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Amii research papers accepted at EMNLP 2020

Amii commends the involvement of our researchers in this year’s conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), taking place November 16-20.

The EMNLP is a leading conference in the area of natural language processing (NLP), organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), an international scientific society for those working on computational problems involving human language.

Four Amii Fellows – all professors at the University of Alberta – are co-authors on two papers this year:

Main Conference Paper

Improving Word Sense Disambiguation with Translations
Authors:
Yixing Luan, Bradley Hauer, Lili Mou (Canada CIFAR AI Chair) and Grzegorz Kondrak
Q&A Session on November 17, 8 a.m. MDT

Findings Paper

From Language to Language-ish: How Brain-Like is an LSTM's Representation of Nonsensical Language Stimuli?
Authors:
Maryam Hashemzadeh, Greta Kaufeld, Martha White (Canada CIFAR AI Chair), Andrea E. Martin and Alona Fyshe (Canada CIFAR AI Chair)
Q&A Session at CoNLL on November 20, 12 p.m. MDT


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