Volume 29 Number 1 (Journal of NLP)

ISSN 1340-7619
Journal of Natural Language Processing Volume 29 Number 1

Table of Contents

Preface

[title in Japanese] [in Japanese] 1

General Paper


Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation using a Source and Reference Sentence with a Cross-lingual Language Model Kosuke Takahashi, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura 3
Nested Named Entity Recognition via Explicitly Excluding the Influence of the Best Path Yiran Wang, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yuji Matsumoto and Taro Watanabe 23
Evaluating Dialogue Response Generation Systems via Response Selection with Well-chosen False Candidates Shiki Sato, Reina Akama, Hiroki Ouchi, Jun Suzuki and Kentaro Inui 53
Construction and Analysis of a Dialogue Corpus with Paraphrase Pairs of Indirect and Direct Responses Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Yuki Arase 84
Joint Optimization of Word Segmentation and Downstream Model using Downstream Loss Tatsuya Hiraoka, Sho Takase, Kei Uchiumi, Atsushi Keyaki and Naoaki Okazaki 112
Quantifying Appropriateness of Summarization Data for Curriculum Learning Ryuji Kano, Tomoki Taniguchi and Tomoko Ohkuma 144
Improving Conversation Task with Visual Scene Dataset Abdurrisyad Fikri, Hiep V. Le, Takashi Miyazaki, Manabu Okumura and Nobuyuki Shimizu 166
Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction Using Enhanced Table Filling by Contextualized Representations Youmi Ma, Tatsuya Hiraoka and Naoaki Okazaki 187

Society Column


The Construction of the full version of the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation Hanae Koiso 224
ACL Rolling Review: A New Format For Centralized Peer Review Raj Dabre 230
Summarize-then-Answer: Generating Concise Explanations for Multi-hop Reading Comprehension Naoya Inoue 237
Pseudo Zero Pronoun Resolution Improves Zero Anaphora Resolution Ryuto Konno 243
What I have learned from the research of "SHAPE: Shifted Absolute Position Embedding for Transformers" Shun Kiyono 248
Modeling Human Sentence Processing with Left-Corner Recurrent Neural Network Grammars Ryo Yoshida 253
Low-resouce Taxonomy Enrichment with Pretrained Language Models Kunihiro Takeoka 259
Convex Aggregation for Opinion Summarization Hayate Iso 264
Exploring Methods for Generating Feedback Comments for Writing Learning Kazuaki Hanawa 270

Editorial Note

Hirotaka Kameko and Hiroaki Sugiyama 275

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