Publications

E. Agirre, A. Jonsson, A. Larcher. Framing Lifelong Learning as Autonomous Deployment: Tune Once Live Forever. Dialogue Systems and Lifelong Learning special session at Tenth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS). 2019.

E. Agirre, A. Otegi, C. Pradel, S. Rosset, A. Peñas, M. Cieliebak. LIHLITH: Learning to Interact with Humans by Lifelong Interaction with Humans. Procesamiento Del Lenguaje Natural, vol. 63, pp. 147-150. ISSN: 1989-7553. 2019.

A. Barrena, A. Soroa, E. Agirre. Learning text representations for 500K classification tasks on Named Entity Disambiguation. Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2018), pp. 171–180. 2018.

J. A. Campos, A. Otegi, A. Soroa, J. Deriu, M. Cieliebak, E. Agirre. Conversational QA for FAQs. 3rd Conversational AI: “Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential” workshop at NeurIPS 2019. 2019.

J. A. Campos, A. Otegi, A. Soroa, J. Deriu, M. Cieliebak, E. Agirre. DoQA - Accessing Domain-Specific FAQs via Conversational QA. 58th meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), pp. 7302–7314. 2020.

J. A. Campos , K. Cho, A. Otegi, A. Soroa, G. Azkune, E. Agirre. Improving Conversational Question Answering Systems after Deployment using Feedback-Weighted Learning. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), pp. 2561--2571. Outstanding Paper. 2020.

M. Cieliebak, O. Galibert, J. Deriu. Towards Understanding Lifelong Learning for Dialogue Systems. Dialogue Systems and Lifelong Learning special session at Tenth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS). 2019.

J. Deriu, M. Cieliebak. Towards a Metric for Automated Conversational Dialogue System Evaluation and Improvement. 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019). 2019.

J. Deriu, A. Rodrigo, A. Otegi, G. Echegoyen, S. Rosset, E. Agirre, M. Cieliebak.  Survey on Evaluation Methods for Dialogue Systems. Artificial Intelligence Review. 2020.

J. Deriu, K. Mlynchyk, P. Schläpfer, A. Rodrigo, D. von Grünigen, N. Kaiser, K. Stockinger, E. Agirre, M. Cieliebak. A Methodology for Creating Question Answering Corpora Using Inverse Data Annotation.  58th meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), pp. 897–911. 2020.

J. Deriu, D. Tuggener, P. von Däniken, J. A. Campos, A. Rodrigo, T. Belkacem, A. Soroa, E. Agirre, M. Cieliebak. Spot The Bot: A Robust and Efficient Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp. 3971–3984. Honourable Mention Paper. 2020.

G. Echegoyen, A. Rodrigo, A. Peñas. Benchmarking Entity Linking for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Volume 63, pp. 121-128,  ISSN 1135-5948. 2019.

G. Echegoyen, A. Rodrigo, A. Peñas. Cross-lingual Training for Multiple-Choice Question Answering. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, volumen 65, pp. 37-44. 2020.

S. Ghannay, A. Neuraz, S. Rosset. What is best for spoken language understanding: small but task-dependant embeddings or huge but out-of-domain embeddings. ICASSP 2020. 2020.

S. Ghannay, C. Servan, S. Rosset. Neural Networks approaches focused on French Spoken Language Understanding: application to the MEDIA Evaluation Task. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), pp. 2722--2727. 2020.

J. J. Lastra-Díaz, J. Goikoetxea, M. Taieb, A. García-Serrano, M. B. Aouicha, E. Agirre. A reproducible survey on word embeddings and ontology-based methods for word similarity: Linear combinations outperform the state of the art. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 85, pp. 645-665, ISSN 0952-1976. 2019.

J. J. Lastra-Díaz, J. Goikoetxea, M. Taieb, A. García-Serrano, M. B. Aouicha, E. Agirre. Reproducibility dataset for a large experimental survey on word embeddings and ontology-based methods for word similarity. Data in Brief, Volume 26, ISSN 2352-3409. 2019.

I. Lopez-Gazpio, M. Maritxalar, M. Lapata, E. Agirre. Word n-gram attention models for sentence similarity and inference. Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 132, pp. 1-11, ISSN 0957-4174. 2019.

A. Otegi, A. Agirre, J. A. Campos, A. Soroa, E. Agirre. Conversational Question Answering in Low Resource Scenarios: A Dataset and Case Study for Basque. Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 429–435, European Language Resources Association. 2020.

A. Peñas, A. Rodrigo, B. Magnini, P. Forner, E. Hovy, R. Sutcliffe, D. Giampiccolo. Results and Lessons of the Question Answering Track at CLEF. In: Ferro N., Peters C. (eds) Information Retrieval Evaluation in a Changing World. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 41. Springer, Cham, pp 441-460. ISBN 978-3-030-22947-4. 2019.

A. Peñas, M. Veron, C. Pradel, A. Otegi, G. Echegoyen, A. Rodrigo. Continuous Learning for Question Answering. Dialogue Systems and Lifelong Learning special session at Tenth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS). 2019.

C. Pradel, D. Sileo, A. Rodrigo, A. Peñas, E. Agirre. Question Answering when Knowledge Bases are Incomplete. CLEF 2020. 

A. A. Ravelli, O. Lopez de Lacalle, E. Agirre. A Comparison of Representation Models in a Non-Conventional Semantic Similarity Scenario. Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2019.

A. Rodrigo, J. Herrera, A. Peñas. The effect of answer validation on the performance of Question-Answering systems. Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 116, pp. 351-363, ISSN 0957-4174. 2019.

A. Rodrigo, A. Peñas, Y. Miyao, N. Kando. Do systems pass university entrance exams? Information Processing & Management, Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 564-575, ISSN 0306-4573. 2018.

D. Sileo, C. Pradel, A. Peñas, G. Echegoyen, A. Otegi, J. Milan Deriu, M. Cieliebak, A. Barrena, E. Agirre. Matching Words and Knowledge Graph Entities with Meta-Embeddings. Proceedings of CAp2019, Toulouse (France) pp. 34-39. 2019.

C. Teissèdre, T. Belkacem, M. Arens. Similarité sémantique entre phrases : apprentissage par transfert interlingue. DEFT 2020.

M. Veron, S. Ghannay, A. Ligozat, S. Rosset. Lifelong learning and task-oriented dialogue system: what does it mean? Dialogue Systems and Lifelong Learning special session at Tenth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS). 2019.

M. Veron, A. Peñas, G. Echegoyen, S. Banerjee, S. Ghannay, S. Rosset. A Cooking Knowledge Graph and Benchmark for Question Answering Evaluation in Lifelong Learning Scenarios. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, NLDB 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12089, pp. 94-101. 2020.