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2022/09/01

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jcykcai Recent Advances on controllable text generation [slide] -

2022/08/25

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Yiyang Li A Brief Introduction to Multi-party Dialogues [slide] -
- AAAI 2019 A Deep Sequential Model for Discourse Parsing on Multi-Party Dialogues - -
- IJCAI 2021 A Structure Self-aware Model for Discourse Parsing on Multi-party Dialogues - -
- IJCAI 2019 GSN: A Graph-Structured Network for Multi-Party Dialogues - -
- ACL 2022 HeterMPC A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Response Generation in Multi-Party Conversations - -

2022/07/28

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Qian Cao Recent Advances of Multimodality on Text Generation [slide] -
- arXiv 2022 Prefix Language Models are Unified Modal Learners - -
- arXiv 2022 Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning - -

2022/07/14

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Leyang Cui Constituency Parsing [slide] -
- ACL 2022 Investigating Non-local Features for Neural Constituency Parsing - -
- ACL 2022 Learned Incremental Representations for Parsing - -

2022/03/31

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Haofei Yu Towards Better Transformer for Long-range Sequence Modeling [slide] -
- arXiv 2022 Efficient Transformers: A Survey - -
- TACL 2021 Adaptive Semiparametric Language Models - -
- ICML 2021 Not All Memories are Created Equal: Learning to Forget by Expiring - -
- ICLR 2021 Long Range Arena : A Benchmark for Efficient Transformers - -

2022/03/17

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Xinting Huang Towards Better Retrievers for Knowledge-intensive Tasks [slide] -
- EMNLP 2021 Simple Entity-Centric Questions Challenge Dense Retrievers - -
- NeuIPS 2021 BEIR: A Heterogeneous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models - -
- TACL 2021 PAQ: 65 Million Probably-Asked Questions and What You Can Do With Them - -
- ACL 2020 On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA - -
- ACL Findings 2021 Latent Reasoning for Low-Resource Question Generation - -

2022/03/10

Speakers Papers Slides Others
qintongli Explainable Natural Language Processing [slide] -
- arXiv 2021 Teach Me to Explain: A Review of Datasets for Explainable Natural Language Processing - -
- arXiv 2021 Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations - -
- ACL Findings 2022 [Event Transition Planning for Open-ended Text Generation] - -

2022/1/20

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Julianjxli Does the language model understand numbers? [slide] -
- EMNLP Findings 2020 Do Language Embeddings Capture Scales? - -
- EMNLP 2021 Numeracy enhances the Literacy of Language Models - -
- EMNLP Findings 2021 Investigating Numeracy Learning Ability of a Text-to-Text Transfer Model - -
- NAACL-HLT 2021 Predicting Numerals in Natural Language Text Using a Language Model Considering the Quantitative Aspects of Numerals - -

2022/1/13

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Tian Lan Retrieval Augumented Generation [slide] -
- arXiv 2020 REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training - -
- NIPS 2020 Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks - -
- ACL 2021 Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Translation Memory - -
- ICLR 2020 Generalization Through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models - -
- arXiv 2021 WebGPT: Browser-assisted question-answering with human feedback - -

2021/12/16

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Chen Xu Conversational Neuro-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoning [slide] -
- AAAI 2021 Conversational Neuro-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoning - -
- Arxiv 2021 Conversational Multi-Hop Reasoning with Neural Commonsense Knowledge and Symbolic Logic Rules - -

2021/08/26

Speakers Papers Slides Others
HAORAN YANG Adapter Parameter Generation [slide] -
- ACL 2021 Parameter-efficient Multi-task Fine-tuning for Transformers via Shared Hypernetworks - -
- Arxiv 2021 Lifelong Learning of Few-shot Learners across NLP Tasks - -
- ACL 2021 Enhancing Content Preservation in Text Style Transfer Using Reverse Attention and Conditional Layer Normalization - -

