ACL 2020

1,239 papers

Low Resource Sequence Tagging using Sentence Reconstruction

Tal Perl, Sriram Chaudhury, Raja Giryes

Knowledge Graph Embedding Compression

Mrinmaya Sachan

Interactive Classification by Asking Informative Questions

LILI YU, Howard Chen, Sida I. Wang, Tao Lei, Yoav Artzi

Contextual Embeddings: When Are They Worth It?

Simran Arora, Avner May, Jian Zhang, Christopher Re

A Batch Normalized Inference Network Keeps the KL Vanishing Away

Qile Zhu, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Xiyao Ma, Xiaolin Li

What is Learned in Visually Grounded Neural Syntax Acquisition

Noriyuki Kojima, Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Alexander Rush, Yoav Artzi

MART: Memory-Augmented Recurrent Transformer for Coherent Video Paragraph Captioning

Jie Lei, Liwei Wang, Yelong Shen, Dong Yu, Tamara Berg

Learning to execute instructions in a Minecraft dialogue

Prashant Jayannavar, Anjali Narayan-Chen, Julia Hockenmaier

Learning to Segment Actions from Observation and Narration

Daniel Fried, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Phil Blunsom, Chris Dyer, Stephen Clark

Cross-media Structured Common Space for Multimedia Event Extraction

Manling Li, Alireza Zareian, Qi Zeng, Spencer Whitehead, Di Lu

BabyWalk: Going Farther in Vision-and-Language Navigation by Taking Baby Steps

Wang Zhu, Hexiang Hu, Jiacheng Chen, Zhiwei Deng, Vihan Jain

Simple and Effective Retrieve-Edit-Rerank Text Generation

Nabil Hossain, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Luke Zettlemoyer

Improving Adversarial Text Generation by Modeling the Distant Future

Ruiyi Zhang, Changyou Chen, Zhe Gan, Wenlin Wang, Dinghan Shen

INSET: Sentence Infilling with INter-SEntential Transformer

Yichen Huang, Yizhe Zhang, Oussama Elachqar, Yu Cheng

Enabling Language Models to Fill in the Blanks

Chris Donahue, Mina Lee, Percy Liang

Bridging the Structural Gap Between Encoding and Decoding for Data-To-Text Generation

Chao Zhao, Marilyn Walker, Snigdha Chaturvedi

Automatic Poetry Generation from Prosaic Text

Tim Van de Cruys

The Dialogue Dodecathlon: Open-Domain Knowledge and Image Grounded Conversational Agents

Kurt Shuster, Da JU, Stephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Y-lan Boureau

Neural Generation of Dialogue Response Timings

Matthew Roddy, Naomi Harte

Learning an Unreferenced Metric for Online Dialogue Evaluation

Koustuv Sinha, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Jasmine Wang, Ryan Lowe, William L. Hamilton

Image-Chat: Engaging Grounded Conversations

Kurt Shuster, Samuel Humeau, Antoine Bordes, Jason Weston

Grounding Conversations with Improvised Dialogues

Hyundong Cho, Jonathan May

Phone Features Improve Speech Translation

Elizabeth Salesky, Alan W Black

Multimodal and Multiresolution Speech Recognition with Transformers

Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Srinivas Parthasarathy, Aparna Khare, Shiva Sundaram

MultiQT: Multimodal learning for real-time question tracking in speech

Jakob D. Havtorn, Jan Latko, Joakim Edin, Lars Maaløe, Lasse Borgholt

Integrating Multimodal Information in Large Pretrained Transformers

Wasifur Rahman, Md Kamrul Hasan, Sangwu Lee, AmirAli Bagher Zadeh, Chengfeng Mao

Improved Speech Representations with Multi-Target Autoregressive Predictive Coding

Yu-An Chung, James Glass

Syntactic Data Augmentation Increases Robustness to Inference Heuristics

Junghyun Min, R. Thomas McCoy, Dipanjan Das, Emily Pitler, Tal Linzen

Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents

Xingdi Yuan, Jie Fu, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Yi Tay, Chris Pal

INFOTABS: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured Data

Vivek Gupta, Maitrey Mehta, Pegah Nokhiz, Vivek Srikumar

Can We Predict New Facts with Open Knowledge Graph Embeddings? A Benchmark for Open Link Prediction

Samuel Broscheit, Kiril Gashteovski, Yanjie Wang, Rainer Gemulla

Semantic Scaffolds for Pseudocode-to-Code Generation

Ruiqi Zhong, Mitchell Stern, Dan Klein

SPECTER: Document-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers

Arman Cohan, Sergey Feldman, Iz Beltagy, Doug Downey, Daniel Weld

Investigating the effect of auxiliary objectives for the automated grading of learner English speech transcriptions

