AACL 2020

195 papers

Towards a Task-Agnostic Model of Difficulty Estimation for Supervised Learning Tasks

Antonio Laverghetta Jr., Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov, John Licato

Two-Headed Monster and Crossed Co-Attention Networks

Yaoyiran Li, Jing Jiang

Text Classification through Glyph-aware Disentangled Character Embedding and Semantic Sub-character Augmentation

Takumi Aoki, Shunsuke Kitada, Hitoshi Iyatomi

Measuring What Counts: The Case of Rumour Stance Classification

Carolina Scarton, Diego Silva, Kalina Bontcheva

Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis

João Augusto Leite, Diego Silva, Kalina Bontcheva, Carolina Scarton

A Unified Framework for Multilingual and Code-Mixed Visual Question Answering

Deepak Gupta, Pabitra Lenka, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Shin Kanouchi, Masato Neishi, Yuta Hayashibe, Hiroki Ouchi, Naoaki Okazaki

Compressing Pre-trained Language Models by Matrix Decomposition

Matan Ben Noach, Yoav Goldberg

Multi-Source Attention for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Xia Cui, Danushka Bollegala

Happy Are Those Who Grade without Seeing: A Multi-Task Learning Approach to Grade Essays Using Gaze Behaviour

Sandeep Mathias, Rudra Murthy, Diptesh Kanojia, Abhijit Mishra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

IndoNLU: Benchmark and Resources for Evaluating Indonesian Natural Language Understanding

Bryan Wilie, Karissa Vincentio, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Xiaohong Li

Sina Mandarin Alphabetical Words:A Web-driven Code-mixing Lexical Resource

Rong Xiang, Mingyu Wan, Qi Su, Chu-Ren Huang, Qin Lu

Stronger Baselines for Grammatical Error Correction Using a Pretrained Encoder-Decoder Model

Satoru Katsumata, Mamoru Komachi

Recipe Instruction Semantics Corpus (RISeC): Resolving Semantic Structure and Zero Anaphora in Recipes

Yiwei Jiang, Klim Zaporojets, Johannes Deleu, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder

Reconstructing Event Regions for Event Extraction via Graph Attention Networks

Pei Chen, Hang Yang, Kang Liu, Ruihong Huang, Yubo Chen

Point-of-Interest Type Inference from Social Media Text

Danae Sánchez Villegas, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Nikolaos Aletras

From Hero to Zéroe: A Benchmark of Low-Level Adversarial Attacks

Steffen Eger, Yannik Benz

Vocabulary Matters: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Paragraph-level Question Generation

Vishwajeet Kumar, Manish Joshi, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Yuan-Fang Li

ExpanRL: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Course Concept Expansion in MOOCs

Jifan Yu, Chenyu Wang, Gan Luo, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li

Robustness and Reliability of Gender Bias Assessment in Word Embeddings: The Role of Base Pairs

Haiyang Zhang, Alison Sneyd, Mark Stevenson

More Data, More Relations, More Context and More Openness: A Review and Outlook for Relation Extraction

Xu Han, Tianyu Gao, Yankai Lin, Hao Peng, Yaoliang Yang

Knowledge-Enhanced Named Entity Disambiguation for Short Text

Zhifan Feng, Qi Wang, Wenbin Jiang, Yajuan Lyu, Yong Zhu

Multi-view Classification Model for Knowledge Graph Completion

Wenbin Jiang, Mengfei Guo, Yufeng Chen, Ying Li, Jinan Xu

Explaining Word Embeddings via Disentangled Representation

Keng-Te Liao, Cheng-Syuan Lee, Zhong-Yu Huang, Shou-De Lin

Two-Step Classification using Recasted Data for Low Resource Settings

Shagun Uppal, Vivek Gupta, Avinash Swaminathan, Haimin Zhang, Debanjan Mahata

Answering Product-related Questions with Heterogeneous Information

Wenxuan Zhang, Qian Yu, Wai Lam

MaP: A Matrix-based Prediction Approach to Improve Span Extraction in Machine Reading Comprehension

Huaishao Luo, Yu Shi, Ming Gong, Linjun Shou, Tianrui Li

Asking Crowdworkers to Write Entailment Examples: The Best of Bad Options

Clara Vania, Ruijie Chen, Samuel R. Bowman

Neural RST-based Evaluation of Discourse Coherence

Grigorii Guz, Peyman Bateni, Darius Muglich, Giuseppe Carenini

Event Coreference Resolution with Non-Local Information

Jing LU, Vincent Ng

DAPPER: Learning Domain-Adapted Persona Representation Using Pretrained BERT and External Memory

Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Eric Chu, Deb Roy

Contextualized End-to-End Neural Entity Linking

Haotian Chen, Xi Li, Andrej Zukov Gregoric, Sahil Wadhwa

Improving Context Modeling in Neural Topic Segmentation

Linzi Xing, Brad Hackinen, Giuseppe Carenini, Francesco Trebbi

Massively Multilingual Document Alignment with Cross-lingual Sentence-Mover’s Distance

Ahmed El-Kishky, Francisco Guzmán

Generating Sports News from Live Commentary: A Chinese Dataset for Sports Game Summarization

Kuan-Hao Huang, Chen Li, Kai-Wei Chang

Liputan6: A Large-scale Indonesian Dataset for Text Summarization

Fajri Koto, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin

Cue Me In: Content-Inducing Approaches to Interactive Story Generation

Faeze Brahman, Alexandru Petrusca, Snigdha Chaturvedi

SimulMT to SimulST: Adapting Simultaneous Text Translation to End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation

Xutai Ma, Juan Pino, Philipp Koehn

STIL - Simultaneous Slot Filling, Translation, Intent Classification, and Language Identification: Initial Results using mBART on MultiATIS++

Jack Fitzgerald

English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Too

Jason Phang, Iacer Calixto, Phu Mon Htut, Yada Pruksachatkun, Haokun Liu

Leveraging Structured Metadata for Improving Question Answering on the Web

Xinya Du, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Adam Fourney, Robert Sim, Paul Bennett

Point-of-Interest Oriented Question Answering with Joint Inference of Semantic Matching and Distance Correlation

Yifei Yuan, Jingbo Zhou, Wai Lam

Mixed-Lingual Pre-training for Cross-lingual Summarization

Ruochen Xu, Chenguang Zhu, Yu Shi, Michael Zeng, Xuedong Huang

A Cascade Approach to Neural Abstractive Summarization with Content Selection and Fusion

Logan Lebanoff, Franck Dernoncourt, Doo Soon Kim, Walter Chang, Fei Liu

Systematically Exploring Redundancy Reduction in Summarizing Long Documents

Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini

Are Scene Graphs Good Enough to Improve Image Captioning?

Victor Milewski, Marie-Francine Moens, Iacer Calixto

Systematic Generalization on gSCAN with Language Conditioned Embedding

Tong Gao, Qi Huang, Raymond Mooney

Multimodal Pretraining for Dense Video Captioning

Gabriel Huang, Bo Pang, Zhenhai Zhu, Clara Rivera, Radu Soricut

Beyond Fine-tuning: Few-Sample Sentence Embedding Transfer

Siddhant Garg, Rohit Kumar Sharma, Yingyu Liang

A Survey of the State of Explainable AI for Natural Language Processing

Marina Danilevsky, Kun Qian, Ranit Aharonov, Yannis Katsis, Ban Kawas

Self-Supervised Learning for Pairwise Data Refinement

Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Bowen Liang, Wei Wang, Zarana Parekh, Yinfei Yang

Building Location Embeddings from Physical Trajectories and Textual Representations

Laura Biester, Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea

Heads-up! Unsupervised Constituency Parsing via Self-Attention Heads

Bowen Li, Taeuk Kim, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Frank Keller

Grounded PCFG Induction with Images

Lifeng Jin, William Schuler

Predicting and Using Target Length in Neural Machine Translation

Zijian Yang, Yingbo Gao, Weiyue Wang, Hermann Ney

English-to-Chinese Transliteration with Phonetic Auxiliary Task

Yuan He, Shay B. Cohen

An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation

Shuo Sun, Marina Fomicheva, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky

Analysis of Hierarchical Multi-Content Text Classification Model on B-SHARP Dataset for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

Renxuan Albert Li, Ihab Hajjar, Felicia Goldstein, Jinho D. Choi

Chinese Content Scoring: Open-Access Datasets and Features on Different Segmentation Levels

Yuning Ding, Andrea Horbach, Torsten Zesch

A Systematic Characterization of Sampling Algorithms for Open-ended Language Generation

Moin Nadeem, Tianxing He, Kyunghyun Cho, James Glass

Intent Detection with WikiHow

Li Zhang, Qing Lyu, Chris Callison-Burch

Energy-based Self-attentive Learning of Abstractive Communities for Spoken Language Understanding

Guokan Shang, Antoine Tixier, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Jean-Pierre Lorré

Unsupervised Aspect-Level Sentiment Controllable Style Transfer

Mukuntha Narayanan Sundararaman, Zishan Ahmad, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Identifying Implicit Quotes for Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Conversations

