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Pre-submission mentorship application Aug 28 (Fri), 2020
Submission deadline Sep 25 (Fri), 2020
Acceptance notification Oct 23 (Fri), 2020
Camera-ready due Nov 6 (Fri), 2020
Workshop Dec 7

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AACL-IJCNLP 2020 SRW Schedule

Dec 7, 2020 (GMT+8)
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks pdf
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Address
Societal Impacts of NLP: How and When to Integrate Them into Your Research (and How to Make Time for That) pdf
Emily M. Bender, University of Washington
10:00 - 11:00 Session SRW1 - Advanced Models
Chair: Katharina Kann, University of Colorado
Text Classification through Glyph-aware Disentangled Character Embedding and Semantic Sub-character Augmentation pdf abs video
Takumi Aoki, Shunsuke Kitada, Hitoshi Iyatomi
Hosei University
Two-Headed Monster and Crossed Co-Attention Networks pdf abs video
Yaoyiran Li1 and Jing Jiang2
1University of Cambridge, 2Singapore Management University
Towards a Task-Agnostic Model of Difficulty Estimation for Supervised Learning Tasks pdf abs video
Antonio Laverghetta Jr., Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov, John Licato
University of South Florida
A Siamese CNN Architecture for Learning Chinese Sentence Similarity pdf abs video
Haoxiang Shi1, Cen Wang2, Tetsuya Sakai1
1Waseda University, 2KDDI Research Inc.
11:00 - 12:00 Session SRW2 - Social Media and Applications
Chair: Wei Emma Zhang, The University of Adelaide
Automatic Classification of Students on Twitter Using Simple Profile Information pdf abs video
Lili-Michal Wilson and Christopher Wun
Hunter College High School
Towards Code-switched Classification Exploiting Constituent Language Resources pdf abs video
Kartikey Pant1 and Tanvi Dadu2
1International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 2Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Hindi History Note Generation with Unsupervised Extractive Summarization pdf abs video
Aayush Shah, Dhineshkumar Ramasubbu, Dhruv Mathew, Meet Chetan Gadoya
University of Southern California
Unbiasing Review Ratings with Tendency Based Collaborative Filtering pdf abs video
Pranshi Yadav1, Priya Yadav2, Pegah Nokhiz3, Vivek Gupta3
1International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 2Tata Consultancy Services, 3School of Computing, University of Utah
12:00 - 14:00 Break
14:00 - 15:00 Session SRW3 - Low-Resource Languages
Chair: Pranav A, Sentinel
Building a Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus for Drenjongke (Bhutia) pdf abs video
Mana Ashida1, Seunghun Lee2, Kunzang Namgyal3
1Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2International Christian University, 3Nar Bahadur Bhandari Degree College
Towards a Standardized Dataset on Indonesian Named Entity Recognition pdf abs video
Siti Oryza Khairunnisa, Aizhan Imankulova, Mamoru Komachi
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Formal Sanskrit Syntax: A Specification for Programming Language pdf abs video
K. Kabi Khanganba and Girish Jha
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Resource Creation and Evaluation of Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis in Urdu pdf abs video
Sadaf Rani and Muhammad Waqas Anwar
COMSATS University Islamabad
15:00 - 16:00 Session SRW4 - Translation and Transformation
Chair: Yuki Arase, Osaka University
Making a Point: Pointer-Generator Transformers for Disjoint Vocabularies pdf abs video
Nikhil Prabhu and Katharina Kann
University of Colorado Boulder
Training with Adversaries to Improve Faithfulness of Attention in Neural Machine Translation pdf abs video
Pooya Moradi, Nishant Kambhatla, Anoop Sarkar

Simon Fraser University
Document-Level Neural Machine Translation Using BERT as Context Encoder pdf abs video
Zhiyu Guo and Minh Le Nguyen
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
A Review of Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Models pdf abs video
Yujian Gan1, Matthew Purver1, John R. Woodward2
1Queen Mary University of London, 2QMUL
16:00 - 17:00 Session SRW5 - Semantics and Pragmatics
Chair: Vivek Gupta, University of Utah
Multi-task Learning for Automated Essay Scoring with Sentiment Analysis pdf abs video
Panitan Muangkammuen and Fumiyo Fukumoto
University of Yamanashi
Aspect Extraction Using Coreference Resolution and Unsupervised Filtering pdf abs video
Deon Mai and Wei Emma Zhang
The University of Adelaide
GRUBERT: A GRU-Based Method to Fuse BERT Hidden Layers for Twitter Sentiment Analysis pdf abs video
Leo Horne, Matthias Matti, Pouya Pourjafar, Zuowen Wang
ETH Zurich
Exploring Statistical and Neural Models for Noun Ellipsis Detection and Resolution in English pdf abs video
Payal Khullar
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
17:00 - 18:00 Session SRW6 - Applications and Methods
Chair: John Licato, University of South Florida
MRC Examples Answerable by BERT without a Question Are Less Effective in MRC Model Training pdf abs video
Hongyu Li1, Tengyang Chen1, Shuting Bai1, Takehito Utsuro1, Yasuhide Kawada2
1University of Tsukuba, 2Logworks Co., Ltd.
Text Simplification with Reinforcement Learning Using Supervised Rewards on Grammaticality, Meaning Preservation, and Simplicity pdf abs
Akifumi Nakamachi, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase
Osaka University
Label Representations in Modeling Classification as Text Generation pdf abs video
Xinyi Chen1, Jingxian Xu1, Alex Wang2
1New York University Shanghai, 2New York University
Generating Inflectional Errors for Grammatical Error Correction in Hindi pdf abs video
Ankur Sonawane, Sujeet Kumar Vishwakarma, Bhavana Srivastava, Anil Kumar Singh
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
18:00 - 18:30 Best Paper Award and Closing Remarks