Publications

The list includes conferences, journals, workshops, and tutorials.

For a categorized list of publications, see my CV.

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• Advances in NLP and their Applications to Healthcare
• Ndapa Nakashole
• NeurIPS Tutorials 2022 (to appear)
• Structured Data Representation in Natural Language Interfaces
• Yutong Shao, Arun Kumar, Ndapa Nakashole
• IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, September 2022
• Medical Question Understanding and Answering with Knowledge Grounding and Semantic Self-Supervision
• Khalil Mrini, Harpreet Singh, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, and Ndapa Nakashole
• COLING 2022

• Data Augmentation for Rare Symptoms in Vaccine Side-Effect Detection
• Bosung Kim, Ndapa Nakashole
• BioNLP 2022
• A Grounded Well-being Conversational Agent with Multiple Interaction Modes: Preliminary Results
  Xinxin Yan, Ndapa Nakashole
  NLP for Positive Impact Workshop (NLP4PI) at ACL 2021
• Recursive Tree-Structured Self-Attention for Answer Sentence Selection
  Khalil Mrini, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
  ACL 2021
• A Gradually Soft Multi-Task and Data-Augmented Approach to Medical Question Understanding
  Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, S. Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
  ACL 2021
• Interactive Plot Manipulation using Natural Language code
  Yihan Wang, Yutong Shao, and Ndapa Nakashole
  NAACL 2021 (Demos)
• Joint Summarization-Entailment Optimization for Consumer Health Question Understanding
  Khalil Mrini, Dernoncourt, F., Chang, W., Farcas, E., Nakashole, N.
  NAACL Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Medical Conversations
  NLPMC 2021
• UCSD-Adobe at MEDIQA 2021: Transfer Learning and Answer Sentence
  Mrini, K., Dernoncourt, F., Yoon, S., Bui, T., Chang, W., Farcas, E., Nakashole, N.
  NAACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing
  BioNLP 2021
• Medical Question Understanding and Answering for Older Adults
  Mrini, K., Chen, C., Nakashole, N., Weibel, N., Farcas, E.
  SoCal NLP 2021

• Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability for Neural Parsing code
  Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Tran, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, and Ndapa Nakashole.
  EMNLP 2020 (Findings)
• ChartDialogs: Plotting from Natural Language Instructions, code dataset
  Yutong Shao and Ndapa Nakashole
  ACL 2020
• Voice-Based Conversational Agents for Older Adults
  Janet Johnson, Khalil Mrini, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, and Emilia Farcas
  Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing Workshop
  at CHI 2020
• Commonsense about Human Senses: Labeled Data Collection Processes
  Ndapa Nakashole
  Workshop on COmmonsense INference in NLP (COIN)
  at EMNLP 2019
• Dialog Data Collection for an Interactive Plotting Agent
  Yutong Shao and Ndapa Nakashole
  SoCal NLP Symposium, 2019
• Highlights of Attention Mechanisms for Model Interpretability
  Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, and Ndapa Nakashole
  SoCal NLP Symposium, 2019
• Fine-Grained Spoiler Detection from Large-Scale Review Corpora
  Mengting Wan, Rishabh Misra, Ndapa Nakashole, Julian J. McAuley
  ACL 2019
• NORMA: Neighborhood Sensitive Maps for Multilingual Word Embeddings
  Ndapa Nakashole
  EMNLP 2018
• Characterizing Departures from Linearity in Word Translation
  Ndapa Nakashole and Raphael Flauger
  ACL 2018
• Never-Ending Learning
  Tom M. Mitchell, W. Cohen, E. Hruschka, P. Talukdar, B. Yang, J. Betteridge, A. Carlson, B. Dalvi, M. Gardner, B. Kisiel, J. Krishnamurthy, N. Lao, K. Mazaitis, T. Mohamed, N. Nakashole, E. Platanios, A. Ritter, M. Samadi, B. Settles, R. Wang, D. Wijaya, A. Gupta, X. Chen, A. Saparov, M. Greaves, J. Welling
  Communications of the ACM, 61(5), pp. 103-115, May 2018.
• Knowledge Distillation for Bilingual Dictionary Induction
  Ndapa Nakashole and Raphael Flauger
  EMNLP 2017
• Discovering Sound Concepts and Acoustic Relations In Text
  Anurag Kumar, Bhiksha Raj, Ndapandula Nakashole
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP 2017
• Machine Reading with Background Knowledge
  Ndapandula Nakashole and Tom Mitchell
  arxiv pre-print, 2016
• A Knowledge-Intensive Model for Prepositional Phrase Attachment
  Ndapandula Nakashole and Tom M. Mitchell
  ACL 2015
• Learning State Changing Verbs from Wikipedia Revision History
  Derry Wijaya, Ndapandula Nakashole, Tom M. Mitchell
  EMNP 2015
• Never-Ending Learning
  Tom M. Mitchell, W. Cohen, E. Hruschka, P. Talukdar, J. Betteridge, A. Carlson, B. Dalvi, M. Gardner, B. Kisiel, J. Krishnamurthy, N. Lao, K. Mazaitis, T. Mohamed, N. Nakashole, E. Platanios, A. Ritter, M. Samadi, B. Settles, R. Wang, D. Wijaya, A. Gupta, X. Chen, A. Saparov, M. Greaves, J. Welling
  AAAI 2015
• Composite Events: A Fact-based Representation
  Ndapandula Nakashole
  iConference 2015
• Micro Reading with Priors: Towards Second Generation Machine Readers
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Tom M. Mitchell
  AKBC Workshop at NIPS 2014
• Mining and Organizing a Resource of State-changing Verbs
  Derry Wijaya, Ndapandula Nakashole, Tom M. Mitchell
  AKBC Workshop at NIPS 2014
• CTPs: Contextual Temporal Profiles for Time Scoping Facts using State Change Detection
  Derry Wijaya, Ndapandula Nakashole, Tom M. Mitchell
  EMNLP 2014 
• Language-Aware Truth Assessment of Fact Candidates
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Tom M. Mitchell
  ACL 2014 
• Discovering Semantic Relations from the Web and Organizing them with PATTY
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian Suchanek
  SIGMOD Record 2013 
• Fine-grained Semantic Typing of Emerging Entities
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Tomasz Tylenda, Gerhard Weikum
  ACL 2013
• Automatic Extraction of Facts, Relations, and Entities for Web-scale Knowledge Base Population
  Ndapandula Nakashole
  PhD thesis, December 2012
• Big Data Methods for Computational Linguistics
  Gerhard Weikum, Johannes Hoffart, Ndapandula Nakashole, Marc Spaniol, Fabian Suchanek, Mohamed Amir Yosef
  IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin Vol.35 No.3, September 2012 
• PATTY: A Taxonomy of Relational Patterns with Semantic Types
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum and Fabian Suchanek
  Best paper 2nd runner-up, Data
  EMNLP 2012
• Discovering and Exploring Relations on the Web
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian M. Suchanek
  VLDB 2012 (system demo) 
• Real-time Population of Knowledge Bases: Opportunities and Challenges
  Ndapandula Nakashole and Gerhard Weikum
  Best paper award
  AKBC Workshop at NAACL-HLT 2012
• Query-Time Reasoning in Uncertain RDF Knowledge Bases with Soft and Hard Rules
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Mauro Sozio, Fabian Suchanek and Martin Theobald
  The VLDS Workshop at VLDB 2012
• Scalable Knowledge Harvesting with High Precision and High Recall
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Martin Theobald and Gerhard Weikum
  WSDM 2011
• Find your Advisor: Robust Knowledge Gathering from the Web
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Martin Theobald and Gerhard Weikum.
  WebDB Workshop at SIGMOD 2010 
• A Hybrid Distributed Architecture for Indexing
  Ndapandula Nakashole and Hussein Suleman
  ECDL 2009
• A Scavenger Grid for Intranet Indexing
  Ndapandula Nakashole and Hussein Suleman
  ICADL 2008

• Dynamic Role Allocation for Small Search Engine Clusters
  Ndapandula Nakashole, Hussein Suleman and Calvin Pedzai
  SAICSIT 2007

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