Paper reading list in natural language processing.

• Paper-Reading
  • Deep Learning in NLP
  • Dialogue System
  • Text Summarization
  • Topic Modeling
  • Machine Translation
  • Question Answering
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Image Captioning

• Sparse-Seq2Seq: "Sparse Sequence-to-Sequence Models". ACL(2019) [PDF] [code]
• BERT: "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding". NAACL(2019) [PDF] [code]
• CNM: "CNM: An Interpretable Complex-valued Network for Matching". NAACL(2019) [PDF] [code]
• ELMo: "Deep contextualized word representations". NAACL(2018) [PDF]
• VAE: "An Introduction to Variational Autoencoders". arXiv(2019) [PDF]
• Transformer: "Attention is All you Need". NIPS(2017) [PDF] [code-official] [code-tf] [code-py]
• Transformer-XL: "Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context". ACL(2019) [PDF] [code]
• ConvS2S: "Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning". ICML(2017) [PDF]
• Survey on Attention: "An Introductory Survey on Attention Mechanisms in NLP Problems". arXiv(2018) [PDF]
• Additive Attention: "Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate". ICLR(2015) [PDF]
• Multiplicative Attention: "Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation". EMNLP(2015) [PDF]
• Memory Net: "End-To-End Memory Networks". NIPS(2015) [PDF]
• Pointer Net: "Pointer Networks". NIPS(2015) [PDF]
• Copying Mechanism: "Incorporating Copying Mechanism in Sequence-to-Sequence Learning". ACL(2016) [PDF]
• Coverage Mechanism: "Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine Translation". ACL(2016) [PDF]
• GAN: "Generative Adversarial Nets". NIPS(2014) [PDF]
• SeqGAN: "SeqGAN: Sequence Generative Adversarial Nets with Policy Gradient". AAAI(2017) [PDF] [code]
• MacNet: "MacNet: Transferring Knowledge from Machine Comprehension to Sequence-to-Sequence Models". NIPS(2018) [PDF]
• Graph2Seq: "Graph2Seq: Graph to Sequence Learning with Attention-based Neural Networks". arXiv(2018) [PDF]
• Pretrained Seq2Seq: "Unsupervised Pretraining for Sequence to Sequence Learning". EMNLP(2017) [PDF]
• Multi-task Learning: "An Overview of Multi-Task Learning in Deep Neural Networks". arXiv(2017) [PDF]
• Latent Multi-task: "Latent Multi-task Architecture Learning". AAAI(2019) [PDF] [code]

• Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: "Learning to Memorize in Neural Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". HKUST MPhil Thesis(2019) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• HDSA: "Semantically Conditioned Dialog Response Generation via Hierarchical Disentangled Self-Attention". ACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• TRADE: "Transferable Multi-Domain State Generator for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". ACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• WMM2Seq: "A Working Memory Model for Task-oriented Dialog Response Generation". ACL(2019) [PDF] ⭐⭐:
• PAML: "Personalizing Dialogue Agents via Meta-Learning". ACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• Pretrain-Fine-tune: "Training Neural Response Selection for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". ACL(2019) [PDF] [data] ⭐⭐⭐
• DuConv: "Proactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goals". ACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• PostKS: "Learning to Select Knowledge for Response Generation in Dialog Systems". IJCAI(2019) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• GLMP: "Global-to-local Memory Pointer Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue". ICLR(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Two-Stage-Transformer: "Wizard of Wikipedia: Knowledge-Powered Conversational agents". ICLR(2019) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• Multi-level Mem: "Multi-Level Memory for Task Oriented Dialogs". NAACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• BossNet: "Disentangling Language and Knowledge in Task-Oriented Dialogs ". NAACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• CAS: "Skeleton-to-Response: Dialogue Generation Guided by Retrieval Memory". NAACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• Edit-N-Rerank: "Response Generation by Context-aware Prototype Editing". AAAI(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• HVMN: "Hierarchical Variational Memory Network for Dialogue Generation". WWW(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• MultiWOZ: "MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling". EMNLP(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• XiaoIce: "The Design and Implementation of XiaoIce, an Empathetic Social Chatbot". arXiv(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• Survey of Dialogue: "A Survey on Dialogue Systems: Recent Advances and New Frontiers". SIGKDD Explorations(2017) [PDF] ⭐
• Survey of Dialogue Corpora: "A Survey of Available Corpora For Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems: The Journal Version". Dialogue & Discourse(2018) [PDF] ⭐
• D2A: "Dialog-to-Action: Conversational Question Answering Over a Large-Scale Knowledge Base". NIPS(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• DAIM: "Generating Informative and Diverse Conversational Responses via Adversarial Information Maximization". NIPS(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• LU-DST: "Multi-task Learning for Joint Language Understanding and Dialogue State Tracking". SIGDIAL(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• MTask: "A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model". AAAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐
• MTask-M: "Multi-Task Learning for Speaker-Role Adaptation in Neural Conversation Models". IJCNLP(2018) [PDF] ⭐
• GenDS: "Flexible End-to-End Dialogue System for Knowledge Grounded Conversation". arXiv(2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• SL+RL: "Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems". NAACL(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• Time-Decay-SLU: "How Time Matters: Learning Time-Decay Attention for Contextual Spoken Language Understanding in Dialogues". NAACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• REASON: "Dialog Generation Using Multi-turn Reasoning Neural Networks". NAACL(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• ADVMT: "One "Ruler" for All Languages: Multi-Lingual Dialogue Evaluation with Adversarial Multi-Task Learning". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• STD/HTD: "Learning to Ask Questions in Open-domain Conversational Systems with Typed Decoders". ACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• CSF: "Generating Informative Responses with Controlled Sentence Function". ACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• MAD: "Memory-augmented Dialogue Management for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems". TOIS(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• TSCP: "Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures". ACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• Mem2Seq: "Mem2Seq: Effectively Incorporating Knowledge Bases into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Systems". ACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• NKD: "Knowledge Diffusion for Neural Dialogue Generation". ACL(2018) [PDF] [data] ⭐⭐
• DAWnet: "Chat More: Deepening and Widening the Chatting Topic via A Deep Model". SIGIR(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• ZSDG: "Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions". SIGDIAL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• DUA: "Modeling Multi-turn Conversation with Deep Utterance Aggregation". COLING(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• Data-Aug: "Sequence-to-Sequence Data Augmentation for Dialogue Language Understanding". COLING(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• DSR: "Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue with Dialogue State Representation". COLING(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• DC-MMI: "Generating More Interesting Responses in Neural Conversation Models with Distributional Constraints". EMNLP(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• StateNet: "Towards Universal Dialogue State Tracking". EMNLP(2018) [PDF] ⭐
• cVAE-XGate/CGate: "Better Conversations by Modeling, Filtering, and Optimizing for Coherence and Diversity". EMNLP(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• DAM: "Multi-Turn Response Selection for Chatbots with Deep Attention Matching Network". ACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• SMN: "Sequential Matching Network: A New Architecture for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots". ACL(2017) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• KVR Net: "Key-Value Retrieval Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue". SIGDIAL(2017) [PDF] [data] ⭐⭐
• MMI: "A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models". NAACL-HLT(2016) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• RL-Dialogue: "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Generation". EMNLP(2016) [PDF] ⭐
• TA-Seq2Seq: "Topic Aware Neural Response Generation". AAAI(2017) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• MA: "Mechanism-Aware Neural Machine for Dialogue Response Generation". AAAI(2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• HRED: "Building End-To-End Dialogue Systems Using Generative Hierarchical Neural Network Models". AAAI(2016) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• VHRED: "A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues". AAAI(2017) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐
• CVAE/KgCVAE: "Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders". ACL(2017) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• ERM: "Elastic Responding Machine for Dialog Generation with Dynamically Mechanism Selecting". AAAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• Tri-LSTM: "Augmenting End-to-End Dialogue Systems With Commonsense Knowledge". AAAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• Dual Fusion: "Smarter Response with Proactive Suggestion: A New Generative Neural Conversation Paradigm". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• CCM: "Commonsense Knowledge Aware Conversation Generation with Graph Attention". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• PCCM: "Assigning Personality/Profile to a Chatting Machine for Coherent Conversation Generation". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• ECM: "Emotional Chatting Machine: Emotional Conversation Generation with Internal and External Memory". AAAI(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Topic-Seg-Label: "A Weakly Supervised Method for Topic Segmentation and Labeling in Goal-oriented Dialogues via Reinforcement Learning". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• AliMe: "AliMe Chat: A Sequence to Sequence and Rerank based Chatbot Engine". ACL(2017) [PDF] ⭐
• Retrieval+multi-seq2seq: "An Ensemble of Retrieval-Based and Generation-Based Human-Computer Conversation Systems". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐

