AACL 2022

285 papers

SEHY: A Simple yet Effective Hybrid Model for Summarization of Long Scientific Documents

Zhihua Jiang, Junzhan Yang, Dongning Rao

Does Representational Fairness Imply Empirical Fairness?

Aili Shen, Xudong Han, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Lea Frermann

Understanding the Use of Quantifiers in Mandarin

Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter

TaskMix: Data Augmentation for Meta-Learning of Spoken Intent Understanding

Surya Kant Sahu

Conceptual Similarity for Subjective Tags

Yacine Gaci, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Khalid Benabdeslem

LEATHER: A Framework for Learning to Generate Human-like Text in Dialogue

Anthony Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani

KreolMorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation

Raj Dabre, Aneerav Sukhoo

Spa: On the Sparsity of Virtual Adversarial Training for Dependency Parsing

Chao Lou, Wenjuan Han, Kewei Tu

Efficient Entity Embedding Construction from Type Knowledge for BERT

Yukun Feng, Amir Fayazi, Abhinav Rastogi, Manabu Okumura

A Tour of Explicit Multilingual Semantics: Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role Labeling and Semantic Parsing

Roberto Navigli, Edoardo Barba, Simone Conia, Rexhina Blloshmi

The Battlefront of Combating Misinformation and Coping with Media Bias

Yi Fung, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Preslav Nakov, Heng Ji

Grounding Meaning Representation for Situated Reasoning

Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky

When Cantonese NLP Meets Pre-training: Progress and Challenges

Rong Xiang, Hanzhuo Tan, Jing Li, Mingyu Wan, Kam-Fai Wong

Recent Advances in Pre-trained Language Models: Why Do They Work and How Do They Work

Cheng-Han Chiang, Yung-Sung Chuang, Hung-yi Lee

Efficient and Robust Knowledge Graph Construction

Ningyu Zhang, Tao Gui, Guoshun Nan

Meeting Decision Tracker: Making Meeting Minutes with De-Contextualized Utterances

Shumpei Inoue, Hy Nguyen, Hoang Pham, Tsungwei Liu, Minh-Tien Nguyen

Text Characterization Toolkit (TCT)

Daniel Simig, Tianlu Wang, Verna Dankers, Peter Henderson, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren

BiomedCurator: Data Curation for Biomedical Literature

Mohammad Golam Sohrab, Khoa N.A. Duong, Ikeda Masami, Goran Topić, Yayoi Natsume-Kitatani

PIEKM: ML-based Procedural Information Extraction and Knowledge Management System for Materials Science Literature

Huichen Yang, Carlos Aguirre, William Hsu

F-coref: Fast, Accurate and Easy to Use Coreference Resolution

Shon Otmazgin, Arie Cattan, Yoav Goldberg

TaxFree: a Visualization Tool for Candidate-free Taxonomy Enrichment

Irina Nikishina, Ivan Andrianov, Alsu Vakhitova, Alexander Panchenko

UKP-SQuARE v2: Explainability and Adversarial Attacks for Trustworthy QA

Rachneet Sachdeva, Haritz Puerto, Tim Baumgärtner, Sewin Tariverdian, Hao Zhang

PicTalky: Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Language Developmental Disabilities

Chanjun Park, Yoonna Jang, Seolhwa Lee, Jaehyung Seo, Kisu Yang

TexPrax: A Messaging Application for Ethical, Real-time Data Collection and Annotation

Lorenz Stangier, Ji-Ung Lee, Yuxi Wang, Marvin Müller, Nicholas Frick

VScript: Controllable Script Generation with Visual Presentation

Ziwei Ji, Yan Xu, I-Tsun Cheng, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Rita Frieske

Concreteness vs. Abstractness: A Selectional Preference Perspective

Tarun Tater, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

Dynamic Topic Modeling by Clustering Embeddings from Pretrained Language Models: A Research Proposal

Anton Eklund, Mona Forsman, Frank Drewes

Language over Labels: Contrastive Language Supervision Exceeds Purely Label-Supervised Classification Performance on Chest X-Rays

Anton Wiehe, Florian Schneider, Sebastian Blank, Xintong Wang, Hans-Peter Zorn

Detecting Urgency in Multilingual Medical SMS in Kenya

Narshion Ngao, Zeyu Wang, Lawrence Nderu, Tobias Mwalili, Tal August

An Empirical Study on Topic Preservation in Multi-Document Summarization

Mong Yuan Sim, Wei Emma Zhang, Congbo Ma

Outlier-Aware Training for Improving Group Accuracy Disparities

Li-Kuang Chen, Canasai Kruengkrai, Junichi Yamagishi

C3PO: A Lightweight Copying Mechanism for Translating Pseudocode to Code

Vishruth Veerendranath, Vibha Masti, Prajwal Anagani, Mamatha Hr

A Simple and Fast Strategy for Handling Rare Words in Neural Machine Translation

Nguyen-Hoang Minh-Cong, Vinh Thi Ngo, Van Vinh Nguyen

MUTE: A Multimodal Dataset for Detecting Hateful Memes

Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

Optimal Summaries for Enabling a Smooth Handover in Chat-Oriented Dialogue

Sanae Yamashita, Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Toward Building a Language Model for Understanding Temporal Commonsense

