge Graph II (Chair : Yuanfang Li)
14:00-14:20    Session 13B - Multi-view Classification Model for Knowledge Graph Completion Wenbin Jiang1, Mengfei Guo2, Yufeng Chen2, Ying Li1, Jinan Xu2, Yajuan Lyu1, Yong Zhu1 1Baidu Inc., 2BJTU
14:20-14:40    Session 13B - Knowledge-Enhanced Named Entity Disambiguation for Short Text Zhifan Feng1, Qi Wang2, Wenbin Jiang2, Yajuan Lyu2, Yong Zhu2 1Baidu Inc, 2Baidu Inc.
15:00-16:00 UTC+8    Session 14A - Information Extraction and Text Mining II (Chair : Bryan Wilie)
15:00-15:20    Session 14A - More Data, More Relations, More Context and More Openness: A Review and Outlook for Relation Extraction Xu Han1, Tianyu Gao1, Yankai Lin2, Hao Peng1, Yaoliang Yang1, Chaojun Xiao1, Zhiyuan Liu1, Peng Li3, Jie Zhou4, Maosong Sun1 1Tsinghua University, 2Pattern Recognition Center, WeChat, Tencent, 3WeChat AI, Tencent Inc., China, 4Tencent Inc.
15:20-15:40    Session 14A - Robustness and Reliability of Gender Bias Assessment in Word Embeddings: The Role of Base Pairs Haiyang Zhang1, Alison Sneyd1, Mark Stevenson2 1The university of Sheffield, 2University of Sheffield
15:00-16:00 UTC+8    Session 14B - NLP Applications III (Chair : Juri Opitz)
15:00-15:20    Session 14B - ExpanRL: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Course Concept Expansion in MOOCs Jifan Yu1, Chenyu Wang2, Gan Luo1, Lei Hou1, Juanzi Li1, Jie Tang1, Minlie Huang1, Zhiyuan Liu1 1Tsinghua University, 2Beihang University
15:20-15:35    Session 14B - Vocabulary Matters: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Paragraph-level Question Generation vishwajeet kumar1, Manish Joshi2, Ganesh Ramakrishnan3, Yuan-Fang Li4 1IBM Research Lab, 2Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, 3Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 4Monash University
15:00-16:00 UTC+8    Session 14C - Social Media and Computational Social Science II (Chair : Carolina Scarton)
15:00-15:20    Session 14C - From Hero to Zéroe: A Benchmark of Low-Level Adversarial Attacks Steffen Eger1 and Yannik Benz2 1NLLG Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2TU Darmstadt
15:20-15:35    Session 14C - Point-of-Interest Type Inference from Social Media Text Danae Sánchez Villegas1, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro2, Nikolaos Aletras1 1University of Sheffield, 2Bloomberg LP
16:00-17:00 UTC+8    Session 15A - Information Extraction and Text Mining III (Chair : Xianpei Han)
16:00-16:20    Session 15A - Reconstructing Event Regions for Event Extraction via Graph Attention Networks Pei Chen1, Hang Yang2, Kang Liu2, Ruihong Huang1, Yubo Chen2, Taifeng Wang3, Jun Zhao4 1Texas A&M University, 2Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3Ant Finance, 4Chinese Academy of Sciences
16:20-16:35    Session 15A - Recipe Instruction Semantics Corpus (RISeC): Resolving Semantic Structure and Zero Anaphora in Recipes Yiwei Jiang1, Klim Zaporojets1, Johannes Deleu1, Thomas Demeester2, Chris Develder1 1Ghent University, 2Ghent University - imec
16:00-17:00 UTC+8    Session 15B - NLP Applications IV (Chair : Rejwanul Haque)
16:00-16:15    Session 15B - Stronger Baselines for Grammatical Error Correction Using a Pretrained Encoder-Decoder Model Satoru Katsumata1 and Mamoru Komachi2 1Retrieva, Inc., 2Tokyo Metropolitan University
17:00-18:00 UTC+8    Session 16A - Resources and Evaluation III (Chair : Yunfang Wu)
17:00-17:20    Session 16A - Sina Mandarin Alphabetical Words:A Web-driven Code-mixing Lexical Resource Rong Xiang1, Mingyu WAN1, Qi Su2, Chu-Ren Huang3, Qin Lu4 1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2Peking University, 3The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universiy, 4Hong Kong Polytechnic University
17:20-17:40    Session 16A - IndoNLU: Benchmark and Resources for Evaluating Indonesian Natural Language Understanding Bryan Wilie1, Karissa Vincentio2, Genta Indra Winata3, Samuel Cahyawijaya4, Xiaohong Li5, Zhi Yuan Lim5, Sidik Soleman6, Rahmad Mahendra7, Pascale Fung8, Syafri Bahar5, Ayu Purwarianti9 1Artificial Intelligence Center - ITB, 2Universitas Multimedia Nusantara (Comp.Eng.), 3The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 4HKUST, 5Gojek, 6PT Prosa Solusi Cerdas, 7Universitas Indonesia, 8Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 9Bandung Institute of Technology
17:40-18:00    Session 16A - Happy Are Those Who Grade without Seeing: A Multi-Task Learning Approach to Grade Essays Using Gaze Behaviour Sandeep Mathias1, Rudra Murthy2, Diptesh Kanojia3, Abhijit Mishra4, Pushpak Bhattacharyya5 1IIT Bombay, 2IBM India Research Limited, 3IITB-Monash Research Academy, 4IBM Research, 5Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Patna
17:00-18:00 UTC+8    Session 16B - Machine Learning for NLP III (Chair : Li Dong)
17:00-17:20    Session 16B - Multi-Source Attention for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Xia Cui1 and Danushka Bollegala2 1University of Liverpool, 2University of Liverpool/Amazon
17:20-17:35    Session 16B - Compressing Pre-trained Language Models by Matrix Decomposition Matan Ben Noach1 and Yoav Goldberg2 1Intel Labs, 2Bar Ilan University
18:00-19:00 UTC+8    Session 17A - NLP Applications V & Question Answering III (Chair : Kang Liu)
18:00-18:20    Session 17A - You May Like This Hotel Because ...: Identifying Evidence for Explainable Recommendations Shin Kanouchi1, Masato Neishi2, Yuta Hayashibe3, Hiroki Ouchi4, Naoaki Okazaki5 1Megagon Labs, 2Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, 3Megagon Labs, Tokyo, Japan, Recruit Co., Ltd., 4Riken AIP, 5Tokyo Institute of Technology
18:20-18:40    Session 17A - A Unified Framework for Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering Deepak Gupta1, Pabitra Lenka2, Asif Ekbal1, Pushpak Bhattacharyya3 1IIT Patna, 2International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar, 3Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Patna
18:00-19:00 UTC+8    Session 17B - Social Media and Computational Social Science III (Chair : Xin Zhao)
18:00-18:20    Session 17B - Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis João Augusto Leite1, Diego Silva2, Kalina Bontcheva3, Carolina Scarton3 1Federal University of São Carlos, 2Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 3University of Sheffield
18:20-18:35    Session 17B - Measuring What Counts: The case of Rumour Stance Classification Carolina Scarton1, Diego Silva2, Kalina Bontcheva1 1University of Sheffield, 2Universidade Federal de São Carlos
19:00-20:00 UTC+8    Closing (Best Paper, Future conf.)