AAAI 2021

1,961 papers

Re-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset

George Stoica, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios, Barnabás Póczos

Improving Commonsense Causal Reasoning by Adversarial Training and Data Augmentation

Ieva Staliūnaitė, Philip John Gorinski, Ignacio Iacobacci

Fact-Enhanced Synthetic News Generation

Kai Shu, Yichuan Li, Kaize Ding, Huan Liu

A Simple and Effective Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Framework for Aspect Detection

Tian Shi, Liuqing Li, Ping Wang, Chandan K. Reddy

Learning Contextual Representations for Semantic Parsing with Generation-Augmented Pre-Training

Peng Shi, Patrick Ng, Zhiguo Wang, Henghui Zhu, Alexander Hanbo Li

SongMASS: Automatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint

Zhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Yi Ren, Wei Ye

DialogXL: All-in-One XLNet for Multi-Party Conversation Emotion Recognition

Weizhou Shen, Junqing Chen, Xiaojun Quan, Zhixian Xie

Nutri-bullets: Summarizing Health Studies by Composing Segments

Darsh J Shah, LILI YU, Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay

Learning from the Best: Rationalizing Predictions by Adversarial Information Calibration

Lei Sha, Oana-Maria Camburu, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Semantics Altering Modifications for Evaluating Comprehension in Machine Reading

Viktor Schlegel, Goran Nenadic, Riza Batista-Navarro

Exploring Transfer Learning For End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

Subendhu Rongali, Beiye Liu, Liwei Cai, Konstantine Arkoudas, Chengwei Su

Automated Cross-prompt Scoring of Essay Traits

Robert Ridley, Liang He, Xin-yu Dai, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen

Towards Semantics-Enhanced Pre-Training: Can Lexicon Definitions Help Learning Sentence Meanings?

Xuancheng Ren, Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang, Qun Liu

Guiding Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation Decoding with Reordering Information

Qiu Ran, Yankai Lin, Peng Li, Jie Zhou

Reinforced History Backtracking for Conversational Question Answering

Minghui Qiu, Xinjing Huang, Cen Chen, Feng Ji, Chen Qu

Co-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification

Libo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, Minheng Ni, Ting Liu

Exploring Auxiliary Reasoning Tasks for Task-oriented Dialog Systems with Meta Cooperative Learning

Bowen Qin, Min Yang, Lidong Bing, Qingshan Jiang, Chengming Li

A Student-Teacher Architecture for Dialog Domain Adaptation Under the Meta-Learning Setting

Kun Qian, Wei Wei, Zhou Yu

Conceptualized and Contextualized Gaussian Embedding

Chen Qian, Fuli Feng, Lijie Wen, Tat-Seng Chua

Revisiting Mahalanobis Distance for Transformer-Based Out-of-Domain Detection

Alexander Podolskiy, Dmitry Lipin, Andrey Bout, Ekaterina Artemova, Irina Piontkovskaya

Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization

Ramakanth Pasunuru, Asli Celikyilmaz, Michel Galley, Chenyan Xiong, Yizhe Zhang

ALP-KD: Attention-Based Layer Projection for Knowledge Distillation

Peyman Passban, Yimeng Wu, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Qun Liu

XL-WSD: An Extra-Large and Cross-Lingual Evaluation Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation

Tommaso Pasini, Alessandro Raganato, Roberto Navigli

On the Softmax Bottleneck of Recurrent Language Models

Dwarak Govind Parthiban, Yongyi Mao, Diana Inkpen

Movie Summarization via Sparse Graph Construction

Pinelopi Papalampidi, Frank Keller, Mirella Lapata

Copy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans

Sheena Panthaplackel, Miltiadis Allamanis, Marc Brockschmidt

The Heads Hypothesis: A Unifying Statistical Approach Towards Understanding Multi-Headed Attention in BERT

Madhura Pande, Aakriti Budhraja, Preksha Nema, Pratyush Kumar, Mitesh M. Khapra

Dialog Policy Learning for Joint Clarification and Active Learning Queries

Aishwarya Padmakumar, Raymond J. Mooney

Knowledge-aware Named Entity Recognition with Alleviating Heterogeneity

Binling Nie, Ruixue Ding, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Chen Qian

Disentangled Motif-aware Graph Learning for Phrase Grounding

Zongshen Mu, Siliang Tang, Jie Tan, Qiang Yu, Yueting Zhuang

MASKER: Masked Keyword Regularization for Reliable Text Classification

Seung Jun Moon, Sangwoo Mo, Kimin Lee, Jaeho Lee, Jinwoo Shin

Continual Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Natawut Monaikul, Giuseppe Castellucci, Simone Filice, Oleg Rokhlenko

How Robust are Model Rankings : A Leaderboard Customization Approach for Equitable Evaluation

Swaroop Mishra, Anjana Arunkumar

Variational Inference for Learning Representations of Natural Language Edits

Edison Marrese-Taylor, Machel Reid, Yutaka Matsuo

A Joint Training Dual-MRC Framework for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis

Yue Mao, Yi Shen, Chao Yu, Longjun Cai

Bridging Towers of Multi-task Learning with a Gating Mechanism for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis and Sequential Metaphor Identification

Rui Mao, Xiao Li

Generating Natural Language Attacks in a Hard Label Black Box Setting

Rishabh Maheshwary, Saket Maheshwary, Vikram Pudi

Generate Your Counterfactuals: Towards Controlled Counterfactual Generation for Text

Nishtha Madaan, Inkit Padhi, Naveen Panwar, Diptikalyan Saha

Knowledge-driven Data Construction for Zero-shot Evaluation in Commonsense Question Answering

Kaixin Ma, Filip Ilievski, Jonathan Francis, Yonatan Bisk, Eric Nyberg

LET: Linguistic Knowledge Enhanced Graph Transformer for Chinese Short Text Matching

Boer Lyu, Lu Chen, Su Zhu, Kai Yu

Span-Based Event Coreference Resolution

Jing LU, Vincent Ng

UNICORN on RAINBOW: A Universal Commonsense Reasoning Model on a New Multitask Benchmark

Nicholas Lourie, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi

SCRUPLES: A Corpus of Community Ethical Judgments on 32,000 Real-Life Anecdotes

Nicholas Lourie, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi

On the Importance of Word Order Information in Cross-lingual Sequence Labeling

Zihan Liu, Genta I Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin

CrossNER: Evaluating Cross-Domain Named Entity Recognition

Zihan Liu, Yan Xu, Tiezheng Yu, Wenliang Dai, Ziwei Ji

Generating CCG Categories

Yufang Liu, Tao Ji, Yuanbin Wu, Man Lan

A Graph Reasoning Network for Multi-turn Response Selection via Customized Pre-training

Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Kaisong Song, Feiliang Ren

Faster Depth-Adaptive Transformers

Yijin Liu, Fandong Meng, Jie Zhou, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu

Towards Faithfulness in Open Domain Table-to-text Generation from an Entity-centric View

Tianyu Liu, Xin Zheng, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui

Filling the Gap of Utterance-aware and Speaker-aware Representation for Multi-turn Dialogue

Longxiang Liu, Zhuosheng Zhang, Hai Zhao, Xi Zhou, Xiang Zhou

How to Train Your Agent to Read and Write

Li Liu, Mengge He, Guanghui Xu, Mingkui Tan, Qi Wu

Natural Language Inference in Context - Investigating Contextual Reasoning over Long Texts

Hanmeng Liu, Leyang Cui, Jian Liu, Yue Zhang

Converse, Focus and Guess - Towards Multi-Document Driven Dialogue

Han Liu, Caixia Yuan, Xiaojie Wang, Yushu Yang, Huixing Jiang

Neural Sentence Simplification with Semantic Dependency Information

Zhe Lin, Xiaojun Wan

Graph-Evolving Meta-Learning for Low-Resource Medical Dialogue Generation

Shuai Lin, Pan Zhou, Xiaodan Liang, Jianheng Tang, Ruihui Zhao

Hierarchical Coherence Modeling for Document Quality Assessment

Dongliang Liao, Jin Xu, Gongfu Li, Yiru Wang

Infusing Multi-Source Knowledge with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Emotional Conversation Generation

Yunlong Liang, Fandong Meng, Ying Zhang, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu

Finding Sparse Structures for Domain Specific Neural Machine Translation

Jianze Liang, Chengqi Zhao, Mingxuan Wang, Xipeng Qiu, Lei Li

An Unsupervised Sampling Approach for Image-Sentence Matching Using Document-level Structural Information

Zejun Li, zhongyu wei, Zhihao Fan, Haijun Shan, Xuanjing Huang

An Efficient Transformer Decoder with Compressed Sub-layers

Yanyang Li, Ye Lin, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu

Interpretable NLG for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Heterogeneous Rendering Machines

Yangming Li, Kaisheng Yao

TSQA: Tabular Scenario Based Question Answering

Xiao Li, Yawei Sun, Gong Cheng

Merging Statistical Feature via Adaptive Gate for Improved Text Classification

Xianming Li, Zongxi Li, Haoran Xie, Qing Li

HopRetriever: Retrieve Hops over Wikipedia to Answer Complex Questions

Shaobo Li, Xiaoguang Li, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu

Quantum-inspired Neural Network for Conversational Emotion Recognition

Qiuchi Li, Dimitris Gkoumas, Alessandro Sordoni, Jian-Yun Nie, Massimo Melucci

ACT: an Attentive Convolutional Transformer for Efficient Text Classification

Pengfei Li, Peixiang Zhong, Kezhi Mao, Dongzhe Wang, Xuefeng Yang

The Style-Content Duality of Attractiveness: Learning to Write Eye-Catching Headlines via Disentanglement

Mingzhe Li, Xiuying Chen, Min Yang, Shen Gao, Dongyan Zhao

Towards Topic-Aware Slide Generation For Academic Papers With Unsupervised Mutual Learning

Da-Wei Li, Danqing Huang, Tingting Ma, Chin-Yew Lin

Multi-view Inference for Relation Extraction with Uncertain Knowledge

Bo Li, Wei Ye, Canming Huang, Shikun Zhang

Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness for BERT-based Entity Resolution

