ACL 2020

1,239 papers

Beyond Possession Existence: Duration and Co-Possession

Dhivya Chinnappa, Srikala Murugan, Eduardo Blanco

Active Learning for Coreference Resolution using Discrete Annotation

Belinda Z. Li, Gabriel Stanovsky, Luke Zettlemoyer

Phonetic and Visual Priors for Decipherment of Informal Romanization

Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Joint Diacritization, Lemmatization, Normalization, and Fine-Grained Morphological Tagging

Nasser Zalmout, Nizar Habash

Joint Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-speech Tagging via Two-way Attentions of Auto-analyzed Knowledge

Yuanhe Tian, Yan Song, Xiang Ao, Fei Xia, Xiaojun Quan

Improving Chinese Word Segmentation with Wordhood Memory Networks

Yuanhe Tian, Yan Song, Fei Xia, Tong Zhang, Yonggang Wang

Frugal Paradigm Completion

Alexander Erdmann, Tom Kenter, Markus Becker, Christian Schallhart

A Multitask Learning Approach for Diacritic Restoration

Sawsan Alqahtani, Ajay Mishra, Mona Diab

Unsupervised Multimodal Neural Machine Translation with Pseudo Visual Pivoting

Po-Yao Huang, Junjie Hu, Xiaojun Chang, Alexander Hauptmann

TVQA+: Spatio-Temporal Grounding for Video Question Answering

Jie Lei, Licheng Yu, Tamara Berg, Mohit Bansal

Mapping Natural Language Instructions to Mobile UI Action Sequences

Yang Li, Jiacong He, Xin Zhou, yuan zhang, Jason Baldridge

History for Visual Dialog: Do we really need it?

Shubham Agarwal, Trung Bui, Joon-Young Lee, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser

A negative case analysis of visual grounding methods for VQA

Robik Shrestha, Kushal Kafle, Christopher Kanan

Feature Projection for Improved Text Classification

Qi Qin, Wenpeng Hu, Bing Liu

Empower Entity Set Expansion via Language Model Probing

Yunyi Zhang, Jiaming Shen, Jingbo Shang, Jiawei Han

CluHTM - Semantic Hierarchical Topic Modeling based on CluWords

Felipe Viegas, Washington Cunha, Christian Gomes, Antônio Pereira, Leonardo Rocha

A Prioritization Model for Suicidality Risk Assessment

Han-Chin Shing, Philip Resnik, Douglas Oard

Soft Gazetteers for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition

Shruti Rijhwani, Shuyan Zhou, Graham Neubig, Jaime Carbonell

ZeroShotCeres: Zero-Shot Relation Extraction from Semi-Structured Webpages

Colin Lockard, Prashant Shiralkar, Xin Luna Dong, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Sources of Transfer in Multilingual Named Entity Recognition

David Mueller, Nicholas Andrews, Mark Dredze

Rationalizing Medical Relation Prediction from Corpus-level Statistics

Zhen Wang, Jennifer Lee, Simon Lin, Huan Sun

Multi-Sentence Argument Linking

Seth Ebner, Patrick Xia, Ryan Culkin, Kyle Rawlins, Benjamin Van Durme

Learning Interpretable Relationships between Entities, Relations and Concepts via Bayesian Structure Learning on Open Domain Facts

Jingyuan Zhang, Mingming Sun, Yue Feng, Ping Li

From English to Code-Switching: Transfer Learning with Strong Morphological Clues

Gustavo Aguilar, Thamar Solorio

Exploiting the Syntax-Model Consistency for Neural Relation Extraction

Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Dejing Dou, Thien Huu Nguyen

Document-Level Event Role Filler Extraction using Multi-Granularity Contextualized Encoding

Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

A Joint Neural Model for Information Extraction with Global Features

Ying Lin, Heng Ji, Fei Huang, Lingfei Wu

Structural Information Preserving for Graph-to-Text Generation

Linfeng Song, Ante Wang, Jinsong Su, Yue Zhang, Kun Xu

Rˆ3: Reverse, Retrieve, and Rank for Sarcasm Generation with Commonsense Knowledge

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan, Nanyun Peng

One Size Does Not Fit All: Generating and Evaluating Variable Number of Keyphrases

Xingdi Yuan, Tong Wang, Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Peter Brusilovsky