2021/08/12

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickwwang Context Information in Language Model [slide] -
- ACL 2018 Sharp Nearby, Fuzzy Far Away: How Neural Language Models Use Context - -
- ACL 2020 Do Transformers Need Deep Long-Range Memory - -
- ACL 2021 What Context Features Can Transformer Language Models Use - -

2021/08/05

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Qintong Li Prompting Methods in NLP [slide] -
- arXiv 2021 Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in Natural Language Processing - -
- EMNLP 2020 AutoPrompt: Eliciting Knowledge from Language Models with Automatically Generated Prompts - -
- ACL 2021 Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation - -

2021/07/29

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Junjie Wu Textual Adversarial Attack [slide] -
- EMNLP 2020 BERT-ATTACK: Adversarial Attack Against BERT Using BERT - -
- Arxiv 2021 Gradient-based Adversarial Attacks against Text Transformers - -
- AAAI 2020 Seq2Sick: Evaluating the Robustness of Sequence-to-Sequence Models with Adversarial Examples - -

2021/07/08

Speakers Papers Slides Others
LingyunFeng Sequence Tagging Approaches for Local Sequence Transduction [slide] -
- EMNLP 2019 Encode, Tag, Realize: High-Precision Text Editing - -
- BEA workshop GECToR – Grammatical Error Correction: Tag, Not Rewrite - -
- EMNLP 2020 Seq2Edits: Sequence Transduction Using Span-level Edit Operations - -

2021/07/01

Speakers Papers Slides Others
johntianlan Pretrained LM for Dialog Response Selection [slide] -
- INTERSPEECH 2020 An Effective Domain Adaptive Post-Training Method for BERT in Response Selection - -
- CIKM 2020 Speaker-Aware BERT for Multi-Turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots - -
- AAAI 2021 Do Response Selection Models Really Know What’s Next? Utterance Manipulation Strategies for Multi-turn Response Selection - -
- AAAI 2021 Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues - -
- ACL 2021 Dialogue Response Selection with Hierarchical Curriculum Learning - -
- NAACL 2021 Fine-grained Post-training for Improving Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems - -

2021/06/24

Speakers Papers Slides Others
HaoranYang Pretrained LM and Continual Learning [slide] -
- TACL 2021 Self-supervised Regularization for Text Classification - -
- NAACL 2021 Continual Learning for Text Classification with Information Disentanglement Based Regularization - -

2021/06/10

Speakers Papers Slides Others
weiwang MLM and Dialogue [slide] -
- Arxiv 2021 Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little - -
- Arxiv 2021 Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding - -

2021/05/13

Speakers Papers Slides Others
xuchen Persona Dialogue Generation & Knowledge-enhanced Generation [slide] -
- ACL2020 You Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception - -
- EMNLP2020 Language Generation with Multi-Hop Reasoning on Commonsense Knowledge Graph - -

2021/04/18

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun Text Evaluation [slide] -
- EMNLP2020 A Study in Improving BLEU Reference Coverage with Diverse Automatic Paraphrasing - -
- TACL2020 Improving Dialog Evaluation with a Multi-reference Adversarial Dataset and Large Scale Pretraining - -

2021/03/18

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickwwang Sentence Embedding [slide] -
- EMNLP2019 Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks - -
- Arxiv2020 DeCLUTR: Deep Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Textual Representations - -
- EMNLP2020 An Unsupervised Sentence Embedding Method by Mutual Information Maximization - -

2020/12/10

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zhiyongwu   [slide] -
- ACL2020 Perturbed Masking: Parameter-free Probing for Analyzing and Interpreting BERT - -
- EMNLP2020 Vokenization: Improving Language Understanding with Contextualized, Visual-Grounded Supervision - -

2020/12/03

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rainyucao Dialogue Data Augmentation [slide] -
- EMNLP2020 Dialogue Distillation: Open-domain Dialogue Augmentation Using Unpaired Data - -
- EMNLP2020 Filtering Noisy Dialogue Corpora by Connectivity and Content Relatedness - -
- EMNLP2020 Sequence-Level Mixed Sample Data Augmentation - -
- EMNLP2020 SeqMix: Augmenting Active Sequence Labeling via Sequence Mixup - -

