Martín Villalba


2018

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The ACL Anthology: Current State and Future Directions
Daniel Gildea | Min-Yen Kan | Nitin Madnani | Christoph Teichmann | Martín Villalba
Proceedings of Workshop for NLP Open Source Software (NLP-OSS)

The Association of Computational Linguistic’s Anthology is the open source archive, and the main source for computational linguistics and natural language processing’s scientific literature. The ACL Anthology is currently maintained exclusively by community volunteers and has to be available and up-to-date at all times. We first discuss the current, open source approach used to achieve this, and then discuss how the planned use of Docker images will improve the Anthology’s long-term stability. This change will make it easier for researchers to utilize Anthology data for experimentation. We believe the ACL community can directly benefit from the extension-friendly architecture of the Anthology. We end by issuing an open challenge of reviewer matching we encourage the community to rally towards.

2017

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Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions
Martín Villalba | Christoph Teichmann | Alexander Koller
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

The referring expressions (REs) produced by a natural language generation (NLG) system can be misunderstood by the hearer, even when they are semantically correct. In an interactive setting, the NLG system can try to recognize such misunderstandings and correct them. We present an algorithm for generating corrective REs that use contrastive focus (“no, the BLUE button”) to emphasize the information the hearer most likely misunderstood. We show empirically that these contrastive REs are preferred over REs without contrast marking.

2015

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The Impact of Listener Gaze on Predicting Reference Resolution
Nikolina Koleva | Martín Villalba | Maria Staudte | Alexander Koller
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)

2013

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Predicting the Resolution of Referring Expressions from User Behavior
Nikos Engonopoulos | Martín Villalba | Ivan Titov | Alexander Koller
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2012

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Corpus-based Interpretation of Instructions in Virtual Environments
Luciana Benotti | Martín Villalba | Tessa Lau | Julián Cerruti
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)