Neural CRF Model for Sentence Alignment in Text Simplification

Chao Jiang, Mounica Maddela, Wuwei Lan, Yang Zhong, Wei Xu

Logical Natural Language Generation from Open-Domain Tables

Wenhu Chen, Jianshu Chen, Yu Su, Zhiyu Chen, William Yang Wang

Iterative Edit-Based Unsupervised Sentence Simplification

Dhruv Kumar, Lili Mou, Lukasz Golab, Olga Vechtomova

ESPRIT: Explaining Solutions to Physical Reasoning Tasks

Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Rui Zhang, Yi Chern Tan, Stephan Zheng, Jeremy Weiss

Distilling Knowledge Learned in BERT for Text Generation

Yen-Chun Chen, Zhe Gan, Yu Cheng, Jingzhou Liu, Jingjing Liu

BLEURT: Learning Robust Metrics for Text Generation

Thibault Sellam, Dipanjan Das, Ankur Parikh

BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension

Mike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Abdelrahman Mohamed

Gender Gap in Natural Language Processing Research: Disparities in Authorship and Citations

Saif M. Mohammad

To Test Machine Comprehension, Start by Defining Comprehension

Jesse Dunietz, Greg Burnham, Akash Bharadwaj, Owen Rambow, Jennifer Chu-Carroll

Returning the N to NLP: Towards Contextually Personalized Classification Models

Lucie Flek

On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers: An Analysis of the ACL Anthology

Marcel Bollmann, Desmond Elliott

Negated and Misprimed Probes for Pretrained Language Models: Birds Can Talk, But Cannot Fly

Nora Kassner, Hinrich Schütze

Automated Evaluation of Writing – 50 Years and Counting

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Nitin Madnani

Supervised Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion of Orthographic Schwas in Hindi and Punjabi

Aryaman Arora, Luke Gessler, Nathan Schneider

The Paradigm Discovery Problem

Alexander Erdmann, Micha Elsner, Shijie Wu, Ryan Cotterell, Nizar Habash

Variational Neural Machine Translation with Normalizing Flows

Hendra Setiawan, Matthias Sperber, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Matthias Paulik

Using Context in Neural Machine Translation Training Objectives

Danielle Saunders, Felix Stahlberg, Bill Byrne

Unsupervised Domain Clusters in Pretrained Language Models

Roee Aharoni, Yoav Goldberg

Translationese as a Language in “Multilingual” NMT

Parker Riley, Isaac Caswell, Markus Freitag, David Grangier

Reducing Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation as a Domain Adaptation Problem

Danielle Saunders, Bill Byrne

Learning a Multi-Domain Curriculum for Neural Machine Translation

Wei Wang, Ye Tian, Jiquan Ngiam, Yinfei Yang, Isaac Caswell

In Neural Machine Translation, What Does Transfer Learning Transfer?

Alham Fikri Aji, Nikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, Rico Sennrich

Hard-Coded Gaussian Attention for Neural Machine Translation

Weiqiu You, Simeng Sun, Mohit Iyyer

HAT: Hardware-Aware Transformers for Efficient Natural Language Processing

Hanrui Wang, Zhanghao Wu, Zhijian Liu, Han Cai, Ligeng Zhu

Multi-agent Communication meets Natural Language: Synergies between Functional and Structural Language Learning

Angeliki Lazaridou, Anna Potapenko, Olivier Tieleman

Learning Web-based Procedures by Reasoning over Explanations and Demonstrations in Context

Shashank Srivastava, Oleksandr Polozov, Nebojsa Jojic, Christopher Meek

Cross-Modality Relevance for Reasoning on Language and Vision

Chen Zheng, Quan Guo, Parisa Kordjamshidi

CompGuessWhat?!: A Multi-task Evaluation Framework for Grounded Language Learning

Alessandro Suglia, Ioannis Konstas, Andrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli, Desmond Elliott

Towards Open Domain Event Trigger Identification using Adversarial Domain Adaptation

Aakanksha Naik, Carolyn Rose

Temporally-Informed Analysis of Named Entity Recognition

Shruti Rijhwani, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro

The Sensitivity of Language Models and Humans to Winograd Schema Perturbations

Mostafa Abdou, Vinit Ravishankar, Maria Barrett, Yonatan Belinkov, Desmond Elliott