2020/11/26

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickwwang Best paper of EMNLP 2020 [slide] -
- EMNLP2020 Digital Voicing of Silent Speech - -
- EMNLP2020 Spot The Bot: A Robust and Efficient Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Dialogue Systems - -
- EMNLP2020 GLUCOSE: GeneraLized and COntextualized Story Explanations - -

2020/11/12

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jimblin Large-scale Retrieval & Language Model [slide] -
- WWW2020 Context-Aware Document Term Weighting for Ad-Hoc Search - -
- ICLR2020 Pre-training Tasks for Embedding-based Large-scale Retrieval - -
- SIGIR2020 ColBERT: Efficient and Eiffective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT - -

2020/11/05

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickywchen Evaluation @ EMNLP 2020 (Part 2) [slide] -
- EMNLP2020 Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Abstractive Text Summarization - -
- EMNLP2020 GRADE- Automatic Graph-Enhanced Coherence Metric for Evaluating Open-Domain Dialogue Systems - -
- EMNLP2020 UNION-An Unreferenced Metric for Evaluating Open-ended Story Generation - -

2020/10/22

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun Evaluation @ EMNLP 2020 (Part 1) [slide] -

2020/10/15

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zelongyang Evaluation Metrics For Explainable AI (XAI) [slide] -

2020/09/24

Speakers Papers Slides Others
haoyusong Pre-Trained Checkpoints for Warm-Starting of Generation Models [slide] -

2020/09/17

Speakers Papers Slides Others
thudongwang Adversarial Training for Pre-trained Models [slide] -
- ICLR2020 FreeLB: Enhanced Adversarial Training for Natural Language Understanding - -
- ACL2020 SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization - -
- arXiv2020 TextAT: Adversarial Training with Token-Aware Perturbation for Natural Language Understanding - -
- arXiv2020 Revisiting Pre-Trained Models for Chinese Natural Language Processing - -

2020/09/10

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jcykcai A (very) Brief Introduction to Conversational QA [slide] -

2020/09/03

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rainyucao Graph Pooling [slide] -
- NIPS2018 (DiffPool) Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning with Differentiable Pooling - -
- ICML2020 (MinCutPool) Spectral Clustering with Graph Neural Networks for Graph Pooling - -
- ICML2019 (TopK Pool) Graph U-Nets - -
- ICML2019 (SAGPool) Self-Attention Graph Pooling - -

2020/08/27

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickwwang Sentence Infilling [slide] -
- arxiv2019 Text Infilling - -
- IJCAI2019 T-CVAE: Transformer-Based Conditioned Variational Autoencoder for Story Completion - -
- ACL2020 INSET: Sentence Infilling with Inter-Sentential Generative Pre-Training - -

2020/08/20

Speakers Papers Slides Others
robertang Sentence-level Coherence Modeling [slide] -
- ACL2020 Toward Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models - -
- ACL2020 Pretraining with Contrastive Sentence Objectives Improves Discourse Performance of Language Models - -
- ACL2020 Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks - -

2020/08/13

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jamgao Pretrained Models for Text Generation [slide] -
- ACL2020 Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for Text Generation - -
- ACL2020 BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension - -

2020/07/30

Speakers Papers Slides Others
qintongli Conversational Reasoning [slide] -
- ACL2019 OpenDialKG: Explainable Conversational Reasoning with Attention-based Walks over Knowledge Graphs - -
- ACL2020 KdConv: A Chinese Multi-domain Dialogue Dataset Towards Multi-turn Knowledge-driven Conversation - -
- ACL2019 COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction - -
- ACL2020 MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning - -
- WWW2020 ASER: A Large-scale Eventuality Knowledge Graph - -
- IJCAI2020 Guided Generation of Cause and Effect - -

