Publications
The list includes conferences, journals, workshops, and tutorials.
For a categorized list of publications, see my CV.
- 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 (to appear)
- 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 Ndana Nakashole
- COLING 2022 (to appear)
- 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
