Publications
The list includes conferences, journals, workshops, and tutorials.
For a categorized list of publications, see my CV.
Database-aware ASR Error Correction For Speech-to-SQL Parsing
Yutong Shao, Arun Kumar, Ndapa Nakashole
ICASSP 2023
Advances in NLP and their Applications to Healthcare
Ndapa Nakashole
NeurIPS tutorials 2022
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
EMNLP 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