2020/07/23

Speakers Papers Slides Others
Guanlin Li Text Generation: related topics   -

2020/07/17

Speakers Papers Slides Others
charleshao ACL2020 Excellent Papers [slide] -
- ACL2020 Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP models with CheckList - -
- ACL2020 Don’t Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and Tasks - -
- ACL2020 Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics - -

2020/07/09

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rainyucao Neural Architecture Search [slide] -
- JMLR2019 Neural Architecture Search: A Survey - -
- ICLR2019 DARTS: Differentiable Architecture Search - -
- ICML2019 The Evolved Transformer - -
- ACL2019 Continual and Multi-Task Architecture Search - -
- EMNLP2019 Improved Differentiable Architecture Search for Language Modeling and Named Entity Recognition - -
- ACL2020 Learning Architectures from an Extended Search Space for Language Modeling - -
- ACL2020 Improving Transformer Models by Reordering their Sublayers - -
- ICML2018 Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameter Sharing - -

2020/07/02

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zeyuqin The short introduction to Imbalanced Classification [slide] -
- Class-Balanced Loss Based on Effective Number of Samples - -
- Learning Imbalanced Datasets with Label-Distribution-Aware Margin Loss - -
- Coherent Gradients: An Approach to Understanding Generalization in Gradient Descent-based Optimization - -
- Decoupling representation and classifier for long-tailed recognition - -

2020/06/18

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jcykcai NLP with lage-scale Memory [slide] -
- REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training - -
- Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering - -
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks - -
- Further reading - -
- ACL2019 Latent Retrieval for Weakly Supervised Open Domain Question Answering - -
- ACL2019 Real-Time Open-Domain Question Answering with Dense-Sparse Phrase Index - -
- EMNLP2018 Phrase-Indexed Question Answering- A New Challenge for Scalable Document Comprehension - -
- ICLR2020 generalization_through_memorization_nearest_neighbor_language_models - -
- NIPS2019 Large Memory Layers with Product Keys - -

2020/05/14

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickywchen Recent Evaluation Metrics for Text Generation [slide] -
- EMNLP2019 MoverScore: Text Generation Evaluating with Contextualized Embeddings and Earth Mover Distance - -
- ACL2019 A Simple Theoretical Model of Importance for Summarization - -
- AAAI2018 RUBER: An Unsupervised Method for Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog Systems - -
- NAACL2019 Better Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems with Contextualized Embeddings - -

2020/04/29

Speakers Papers Slides Others
huayangli The Story about Probing [slide] -
- Arxiv2020 Information-Theoretic Probing with Minimum Description Length - -
- ACL2020 Information-Theoretic Probing for Linguistic Structure - -
- EMNLP2019 Designing and Interpreting Probes with Control Tasks - -
- NAACL2019 BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding - -
- NAACL2018 Deep contextualized word representations - -

2020/04/23

Speakers Papers Slides Others
kaiwang - [slide] -
- ICLR2020 ELECTRA: PRE-TRAINING TEXT ENCODERS AS DISCRIMINATORS RATHER THAN GENERATORS - -
- ACL2019 Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference for Neural Machine Translation - -
- ACL2020 Multi-Domain Dialogue Acts and Response Co-Generation - -

2020/04/16

Speakers Papers Slides Others
haoyusong Transfer Learning in Personalized Dialogue Generation [slide] -
- WWW Journal2019 Neural Personalized Response Generation as Domain Adaptation - -
- AAAI2019 short TransferTransfo-A Transfer Learning Approach for Neural Network Based Conversational Agents - -
- ACL2019 short Large-scale transfer learning for natural language generation - -
- AAAI2020 A Pre-training Based Personalized Dialogue Generation Model with Persona-sparse Data - -

