Publications

2018
  • Entity-aware Image Caption Generation
    Di Lu, Spencer Whitehead, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
    Accepted by the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018)

  • Visual Attention Model for Name Tagging in Multimodal Social Media
    Di Lu, Leonardo Neves, Vitor Carvalho, Ning Zhang, Heng Ji
    In proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018)

  • Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language
    Ying Lin, Cash Costello, Boliang Zhang, Di Lu, Heng Ji, James Mayfield and Paul McNamee
    In proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Demo Track (ACL 2018)

  • ELISA-EDL: A Cross-lingual Entity Extraction, Linking and Localization System
    Boliang Zhang, Ying Lin, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight and Heng Ji
    In proceedings of the North American Chapter of the ACL - Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018)
    [paper]

2017
  • Embracing Non-Traditional Linguistic Resources for Low-resource Language Name Tagging
    Boliang Zhang, Di Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Ying Lin, Halidanmu Abudukelimu, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight
    In proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017)
    [paper]

  • ELISA System Description for LoReHLT 2017
    Leon Cheung, Thamme Gowda, Ulf Hermjakob, Nelson Liu, Jonathan May, Alexandra Mayn, Nima Pourdamghani, Michael Pust, Kevin Knight, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Anil Ramakrishna, Karan Singla, Victor Martinez, Colin Vaz, Dogan Can, Shrikanth Narayanan, Kenton Murray, Toan Nguyen, David Chiang, Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Ying Lin, Di Lu, Lifu Huang, Kevin Blissett, Tongtao Zhang, Heng Ji, Ondrej Glembek, Murali Karthick Baskar, Santosh Kesiraju, Lukas Burget, Karel Benes, Igor Szoke, Karel Vesely, Jan ``Honza'' Cernocky, Camille Goudeseune, Mark Hasegawa Johnson, Leda Sari, Wenda Chen and Angli Liu
    In proceedings of the LoReHLT2017
    [paper]

  • TinkerBell: Cross-lingual Cold-Start Knowledge Base Construction
    Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Jason Bolton, Arun Tejavsi Chaganty, Kevin Clark, Craig Harman, Lifu Huang, Matthew Lamm, Jinhao Lei, Di Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Ashwin Paranjape, Ellie Pavlick, Haoruo Peng, Peng Qi, Pushpendre Rastogi, Abigail See, Kai Sun, Max Thomas, Chen-Tse Tsai, Hao Wu, Boliang Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch, Claire Cardie, Heng Ji, Christopher Manning, Smaranda Muresan, Owen C. Rambow, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, Benjamin Van Durme
    In proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC2017)
    [paper]

  • Team ELISA System for DARPA LORELEI Speech Evaluation 2016
    Pavlos Papadopoulos, Ruchir Travadi, Colin Vaz, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Ulf Hermjakob, Nima Pourdamghani, Michael Pust, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Ying Lin, Ondrej Glembek, Murali Karthick B, Martin Karafiat, Lukas Burget, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Heng Ji, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight and Shrikanth Narayanan
    In proceedings of the Interspeech2017
    [paper]

  • Incident-Driven Machine Translation and Name Tagging for Low-resource Languages
    Ulf Hermjakob, Qiang Li, Daniel Marcu, Jonathan May, Sebastian J. Mielke, Nima Pourdamghani, Michael Pust, Xing Shi, Kevin Knight, Tomer Levinboim, Kenton Murray, David Chiang, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Ying Lin and Heng Ji
    Machine Translation
    [paper]

2016
  • A Multi-media Approach to Cross-lingual Entity Knowledge Transfer
    Di Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Nima Pourdamghani, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji and Kevin Knight
    In proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016)
    [paper]

  • Cross-media Event Extraction and Recommendation
    Di Lu, Clare Voss, Fangbo Tao, Xiang Ren, Rachel Guan, Rostyslav Korolov, Tongtao Zhang, Dongang Wang, Hongzhi Li, Taylor Cassidy, Heng Ji, Shih-fu Chang, Jiawei Han, William Wallace, James Hendler, Mei Si and Lance Kaplan
    In proceedings of the North American Chapter of the ACL - Human Language Technologies Demo Track (NAACL-HLT 2016)
    [paper] [demo]

  • RPI_BLENDER TAC-KBP2016 System Description
    Dian Yu, Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Lifu Huang, Di Lu, Spencer Whitehead and Heng Ji
    In proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC2016)

  • ELISA System Description for LoReHLT 2016
    Ulf Hermjakob, Qiang Li, Jonathan May, Sebastian Mielke, Nima Pourdamghani, Michael Pust, Xing Shi, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Anil Ramakrishna, Victor Martinez, Elisabeth Staruk, Tanner Sorensen, Dogan Can, Shrikanth Narayanan, Tomer Levinboim, Kenton Murray, David Chiang, Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Lifu Huang, Xiaocheng Feng and Heng Ji
    In proceedings of the NIST LoReHLT 2016 Workshop

  • On Predicting Social Unrest Using Social Media
    Rostyslav Korolov, Di Lu, Jingjing Wang, Guangyu Zhou, Claire Bonial, Clare Voss, Lance Kaplan, William Wallace, Jiawei Han and Heng Ji
    In proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks and Mining (ASONAM2016)

2015
  • RPI_BLENDER TAC-KBP2015 System Description
    Yu Hong, Di Lu, Dian Yu, Xiaoman Pan, Xiaobin Wang, Yadong Chen, Lifu Huang and Heng Ji
    In proceedings of Text Analysis Conference (TAC2015)