Google at ACL 2019

This week, Florence, Italy hosts the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019), the premier conference in the field of natural language understanding, covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.

As a leader in natural language processing and understanding, and a Diamond Level sponsor of ACL 2019, Google will be on hand to showcase the latest research on syntax, semantics, discourse, conversation, multilingual modeling, sentiment analysis, question answering, summarization, and generally building better systems using labeled and unlabeled data.

If you’re attending ACL 2019, we hope that you’ll stop by the Google booth to meet our researchers and discuss projects and opportunities at Google that go into solving interesting problems for billions of people. Our researchers will also be on hand to demo the Natural Questions corpus, the Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder and more. You can also learn more about the Google research being presented at ACL 2019 below (Google affiliations in blue).

Organizing Committee includes:
Enrique Alfonseca

Accepted Publications
A Joint Named-Entity Recognizer for Heterogeneous Tag-sets Using a Tag Hierarchy
Genady Beryozkin, Yoel Drori, Oren Gilon, Tzvika Hartman, Idan Szpektor

Do Neural Dialog Systems Use the Conversation History Effectively? An Empirical Study
Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sandeep Subramanian, Chris Pal, Sarath Chandar, Yoshua Bengio

Generating Logical Forms from Graph Representations of Text and Entities
Peter Shaw, Philip Massey, Angelica Chen, Francesco Piccinno, Yasemin Altun

Extracting Symptoms and their Status from Clinical Conversations
Nan Du, Kai Chen, Anjuli Kannan, Linh Trans, Yuhui Chen, Izhak Shafran

Stay on the Path: Instruction Fidelity in Vision-and-Language Navigation
Vihan Jain, Gabriel Magalhaes, Alexander Ku, Ashish Vaswani, Eugene Le, Jason Baldridge

Meaning to Form: Measuring Systematicity as Information
Tiago Pimentel, Arya D. McCarthy, Damian Blasi, Brian Roark, Ryan Cotterell

Matching the Blanks: Distributional Similarityfor Relation Learning
Livio Baldini Soares, Nicholas FitzGerald, Jeffrey Ling, Tom Kwiatkowski

Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context
Zihang Dai, Zhilin Yang, Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell, Quoc Le, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

HighRES: Highlight-based Reference-less Evaluation of Summarization
Hardy Hardy, Shashi Narayan, Andreas Vlachos

Zero-Shot Entity Linking by Reading Entity Descriptions
Lajanugen Logeswaran, Ming-Wei Chang, Kristina Toutanova, Kenton Lee, Jacob Devlin, Honglak Lee

Robust Neural Machine Translation with Doubly Adversarial Inputs
Yong Cheng, Lu Jiang, Wolfgang Macherey

Natural Questions: a Benchmark for Question Answering Research
Tom Kwiatkowski, Jennimaria Palomaki, Olivia Redfield, Michael Collins, Ankur Parikh, Chris Alberti, Danielle Epstein, Illia Polosukhin, Matthew Kelcey, Jacob Devlin, Kenton Lee, Kristina N. Toutanova, Llion Jones, Ming-Wei Chang, Andrew Dai, Jakob Uszkoreit, Quoc Le, Slav Petrov

Like a Baby: Visually Situated Neural Language Acquisition
Alexander Ororbia, Ankur Mali, Matthew Kelly, David Reitter

What Kind of Language Is Hard to Language-Model?
Sebastian J. Mielke, Ryan Cotterell, Kyle Gorman, Brian Roark, Jason Eisner

How Multilingual is Multilingual BERT?
Telmo Pires, Eva Schlinger, Dan Garrette

Handling Divergent Reference Texts when Evaluating Table-to-Text Generation
Bhuwan Dhingra, Manaal Faruqui, Ankur Parikh, Ming-Wei Chang, Dipanjan Das, William Cohen

BAM! Born-Again Multi-Task Networks for Natural Language Understanding
Kevin Clark, Minh-Thang Luong, Urvashi Khandelal, Christopher D. Manning, Quoc V. Le

Dynamically Composing Domain-Data Selection with Clean-Data Selection by “Co-Curricular Learning" for Neural Machine Translation
Wei Wang, Isaac Caswell, Ciprian Chelba

Monotonic Infinite Lookback Attention for Simultaneous Machine Translation
Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Wolfgang Macherey, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Semih Yavuz, Ruoming Pang, Wei Li, Colin Raffel

On the Robustness of Self-Attentive Models
Yu-Lun Hsieh, Minhao Cheng, Da-Cheng Juan, Wei Wei, Wen-Lian Hsu, Cho-Jui Hsieh

Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B
Jiaming Luo, Yuan Cao, Regina Barzilay

How Large Are Lions? Inducing Distributions over Quantitative Attributes
Yanai Elazar, Abhijit Mahabal, Deepak Ramachandran, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Dan Roth

BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline
Ian Tenney, Dipanjan Das, Ellie Pavlick

Can You Tell Me How to Get Past Sesame Street? Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling
Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas Mccoy, Roma Patel, Najoung Kim, Ian Tenney, Yinghui Huang, Katherin Yu, Shuning Jin, Berlin Chen, Benjamin Van Durme, Edouard Grave, Ellie Pavlick, Samuel R. Bowman

Robust Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Slot Filling with Example Values
Darsh Shah, Raghav Gupta, Amir Fayazi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Latent Retrieval for Weakly Supervised Open Domain Question Answering
Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang, Kristina Toutanova

On-device Structured and Context Partitioned Projection Networks
Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva

Incorporating Priors with Feature Attribution on Text Classification
Frederick Liu, Besim Avci

Informative Image Captioning with External Sources of Information
Sanqiang Zhao, Piyush Sharma, Tomer Levinboim, Radu Soricut

Reducing Word Omission Errors in Neural Machine Translation: A Contrastive Learning Approach
Zonghan Yang, Yong Cheng, Yang Liu, Maosong Sun

Synthetic QA Corpora Generation with Roundtrip Consistency
Chris Alberti, Daniel Andor, Emily Pitler, Jacob Devlin, Michael Collins

Unsupervised Paraphrasing without Translation
Aurko Roy, David Grangier

Workshops
Widening NLP 2019
Organizers include: Diyi Yang

NLP for Conversational AI
Organizers include: Thang-Minh Luong, Tania Bedrax-Weiss

The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
Organizers include: Imed Zitouni

The Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online
Organizers include: Zeerak Waseem

TyP-NLP, Typology for Polyglot NLP
Organizers include: Manaal Faruqui

Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing
Organizers include: Kellie Webster

Tutorials
Wikipedia as a Resource for Text Analysis and Retrieval
Organizer: Marius Pasca