ACL 2020

1,239 papers

Named Entity Recognition without Labelled Data: A Weak Supervision Approach

Pierre Lison, Jeremy Barnes, Aliaksandr Hubin, Samia Touileb

NAT: Noise-Aware Training for Robust Neural Sequence Labeling

Marcin Namysl, Sven Behnke, Joachim Köhler

In Layman’s Terms: Semi-Open Relation Extraction from Scientific Texts

Ruben Kruiper, Julian Vincent, Jessica Chen-Burger, Marc Desmulliez, Ioannis Konstas

A Novel Cascade Binary Tagging Framework for Relational Triple Extraction

Zhepei Wei, Jianlin Su, Yue Wang, Yuan Tian, Yi Chang

Semantic Graphs for Generating Deep Questions

Liangming Pan, Yuxi Xie, Yansong Feng, Tat-Seng Chua, Min-Yen Kan

Fast and Accurate Non-Projective Dependency Tree Linearization

Xiang Yu, Simon Tannert, Ngoc Thang Vu, Jonas Kuhn

Dialogue Coherence Assessment Without Explicit Dialogue Act Labels

Mohsen Mesgar, Sebastian Bücker, Iryna Gurevych

Bridging Anaphora Resolution as Question Answering

Yufang Hou

You Impress Me: Dialogue Generation via Mutual Persona Perception

Qian Liu, Yihong Chen, Bei Chen, Jian-Guang Lou, Zixuan Chen

MuTual: A Dataset for Multi-Turn Dialogue Reasoning

Leyang Cui, Yu Wu, Shujie LIU, Yue Zhang, Ming Zhou

Learning Dialog Policies from Weak Demonstrations

Gabriel Gordon-Hall, Philip John Gorinski, Shay B. Cohen

Few-shot Slot Tagging with Collapsed Dependency Transfer and Label-enhanced Task-adaptive Projection Network

Yutai Hou, Wanxiang Che, Yongkui Lai, Zhihan Zhou, Yijia Liu

Conversational Word Embedding for Retrieval-Based Dialog System

Wentao Ma, Yiming Cui, Ting Liu, Dong Wang, Shijin Wang

Beyond User Self-Reported Likert Scale Ratings: A Comparison Model for Automatic Dialog Evaluation

Weixin Liang, James Zou, Zhou Yu

Self-Attention Guided Copy Mechanism for Abstractive Summarization

Song Xu, Haoran Li, Peng Yuan, Youzheng Wu, Xiaodong He

SUPERT: Towards New Frontiers in Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Multi-Document Summarization

Yang Gao, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger

Improving Truthfulness of Headline Generation

Kazuki Matsumaru, Sho Takase, Naoaki Okazaki

Examining the State-of-the-Art in News Timeline Summarization

Demian Gholipour Ghalandari, Georgiana Ifrim

Attend, Translate and Summarize: An Efficient Method for Neural Cross-Lingual Summarization

Junnan Zhu, Yu Zhou, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong

A Large-Scale Multi-Document Summarization Dataset from the Wikipedia Current Events Portal

Demian Gholipour Ghalandari, Chris Hokamp, Nghia The Pham, John Glover, Georgiana Ifrim

AMR Parsing via Graph-Sequence Iterative Inference

Deng Cai, Wai Lam

iSarcasm: A Dataset of Intended Sarcasm

Silviu Oprea, Walid Magdy

The TechQA Dataset

Vittorio Castelli, Rishav Chakravarti, Saswati Dana, Anthony Ferritto, Radu Florian

The SOFC-Exp Corpus and Neural Approaches to Information Extraction in the Materials Science Domain

Annemarie Friedrich, Heike Adel, Federico Tomazic, Johannes Hingerl, Renou Benteau

PuzzLing Machines: A Challenge on Learning From Small Data

Gözde Gül Şahin, Yova Kementchedjhieva, Phillip Rust, Iryna Gurevych

Multimodal Quality Estimation for Machine Translation

Shu Okabe, Frédéric Blain, Lucia Specia

Multi-Hypothesis Machine Translation Evaluation

Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia, Francisco Guzmán

Learning and Evaluating Emotion Lexicons for 91 Languages

Sven Buechel, Susanna Rücker, Udo Hahn

KLEJ: Comprehensive Benchmark for Polish Language Understanding

Piotr Rybak, Robert Mroczkowski, Janusz Tracz, Ireneusz Gawlik

Generating Counter Narratives against Online Hate Speech: Data and Strategies

Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Yi-Ling Chung, Marco Guerini

Fine-Grained Analysis of Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Divergences

Dmitry Nikolaev, Ofir Arviv, Taelin Karidi, Neta Kenneth, Veronika Mitnik

Crawling and Preprocessing Mailing Lists At Scale for Dialog Analysis

Janek Bevendorff, Khalid Al Khatib, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein

Building a User-Generated Content North-African Arabizi Treebank: Tackling Hell

Djamé Seddah, Farah Essaidi, Amal Fethi, Matthieu Futeral, Benjamin Muller

A Graph Auto-encoder Model of Derivational Morphology

Valentin Hofmann, Hinrich Schütze, Janet Pierrehumbert

Keyphrase Generation for Scientific Document Retrieval

Florian Boudin, Ygor Gallina, Akiko Aizawa

Hierarchy-Aware Global Model for Hierarchical Text Classification

Jie Zhou, Chunping Ma, Dingkun Long, Guangwei Xu, Ning Ding

Exclusive Hierarchical Decoding for Deep Keyphrase Generation

Wang Chen, Hou Pong Chan, Piji Li, Irwin King

Dynamic Memory Induction Networks for Few-Shot Text Classification

Ruiying Geng, Binhua Li, Yongbin Li, Jian Sun, Xiaodan Zhu

Towards Faithful Neural Table-to-Text Generation with Content-Matching Constraints

Zhenyi Wang, Xiaoyang Wang, Bang An, Dong Yu, Changyou Chen

Expertise Style Transfer: A New Task Towards Better Communication between Experts and Laymen

Yixin Cao, Ruihao Shui, Liangming Pan, Min-Yen Kan, Zhiyuan Liu

Unknown Intent Detection Using Gaussian Mixture Model with an Application to Zero-shot Intent Classification

Lu Fan, Guangfeng Yan, Qimai LI, Han Liu, Xiaotong Zhang

Towards Conversational Recommendation over Multi-Type Dialogs

Zeming Liu, Haifeng Wang, Zheng-Yu Niu, Hua Wu, Wanxiang Che

DTCA: Decision Tree-based Co-Attention Networks for Explainable Claim Verification

Lianwei Wu, Yuan Rao, Yongqiang Zhao, Hao Liang, Ambreen Nazir

Code-Switching Patterns Can Be an Effective Route to Improve Performance of Downstream NLP Applications: A Case Study of Humour, Sarcasm and Hate Speech Detection

Srijan Bansal, Vishal Garimella, Ayush Suhane, Jasabanta Patro, Animesh Mukherjee

Moving Down the Long Tail of Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Informed Bi-encoders

Terra Blevins, Luke Zettlemoyer

Revisiting the Context Window for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings

Ryokan Ri, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Improving Image Captioning Evaluation by Considering Inter References Variance

Yanzhi Yi, Hangyu Deng, Jinglu Hu

A Diverse Corpus for Evaluating and Developing English Math Word Problem Solvers

Shen-yun Miao, Chao-Chun Liang, Keh-Yih Su

Query Graph Generation for Answering Multi-hop Complex Questions from Knowledge Bases

Yunshi Lan, Jing Jiang

Learning to Identify Follow-Up Questions in Conversational Question Answering

Souvik Kundu, Qian Lin, Hwee Tou Ng

Injecting Numerical Reasoning Skills into Language Models

Mor Geva, Ankit Gupta, Jonathan Berant

Explicit Memory Tracker with Coarse-to-Fine Reasoning for Conversational Machine Reading

Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Shafiq Joty, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

Enhancing Answer Boundary Detection for Multilingual Machine Reading Comprehension

Fei Yuan, Linjun Shou, Xuanyu Bai, Ming Gong, Yaobo Liang

Dynamic Sampling Strategies for Multi-Task Reading Comprehension

Ananth Gottumukkala, Dheeru Dua, Sameer Singh, Matt Gardner

Contextualized Sparse Representations for Real-Time Open-Domain Question Answering

Jinhyuk Lee, Minjoon Seo, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Jaewoo Kang

A Methodology for Creating Question Answering Corpora Using Inverse Data Annotation

Jan Deriu, Katsiaryna Mlynchyk, Philippe Schläpfer, Alvaro Rodrigo, Dirk von Grünigen

A Frame-based Sentence Representation for Machine Reading Comprehension

Shaoru Guo, Ru Li, Hongye Tan, Xiaoli Li, Yong Guan

Spelling Error Correction with Soft-Masked BERT

Shaohua Zhang, Haoran Huang, Jicong Liu, Hang Li

SpellGCN: Incorporating Phonological and Visual Similarities into Language Models for Chinese Spelling Check

Xingyi Cheng, Weidi Xu, Kunlong Chen, Shaohua Jiang, Feng Wang

Modeling Code-Switch Languages Using Bilingual Parallel Corpus

Grandee Lee, Haizhou Li

Interpreting Twitter User Geolocation

Ting Zhong, Tianliang Wang, Fan Zhou, Goce Trajcevski, Kunpeng Zhang

Interpretable Operational Risk Classification with Semi-Supervised Variational Autoencoder

Fan Zhou, Shengming Zhang, Yi Yang

Fine-grained Interest Matching for Neural News Recommendation

Heyuan Wang, Fangzhao Wu, Zheng Liu, Xing Xie

Fast and Accurate Deep Bidirectional Language Representations for Unsupervised Learning

Joongbo Shin, Yoonhyung Lee, Seunghyun Yoon, Kyomin Jung

“The Boating Store Had Its Best Sail Ever”: Pronunciation-attentive Contextualized Pun Recognition