Hannah Craighead, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Helen Yannakoudakis

Efficient Strategies for Hierarchical Text Classification: External Knowledge and Auxiliary Tasks

Kervy Rivas Rojas, Gina Bustamante, Arturo Oncevay, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo

DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference

Ji Xin, Raphael Tang, Jaejun Lee, Yaoliang Yu, Jimmy Lin

A Girl Has A Name: Detecting Authorship Obfuscation

Asad Mahmood, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan

XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models

Subhabrata Mukherjee, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Why Overfitting Isn’t Always Bad: Retrofitting Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings to Dictionaries

Mozhi Zhang, Yoshinari Fujinuma, Michael J. Paul, Jordan Boyd-Graber

To Pretrain or Not to Pretrain: Examining the Benefits of Pretrainng on Resource Rich Tasks

Sinong Wang, Madian Khabsa, Hao Ma

Taxonomy Construction of Unseen Domains via Graph-based Cross-Domain Knowledge Transfer

Chao Shang, Sarthak Dash, Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Alfio Gliozzo

Stolen Probability: A Structural Weakness of Neural Language Models

David Demeter, Gregory Kimmel, Doug Downey

SMART: Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Natural Language Models through Principled Regularized Optimization

Haoming Jiang, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao

On Importance Sampling-Based Evaluation of Latent Language Models

Robert L. Logan Iv, Matt Gardner, Sameer Singh

MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices

Zhiqing Sun, Hongkun Yu, Xiaodan Song, Renjie Liu, Yiming Yang

MixText: Linguistically-Informed Interpolation of Hidden Space for Semi-Supervised Text Classification

Jiaao Chen, Zichao Yang, Diyi Yang

Learning to Contextually Aggregate Multi-Source Supervision for Sequence Labeling

Ouyu Lan, Xiao Huang, Bill Yuchen Lin, He Jiang, Liyuan Liu

Generalizing Natural Language Analysis through Span-relation Representations

Zhengbao Jiang, Wei Xu, Jun Araki, Graham Neubig

GAN-BERT: Generative Adversarial Learning for Robust Text Classification with a Bunch of Labeled Examples

Danilo Croce, Giuseppe Castellucci, Roberto Basili

ExpBERT: Representation Engineering with Natural Language Explanations

Shikhar Murty, Pang Wei Koh, Percy Liang

Active Imitation Learning with Noisy Guidance

Kianté Brantley, Amr Sharaf, Hal Daume III

Calibrating Structured Output Predictors for Natural Language Processing

Abhyuday Jagannatha, Hong Yu

Speak to your Parser: Interactive Text-to-SQL with Natural Language Feedback

Ahmed Elgohary, Saghar Hosseini, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Recursive Template-based Frame Generation for Task Oriented Dialog

Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy

Negative Training for Neural Dialogue Response Generation

Tianxing He, James Glass

Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs

Houyu Zhang, Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Zhiyuan Liu

Can You Put it All Together: Evaluating Conversational Agents’ Ability to Blend Skills

Eric Michael Smith, Mary Williamson, Kurt Shuster, Jason Weston, Y-lan Boureau

“None of the Above”: Measure Uncertainty in Dialog Response Retrieval

Yulan Feng, Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi, Tiancheng Zhao

What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks

Richard Futrell, William Dyer, Greg Scontras

Speakers enhance contextually confusable words

Eric Meinhardt, Eric Bakovic, Leon Bergen

Recurrent Neural Network Language Models Always Learn English-Like Relative Clause Attachment

Forrest Davis, Marten van Schijndel

Recollection versus Imagination: Exploring Human Memory and Cognition via Neural Language Models

Maarten Sap, Eric Horvitz, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, James Pennebaker

Probing Linguistic Systematicity

Emily Goodwin, Koustuv Sinha, Timothy J. O’Donnell

A Tale of Two Perplexities: Sensitivity of Neural Language Models to Lexical Retrieval Deficits in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type

Trevor Cohen, Serguei Pakhomov

Unsupervised Opinion Summarization with Noising and Denoising

Reinald Kim Amplayo, Mirella Lapata

Screenplay Summarization Using Latent Narrative Structure

Pinelopi Papalampidi, Frank Keller, Lea Frermann, Mirella Lapata

On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization

Joshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Bernd Bohnet, Ryan Mcdonald

Attend to Medical Ontologies: Content Selection for Clinical Abstractive Summarization

