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Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Shafiq Joty, Xiang Lin. Rethinking Self-Supervision Objectives for Generalizable Coherence Modeling. 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), 2022.

Shankar Kanthara, Rixie Tiffany Ko Leong, Xiang Lin, Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty. Chart-to-Text: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Chart Summarization. The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’22), 2022.

Mathieu Ravaut, Shafiq Joty, Nancy F. Chen. SummaReranker: A Multi-Task Mixture-of-Experts Re-ranking Framework for Abstractive Summarization. 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), 2022.

Xiang Lin, Simeng Han, Shafiq Joty. Straight to the Gradient: Learning to Use Novel Tokens for Neural Text Generation. The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’21), 2021.

Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Wu Kui, Ai Ti Aw. Cross-model Back-translated Distillation for Unsupervised Machine Translation. 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021, 2021.

M Saiful Bari, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Shafiq Joty. UXLA: A Robust Unsupervised Data Augmentation Framework for Cross-Lingual NLP. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2021.

Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Xiaoli Li. RST Parsing from Scratch. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2021.

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Tasnim Mohiuddin, M Saiful Bari, Shafiq Joty. AugVic: Exploiting BiText Vicinity for Low-Resource NMT. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP, 2021.

Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Wu Kui, Ai Ti Aw. Data Diversification: A Simple Strategy For Neural Machine Translation. 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), 2020.

Bosheng Ding, Linlin Liu, Lidong Bing, Canasai Kruengkrai, Thien Hai Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Luo Si, Chunyan Miao. DAGA: Data Augmentation with a Generation Approach for Low-resource Tagging Tasks. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020.

Tao Yu, Shafiq Joty. Online Conversation Disentanglement with Pointer Networks. The Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020.

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Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Shafiq Joty, Youlin Shen. Pronoun-Targeted Fine-tuning for NMT with Hybrid Losses. The Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020.

M Saiful Bari, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Shafiq Joty. MultiMix: A Robust Data Augmentation Strategy for Cross-Lingual NLP. preprint, 2020.

Lorainne Car, Dhakshenya Dhinagaran, Bhone Kyaw, Tobias Kowatsch, Shafiq Joty, Yin Theng, Rifat Atun. Conversational agents in healthcare: a scoping review and conceptual analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research (forthcoming) 2020, 2020.

Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Shafiq Joty, Kam-Fai Wong. An Attention-based Rumor Detection Model with Tree-structured Recursive Neural Networks. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2020.

Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Xiaoli Li. Efficient Constituency Parsing by Pointing. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’20), 2020.

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Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Xiaoli Li. Differentiable Window for Dynamic Local Attention. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’20), 2020.

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Simeng Han, Xiang Lin, Shafiq Joty. Resurrecting Submodularity for Neural Text Generation. preprint, 2020.

Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Irwin King, Michael Lyu, Steven C.H.. EMT: Explicit Memory Tracker with Coarse-to-Fine Reasoning for Conversational Machine Reading. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’20), 2020.

Yue Wang, Shafiq Joty, Michael R., Irwin King, Caiming Xiong, Steven C.H.. VD-BERT: A Unified Vision and Dialog Transformer with BERT. preprint, 2020.

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Min-Yen Kan, Richard Socher. It's 'Morphin' Time! Combating Linguistic Discrimination with Inflectional Perturbations. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020.

Xiangxi Shi, Xu Yang, Jiuxiang Gu, Shafiq Joty, Jianfei Cai.. Finding It at Another Side: A Viewpoint-Adapted Matching Encoder for Change Captioning. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.

Samson Tan, Shafiq Joty, Lav R., Min-Yen Kan. Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard English with Base-Inflection Encoding. Prepring, 2020.

Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Barbara Rychalska, Shafiq Joty, Dominika Basaj. Can Your Context-Aware MT System Pass the DiP Benchmark Tests? : Evaluation Benchmarks for Discourse Phenomena in Machine Translation. arXiv, 2020.

Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Steven C.H. Hoi, Richard Socher. Tree-Structured Attention with Hierarchical Accumulation. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, 2020.

M Saiful Bari, Shafiq Joty, Prathyusha Jwalapuram. Zero-Resource Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020.

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Linlin Liu, Xiang Lin, Shafiq Joty, Han Simeng, Lidong Bing. Hierarchical Pointer Net Parsing. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019.

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Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Shafiq Joty, Irina Temnikova, Preslav Nakov. Evaluating Pronominal Anaphora in Machine Translation: An Evaluation Measure and a Test Suite. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019.