Bing Li, Yukai Miao, Yaoshu Wang, Yifang Sun, Wei Wang

Learning Light-Weight Translation Models from Deep Transformer

Bei Li, Ziyang Wang, Hui LIU, Quan Du, Tong Xiao

Have We Solved The Hard Problem? It’s Not Easy! Contextual Lexical Contrast as a Means to Probe Neural Coherence

Wenqiang Lei, Yisong Miao, Runpeng Xie, Bonnie Webber, Meichun Liu

Multi-SpectroGAN: High-Diversity and High-Fidelity Spectrogram Generation with Adversarial Style Combination for Speech Synthesis

Sang-Hoon Lee, Hyun-Wook Yoon, Hyeong-Rae Noh, Ji-Hoon Kim, Seong-Whan Lee

SALNet: Semi-supervised Few-Shot Text Classification with Attention-based Lexicon Construction

Ju-Hyoung Lee, Sang-Ki Ko, Yo-Sub Han

The Gap on Gap: Tackling the Problem of Differing Data Distributions in Bias-Measuring Datasets

Vid Kocijan, Oana-Maria Camburu, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Self-supervised Pre-training and Contrastive Representation Learning for Multiple-choice Video QA

Seonhoon Kim, Seohyeong Jeong, Eunbyul Kim, Inho Kang, Nojun Kwak

FIXMYPOSE: Pose Correctional Captioning and Retrieval

Hyounghun Kim, Abhay Zala, Graham Burri, Mohit Bansal

Hierarchical Macro Discourse Parsing Based on Topic Segmentation

Feng Jiang, Yaxin Fan, Xiaomin Chu, Peifeng Li, Qiaoming Zhu

EQG-RACE: Examination-Type Question Generation

Xin Jia, Wenjie Zhou, Xu Sun, Yunfang Wu

Flexible Non-Autoregressive Extractive Summarization with Threshold: How to Extract a Non-Fixed Number of Summary Sentences

Ruipeng Jia, Yanan Cao, Haichao Shi, Fang Fang, Pengfei Yin

DDRel: A New Dataset for Interpersonal Relation Classification in Dyadic Dialogues

Qi Jia, Hongru Huang, Kenny Q. Zhu

Dynamic Hybrid Relation Exploration Network for Cross-Domain Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing

Binyuan Hui, Ruiying Geng, Qiyu Ren, Binhua Li, Yongbin Li

Unsupervised Learning of Discourse Structures using a Tree Autoencoder

Patrick Huber, Giuseppe Carenini

Audio-Oriented Multimodal Machine Comprehension via Dynamic Inter- and Intra-modality Attention

Zhiqi Huang, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Shen Ge, Helin Wang

Distribution Matching for Rationalization

Yongfeng Huang, Yujun Chen, Yulun Du, Zhilin Yang

Adaptive Beam Search Decoding for Discrete Keyphrase Generation

Xiaoli Huang, Tongge Xu, Lvan Jiao, Yueran Zu, Youmin Zhang

Story Ending Generation with Multi-Level Graph Convolutional Networks over Dependency Trees

Qingbao Huang, Linzhang Mo, Pijian Li, Yi Cai, Qingguang Liu

Entity Guided Question Generation with Contextual Structure and Sequence Information Capturing

Qingbao Huang, Mingyi Fu, Linzhang Mo, Yi Cai, Jingyun Xu

SARG: A Novel Semi Autoregressive Generator for Multi-turn Incomplete Utterance Restoration

Mengzuo Huang, Feng Li, Wuhe Zou, Weidong Zhang

HARGAN: Heterogeneous Argument Attention Network for Persuasiveness Prediction

Kuo-Yu Huang, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Few-shot Learning for Multi-label Intent Detection

Yutai Hou, Yongkui Lai, Yushan Wu, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu

C2C-GenDA: Cluster-to-Cluster Generation for Data Augmentation of Slot Filling

Yutai Hou, Sanyuan Chen, Wanxiang Che, Cheng Chen, Ting Liu

It Takes Two to Empathize: One to Seek and One to Provide

Mahshid Hosseini, Cornelia Caragea

SMART: A Situation Model for Algebra Story Problems via Attributed Grammar

Yining Hong, Qing Li, Ran Gong, Daniel Ciao, Siyuan Huang

Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation

Ryota Hinami, Shonosuke Ishiwatari, Kazuhiko Yasuda, Yusuke Matsui

Show Me How To Revise: Improving Lexically Constrained Sentence Generation with XLNet

Xingwei He, Victor O.K. Li

Synchronous Interactive Decoding for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Hao He, Qian Wang, Zhipeng Yu, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang

Humor Knowledge Enriched Transformer for Understanding Multimodal Humor

Md Kamrul Hasan, Sangwu Lee, Wasifur Rahman, Amir Zadeh, Rada Mihalcea

Self-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer

Yaru Hao, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Ke Xu

Sketch and Customize: A Counterfactual Story Generator

Changying Hao, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Yan Wang, Jiafeng Guo