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# SwissText 2019
Proceedings of SwissText 2019

### Proceedings of the 4th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference

### Winterthur, Switzerland, June 18-19, 2019.

Edited by

### Mark Cieliebak *
Don Tuggener *
Fernando Benites *

* ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Applied Information Technology (InIT), 8401 Winterthur, Switzerland

## Table of Contents

- Preface
- Introduction to the German Text Summarization Challenge

### Scientific Full Papers

- Empathic Response Generation in Chatbots
  Timo Spring, Jacky Casas, Karl Daher, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou Khaled
- Author Verification in Stream of Text with Echo State Network-based Recurrent Neural Models
  Nils Schaetti
- Your Click Matters: Enhancing Click-based Image Retrieval performance through Collaborative Filtering
  Deepanwita Datta, Manajit Chakraborty, Aveek Biswas
- The Reader’s Feeling and Text-based Emotions: The Relationship between Subjective Self-reports, Lexical Ratings, and Sentiment
  Egon Werlen, Fernando Benites, Christof Imhof, Per Bergamin
- Hyperparameter Tuning for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing (invited paper)
  Ahmad Aghaebrahimian, Mark Cieliebak
- Bitcoin Value and Sentiment Expressed in Tweets (invited paper)
  Bernhard Preisler, Margot Mieskes, Christoph Becker

### Shared Task: German Text Summarization Challenge

- Fact-aware Abstractive Text Summarization using a Pointer-Generator Network
  Valentin Venzin, Jan Deriu, Didier Orel, Mark Cieliebak
- Sequential Transfer Learning in NLP for German Text Summarization
  Pascal Fecht, Sebastian Blank, Hans-Peter Zorn
- Idiap Abstract Text Summarization System for German Text Summarization Task
  Shantipriya Parida, Petr Motlicek

### Additional Material

- Abstracts of the Swiss Track Presentations

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