2019/12/25

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickywchen Dialogue Summarization [slide] -
- ACL2019 (short) Keep Meeting Summaries on Topic: Abstractive Multi-Modal Meeting Summarization - -
- KDD2019 Automatic Dialogue Summary Generation for Customer Service - -

2019/09/26

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickwwang Some Research Progress on Story Generation [slide] -
- CoNLL2019 Do Massively Pretrained Language Models Make Better Storytellers? - -
- EMNLP2019 Counterfactual Story Reasoning and Generation - -

2019/09/19

Speakers Papers Slides Others
hgong - [slide] -
- AAAI2019 Data-to-Text Generation with Content Selection and Planning - -
- ACL2019 Data-to-text Generation with Entity Modeling - -
- ACL2019 Learning to Select, Track, and Generate for Data-to-Text - -

2019/09/10

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jimblin - [slide] -
- ACL2018 Multi-Turn Response Selection for Chatbots with Deep Attention Matching Network - -
- ACL2019 One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues - -
- ACL2019 Constructing Interpretive Spatio-Temporal Features for Multi-Turn Response Selection - -

2019/08/22

Speakers Papers Slides Others
qintongli - [slide] -
- AAAI2018 Emotional Chatting Machine: Emotional Conversation Generation with Internal and External Memory - -
- ACL2018 MOJITALK: Generating Emotional Responses at Scale - -
- AAAI2019 An Affect-Rich Neural Conversational Model with Biased Attention and Weighted Cross-Entropy Loss - -

2019/08/15

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jiangtongli ACL Report [slide] -
- ACL2019 Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference for Neural Machine Translation - -
- ACL2019 OpenDialKG: Explainable Conversational Reasoning with Attention-based Walks over Knowledge Graphs - -
- ACL2019 Do Neural Dialog Systems Use the Conversation History Effectively? An Empirical Study - -
- ACL2019 Generating Fluent Adversarial Examples for Natural Languages - -
- ACL2019 Dynamically Fused Graph Network for Multi-hop Reasoning - -
- ACL2019 Multi-step Reasoning via Recurrent Dual Attention for Visual Dialog - -

2019/07/25

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jcykcai - [slide] -
- ACL2019 Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned - -
- ACL2019 Interpretable Neural Predictions with Differentiable Binary Variables - -

2019/07/18

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jiangtongli Some research progress on sequence generation [slide] -
- arXiv2015 How (not) to Train your Generative Model: Scheduled Sampling, Likelihood, Adversary? - -
- ICML2019 CoT: Cooperative Training for Generative Modeling of Discrete Data - -
- ICLR2019 Improving Sequence-to-Sequence Learning via Optimal Transport - -

2019/07/11

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zltian Triples-to-text generation & its pre-training [slide] -
- INLG2018 Deep Graph Convolutional Encoders for Structured Data to Text Generation - -
- NAACL2019 Step-by-Step: Separating Planning from Realization in Neural Data-to-Text Generation - -
- NIPS(Workshop)2016 Variational Graph Auto-Encoders - -

2019/07/04

Speakers Papers Slides Others
rickwwang Some Research Progress on Story Generation [slide] -
- EMNLP2018 A Skeleton-Based Model for Promoting Coherence Among Sentences in Narrative Story Generation - -
- AAAI2019 Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling - -
- ACL2019 Strategies for Structuring Story Generation - -

2019/06/28

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jcykcai Rethinking the generation orders of sequence [slide] -
  ICML2019 Insertion Transformer: Flexible Sequence Generation via Insertion Operations - -
- ICML2019 Non-Monotonic Sequential Text Generation - -
- arXiv2019 Insertion-based Decoding with automatically Inferred Generation Order - -
- EMNLP2018 The Importance of Generation Order in Language Modeling - -
- arXiv2019 XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding - -

2019/06/17

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation - -
- How Much Attention Do You Need? A Granular Analysis of Neural Machine Translation Architectures - -
- Why Self-Attention? A Targeted Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation Architectures - -
- Argument Generation with Retrieval, Planning, and Realization - -

