Accepted papers

Below is the list of the abstracts accepted to the 2017 WiNLP workshop with links to the full text. Congratulations to all authors!

Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics

• Detecting clinical conditions with Distributional Semantic Models. Felipe Paula, Rodrigo Wilkens, Marco Idiart and Aline Villavicencio

Dialog and interactive systems

• Neural Interactive Translation Prediction. Rebecca Knowles and Philipp Koehn
• Measuring Personality Adaptation in Task-Oriented Dialogs. Zhichao Hu and Marilyn Walker
• Collecting Artwork Descriptions Through Dialogue.  Lena Reed

Discourse and pragmatics

• Towards Efficient Human-Robot Dialogue Collection: Moving Fido into the Virtual World. Cassidy Henry, Pooja Moolchandani, Kimberly A. Pollard, Claire Bonial, Ashley Foots, Cory Hayes, Ron Artstein, Clare R. Voss, David Traum and Matthew Marge
• What does an effective treatment recommendation look like: A corpus-based study on doctor-patient conversations. Nan Wang

Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval

• Understanding Text Pre-Processing for Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Alexandra Schofield, Måns Magnusson, Laure Thompson and David Mimno
• A Hybrid Approach to Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning: Using Probabilistic Topic Models, Collaborative Tagging and Domain Ontologies. Lydia Odilinye and Fred Popowich
• Syntax Matters for Rhetorical Structure: The Case of Chiasmus. Marie Dubremetz and Joakim Nivre
• Identifying frames at the sentence level in news articles. Nona Naderi
• How Biased Are We? Automated Detection of Gendered Language. Ananya Ananya and Sameer Singh
• Persuading People to Give: Modeling Persuasive Strategies via Semi Supervised Neural Nets. Diyi Yang
• Automatic Query Expansion for Patent Passage Retrieval using Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Information. Linda Andersson

Generation

• Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation for Text Simplification. Wei Xu, Courtney Napoles, Ellie Pavlick, Quanze Chen and Chris Callison-Burch
• Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Paving the Road to Success. Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek and Verena Rieser

Information extraction and general NLP applications

• Are you asking the right questions? Teaching Machines to Ask Clarification Questions. Sudha Rao and Hal Daumé III
• Contextual and Structural Language Understanding in Dialogues. Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Jianfeng Gao, Asli Celikyilmaz and Li Deng
• Name Variation in Community Question Answering Systems. Anietie Andy
• Virtual Patient. Yara Rizk, Khodor Kshoury, Mohamad Chehab, Petra Chidiac, Mariette Awad and Joumana Antoun
• A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Happiness. Akari Asari, Vivian Li, Daniela Stepanov and Wang-Chiew Tan
• Multi-task Domain Adaptation for Sequence Tagging. Nanyun Peng and Mark Dredze
• CANDiS: Coupled & Attention-Driven Neural Distant Supervision. Tushar Nagarajan, Sharmistha Jat and Partha Talukdar
• The role of domain in learning about referents. Cassandra L. Jacobs
• Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future. Geetanjali Rakshit

Machine learning

• Classify and Examine: Using Semi-supervised Learning with Ensemble Learning to Score Short-Answer Questions in Korean. Min-Ah Cheon, Jae-Hoon Kim, Eunhee Noh, Mi-Young Song, Jong-Im Park, Yuhyang Kim and Do-Gil Lee
• Semantic and Visual Cues for Humanitarian Computing of Natural Disaster Damage Images. Hadi Jomaa, Yara Rizk and Mariette Awad
• Partial productivity of The Indefinite Noun Quantification Construction: implications for computational modeling in FrameNet Brasil. Tatiane Tavares and Tiago Timponi Torrent
• Enterprise to Computer: Star Trek chatbot. Grishma Jena, Mansi Vashisht, Abheek Basu and Joao Sedoc
• Psychological Stress Detection from Text Using Word Embeddings. Genta Indra Winata, Onno Kampman, Yang Yang and Pascale Fung
• Safe Evaluation of Dialogue Management. Layla El Asri and Adam Trischler

Machine translation

• Adaptive Platform for Collaborative Translation. Kanika Kalra, Manasi Patwardhan, Rahul Kumar, Anand Sriraman and Purushotam Radadia
• Unsupervised Word Discovery using Attentional Encoder-Decoder Models. Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier and Aline Villavicencio
• Copying Monolingual Data Improves Neural Machine Translation. Anna Currey
• Comparison between Neural and Statistical translation after transliteration of Algerian Arabic Dialect. Imane Guellil, Faical Azouaou and Mourad Abbas

Multilinguality

• Generalized and Unsupervised Word-Level Language Detection. Shruti Rijhwani, Royal Sequiera, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali and Chandra Sekhar Maddila

Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation

• Parameter Sharing for Morphological Generation Using Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models. Katharina Kann and Hinrich Schütze
• From Characters to Words to in Between: Do We Capture Morphology?. Clara Vania and Adam Lopez
• Morph-Inflected Word Detection in Igbo via Bitext. Enemouh Chioma, Mark Hepple, Ignatius Ezeani and Ikechukwu Onyenwe
• My Husband, the Dragonfly: The (Non-)Compositionality of Mansi Animal Names. Veronika Vincze and Csilla Horváth
• WixNLP: Probabilistic Finite-State morphological analyzer for Wixarika language. Jesús Manuel Mager Hois, Diónico Carrillo González and Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruíz
• PubTermVariants: A Data-driven Approach to Finding Biomedical Term Variants. Lana Yeganova, Won Kim, Sun Kim, Rezarta Islamaj Doğan, Wanli Liu, Donald Comeau, Zhiyong Lu and W John Wilbur
• Exploring bilingual lexicon extraction for Spanish-Nahuatl. Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques

Resources and evaluation

• Visual Verb Sense Disambiguation. Spandana Gella
• Creation of an Annotated Corpus of Spanish Radiology Reports. Viviana Cotik, Dario Filippo, Roland Roller, Feiyu Xu and Hans Uszkoreit

Semantics

• Using Distributional Semantics to Identify Idiomatic Language. Aline Villavicencio, Silvio Cordeiro and Carlos Ramisch
• Learning from Heterogeneous Data with PNN for Chinese SRL. Qiaolin Xia, Lei Sha, Baobao Chang and Zhifang Sui
• Regular Graph Grammars for NLP. Sorcha Gilroy, Adam Lopez and Sebastian Maneth
• Grammatical gender associations outweigh topical gender bias in crosslinguistic word embeddings. Katherine McCurdy and Oğuz Serbetçi
• Linguistic Theories and Resources for Natural Language Processing. Miriam R L Petruck and Ellen K Dodge

Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

• Sarcasm SIGN: Interpreting Sarcasm with Sentiment Based Monolingual Machine Translation. Lotem Peled and Roi Reichart
• Convolutional Neural Networks for Churn Prediction in Microblogs. Mourad Gridach and Halla Mulki
• Neural Sentiment Classification with User and Product Attention. Huimin Chen, Maosong Sun, Cunchao Tu, Yankai Lin and Zhiyuan Liu
• Combination of RNN and CRF for Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from User Reviews. Elena Tutubalina
• Who’s to say what’s funny? A computer using Language Models and Deep Learning, That’s Who! Xinru Yan and Ted Pedersen
• Argumentation Mining In Twitter: A Study Of Controversial Topics. Aseel Addawood
• Affective Relationship Between Color and Text in Arabic Comic books. Hadi Jomaa, Mohamad Kamereddine, Ammar Nayal, Yara Rizk and Mariette Awad
• Learning Sentiment-Aware Word Representation in Compositional Matrix-Space Models. Shima Asaadi

Social media

• Offensive Comments in the Brazilian Web: a dataset and baseline results. Viviane Moreira, Aline Villavicencio and Rogers Prates de Pelle
• Empirical Evaluation of Named Entities on Arabic Sentiment Analysis of Levantine Dialect on Social Media. Hala Mulki, Mourad Gridach and Ismail Babaoglu
• Chasing Rhetorical Cues to Sarcasm in Online Debate. Shereen Oraby and Marilyn Walker
• Time Expression Resolution for Social Media Data. Jeniya Tabassum, Alan Ritter and Wei Xu
• Discovering Domain Specific Dialog Acts. Sabina Tomkins, Anbang Xu, Zhe Liu and Yufan Guo
• When does a compliment become sexist? Analysis and classification of ambivalent sexism using Twitter data. Akshita Jha and Radhika Mamidi
• Comment Relevance Classification in Facebook. Chaya Liebeskind, Shmuel Liebeskind and Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner
• Argument Summarization in Social Media Dialogue. Amita Misra
• Functional Segment Identification and Emotion Tagging for Vietnamese Conversational Texts. Ngo Thi Lan, Bui Van Hoang, Pham Khac Linh, Pham Son Bao and Phan Xuan Hieu
• Sequential Approach to Rumour Stance Classification. Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata and Isabelle Augenstein
• #MAGA or #TheResistance: Classifying Twitter users’ political affiliation without looking at their words or friends. Rachael Tatman
• Predicting Depression from User-generated Content in Social Media. Hayda Almeida, Antoine Briand and Marie-Jean Meurs
• Modeling of Political Discourse on Twitter. Kristen Johnson
• Bilingual Lexicon for Algerian Arabic Dialect Treatment in Social Media. Imane Guellil and Faical Azouaou

Summarization

• Neural Headline Generation with Sentence-wise Optimization. Yana A, Shiqi Shen, Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun

Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing

• Joint Inference on Bilingual Parse Trees for PP-attachment Disambiguation. Geetanjali Rakshit

Vision, robots, and other grounding

• Planning in Language Grounded in Perception. Candace Ross, Andrei Barbu and Boris Katz