Mayuko Kimura, Lis Kanashiro Pereira, Ichiro Kobayashi

Bipartite-play Dialogue Collection for Practical Automatic Evaluation of Dialogue Systems

Shiki Sato, Yosuke Kishinami, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Reina Akama, Ryoko Tokuhisa

Emotional Intensity Estimation based on Writer’s Personality

Haruya Suzuki, Sora Tarumoto, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya, Yuta Nakashima

How to tackle an emerging topic? Combining strong and weak labels for Covid news NER

Aleksander Ficek, Fangyu Liu, Nigel Collier

Dodging the Data Bottleneck: Automatic Subtitling with Automatically Segmented ST Corpora

Sara Papi, Alina Karakanta, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

How Well Do Multi-hop Reading Comprehension Models Understand Date Information?

Xanh Ho, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa

Plug and Play Knowledge Distillation for kNN-LM with External Logits

Xuyang Jin, Tao Ge, Furu Wei

CLASP: Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Data Augmentation for Semantic Parsing

Andy Rosenbaum, Saleh Soltan, Wael Hamza, Marco Damonte, Isabel Groves

An Empirical Study of Pipeline vs. Joint approaches to Entity and Relation Extraction

Zhaohui Yan, Zixia Jia, Kewei Tu

Promoting Pre-trained LM with Linguistic Features on Automatic Readability Assessment

Shudi Hou, Simin Rao, Yu Xia, Sujian Li

Exploring the Effects of Negation and Grammatical Tense on Bias Probes

Samia Touileb

CoFE: A New Dataset of Intra-Multilingual Multi-target Stance Classification from an Online European Participatory Democracy Platform

Valentin Barriere, Guillaume Guillaume Jacquet, Léo Hemamou

SchAman: Spell-Checking Resources and Benchmark for Endangered Languages from Amazonia

Arturo Oncevay, Gerardo Cardoso, Carlo Alva, César Lara Ávila, Jovita Vásquez Balarezo

Vector Space Interpolation for Query Expansion

Deepanway Ghosal, Somak Aditya, Sandipan Dandapat, Monojit Choudhury

Controllable Text Simplification with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Daiki Yanamoto, Tomoki Ikawa, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Takashi Ninomiya, Satoru Uchida

Assessing Combinational Generalization of Language Models in Biased Scenarios

Yanbo Fang, Zuohui Fu, Xin Dong, Yongfeng Zhang, Gerard de Melo

GCDT: A Chinese RST Treebank for Multigenre and Multilingual Discourse Parsing

Siyao Peng, Yang Janet Liu, Amir Zeldes

MiQA: A Benchmark for Inference on Metaphorical Questions

Iulia Comșa, Julian Eisenschlos, Srini Narayanan

Evaluating Pre-Trained Sentence-BERT with Class Embeddings in Active Learning for Multi-Label Text Classification

Lukas Wertz, Jasmina Bogojeska, Katsiaryna Mirylenka, Jonas Kuhn

Modeling Document-level Temporal Structures for Building Temporal Dependency Graphs

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Ruihong Huang

Domain Specific Sub-network for Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation

Amr Hendy, Mohamed Abdelghaffar, Mohamed Afify, Ahmed Y. Tawfik

Self-Repetition in Abstractive Neural Summarizers

Nikita Salkar, Thomas Trikalinos, Byron Wallace, Ani Nenkova

Towards Unsupervised Morphological Analysis of Polysynthetic Languages

Sujay Khandagale, Yoann Léveillé, Samuel Miller, Derek Pham, Ramy Eskander

Extractive Entity-Centric Summarization as Sentence Selection using Bi-Encoders

Ella Hofmann-Coyle, Mayank Kulkarni, Lingjue Xie, Mounica Maddela, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro

Towards Simple and Efficient Task-Adaptive Pre-training for Text Classification

Arnav Ladkat, Aamir Miyajiwala, Samiksha Jagadale, Rekha A. Kulkarni, Raviraj Joshi

Demographic-Aware Language Model Fine-tuning as a Bias Mitigation Technique

Aparna Garimella, Rada Mihalcea, Akhash Amarnath

CSS: Combining Self-training and Self-supervised Learning for Few-shot Dialogue State Tracking

Haoning Zhang, Junwei Bao, Haipeng Sun, Huaishao Luo, Wenye Li

Transformer-based Localization from Embodied Dialog with Large-scale Pre-training

Meera Hahn, James M. Rehg

Local Structure Matters Most in Most Languages

Louis Clouatre, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar

NepBERTa: Nepali Language Model Trained in a Large Corpus

Sulav Timilsina, Milan Gautam, Binod Bhattarai

BanglaParaphrase: A High-Quality Bangla Paraphrase Dataset

Ajwad Akil, Najrin Sultana, Abhik Bhattacharjee, Rifat Shahriyar

Seeking Diverse Reasoning Logic: Controlled Equation Expression Generation for Solving Math Word Problems