Yichao Zhou, Jyun-Yu Jiang, Jieyu Zhao, Kai-Wei Chang, Wei Wang

Unsupervised FAQ Retrieval with Question Generation and BERT

Yosi Mass, Boaz Carmeli, Haggai Roitman, David Konopnicki

Tree-Structured Neural Topic Model

Masaru Isonuma, Junichiro Mori, Danushka Bollegala, Ichiro Sakata

Interactive Construction of User-Centric Dictionary for Text Analytics

Ryosuke Kohita, Issei Yoshida, Hiroshi Kanayama, Tetsuya Nasukawa

Generative Semantic Hashing Enhanced via Boltzmann Machines

Lin Zheng, Qinliang Su, Dinghan Shen, Changyou Chen

An Online Semantic-enhanced Dirichlet Model for Short Text Stream Clustering

Jay Kumar, Junming Shao, Salah Uddin, Wazir Ali

[RETRACTED] Syn-QG: Syntactic and Shallow Semantic Rules for Question Generation

Kaustubh Dhole, Christopher D. Manning

Rigid Formats Controlled Text Generation

Piji Li, Haisong Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, Shuming Shi

Line Graph Enhanced AMR-to-Text Generation with Mix-Order Graph Attention Networks

Yanbin Zhao, Lu Chen, Zhi Chen, Ruisheng Cao, Su Zhu

Improved Natural Language Generation via Loss Truncation

Daniel Kang, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto

Explicit Semantic Decomposition for Definition Generation

Jiahuan Li, Yu Bao, Shujian Huang, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Chen

USR: An Unsupervised and Reference Free Evaluation Metric for Dialog Generation

Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi

Towards Unsupervised Language Understanding and Generation by Joint Dual Learning

Shang-Yu Su, Chao-Wei Huang, Yun-Nung Chen

Semi-Supervised Dialogue Policy Learning via Stochastic Reward Estimation

Xinting Huang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun, Rui Zhang

Response-Anticipated Memory for On-Demand Knowledge Integration in Response Generation

Zhiliang Tian, Wei Bi, Dongkyu Lee, Lanqing Xue, Yiping Song

Paraphrase Augmented Task-Oriented Dialog Generation

Silin Gao, Yichi Zhang, Zhijian Ou, Zhou Yu

Multi-Agent Task-Oriented Dialog Policy Learning with Role-Aware Reward Decomposition

Ryuichi Takanobu, Runze Liang, Minlie Huang

Learning to Tag OOV Tokens by Integrating Contextual Representation and Background Knowledge

Keqing He, Yuanmeng Yan, Weiran Xu

Learning Low-Resource End-To-End Goal-Oriented Dialog for Fast and Reliable System Deployment

Yinpei Dai, Hangyu Li, Chengguang Tang, Yongbin Li, Jian Sun

Gated Convolutional Bidirectional Attention-based Model for Off-topic Spoken Response Detection

Yefei Zha, Ruobing Li, Hui Lin

Evaluating Dialogue Generation Systems via Response Selection

Shiki Sato, Reina Akama, Hiroki Ouchi, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui

End-to-End Neural Pipeline for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems using GPT-2

Donghoon Ham, Jeong-Gwan Lee, Youngsoo Jang, Kee-eung Kim

Efficient Dialogue State Tracking by Selectively Overwriting Memory

Sungdong Kim, Sohee Yang, Gyuwan Kim, Sang-Woo Lee

CDL: Curriculum Dual Learning for Emotion-Controllable Response Generation

Lei Shen, Yang Feng

Simple, Interpretable and Stable Method for Detecting Words with Usage Change across Corpora

Hila Gonen, Ganesh Jawahar, Djamé Seddah, Yoav Goldberg

Predicting the Topical Stance and Political Leaning of Media using Tweets

Peter Stefanov, Kareem Darwish, Atanas Atanasov, Preslav Nakov

Integrating Semantic and Structural Information with Graph Convolutional Network for Controversy Detection

Lei Zhong, Juan Cao, Qiang Sheng, Junbo Guo, Ziang Wang

GCAN: Graph-aware Co-Attention Networks for Explainable Fake News Detection on Social Media

Yi-Ju Lu, Cheng-Te Li

Language Models as an Alternative Evaluator of Word Order Hypotheses: A Case Study in Japanese

Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Takumi Ito, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui

Emergence of Syntax Needs Minimal Supervision

Raphael Bailly, Kata Gábor

Dice Loss for Data-imbalanced NLP Tasks

Xiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun, Yuxian Meng, Junjun Liang, Fei Wu

A Three-Parameter Rank-Frequency Relation in Natural Languages

Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

A Formal Hierarchy of RNN Architectures

William Merrill, Gail Weiss, Yoav Goldberg, Roy Schwartz, Noah A. Smith

Opportunistic Decoding with Timely Correction for Simultaneous Translation

Renjie Zheng, Mingbo Ma, Baigong Zheng, Kaibo Liu, Liang Huang

Norm-Based Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Xuebo Liu, Houtim Lai, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao

Multiscale Collaborative Deep Models for Neural Machine Translation

Xiangpeng Wei, Heng Yu, Yue Hu, Yue Zhang, Rongxiang Weng