Stanford linguists at the NAACL-HLT

Several Stanford linguists, alongside their interdisciplinary associates, will be making their way to Minneapolis, MN, for the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) taking place from June 2-7.

• Ignacio Cases, Clemens Rosenbaum, Matthew Riemer, Atticus Geiger, Tim Klinger, Alex Tamkin, Olivia Li, Sandhini Agarwal, Joshua D. Greene, Dan Jurafsky, Chris Potts, and Lauri Karttunen will be presenting "Recursive Routing Networks: Learning to Compose Modules for Language Understanding."
• "Analyzing Polarization in Social Media: Method and Application to Tweets on 21 Mass Shootings" will be presented by Dorottya Demszky, Nikhil Gag, Rob Voigt, James Zou, Jesse Shapiro, Matthew Gentzkow, and Dan Jurafsky.
• "Let's Make Your Request More Persuasive: Modeling Persuasive Strategies via Semi-Supervised Neural Nets on Crowdfunding Platforms" will be presented by Diyi Yang, Jiaao Chen, Zichao Yang, Dan Jurafsky, and Eduard Hovy.

At an associated workshop at NAACL-HLT, Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, Sebastian Schuster and Judith Degen presented a poster on "A computational model of listener adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions," and alumnus Robin Melnick and Professor Emeritus Tom Wasow gave a talk on "Priming vs. Inhibition of Optional Infinitival 'to'.”

Sebastian also presented a paper "Cross-lingual Transfer Learning for Multilingual Task Oriented Dialog" at NAACL.