ACL 2018 Highlights: Understanding Representations and Evaluation in More Challenging Settings

This post discusses highlights of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018).

This post originally appeared at the AYLIEN blog.

I attended the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018) in Melbourne, Australia from July 15-20, 2018 and presented three papers . It is foolhardy to try to condense an entire conference into one topic; however, in retrospect, certain themes appear particularly pronounced. In 2015 and 2016, NLP conferences were dominated by word embeddings and some people were musing that Embedding Methods in Natural Language Processing was a more