2019/05/30

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jiachendu ICLR2019 LEARNING TO REPRESENT EDITS [slide] -
- Text Infilling - -
- TIGS: An Inference Algorithm for Text Infilling with Gradient Search - -

2019/05/09

Speakers Papers Slides Others
lixin The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration [slide] -

2019/04/24

Speakers Papers Slides Others
evanyfgao(高一帆) Reasoning in Multi-hop Reading Comprehension [slide] -

2019/04/11

Speakers Papers Slides Others
royrong(荣钰) Representation Learning on Graphs [slide] -

2019/04/04

Speakers Papers Slides Others
jcykcai AAAI2017 Mechanism-Aware Neural Machine for Dialogue Response Generation [slide] -
- ACL2018 Unsupervised Discrete Sentence Representation Learning for Interpretable Neural Dialog Generation - -
- EMNLP2018 Learning Neural Templates for Text Generation - -

2019/03/28

Speakers Papers Slides Others
yxsu TACL2018 Polite Dialogue Generation Without Parallel Data [slide] -

2019/03/21

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun NIPS2018 Content preserving text generation with attribute controls [slide] -
hongyining EMNLP2017 Challenges in Data-to-Document Generation [slide] -
- Data-to-Text Generation with Content Selection and Planning - -

2019/01/18

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zhuqile ICLR2019 Recent Advances in Autoencoder-Based Representation Learning [slide] -
jiangtongli ICLR2019 Pay Less Attention with Lightweight and Dynamic Convolutions [slide] -

2019/01/10

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zhuqile ICLR2019 Variational Discriminator Bottleneck: Improving Imitation Learning, Inverse RL, and GANs by Constraining Information Flow [slide] -
- ICLR2017 Deep Variational Information Bottleneck - -
jiangtongli COLING2018 Modeling Multi-turn Conversation with Deep Utterance Aggregation [slide -

2018/12/27

Speakers Papers Slides Others
yxsu SIGHAN2018 Group Linguistic Bias Aware Neural Response Generation [slide] -
Shangmingyue Arxiv2018 Dialogue Natural Language Inference [slide] -

2018/12/20

Speakers Papers Slides Others
lixin EMNLP2018 Semi-Supervised Learning for Neural Keyphrase Generation [slide] -
gaojun ACL2018 Hierarchical Neural Story Generation [slide] -

2018/12/13

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaoyifan AAAI2019 A Multi-Agent Communication Framework for Question-Worthy Phrase Extraction and Question Generation [slide] -

2018/11/29

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zhufengpan COLING2016 Non-sentential Question Resolution using Sequence to Sequence Learning [slide] -
- SIGIR2017 Incomplete Follow-up question Resolution using Retrieval based Sequence to Sequence Learning - [dataset]

2018/11/23

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zhaoyang ICLR2018(under review)I Know the Feeling: Learning to Converse with Empathy [slide] -
jcykcai NIPS2018 Deep Generative Models with Learnable Knowledge Constraints [slide] -

2018/10/25

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaoyifan ACL2018 Harvesting Paragraph-Level Question-Answer Pairs from Wikipedia [slide] -
shangmingyue NIPS2017 Adversarial Ranking for Language Generation [slide] -
- AAAI2018 Long Text Generation via Adversarial Training with Leaked Information - -

2018/10/18

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun NAACL2017 Deep contextualized word representations [slide] -
- Arxiv2018 Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training - -
- Arxiv2018 BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding - -

2018/10/11

Speakers Papers Slides Others
lixin ACL2017 Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking [slide] -
- ACL2018 Global-Locally Self-Attentive Encoder for Dialogue State Tracking - -
- ICASSP2018 Adversarial Actor-Critic Model For Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning - -
- ACL2018 Deep Dyna-Q: Integrating Planning for Task-Completion Dialogue Policy Learning - -

