Below is the list of the abstracts accepted to the 2019 WiNLP workshop. Congratulations to all authors!
WiNLP is non-archival. Abstracts will be made available for a short period under certain restrictions. Please contact the authors directly if you are interested in the abstract. The full text will be uploaded shortly.
- Development of a General Purpose Sentiment Lexicon for Igbo Language, Emeka Ogbuju, and Moses Onyesolu
- Towards a Resource Grammar for Runyankore and Rukiga, David Bamutura, and Peter Ljunglöf
- Speech Recognition for Tigrinya language Using Deep Neural Network Approach, Hafte Abera, and Sebsibe H/mariam
- Knowledge-Based Word Sense Disambiguation with Distributional Semantic Expansion, Hossein Rouhizadeh, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, and Masoud Rouhizadeh
- AspeRa: Aspect-based Rating Prediction Model, Elena Tutubalina, Valentin Malykh, Sergey Nikolenko, Anton Alekseev, and Ilya Shenbin
- Recognizing Arrow Of Time In The Short Stories, Fahimeh Hosseini, Hosein Fooladi, and Mohammad Reza Samsami
- Amharic Word Sequence Prediction, Nuniyat Kifle
- A framework for Relation Extraction across multiple datasets in multiple domains, Geeticka Chauhan, Matthew McDermott, and Peter Szolovits
- Learning and Understanding Different Categories of Sexism Using Convolutional Neural Network’s Filters, Sima Sharifirad, and Alon Jacovi
- Modeling Five Sentence Quality Representations by Finding Latent Spaces Produced with Deep Long Short-Memory Models, Pablo Rivas
- English-Ethiopian Languages Statistical Machine Translation, Solomon Teferra Abate, Michael Melese, Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Million Meshesha, Solomon Atinafu, Wondwossen Mulugeta, Yaregal Assabie, Hafte Abera, Biniyam Ephrem, Tewodros Gebreselassie, Wondimagegnhue Tsegaye Tufa, Amanuel Lemma, Tsegaye Andargie, and Seifedin Shifaw
- An automatic discourse relation alignment experiment on TED-MDB, Sibel Ozer, and Deniz Zeyrek
- The Design and Construction of the Corpus of China English, Anonymized authors (by request)
- Learning Trilingual Dictionaries for Urdu — Roman Urdu — English, Moiz Rauf, and Sebastian Padó
- 142 – Anonymized paper (by request), Anonymized authors
- Using Attention-based Bidirectional LSTM to Identify Different Categories of Offensive Language Directed Toward Female Celebrities, Sima Sharifirad, and Stan Matwin
- Sentiment Analysis Model for Opinionated Awngi Text: Case of Music Reviews, Melese Mihret, and Muluneh Atinaf
- A compositional view of questions, Maria Boritchev, and Maxime Amblard
- Controlling the Specificity of Clarification Question Generation, Yang Trista Cao, Sudha Rao, and Hal Daumé III
- Non-Monotonic Sequential Text Generation, Kiante Brantley, Kyunghyun Cho, Hal Daumé, and Sean Welleck
- Lipstick on a Pig: Debiasing Methods Cover up Systematic Gender Biases in Word Embeddings But do not Remove Them, Hila Gonen, and Yoav Goldberg
- 152 – Anonymized paper (by request), Anonymized authors
- Automatic Product Categorization for Official Statistics, Andrea Roberson
- 157 – Anonymized paper (by request), Anonymized authors
- Construction and Alignment of Multilingual Entailment Graphs for Semantic Inference, Sabine Weber, and Mark Steedman
- KB-NLG: From Knowledge Base to Natural Language Generation, Wen Cui, Minghui Zhou, Rongwen Zhao, and Narges Norouzi
- Acoustic Characterization of Singaporean Children’s English: Comparisons to American and British Counterparts, Yuling Gu, and Nancy Chen
- Rethinking Phonotactic Complexity, Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, and Ryan Cotterell
- Implementing a Multi-lingual Chatbot for Positive Reinforcement in Young Learners, Francisca Oladipo, and Abdulmalik Rufai
- A Deep Learning Approach to Language-independent Gender Prediction on Twitter, Reyhaneh Hashempour
- Isolating the Effects of Modeling Recursive Structures: A Case Study in Pronunciation Prediction of Chinese Characters, Minh Nguyen, Gia H Ngo, and Nancy Chen
- Benchmarking Neural Machine Translation for Southern African Languages, Jade Abbott, and Laura Martinus
- OCR Quality and NLP Preprocessing, Margot Mieskes and Stefan Schmunk
- Developing a Fine-grained Corpus for a Less-resourced Language: the case of Kurdish, Roshna Abdulrahman, Hossein Hassani, and Sina Ahmadi
- Amharic Question Answering for Biography, Definition, and Description Questions, Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, and Mulugeta Libsie
- 179 – Anonymized paper (by request), Anonymized authors
- Principled Frameworks for Evaluating Ethics in NLP Systems, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Elijah Mayfield, and Alan W Black
- Understanding the Shades of Sexism in Popular TV Series, Nayeon Lee, Yejin Bang, Jamin Shin, and Pascale Fung
- 183 – Anonymized paper (by request), Anonymized authors
- Exploring the Use of Lexicons to aid Deep Learning towards the Detection of Abusive Language, Anna Koufakou and Jason Scott
- Entity-level Classification of Adverse Drug Reactions: a Comparison of Neural Network Models, Ilseyar Alimova, and Elena Tutubalina
- 187 – Anonymized paper (by request), Anonymized authors
- NLP Automation to Read Radiological Reports to Detect the Stage of Cancer Among Lung Cancer Patients, Khushbu Gupta, Ratchainant Thammasudjarit, and Ammarin Thakkinstian
- Augmenting Named Entity Recognition with Commonsense Knowledge, Ghaith Dekhili, Tan Ngoc Le, and Fatiha Sadat
- Pardon the Interruption: Automatic Analysis of Gender and Competitive Turn-Taking in United States Supreme Court Hearings, Haley Lepp
- Evaluating Coherence in Dialogue Systems using Entailment, Nouha Dziri, Ehsan Kamalloo, Kory Mathewson, and Osmar Zaiane
- Exploiting machine algorithms in vocalic quantification of African English corpora, Lasisi Adeiza Isiaka
- Assessing the Ability of Neural Machine Translation Models to Perform Syntactic Rewriting, Jahkel Robin, Alvin Grissom II, and Matthew Roselli
- Authorship Recognition with Short-Text using Graph-based Techniques, Laura Cruz
- A Parallel Corpus Mixtec-Spanish, Cynthia Montaño, Gerardo Sierra Martínez, Gemma Bel-Enguix, and Helena Gomez
- Emoji Usage Across Platforms: A Case Study for the Charlottesville Event, Khyati Mahajan, and Samira Shaikh
- Reading KITTY: Pitch Range as an Indicator of Reading Skill, Alfredo Gomez, Alicia Ngo, Alessandra Otondo, and Julie Medero
- Adversarial Attack on Sentiment Classification, Yi-Ting (Alicia) Tsai, Min-Chu Yang, and Han-Yu Chen
- CSI Peru News: finding the culprit, victim and location in news articles, Gina Bustamante, and Arturo Oncevay
- Exploring Social Bias in Chatbots using Stereotype Knowledge, Nayeon Lee, Andrea Madotto, and Pascale Fung
- Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, and Lucia Specia