Han Cheol Moon, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Shafiq Joty, Xu Chi. A Unified Neural Coherence Model. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019.

Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Shafiq Joty, Kam-Fai Wong. Sentence-Level Evidence Embedding for End-to-End Claim Verification with Hierarchical Attention Networks. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, 2019.

Xiang Lin, Shafiq Joty, Prathyusha Jwalapuram, M Saiful Bari. A Unified Linear-Time Framework for Sentence-Level Discourse Parsing. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, 2019.

Jiuxiang Gu, Shafiq Joty, Jianfei Cai, Handong Zhao, Xu Yang, Gang Wang. Unpaired Image Captioning via Scene Graph Alignments. In arXiv (* not peer reviewed)., 2019.

Tasnim Mohiuddin, Shafiq Joty. Revisiting Adversarial Autoencoder for Unsupervised Word Translation with Cycle Consistency and Improved Training. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2019.

Siyuan Liu, Sourav S, Wanlu Zhang, Shu Wang, Wanyi Huang, Shafiq Joty. NEURON: Query Execution Plan Meets Natural Language Processing For Augmenting DB Education (Demo). In Proceedings of 45th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2019.

Karan Aggarwal, Shafiq Joty, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Jaideep Srivastava. Adversarial Unsupervised Representation Learning for Activity Time-Series. In Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

Tasnim Mohiuddin, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Shafiq Joty. Adaptation of Hierarchical Structured Models for Speech Act Recognition in Asynchronous Conversation.. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2019.

Sameer Khurana, Shafiq Joty, Ahmed Ali, James Glass. A Fatorial Deep Markov Model For Unsupervised Disentangled Representation Learning From Speech. In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019.

Chin Yao, Kaiqi Zhao, Shafiq Joty, Gao Cong. Aspect-based Neural Recommender. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’18), 2018.

Tasnim Mohiuddin, Shafiq Joty, Dat Nguyen. Coherence Modeling of Asynchronous Conversations: A Neural Entity Grid Approach. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’18), 2018.

Jing Li, Aixin Sun, Shafiq Joty. SegBot: A Generic Neural Text Segmentation Model with Pointer Network. Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence), (IJCAI-ECAI-2018), 2018.

Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov. Joint Multitask Learning for Community Question Answering Using Task-Specific Embeddings . In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’18), 2018.

Qing Li , Qingyi Tao, Shafiq Joty, Jianfei Cai, Jiebo Luo. VQA-E: Explaining, Elaborating, and Enhancing Your Answers for Visual Questions.. European Conference on Computer Vision, 2018.

Jiuxiang Gu , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai, Gang Wang. Unpaired Image Captioning by Language Pivoting.. European Conference on Computer Vision, Munich-Germany, ECCV’18, 2018.

Muhammad Ebraheem, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Shafiq Joty, Mourad Ouzzani, Nan Tang. Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution. The Forty-fourth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, VLDB, 2018.

Firoj Alam, Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Imran. Graph Based Semi-supervised Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks to Classify Crisis Related Tweets. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’18), 2018.

Firoj Alam, Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Imran. Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training and Graph Embeddings. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’18), 2018.

Shafiq Joty. Speech Act Modeling of Written Asynchronous Conversations: A Neural CRF Approach. Computational Linguistics (Special Issue on Language in Social Media), 2018.

Yequan Wang, Aixin Sun, Jialong Han, Ying Liu, Xiaoyan Zhu. Sentiment Analysis by Capsules. The Web Conference (WWW), 2018.

Jiuxiang Gu, Jianfei Cai, Shafiq Joty, Li Niu, Gang Wang. Look, Imagine and Match: Improving Textual-Visual Cross-Modal Retrieval with Generative Models. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2018), Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 2018.

Tanay Kumar Saha, Shafiq Joty, Mohammad Al Hasan. CON-S2V: A Generic Framework for Incorporating Extra-Sentential Context into Sen2Vec. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-PKDD-2017), Macedonia, Skopje, 2017.

Francisco Guzman, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov. Machine Translation Evaluation with Neural Networks. Journal of Computer Speech and Language (CSL-2017), Elsevier, 2017.

Shafiq Joty, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Ahmed Abdelali. Domain Adaptation Using Neural Network Joint Model. Journal of Computer Speech and Language (CSL-2017),Elsevier, 2017.

Shafiq Joty, Francisco Guzman, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov. Discourse Structure in Machine Translation Evaluation. Computational Linguistics (CL’2017), MIT press, 2017.