2018/9/21

Speakers Papers Slides Others
cd NIPS2018 Generating Informative and Diverse Conversational Responses via Adversarial Information Maximization [slide] -
  EMNLP2017 Sequential Matching Network-A New Architecture for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots   -
zhaoyang ACL2018 Learning to Control the Specificity in Neural Response Generation [slide] -

2018/8/1

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun NIPS2017 Diverse and Accurate Image Description Using a Variational Auto-Encoder with an Additive Gaussian Encoding Space [slide] -
cd arXiv2018 Response Generation by Context-aware Prototype Editing [slide] -
- arXiv2016 Two are better than one: An ensemble of retrieval-and generation-based dialog systems - -
zhaoyang AAAI2018 Dictionary-Guided Editing Networks for Paraphrase Generation [slide] -
ziyang ACL2018 Learning to Ask Good Questions: Ranking Clarification Questions using Neural Expected Value of Perfect Information [slide] -
biwei - - -
yahui ACL2018 Token-level and sequence-level loss smoothing for RNN language models [slide] -
- arXiv2018 Sounding Board: A User-Centric and Content-Driven Social Chatbot - -

2018/7/27 ACL Report

Speakers Papers Slides Others
zhaoyang ACL2018 Report slide -

2018/7/18

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun ACL2017 Generating Natural Answers by Incorporating Copying and Retrieving Mechanisms in Sequence-to-Sequence Learning [slide] -
cd ACL18 AdvEntuRe: Adversarial Training for Textual Entailment with Knowledge-Guided Examples [slide] -
- ACL18 Working Memory Networks-Augmenting Memory Networks with a Relational Reasoning Module - -
ziyang IJCAI2018 SentiGAN: Generating Sentimental Texts via Mixture Adversarial Networks [slide] -
biwei - - -
yahui AAAI2015 Self-Paced Curriculum Learning [slide] -
- ICML2018 MentorNet: Learning Data-Driven Curriculum for Very Deep Neural Networks on Corrupted Labels - -

2018/7/3 Reinforcement Learning

Speakers Papers Slides Others
gaojun AAAI2018 Flexible End-to-End Dialogue System for Knowledge Grounded Conversation [slide] -
cd Nature2017 Mastering the game of Go Without human knowledge [slide] -
ziyang CVPR2018 Video Captioning via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning [slide] -
biwei ICML2017 FeUdal Networks for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning [slide] -
yahui IJCAI2018 Learning to Converse with Noisy Data: Generation with Calibration [slide] -
- arXiv2016 Data Distillation for Controlling Specificity in Dialogue Generation - -

2018/6/26 GAN review & Knowledge-incoporated Generation & RL

Speakers Papers Slides Others
xiaojiang review questions about GAN again and summarize GAN’s possible use in conversation resposne geneartion. - -
gaojun IJCAI2016 Neural Generative Question Answering [slide] -
- AAAI2018 A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model - -
cd ACL2018 Fast Abstractive Summarization with Reinforce-Selected Sentence Rewriting [slide] -
- ACL2018 Unpaired Sentiment-to-Sentiment Translation: A Cycled Reinforcement Learning Approach - -
yahui NAACL2018 Discourse-Aware Neural Rewards for Coherent Text Generation [slide] Report of GAN
biwei ICML2017 Sequence Tutor: Conservative Fine-Tuning of Sequence Generation Models with KL-control [slide] -

2018/6/20 GAN

Lecturers Papers Slides Others
cd Implement Adversarial Training for Text Generation (motivations and technologies) [slide] -
gaojun EMNLP2017 Neural Response Generation via GAN with an Approximate Embedding Layer∗ [slide] -
- IJCAI2018 Commonsense Knowledge Aware Conversation Generation with Graph Attention - -
yahui EMNLP2017 Adversarial Learning for Neural Dialogue Generation [slide] -
- ICLR2018 MaskGAN: Better Text Generation via Filling in the __ - -
biwei ICML2017 Adversarial Feature Matching for Text Generation [slide] -