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Punta Cana
November 16 - 20, 2020
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Conference
EMNLP 2020

Overview

Amazon is proud to be a diamond sponsor of EMNLP 2020, the annual conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, which will be held virtually.

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Amazon program organizing committee

  • Yang Liu
    Yang Liu
    Principal Applied Scientist
    Program Chair
  • Markus Dreyer
    Markus Dreyer
    Senior Area Chair, Question Answering
  • alessandro_moschitti.jpg
    Alessandro Moschitti
    Principal Scientist
    Senior Area Chair, Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • Bill Byrne
    Bill Byrne
    Amazon Scholar
    Area Chair, Machine Translation and Multilinguality
  • Heng Ji
    Heng Ji
    Amazon Scholar
    Senior Area Chair, Multidisciplinary and AC COI
  • Kai-Wei Chang
    Kai-Wei Chang
    Visiting Academic
    Area Chair, Machine Learning for NLP
  • Weiwei Cheng
    Weiwei Cheng
    Area Chair, Question Answering
  • Sgella
    Spandana Gella
    Area Chair, Semantics: Lexical Semantics
  • Julia Hirschberg
    Julia Hirschberg
    Amazon Scholar
    Area Chair, Speech and Multimodality
  • Seokhwan Kim
    Seokhwan Kim
    Area Chair, Dialog and Interactive Systems
  • Lluís Marquez
    Lluis Marquez
    Area Chair, Machine Translation and Multilinguality
  • Matthias Petri
    Matthias Petri
    Area Chair, Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • Kevin Small.jpg
    Kevin Small
    Area Chair, Question Answering
  • Yi Zhang
    Yi Zhang
    Area Chair, Semantics: Lexical Semantics

Publications (partial list)

Workshops

The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT) | November 19th
Accepted Publication: Truecasing German user-generated conversational text

Scholarly Document Processing @ EMNLP | November 19th
Organizing committee member: Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran
Program committee member: Animesh Prasad

2nd Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software | November 19th
Program committee members: Steve Sloto | Varun Kumar

Deep Learning Inside Out: Knowledge Extraction and Integration | November 19th
Program committee member: Daniil Sorokin

Workshop on Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO) | November 19th

Accepted Publication: Incorporating commonsense knowledge graph in pretrained models for social commonsense tasks - Best Paper award winner

Workshop on Interactive and Executable Semantic Parsing | November 19th
Accepted Publications: Evaluating the effectiveness of efficient neural architecture search for sentence-pair tasks

Uncertainty and traffic-aware active learning for semantic parsing

Fifth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20) | November 19 - 20th
Accepted Publication: How should markup tags be translated?

NLP Beyond Text | November 20th
Organizing committee members: Giuseppe Castellucci | Simone Filice
Program committee member: Shervin Malmasi

SustaiNLP 2020 | November 20th
Invited Speaker: Heng Ji, Amazon Scholar

PrivateNLP 2020 | November 20th
Organizing committee members: Oluwaseyi Feyisetan | Shervin Malmasi
Program committee members: Luca Melis | Nedelina Teneva | Tom Diethe
Accepted Publications: On primes, log-loss scores and (no) privacy
A differentially private text perturbation method using a regularized Mahalanobis metric

Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems (Eval4NLP) | November 20

Accepted Publication: Probabilistic Extension of Precision, Recall, and F1 Score for More Thorough Evaluation of Classification Models

 Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP | November 20th

Accepted Publication: Generating synthetic data for task-oriented semantic parsing with hierarchical representations

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