Giovanni Da San Martino, Salvatore Romeo, Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov. Cross-Language Question Re-ranking. In The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-2017), Tokyo, Japan (short paper), 2017.

Shafiq Joty, Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, Israa Jaradat. Cross-language Learning with Adversarial Neural Networks: Application to Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2017), Vancouver, Canada, 2017.

Dat Tien Nguyen, Shafiq Joty. A Neural Local Coherence Model. In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2017), Vancouver, Canada, 2017.

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Dat Tien Nguyen, Kamla Al-Mannai, Shafiq Joty, Hassan Sajjad, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra. Robust Classification of Crisis-Related Data on Social Networks using Convolutional Neural Networks. In 11-th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2017, Montreal, Canada (short paper), 2017.

Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Giuseppe Carenini. CQAVis: Visual Text Analytics for Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2017), Limassol, Cyprus, 2017.

Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Alessandro Moschitti, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Salvatore Romeo, Giuseppe Carenini. An Interactive System for Exploring Community Question Answering Forums. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2016), Osaka, Japan. (demo paper), 2016.

Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq Joty, Ahmed Abdelali. A Deep Fusion Model for Domain Adaptation in Phrase-based MT. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2016), Osaka, Japan, 2016.

Aarti Sathyanarayana, Shafiq Joty, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Ferda Ofli, Jaideep Srivastava, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Shahrad Taheri, Teresa Arora. Sleep Quality Prediction From Wearable Data Using Deep Learning. JMIR mHealth and uHealth (JMU-2016) 4(4):e125, JMIR, 2016.

Dat Tien Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Hassan Sajjad, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra. Applications of Online Deep Learning for Crisis Response Using Social Media Information. In the 4th International Workshop on Social Web for Disaster Management (co-located with CIKM).(SWDM 2016), Indianapolis, USA, 2016.

Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque. Speech Act Modeling of Written Asynchronous Conversations with Task-Specific Embeddings and Conditional Structured Models. In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2016), Berlin, Germany, 2016.

Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov. Joint Learning with Global Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT-2016), San Diego, USA, 2016.

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shafiq Joty, Alessandro Moschitti, Fahad Al-Obaidli, Salvatore Romeo, Kateryna Tymoshenko, Antonio Uva. ConvKN at SemEval-2016 Task 3: Answer and Question Selection for Question Answering on Arabic and English Fora. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), San Diego, USA, 2016.

Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq Joty, Ahmed Abdelali, Stephan Vogel. Using Joint Models for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2015), Miami, USA, 2015.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng. CODRA: A Novel Discriminative Framework for Rhetorical Analysis. Computational Linguistics (CL-2015) Vol. 41, No. 3: 385–435, MIT press, 2015.

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Simone Filice, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov, Alessandro Moschitti. Thread-level Information for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 53rd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and The 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-2015), Beijing, China, 2015.

Shafiq Joty, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Kamla Al-Mannai, Ahmed Abdelali, Stephan Vogel. How to Avoid Unwanted Pregnancies: Domain Adaptation using Neural Network Models. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.

Shafiq Joty, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alessandro Moschitti, Lluís Màrquez. Global Thread-level Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.

Pengfei Liu, Shafiq Joty, Helen Meng. Fine-grained Opinion Mining with Recurrent Neural Networks and Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2015), Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.

Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov. Pairwise Neural Machine Translation Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 53rd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and The 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-2015), Beijing, China, 2015.

Massimo Nicosia, Simone Filice, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Iman Saleh, Hamdy Mubarak, Wei Gao, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alessandro Moschitti, Kareem Darwish, Lluís Màrquez, Shafiq Joty, Walid Magdy. QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), Denver, Colorado, 2015.

Iman Saleh, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, Shafiq Joty. Semantic Kernels for Semantic Parsing.. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar. (short paper), 2014.

Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov, Massimo Nicosia. Learning to Differentiate Better from Worse Translations.. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar. (short paper), 2014.

Iman Saleh, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov, Scott Cyphers, Jim Glass. A Study of Using Syntactic and Semantic Structures for Concept Segmentation and Labeling.. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014), Dublin, Ireland., 2014.

Enamul Hoque, Giuseppe Carenini, Shafiq Joty. Interactive Exploration of Asynchronous Conversations: Applying a User-centered Approach to Design a Visual Text Analytic System.. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Language Learning, Visualization, and Interfaces (ILLVI 2014), Baltimore, USA., 2014.

Shafiq Joty, Francisco Guzman, Lluis Marquez, Preslav Nakov. DiscoTK: Using Discourse Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation.. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2014), Baltimore, USA., 2014.

Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov. Using Discourse Structure Improves Machine Translation Evaluation.. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, USA., 2014.

Shafiq Joty, Alessandro Moschitti. Discriminative Reranking of Discourse Parses Using Tree Kernels.. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2014), Doha, Qatar., 2013.

Maryam Tavafi, Yashar Mehdad, Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng. Dialogue Act Recognition in Synchronous and Asynchronous Conversations.. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2013), Metz, France., 2013.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng, Yashar Mehdad. Combining Intra- and Multi-sentential Rhetorical Parsing for Document-level Discourse Analysis.. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria., 2013.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng. Topic Segmentation and Labeling in Asynchronous Conversations. Journal of AI Research (JAIR-2013) Vol. 47, Page 521-573, 2013.

Yashar Mehdad, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng, Shafiq Joty. Towards Topic Labeling with Phrase Entailment and Aggregation.. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2013), Atlanta, USA., 2013.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng. A Novel Discriminative Framework for Sentence-Level Discourse Analysis.. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the Conference on Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2012), Jeju, Korea., 2012.

Wei Jin, Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng. Detecting Informative Blog Comments using Tree Structured Conditional Random Fields.. The Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop (NW-NLP 2012), Microsoft Research, Redmond., 2012.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng. Automatic Topic Labeling in Asynchronous Conversations.. The Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop (NW-NLP 2012), Microsoft Research, Redmond., 2012.

Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan, Shafiq Joty. Improving graph-based random walks for complex question answering using syntactic, shallow semantic and extended string subsequence kernels. Information Processing and Management (IPM-2010) Elsevier, 2011.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Chin-Yew Lin. Unsupervised Modeling of Dialog Acts in Asynchronous Conversations.. In Proceedings of the twenty second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2011. Barcelona, Spain., 2011.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Raymond Ng. Supervised Topic Segmentation of Email Conversations.. In Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2011, Barcelona, Spain, AAAI. (short paper)., 2011.

Nicholas FitzGerald, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Shafiq Joty. Exploiting Conversational Features to Detect High-Quality Blog Comments.. In Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2011. St. Johns, Newfoundland. (short paper), 2011.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Raymond Ng. Exploiting Conversation Structure in Unsupervised Topic Segmentation for Emails.. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2010), MIT, Massachusetts, USA., 2010.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Raymond Ng. Exploiting Conversation Features for Finding Topics in Emails.. The Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop (NW-NLP 2010), Microsoft Research, Redmond, 2010.

Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Gabriel Murray, Raymond T. Ng. Finding Topics in Emails: Is LDA enough?. NIPS-2009 workshop on applications for topic models: text and beyond. Whistler, Canada (poster paper), 2009.

Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan, Shafiq Joty. Supervised Approaches to Complex Question Answering.. In Proceedings of Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2009), Sapporo, Japan, September 2009, 2009.

Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan, Shafiq Joty. Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?. In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009. Singapore, August, 2009, ACL (short paper), 2009.

Yllias Chali, Shafiq Joty, Sadid Hasan. Complex Question Answering: Unsupervised Learning Approaches and Experiments. Journal of AI Research (JAIR-2009) Vol. 35, Page 1-47, 2009.

Yllias Chali, Sadid Hasan, Shafiq Joty. A SVM-Based Ensemble Approach to Multi-Document Summarization.. In Proceedings of the 22th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2009), Kelowna, May 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag., 2009.

Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty. Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions. . In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), Hawaii, October, 2008, 2008.

Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty. Unsupervised Approach for Selecting Sentences in Query-based Summarization.. In Proceedings of the 21st FLAIRS conference (FLAIRS 2007), Coconut Grove, Florida, May, 2008, AAAI, 2008.

Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty. Exploiting Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Kernels to Improve Random Walks for Complex Question Answering.. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Int’l Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2008). Dayton, OH, November, 2008, IEEE, 2008.

Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty. Answering Complex Questions Using Query-focused Summarization Technique.. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Int’l Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2008). Dayton, OH, Novermber, 2008, IEEE, 2008.

Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty, Sheikh Sadid-Al-Hasan. UofL at TAC 2008 Update Summarization and Question Answering.. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2008), Rochester, NY, November, 2008, NIST., 2008.

Gabriel Murray, Shafiq R. Joty, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng. The University of British Columbia at TAC 2008.. In Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2008), Rochester, NY, November, 2008, NIST., 2008.

Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty. Improving the Performance of the Random Walk Model for Answering Complex Questions.. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2008). OH, June, 2008, ACL (short paper), 2008.