Volume 28 Number 1 (Journal of NLP)

ISSN 1340-7619
Journal of Natural Language Processing Volume 28 Number 1

Table of Contents

Preface

[title in Japanese] [in Japanese] 1

General Paper


A Data-Oriented Approach for Closed-Book Question Answering Masatoshi Suzuki, Koji Matsuda, Hiroki Ouchi, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui 3
Relationship Between Coherence of Sequential Events and Dialogue Continuity in Conversational Response Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura 26
Opposite Information Annotation on ‘Word List by Semantic Principles’ Sachi Kato, Masayuki Asahara, Nanami Moriyama, Asami Ogiwara, Makoto Yamazaki 60
Sub-Subword N-Gram Features for Subword-Level Neural Machine Translation Ander Martinez, Katsuhito Sudoh, Yuji Matsumoto 82
Dialogue Management by Estimating User’s Internal State Using the Movie Recommendation Dialogue Takashi Kodama, Ribeka Tanaka, Sadao Kurohashi 104
Collection of Meta Information with User-Generated Question Answer Pairs and its Reflection for Improving Expressibility in Response Generation Takashi Kodama, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Koh Mitsuda, Ryo Masumura, Yushi Aono, Ryuta Nakamura, Noritake Adachi, Hidetoshi Kawabata 136
Cross-Sectional Evaluation of Grammatical Error Correction Models Masato Mita, Tomoya Mizumoto, Masahiro Kaneko, Ryo Nagata, Kentaro Inui 160
Data Augmentation by Rubrics for Short Answer Grading Tianqi Wang, Hiroaki Funayama, Hiroki Ouchi, Kentaro Inui 183
Reflection-based Word Attribute Transfer Yoichi Ishibashi, Katsuhito Sudoh, Koichiro Yoshino, Satoshi Nakamura 206
Compact Word Embeddings Based on Global Similarity Sora Ohashi, Mao Isogawa, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase 235

Society Column


Report on the Symposiums of Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies Sho Takase 253
A Visually-grounded First-person Dialogue Dataset with Verbal and Non-verbal Responses Hisashi Kamezawa 259
You May Like This Hotel Because ...: Identifying Evidence for Explainable Recommendations Shin Kanouchi 264
Seeking an Ideal Phrase Alignment Method Yuki Arase 270
Stronger Baselines for Grammatical Error Correction Using a Pretrained Encoder-Decoder Model Satoru Katsumata 276
Latent Geographical Factors for Analyzing the Evolution of Dialects in Contact Yugo Murawaki 281
A Method for Building a Commonsense Inference Dataset based on Basic Events Kazumasa Omura 287
Attention is Not Only a Weight: Analyzing Transformers with Vector Norms Goro Kobayashi 292

Supporting Member Column


Applying Natural Language Processing in a Cloud-based Business Card Management Service Kanji Takahashi, Tomonori Manabe 297


Editorial Note

Chenhui Chu 302

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