Sajad Sotudeh Gharebagh, Nazli Goharian, Ross Filice

Improving Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Data

Jiawei Zhou, Phillip Keung

BPE-Dropout: Simple and Effective Subword Regularization

Ivan Provilkov, Dmitrii Emelianenko, Elena Voita

Politeness Transfer: A Tag and Generate Approach

Aman Madaan, Amrith Setlur, Tanmay Parekh, Barnabás Póczos, Graham Neubig

Learning to Update Natural Language Comments Based on Code Changes

Sheena Panthaplackel, Pengyu Nie, Milos Gligoric, Junyi Jessy Li, Raymond Mooney

GPT-too: A Language-Model-First Approach for AMR-to-Text Generation

Manuel Mager, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem, Md Arafat Sultan, Young-Suk Lee

Conversational Graph Grounded Policy Learning for Open-Domain Conversation Generation

Jun Xu, Haifeng Wang, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, Wanxiang Che

Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation with Word-Level Adaptive Layer-wise Domain Mixing

Haoming Jiang, Chen Liang, Chong Wang, Tuo Zhao

Automatic Detection of Generated Text is Easiest when Humans are Fooled

Daphne Ippolito, Daniel Duckworth, Chris Callison-Burch, Douglas Eck

A Generative Model for Joint Natural Language Understanding and Generation

Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Jianpeng Cheng, Yimai Fang, David Vandyke

You Don’t Have Time to Read This: An Exploration of Document Reading Time Prediction

Orion Weller, Jordan Hildebrandt, Ilya Reznik, Christopher Challis, E. Shannon Tass

Modelling Suspense in Short Stories as Uncertainty Reduction over Neural Representation

David Wilmot, Frank Keller

Overestimation of Syntactic Representation in Neural Language Models

Jordan Kodner, Nitish Gupta

Inflecting When There’s No Majority: Limitations of Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks as Cognitive Models for German Plurals

Kate McCurdy, Sharon Goldwater, Adam Lopez

A Systematic Assessment of Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models

Jennifer Hu, Jon Gauthier, Peng Qian, Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy

Will-They-Won’t-They: A Very Large Dataset for Stance Detection on Twitter

Costanza Conforti, Jakob Berndt, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Chryssi Giannitsarou, Flavio Toxvaerd

A Monolingual Approach to Contextualized Word Embeddings for Mid-Resource Languages

Pedro Javier Ortiz Suárez, Laurent Romary, Benoît Sagot

MMPE: A Multi-Modal Interface for Post-Editing Machine Translation

Nico Herbig, Tim Düwel, Santanu Pal, Kalliopi Meladaki, Mahsa Monshizadeh

“You Sound Just Like Your Father” Commercial Machine Translation Systems Include Stylistic Biases

Dirk Hovy, Federico Bianchi, Tommaso Fornaciari

Self-Attention with Cross-Lingual Position Representation

Liang Ding, Longyue Wang, Dacheng Tao

Parallel Sentence Mining by Constrained Decoding

Pinzhen Chen, Nikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, Faheem Kirefu

On the Limitations of Cross-lingual Encoders as Exposed by Reference-Free Machine Translation Evaluation

Wei Zhao, Goran Glavaš, Maxime Peyrard, Yang Gao, Robert West

Language-aware Interlingua for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Changfeng Zhu, Heng Yu, Shanbo Cheng, Weihua Luo

It’s Easier to Translate out of English than into it: Measuring Neural Translation Difficulty by Cross-Mutual Information

Emanuele Bugliarello, Sabrina J. Mielke, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Ryan Cotterell, Naoaki Okazaki

Improving Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation and Zero-Shot Translation

Biao Zhang, Philip Williams, Ivan Titov, Rico Sennrich

Enhancing Machine Translation with Dependency-Aware Self-Attention

Emanuele Bugliarello, Naoaki Okazaki

End-to-End Neural Word Alignment Outperforms GIZA++

Thomas Zenkel, Joern Wuebker, John DeNero

Character-Level Translation with Self-attention

Yingqiang Gao, Nikola I. Nikolov, Yuhuang Hu, Richard H.R. Hahnloser

Boosting Neural Machine Translation with Similar Translations

Jitao Xu, Josep Crego, Jean Senellart

Bilingual Dictionary Based Neural Machine Translation without Using Parallel Sentences

Xiangyu Duan, Baijun Ji, Hao Jia, Min Tan, Min Zhang

TACRED Revisited: A Thorough Evaluation of the TACRED Relation Extraction Task

Christoph Alt, Aleksandra Gabryszak, Leonhard Hennig

Reasoning with Latent Structure Refinement for Document-Level Relation Extraction

Guoshun Nan, Zhijiang Guo, Ivan Sekulic, Wei Lu

Probing Linguistic Features of Sentence-Level Representations in Neural Relation Extraction

Christoph Alt, Aleksandra Gabryszak, Leonhard Hennig