Accepted Papers – ALTA 2020

The following papers have been accepted for oral or poster presentation at ALTA 2020.

Long Papers: Oral and Poster Presentations

Farhad Moghimifar, Gholamreza Haffari and Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
Domain Adaptative Causality Encoder.
Thushari Atapattu, Mahen Herath, Georgia Zhang and Katrina Falkner
Automated Detection of Cyberbullying Against Women and Immigrants and Cross-domain Adaptability.
Shunichi Ishihara
The Influence of Background Data Size on the Performance of a Score-based Likelihood Ratio System: A Case of Forensic Text Comparison.
Michael Carne and Shunichi Ishihara
Feature-Based Forensic Text Comparison Using a Poisson Model for Likelihood Ratio Estimation.
Saliha Muradoglu, Nicholas Evans and Ekaterina Vylomova
Modelling Verbal Morphology in Nen.
Xinyuan Chao, Charbel El-Khaissi, Nicholas Kuo, Priscilla Kan John and Hanna Suominen
An Automatic Vowel Space Generator for Language Learner Pronunciation Acquisition and Correction.
Abhishek Das and Wei Emma Zhang
ABSA-Bench: Towards the Unified Evaluation of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Research.
Li'An Chen, Inger Mewburn and Hanna Suonimen
A machine-learning based model to identify PhD-level skills in job ads.

Farhad Moghimifar, Afshin Rahimi, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh and Xue Li
Learning Causal Bayesian Networks from Text.
Meladel Mistica, Geordie Z. Zhang, Hui Chia, Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, Rohit Kumar Gupta, Saket Khandelwal, Jeannie Paterson, Timothy Baldwin and Daniel Beck
Information Extraction from Legal Documents: A Study in the Context of Common Law Court Judgements.
Yuting Guo, Xiangjue Dong, Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi, Abeed Sarker, Cecile Paris and Diego Mollá Aliod
Benchmarking of Transformer-Based Pre-Trained Models on Social Media Text Classification Datasets.
Vincent Nguyen, Maciek Rybinski, Sarvnaz Karimi and Zhenchang Xing
Pandemic Literature Search: Finding Information on COVID-19.
Gabriela Ferraro and Hanna Suominen
Transformer Semantic Parsing.
Aaron Keesing, Ian Watson and Michael Witbrock
Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks for Spoken Emotion Recognition.
Kotaro Kitayama, Shivashankar Subramanian and Timothy Baldwin
Popularity Prediction of Online Petitions using a Multimodal DeepRegression Model.
Andrei Shcherbakov, Saliha Muradoglu and Ekaterina Vylomova
Exploring Looping Effects in RNN-based Architectures.

Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Nazanin Esmaili, Gholamreza Haffari and Massimo Piccardi
Leveraging Discourse Rewards for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation.
Ming-Bin Chen and Michael Witbrock
The Open Domain Interviewing Agent.
Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ben Hachey and Cecile Paris
Cost-effective Selection of Pretraining Data: A Case Study of Pretraining BERT on Social Media.

Xiang Dai
Recognizing Biomedical Names: Challenges and Solutions.
Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor
Ngana Wubulku Junkurr-Jiku Balkaway-Ka: The Intergenerational Co-Design of a Tangible Technology to Keep Active Use of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal Language Strong.
Tingmin Wu
Automatic Generation of Security-Centric Description for Cyber Threats.