Date: April 21, 2017
Time: 1 pm
Topics: Causal Relations, Persuasion, and Generation
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Causal Relations


Or Biran and Kathleen McKeown
Aggregated Word Pair Features for Implicit Discourse Relation Disambiguation
ACL 2013

Chloe Braud and Pascal Denis
Learning Connective-based Word Representations for Implicit Discourse Relation Identification
EMNLP 2016

Yangfeng Ji, Gholamreza Haffari, and Jacob Eisenstein
A Latent Variable Recurrent Neural Network for Discourse Relation Language Models
NAACL 2016

Rashmi Prasad and Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber
Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
COLING 2010

Mehwish Riaz and Roxana Girju
In-depth Exploitation of Noun and Verb Semantics to Identify Causation in Verb-Noun Pairs
SIGDIAL 2014

Rebecca Sharp, Mihai Surdeanu, Peter Jansen, Peter Clark, and Michael Hammond
Creating Causal Embeddings for Question Answering with Minimal Supervision
EMNLP 2016

Jesse Dunietz and Lori Levin and Jaime Carbonell
Automatically Tagging Constructions of Causation and Their Slot-Fillers
TACL 2017

Rajarshi Das, Arvind Neelakantan, David Belanger, and Andrew McCallum
Chains of Reasoning over Entities, Relations, and Text using Recurrent Neural Networks
EACL 2017

Tim Rocktaschel, Sameer Singh, and Sebastian Riedel
Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation Extraction
NAACL 2015

Persuasion


Chenhao Tan, Vlad Niculae, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, and Lillian Lee
Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions
WWW 2016

Ivan Habernal and Iryna Gurevych
Which argument is more convincing? Analyzing and predicting convincingness of Web arguments using bidirectional LSTM
ACL 2016

Sara Rosenthal and Kathleen McKeown
Detecting Influencers in Multiple Online Genres
ACM Transactions of Internet Technology, February 2017. Issue 17:2

Marilyn A. Walker, Pranav Anand, Robert Abbott and Ricky Grant
Stance Classification using Dialogic Properties of Persuasion
NAACL 2012

Abhimanyu Das, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Emre Kıcıman, Onur Varol
Information Dissemination in Heterogeneous-Intent Networks
ICWSM 2016

Debanjan Ghosh, Aquila Khanam, Yubo Han, and Smaranda Muresan
Coarse-grained Argumentation Features for Scoring Persuasive Essays
ACL 2016

Swapna Somasundaran, Brian Riordan, Binod Gyawali, and Su-Youn Yoon
Evaluating Argumentative and Narrative Essays using Graphs
COLING 2016

Kate Forbes-Riley and Fan Zhang and Diane Litman
Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student Essays
SIGDIAL 2016

Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede
Joint prediction in MST-style discourse parsing for argumentation mining
EMNLP 2015

Generation


Yonatan Bilu and Noam Slonim
Claim Synthesis via Predicate Recycling
ACL 2016

Tao Ding and Shimei Pan
Personalized Emphasis Framing for Persuasive Message Generation
EMNLP 2016

Harr Chen, S.R.K. Branavan, Regina Barzilay, David R. Karger
Global Models of Document Structure Using Latent Permutations
ACL 2009

Chloe Kiddon, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Yejin Choi
Globally Coherent Text Generation with Neural Checklist Models
EMNLP 2016

Jiwei Li, Will Monroe, Alan Ritter, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, and Dan Jurafsky
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Generation
EMNLP 2016

Jacob Andreas and Dan Klein
Reasoning about Pragmatics with Neural Listeners and Speakers
EMNLP 2016

Jesse Dodge, Andreea Gane, Xiang Zhang, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Alexander H. Miller, Arthur Szlam, and Jason Weston
Evaluating Prerequisite Qualities for Learning End-to-End Dialog Systems
ICLR 2016

Zhiting Hu, Zichao Yang, Xiaodan Liang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Eric P. Xing
Controllable Text Generation