Yibin Shen, Qianying Liu, Zhuoyuan Mao, Zhen Wan, Fei Cheng

Performance-Efficiency Trade-Offs in Adapting Language Models to Text Classification Tasks

Laura Aina, Nikos Voskarides, Roi Blanco

Risk-graded Safety for Handling Medical Queries in Conversational AI

Gavin Abercrombie, Verena Rieser

Improving Graph-Based Text Representations with Character and Word Level N-grams

Wenzhe Li, Nikolaos Aletras

Adversarially Improving NMT Robustness to ASR Errors with Confusion Sets

Shuaibo Wang, Yufeng Chen, Songming Zhang, Deyi Xiong, Jinan Xu

Do ever larger octopi still amplify reporting biases? Evidence from judgments of typical colour

Fangyu Liu, Julian Eisenschlos, Jeremy Cole, Nigel Collier

Post-Training with Interrogative Sentences for Enhancing BART-based Korean Question Generator

Gyu-Min Park, Seong-Eun Hong, Seong-Bae Park

A Simple Yet Effective Hybrid Pre-trained Language Model for Unsupervised Sentence Acceptability Prediction

Yang Zhao, Issei Yoshida

NGEP: A Graph-based Event Planning Framework for Story Generation

Chen Tang, Zhihao Zhang, Tyler Loakman, Chenghua Lin, Frank Guerin

Improving Chinese Story Generation via Awareness of Syntactic Dependencies and Semantics

Henglin Huang, Chen Tang, Tyler Loakman, Frank Guerin, Chenghua Lin

Multi-Type Conversational Question-Answer Generation with Closed-ended and Unanswerable Questions

Seonjeong Hwang, Yunsu Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee

An Improved Baseline for Sentence-level Relation Extraction

Wenxuan Zhou, Muhao Chen

How Relevant is Selective Memory Population in Lifelong Language Learning?

Vladimir Araujo, Helena Balabin, Julio Hurtado, Alvaro Soto, Marie-Francine Moens

The Effects of Language Token Prefixing for Multilingual Machine Translation

Rachel Wicks, Kevin Duh

Exploring Universal Sentence Encoders for Zero-shot Text Classification

Souvika Sarkar, Dongji Feng, Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

EmoNoBa: A Dataset for Analyzing Fine-Grained Emotions on Noisy Bangla Texts

Khondoker Ittehadul Islam, Tanvir Yuvraz, Md Saiful Islam, Enamul Hassan

Parsing linearizations appreciate PoS tags - but some are fussy about errors

Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz, Mark Anderson, David Vilares, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Addressing Segmentation Ambiguity in Neural Linguistic Steganography

Jumon Nozaki, Yugo Murawaki

An Effective Post-training Embedding Binarization Approach for Fast Online Top-K Passage Matching

yankai Chen, Yifei Zhang, Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang, Irwin King

NERDz: A Preliminary Dataset of Named Entities for Algerian

Samia Touileb

BERTSeg: BERT Based Unsupervised Subword Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation

Haiyue Song, Raj Dabre, Zhuoyuan Mao, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi

Analyzing Biases to Spurious Correlations in Text Classification Tasks

Adian Liusie, Vatsal Raina, Vyas Raina, Mark Gales

Every word counts: A multilingual analysis of individual human alignment with model attention

Stephanie Brandl, Nora Hollenstein

Combining Argumentation Structure and Language Model for Generating Natural Argumentative Dialogue

Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kuniko Saito

FAD-X: Fusing Adapters for Cross-lingual Transfer to Low-Resource Languages

Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Taesup Kim

Robust Hate Speech Detection via Mitigating Spurious Correlations

Kshitiz Tiwari, Shuhan Yuan, Lu Zhang

Towards Modeling Role-Aware Centrality for Dialogue Summarization

Xinnian Liang, Chao Bian, Shuangzhi Wu, Zhoujun Li

CLIP4IDC: CLIP for Image Difference Captioning

Zixin Guo, Tzu-Jui Wang, Jorma Laaksonen

Number Theory Meets Linguistics: Modelling Noun Pluralisation Across 1497 Languages Using 2-adic Metrics

Gregory Baker, Diego Molla

Benchmarking the Covariate Shift Robustness of Open-world Intent Classification Approaches

Sopan Khosla, Rashmi Gangadharaiah

A Unified Model for Reverse Dictionary and Definition Modelling

Pinzhen Chen, Zheng Zhao

Transfer Learning for Humor Detection by Twin Masked Yellow Muppets

Aseem Arora, Gaël Dias, Adam Jatowt, Asif Ekbal

COFAR: Commonsense and Factual Reasoning in Image Search

Prajwal Gatti, Abhirama Subramanyam Penamakuri, Revant Teotia, Anand Mishra, Shubhashis Sengupta

Underspecification in Scene Description-to-Depiction Tasks

Ben Hutchinson, Jason Baldridge, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran