Daniel Dahlmeier


2023

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WAMP: Writing, Annotation, and Marking Platform
Geonsik Moon | Muhammad Reza Qorib | Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

2019

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An Interactive Multi-Task Learning Network for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Ruidan He | Wee Sun Lee | Hwee Tou Ng | Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Aspect-based sentiment analysis produces a list of aspect terms and their corresponding sentiments for a natural language sentence. This task is usually done in a pipeline manner, with aspect term extraction performed first, followed by sentiment predictions toward the extracted aspect terms. While easier to develop, such an approach does not fully exploit joint information from the two subtasks and does not use all available sources of training information that might be helpful, such as document-level labeled sentiment corpus. In this paper, we propose an interactive multi-task learning network (IMN) which is able to jointly learn multiple related tasks simultaneously at both the token level as well as the document level. Unlike conventional multi-task learning methods that rely on learning common features for the different tasks, IMN introduces a message passing architecture where information is iteratively passed to different tasks through a shared set of latent variables. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance of the proposed method against multiple baselines on three benchmark datasets.

2018

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Effective Attention Modeling for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification
Ruidan He | Wee Sun Lee | Hwee Tou Ng | Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Aspect-level sentiment classification aims to determine the sentiment polarity of a review sentence towards an opinion target. A sentence could contain multiple sentiment-target pairs; thus the main challenge of this task is to separate different opinion contexts for different targets. To this end, attention mechanism has played an important role in previous state-of-the-art neural models. The mechanism is able to capture the importance of each context word towards a target by modeling their semantic associations. We build upon this line of research and propose two novel approaches for improving the effectiveness of attention. First, we propose a method for target representation that better captures the semantic meaning of the opinion target. Second, we introduce an attention model that incorporates syntactic information into the attention mechanism. We experiment on attention-based LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) models using the datasets from SemEval 2014, 2015, and 2016. The experimental results show that the conventional attention-based LSTM can be substantially improved by incorporating the two approaches.

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Exploiting Document Knowledge for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification
Ruidan He | Wee Sun Lee | Hwee Tou Ng | Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Attention-based long short-term memory (LSTM) networks have proven to be useful in aspect-level sentiment classification. However, due to the difficulties in annotating aspect-level data, existing public datasets for this task are all relatively small, which largely limits the effectiveness of those neural models. In this paper, we explore two approaches that transfer knowledge from document-level data, which is much less expensive to obtain, to improve the performance of aspect-level sentiment classification. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches on 4 public datasets from SemEval 2014, 2015, and 2016, and we show that attention-based LSTM benefits from document-level knowledge in multiple ways.

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Adaptive Semi-supervised Learning for Cross-domain Sentiment Classification
Ruidan He | Wee Sun Lee | Hwee Tou Ng | Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

We consider the cross-domain sentiment classification problem, where a sentiment classifier is to be learned from a source domain and to be generalized to a target domain. Our approach explicitly minimizes the distance between the source and the target instances in an embedded feature space. With the difference between source and target minimized, we then exploit additional information from the target domain by consolidating the idea of semi-supervised learning, for which, we jointly employ two regularizations — entropy minimization and self-ensemble bootstrapping — to incorporate the unlabeled target data for classifier refinement. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can better leverage unlabeled data from the target domain and achieve substantial improvements over baseline methods in various experimental settings.

2017

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An Unsupervised Neural Attention Model for Aspect Extraction
Ruidan He | Wee Sun Lee | Hwee Tou Ng | Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Aspect extraction is an important and challenging task in aspect-based sentiment analysis. Existing works tend to apply variants of topic models on this task. While fairly successful, these methods usually do not produce highly coherent aspects. In this paper, we present a novel neural approach with the aim of discovering coherent aspects. The model improves coherence by exploiting the distribution of word co-occurrences through the use of neural word embeddings. Unlike topic models which typically assume independently generated words, word embedding models encourage words that appear in similar contexts to be located close to each other in the embedding space. In addition, we use an attention mechanism to de-emphasize irrelevant words during training, further improving the coherence of aspects. Experimental results on real-life datasets demonstrate that our approach discovers more meaningful and coherent aspects, and substantially outperforms baseline methods on several evaluation tasks.

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On the Challenges of Translating NLP Research into Commercial Products
Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

This paper highlights challenges in industrial research related to translating research in natural language processing into commercial products. While the interest in natural language processing from industry is significant, the transfer of research to commercial products is non-trivial and its challenges are often unknown to or underestimated by many researchers. I discuss current obstacles and provide suggestions for increasing the chances for translating research to commercial success based on my experience in industrial research.

2016

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Recursive Neural Conditional Random Fields for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
Wenya Wang | Sinno Jialin Pan | Daniel Dahlmeier | Xiaokui Xiao
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2014

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Learning the Peculiar Value of Actions
Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2014)

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SAP-RI: A Constrained and Supervised Approach for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Naveen Nandan | Daniel Dahlmeier | Akriti Vij | Nishtha Malhotra
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014)

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SAP-RI: Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Two Days
Akriti Vij | Nishta Malhotra | Naveen Nandan | Daniel Dahlmeier
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014)

2013

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Building a Large Annotated Corpus of Learner English: The NUS Corpus of Learner English
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng | Siew Mei Wu
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

2012

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NUS at the HOO 2012 Shared Task
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng | Eric Jun Feng Ng
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP

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Better Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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A Beam-Search Decoder for Grammatical Error Correction
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

2011

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Correcting Semantic Collocation Errors with L1-induced Paraphrases
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Better Evaluation Metrics Lead to Better Machine Translation
Chang Liu | Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Grammatical Error Correction with Alternating Structure Optimization
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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TESLA at WMT 2011: Translation Evaluation and Tunable Metric
Daniel Dahlmeier | Chang Liu | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

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NUS at the HOO 2011 Pilot Shared Task
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng | Thanh Phu Tran
Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

2010

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PEM: A Paraphrase Evaluation Metric Exploiting Parallel Texts
Chang Liu | Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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TESLA: Translation Evaluation of Sentences with Linear-Programming-Based Analysis
Chang Liu | Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng
Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR

2009

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Joint Learning of Preposition Senses and Semantic Roles of Prepositional Phrases
Daniel Dahlmeier | Hwee Tou Ng | Tanja Schultz
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing