COLING 2016 accepts eight UKP papers

Eight papers from UKP co-authors have been accepted for publication at COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. The conference will be held in December in Osaka.

The eight accepted papers are as follows:

• Bridging the gap between extractive and abstractive summaries: Creation and evaluation of coherent extracts from heterogeneous sources Darina Benikova, Margot Mieskes, Christian M. Meyer, and Iryna Gurevych (Joint work with Hochschule Darmstadt – Margot Mieskes)
• CNN- and LSTM-based Claim Classification in Online User Comments Chinnappa Guggilla, Tristan Miller and Iryna Gurevych
• Semi-automatic Detection of Cross-lingual Marketing Blunders based on Pragmatic Label Propagation in Wiktionary Christian M. Meyer, Judith Eckle-Kohler, and Iryna Gurevych
• Modeling Extractive Sentence Intersection via Subtree Entailment Omer Levy, Ido Dagan, Gabriel Stanovsky, Judith Eckle-Kohler and Iryna Gurevych (Joint work with Bar-Ilan University – Omer Levy, Ido Dagan, and Gabriel Stanovsky)
• A General Optimization Framework for Multi-Document Summarization Using Genetic Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence Maxime Peyrard and Judith Eckle-Kohler
• Not there yet? A Systematic Analysis of Encoder-Decoder Neural Models and Traditional Sequence-to-Sequence Models Carsten Schnober, Steffen Eger, Erik-Lân Do Dinh and Iryna Gurevych
• Task-Oriented Intrinsic Evaluation of Semantic Textual Similarity Nils Reimers, Philip Beyer and Iryna Gurevych
• The Next Step for Multi-Document Summarization: A Heterogeneous Multi-Genre Corpus Built with a Novel Construction Approach Markus Zopf, Maxime Peyrard and Judith Eckle-Kohler (Joint work with the Knowledge Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt)

One additional paper co-authored by UKP member Steffen Eger is based on work from his previous employment at the University of Frankfurt:

• Language classification from bilingual word embedding graphs Steffen Eger and Armin Hoenen