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Ryan Mcdonald

53 papers · 2005–2025 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (9) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (11) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (20) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (11) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ† Keyword Champion 🌱 Topic Pioneer πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (115) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ’Ž Century Club (53) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (19) ⚑ Prolific Year (5)

Conferences

ACL (18) EMNLP (14) NAACL (7) CONLL (4) EACL (4) COLING (2) IJCNLP (2) ICML (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Joakim Nivre (8) Fernando Pereira (7) Keith Hall (6) Joshua Maynez (5) Slav Petrov (5) Hao Zhang (5) Bernd Bohnet (4) Emily Pitler (4) Oscar TΓ€ckstrΓΆm (4) Ion Androutsopoulos (4)

Keywords

zero-shot learning (3) named entity recognition (2) text summarization (2) entity classification (2) text classification (2) question answering (2) recurrent neural network (2) part-of-speech tagging (2) textual description (2) abstractive summarization (2) type description (2) attention mechanism (2) document retrieval (2) dialogue generation (2) data augmentation (1) constrained generation (1) maximum entropy (1) offline reinforcement learning (1) neural decoding (1) natural language processing (1)

Papers

Sparse Rewards Can Self-Train Dialogue Agents ACL 2025
On the Effectiveness of Offline RL for Dialogue Response Generation ICML 2023
Long-term Control for Dialogue Generation: Methods and Evaluation NAACL 2022
Decoding Part-of-Speech from Human EEG Signals ACL 2022
Zero-shot Neural Passage Retrieval via Domain-targeted Synthetic Question Generation EACL 2021
Leveraging Type Descriptions for Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition and Classification ACL 2021
Focus Attention: Promoting Faithfulness and Diversity in Summarization IJCNLP 2021
Leveraging Type Descriptions for Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition and Classification IJCNLP 2021
Focus Attention: Promoting Faithfulness and Diversity in Summarization ACL 2021
BioMRC: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension ACL 2020
On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization ACL 2020
Stepwise Extractive Summarization and Planning with Structured Transformers EMNLP 2020
Embedding Biomedical Ontologies by Jointly Encoding Network Structure and Textual Node Descriptors ACL 2019
Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive Token Encodings ACL 2018
AUEB at BioASQ 6: Document and Snippet Retrieval EMNLP 2018
Deep Relevance Ranking Using Enhanced Document-Query Interactions EMNLP 2018
Natural Language Processing with Small Feed-Forward Networks EMNLP 2017
Generalized Transition-based Dependency Parsing via Control Parameters ACL 2016
A Linear-Time Transition System for Crossing Interval Trees NAACL 2015
Enforcing Structural Diversity in Cube-pruned Dependency Parsing ACL 2014
Adapting taggers to Twitter with not-so-distant supervision COLING 2014
Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing ACL 2013
Target Language Adaptation of Discriminative Transfer Parsers NAACL 2013
Online Learning for Inexact Hypergraph Search EMNLP 2013
Generalized Higher-Order Dependency Parsing with Cube Pruning CONLL 2012
Generalized Higher-Order Dependency Parsing with Cube Pruning EMNLP 2012
Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure NAACL 2012
Using Search-Logs to Improve Query Tagging ACL 2012
Semi-supervised latent variable models for sentence-level sentiment analysis ACL 2011
Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers EMNLP 2011
Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering EMNLP 2011
Training dependency parsers by jointly optimizing multiple objectives EMNLP 2011
Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies COLING 2010
Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron NAACL 2010
The viability of web-derived polarity lexicons NAACL 2010
Efficient Large-Scale Distributed Training of Conditional Maximum Entropy Models NIPS 2009
Contrastive Summarization: An Experiment with Consumer Reviews NAACL 2009
Sentiment Summarization: Evaluating and Learning User Preferences EACL 2009
Integrating Graph-Based and Transition-Based Dependency Parsers ACL 2008
A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization ACL 2008
The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing CONLL 2007
Characterizing the Errors of Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Models CONLL 2007
Characterizing the Errors of Data-Driven Dependency Parsing Models EMNLP 2007
Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis ACL 2007
The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing EMNLP 2007
Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning EMNLP 2006
Discriminative Sentence Compression with Soft Syntactic Evidence EACL 2006
Online Learning of Approximate Dependency Parsing Algorithms EACL 2006
Multilingual Dependency Analysis with a Two-Stage Discriminative Parser CONLL 2006
Online Large-Margin Training of Dependency Parsers ACL 2005
Non-Projective Dependency Parsing using Spanning Tree Algorithms EMNLP 2005
Flexible Text Segmentation with Structured Multilabel Classification EMNLP 2005
Simple Algorithms for Complex Relation Extraction with Applications to Biomedical IE ACL 2005