Publications

2019

• Learning Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models from Weak Feedbackwith Bipolar Ramp Loss. Laura Jehl, Carolin Lawrence, Stefan Riezler. In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL Vol. 7). (pdf) (bib)

2018

• Response-Based and Counterfactual Learning for Sequence-to-Sequence Tasks in NLP. Carolin Lawrence. Doctoral Thesis (summa cum laude), Heidelberg, Germany. (pdf) (bib)
• Counterfactual Learning from Human Proofreading Feedback for Semantic Parsing Carolin Lawrence, Stefan Riezler. Accepted at the Workshop “Learning by Instruction” at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), Montréal, Canada. (pdf) (bib) (poster)
• Improving a Neural Semantic Parser by Counterfactual Learning from Human Bandit Feedback. Carolin Lawrence, Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), Melbourne, Australia. (pdf) (bib)

2017

• Counterfactual Learning for Machine Translation: Degeneracies and Solutions Carolin Lawrence, Pratik Gajane, Stefan Riezler. Accepted at the Workshop “From ’What If?’ To ’What Next?’” at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, CA. (pdf) (bib)
• Counterfactual Learning from Bandit Feedback under Deterministic Logging: A Case Study in Statistical Machine Translation. Carolin Lawrence, Artem Sokolov, Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017), Copenhagen, Denmark. (pdf) (bib)

2016

• NLmaps: A Natural Language Interface to Query OpenStreetMap. Carolin Lawrence, Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016), Osaka, Japan. (pdf) (bib)
• A Corpus and Semantic Parser for Natural Language Querying of OpenStreetMap. Carolin Haas, Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2016), San Diego, CA. (pdf) (bib)

2015

• Response-based Learning for Machine Translation of Open-domain Database Queries. Carolin Haas, Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2015), Denver, CO. (pdf) (bib)

2014

• Response-based Learning for Grounded Machine Translation. Stefan Riezler, Patrick Simianer and Carolin Haas. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, MD. (pdf) (bib)