Ryuji Kano, Yasuhide Miura, Tomoki Taniguchi, Tomoko Ohkuma

All-in-One: A Deep Attentive Multi-task Learning Framework for Humour, Sarcasm, Offensive, Motivation, and Sentiment on Memes

Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Dhanush S R, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Modality-Transferable Emotion Embeddings for Low-Resource Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Wenliang Dai, Zihan Liu, Tiezheng Yu, Pascale Fung

Unsupervised KB-to-Text Generation with Auxiliary Triple Extraction using Dual Learning

Zihao Fu, Bei Shi, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam

Generating Commonsense Explanation by Extracting Bridge Concepts from Reasoning Paths

Haozhe Ji, Pei Ke, Shaohan Huang, Furu Wei, Minlie Huang

AMR Quality Rating with a Lightweight CNN

Juri Opitz

Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation

Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache, Chu-Ren Huang

Towards a Better Understanding of Label Smoothing in Neural Machine Translation

Yingbo Gao, Weiyue Wang, Christian Herold, Zijian Yang, Hermann Ney

UnihanLM: Coarse-to-Fine Chinese-Japanese Language Model Pretraining with the Unihan Database

Canwen Xu, Tao Ge, Chenliang Li, Furu Wei

A General Framework for Adaptation of Neural Machine Translation to Simultaneous Translation

Yun Chen, Liangyou Li, Xin Jiang, Xiao Chen, Qun Liu

Named Entity Recognition in Multi-level Contexts

Yubo Chen, Chuhan Wu, Tao Qi, Zhigang Yuan, Yongfeng Huang

Neural Gibbs Sampling for Joint Event Argument Extraction

Xiaozhi Wang, Shengyu Jia, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Juanzi Li

Chinese Grammatical Correction Using BERT-based Pre-trained Model

Hongfei Wang, Michiki Kurosawa, Satoru Katsumata, Mamoru Komachi

Transformer-based Approach for Predicting Chemical Compound Structures

Yutaro Omote, Kyoumoto Matsushita, Tomoya Iwakura, Akihiro Tamura, Takashi Ninomiya

BERT-Based Neural Collaborative Filtering and Fixed-Length Contiguous Tokens Explanation

Reinald Adrian Pugoy, Hung-Yu Kao

An Empirical Study of Tokenization Strategies for Various Korean NLP Tasks

Kyubyong Park, Joohong Lee, Seongbo Jang, Dawoon Jung

Learning Goal-oriented Dialogue Policy with opposite Agent Awareness

Zheng Zhang, Lizi Liao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Tat-Seng Chua, Zitao Liu

A Simple Text-based Relevant Location Prediction Method using Knowledge Base

Mei Sasaki, Shumpei Okura, Shingo Ono

Exploiting WordNet Synset and Hypernym Representations for Answer Selection

Weikang Li, Yunfang Wu

High-order Refining for End-to-end Chinese Semantic Role Labeling

Hao Fei, Yafeng Ren, Donghong Ji

Second-Order Neural Dependency Parsing with Message Passing and End-to-End Training

Xinyu Wang, Kewei Tu

Investigating Learning Dynamics of BERT Fine-Tuning

Yaru Hao, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Ke Xu

A Simple and Effective Usage of Word Clusters for CBOW Model

Yukun Feng, Chenlong Hu, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Towards Non-task-specific Distillation of BERT via Sentence Representation Approximation

Bowen Wu, Huan Zhang, MengYuan Li, Zongsheng Wang, Qihang Feng

Lightweight Text Classifier using Sinusoidal Positional Encoding

Byoung-Doo Oh, Yu-Seop Kim

BCTH: A Novel Text Hashing Approach via Bayesian Clustering

Ying Wenjie, Yuquan Le, Hantao Xiong

SentiRec: Sentiment Diversity-aware Neural News Recommendation

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Tao Qi, Yongfeng Huang

FERNet: Fine-grained Extraction and Reasoning Network for Emotion Recognition in Dialogues

Yingmei Guo, Zhiyong Wu, Mingxing Xu

Graph Attention Network with Memory Fusion for Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis

Li Yuan, Jin Wang, Liang-Chih Yu, Xuejie Zhang

Rumor Detection on Twitter Using Multiloss Hierarchical BiLSTM with an Attenuation Factor

Yudianto Sujana, Jiawen Li, Hung-Yu Kao

Can Monolingual Pretrained Models Help Cross-Lingual Classification?

Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Xianling Mao, Heyan Huang

Touch Editing: A Flexible One-Time Interaction Approach for Translation

Qian Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Lemao Liu, Guoping Huang, Chengqing Zong