• BERTSum: "Fine-tune BERT for Extractive Summarization". arXiv(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• BERT-Two-Stage: "Pretraining-Based Natural Language Generation for Text Summarization". arXiv(2019) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• QASumm: "Guiding Extractive Summarization with Question-Answering Rewards". NAACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Re^3Sum: "Retrieve, Rerank and Rewrite: Soft Template Based Neural Summarization". ACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• NeuSum: "Neural Document Summarization by Jointly Learning to Score and Select Sentences". ACL(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• rnn-ext+abs+RL+rerank: "Fast Abstractive Summarization with Reinforce-Selected Sentence Rewriting". ACL(2018) [PDF] [Notes] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Seq2Seq+CGU: "Global Encoding for Abstractive Summarization". ACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• ML+RL: "A Deep Reinforced Model for Abstractive Summarization". ICLR(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• T-ConvS2S: "Don’t Give Me the Details, Just the Summary! Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization". EMNLP(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• RL-Topic-ConvS2S: "A reinforced topic-aware convolutional sequence-to-sequence model for abstractive text summarization". IJCAI (2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• GANsum: "Generative Adversarial Network for Abstractive Text Summarization". AAAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐
• FTSum: "Faithful to the Original: Fact Aware Neural Abstractive Summarization". AAAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• PGN: "Get To The Point: Summarization with Pointer-Generator Networks". ACL(2017) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• ABS/ABS+: "A Neural Attention Model for Abstractive Sentence Summarization". EMNLP(2015) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• RAS-Elman/RAS-LSTM: "Abstractive Sentence Summarization with Attentive Recurrent Neural Networks". NAACL(2016) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• words-lvt2k-1sent: "Abstractive Text Summarization using Sequence-to-sequence RNNs and Beyond". CoNLL(2016) [PDF] ⭐

• LDA: "Latent Dirichlet Allocation". JMLR(2003) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Parameter Estimation: "Parameter estimation for text analysis". Technical report (2005). [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• DTM: "Dynamic Topic Models". ICML(2006) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• cDTM: "Continuous Time Dynamic Topic Models". UAI(2008) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• iDocNADE: "Document Informed Neural Autoregressive Topic Models with Distributional Prior". AAAI(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• NTM: "A Novel Neural Topic Model and Its Supervised Extension". AAAI(2015) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• TWE: "Topical Word Embeddings". AAAI(2015) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• RATM-D: "Recurrent Attentional Topic Model". AAAI(2017)[PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• RIBS-TM: "Don't Forget the Quantifiable Relationship between Words: Using Recurrent Neural Network for Short Text Topic Discovery". AAAI(2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• Topic coherence: "Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models". EMNLP(2011) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• Topic coherence: "Automatic Evaluation of Topic Coherence". NAACL(2010) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• DADT: "Authorship Attribution with Author-aware Topic Models". ACL(2012) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Gaussian-LDA: "Gaussian LDA for Topic Models with Word Embeddings". ACL(2015) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• LFTM: "Improving Topic Models with Latent Feature Word Representations". TACL(2015) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• TopicVec: "Generative Topic Embedding: a Continuous Representation of Documents". ACL (2016) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• SLRTM: "Sentence Level Recurrent Topic Model: Letting Topics Speak for Themselves". arXiv(2016) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• TopicRNN: "TopicRNN: A Recurrent Neural Network with Long-Range Semantic Dependency". ICLR(2017) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• NMF boosted: "Stability of topic modeling via matrix factorization". Expert Syst. Appl. (2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• Evaluation of Topic Models: "External Evaluation of Topic Models". Australasian Doc. Comp. Symp. (2009) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• Topic2Vec: "Topic2Vec: Learning distributed representations of topics". IALP(2015) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• L-EnsNMF: "L-EnsNMF: Boosted Local Topic Discovery via Ensemble of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization". ICDM(2016) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• DC-NMF: "DC-NMF: nonnegative matrix factorization based on divide-and-conquer for fast clustering and topic modeling". J. Global Optimization (2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• cFTM: "The contextual focused topic model". KDD(2012) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• CLM: "Collaboratively Improving Topic Discovery and Word Embeddings by Coordinating Global and Local Contexts". KDD(2017) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• GMTM: "Unsupervised Topic Modeling for Short Texts Using Distributed Representations of Words". NAACL(2015) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• GPU-PDMM: "Enhancing Topic Modeling for Short Texts with Auxiliary Word Embeddings". TOIS (2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• BPT: "A Two-Level Topic Model Towards Knowledge Discovery from Citation Networks". TKDE (2014) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• BTM: "A Biterm Topic Model for Short Texts". WWW(2013) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• HGTM: "Using Hashtag Graph-Based Topic Model to Connect Semantically-Related Words Without Co-Occurrence in Microblogs". TKDE(2016) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• COTM: "A topic model for co-occurring normal documents and short texts". WWW (2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Multi-pass decoder: "Adaptive Multi-pass Decoder for Neural Machine Translation". EMNLP(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• Deliberation Networks: "Deliberation Networks: Sequence Generation Beyond One-Pass Decoding". NIPS(2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• KVMem-Attention: "Neural Machine Translation with Key-Value Memory-Augmented Attention". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Interactive-Attention: "Interactive Attention for Neural Machine Translation". COLING(2016) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐

• CFC: "Coarse-grain Fine-grain Coattention Network for Multi-evidence Question Answering". ICLR(2019) [PDF] ⭐⭐
• MTQA: "Multi-Task Learning with Multi-View Attention for Answer Selection and Knowledge Base Question Answering". AAAI(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• CQG-KBQA: "Knowledge Base Question Answering via Encoding of Complex Query Graphs". EMNLP(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• HR-BiLSTM: "Improved Neural Relation Detection for Knowledge Base Question Answering". ACL(2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• KBQA-CGK: "An End-to-End Model for Question Answering over Knowledge Base with Cross-Attention Combining Global Knowledge". ACL(2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐
• KVMem: "Key-Value Memory Networks for Directly Reading Documents". EMNLP(2016) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐

• DecompRC: "Multi-hop Reading Comprehension through Question Decomposition and Rescoring". ACL(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• FlowQA: "FlowQA: Grasping Flow in History for Conversational Machine Comprehension". ICLR(2019) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• SDNet: "SDNet: Contextualized Attention-based Deep Network for Conversational Question Answering". arXiv(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• MLAIC: "A Multi-task Learning Approach for Image Captioning". IJCAI(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐
• Up-Down Attention: "Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering". CVPR(2018) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• SCST: "Self-critical Sequence Training for Image Captioning". CVPR(2017) [PDF] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Recurrent-RSA: "Pragmatically Informative Image Captioning with Character-Level Inference". NAACL(2018) [PDF] [code] ⭐⭐⭐