Temporal Common Sense Acquisition with Minimal Supervision

Ben Zhou, Qiang Ning, Daniel Khashabi, Dan Roth

RAT-SQL: Relation-Aware Schema Encoding and Linking for Text-to-SQL Parsers

bailin wang, Richard Shin, Xiaodong Liu, Oleksandr Polozov, Matthew Richardson

Good-Enough Compositional Data Augmentation

Jacob Andreas

Non-Linear Instance-Based Cross-Lingual Mapping for Non-Isomorphic Embedding Spaces

Goran Glavaš, Ivan Vulić

Understanding Advertisements with BERT

Kanika Kalra, Bhargav Kurma, Silpa Vadakkeeveetil Sreelatha, Manasi Patwardhan, Shirish Karande

Improving Disentangled Text Representation Learning with Information-Theoretic Guidance

Pengyu Cheng, Martin Renqiang Min, Dinghan Shen, Christopher Malon, Yizhe Zhang

Do Transformers Need Deep Long-Range Memory?

Jack Rae, Ali Razavi

Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Commonsense Reasoning

Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi

SciREX: A Challenge Dataset for Document-Level Information Extraction

Sarthak Jain, Madeleine van Zuylen, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Iz Beltagy

Revisiting Unsupervised Relation Extraction

Thy Thy Tran, Phong Le, Sophia Ananiadou

Machine Reading of Historical Events

Or Honovich, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Omri Abend, Shay B. Cohen

A Two-Step Approach for Implicit Event Argument Detection

Zhisong Zhang, Xiang Kong, Zhengzhong Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Eduard Hovy

Toward Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models

Daphne Ippolito, David Grangier, Douglas Eck, Chris Callison-Burch

Shape of Synth to Come: Why We Should Use Synthetic Data for English Surface Realization

Henry Elder, Robert Burke, Alexander O’Connor, Jennifer Foster

Improving Image Captioning with Better Use of Caption

Zhan Shi, Xu Zhou, Xipeng Qiu, Xiaodan Zhu

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

Guy Emerson

What Question Answering can Learn from Trivia Nerds

Jordan Boyd-Graber, Benjamin Börschinger

Speech Translation and the End-to-End Promise: Taking Stock of Where We Are

Matthias Sperber, Matthias Paulik

From SPMRL to NMRL: What Did We Learn (and Unlearn) in a Decade of Parsing Morphologically-Rich Languages (MRLs)?

Reut Tsarfaty, Dan Bareket, Stav Klein, Amit Seker

A Tale of a Probe and a Parser

Rowan Hall Maudslay, Josef Valvoda, Tiago Pimentel, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell

A Call for More Rigor in Unsupervised Cross-lingual Learning

Mikel Artetxe, Sebastian Ruder, Dani Yogatama, Gorka Labaka, Eneko Agirre

Premise Selection in Natural Language Mathematical Texts

Deborah Ferreira, Andre Freitas

Generating Fact Checking Explanations

Pepa Atanasova, Jakob Grue Simonsen, Christina Lioma, Isabelle Augenstein

Fine-grained Fact Verification with Kernel Graph Attention Network

Zhenghao Liu, Chenyan Xiong, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu

Multi-source Meta Transfer for Low Resource Multiple-Choice Question Answering

Ming Yan, Hao Zhang, Di Jin, Joey Tianyi Zhou

MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering

Patrick Lewis, Barlas Oguz, Ruty Rinott, Sebastian Riedel, Holger Schwenk

DoQA - Accessing Domain-Specific FAQs via Conversational QA

Jon Ander Campos, Arantxa Otegi, Aitor Soroa, Jan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak

ClarQ: A large-scale and diverse dataset for Clarification Question Generation

Vaibhav Kumar, Alan W Black

Semi-supervised Contextual Historical Text Normalization

Peter Makarov, Simon Clematide

Predicting the Growth of Morphological Families from Social and Linguistic Factors

Valentin Hofmann, Janet Pierrehumbert, Hinrich Schütze

2kenize: Tying Subword Sequences for Chinese Script Conversion

Pranav A, Isabelle Augenstein

Null It Out: Guarding Protected Attributes by Iterative Nullspace Projection

Shauli Ravfogel, Yanai Elazar, Hila Gonen, Michael Twiton, Yoav Goldberg

Effective Estimation of Deep Generative Language Models

Tom Pelsmaeker, Wilker Aziz

CamemBERT: a Tasty French Language Model

Louis Martin, Benjamin Muller, Pedro Javier Ortiz Suárez, Yoann Dupont, Laurent Romary

Refer360∘: A Referring Expression Recognition Dataset in 360∘ Images

Volkan Cirik, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal Neural Graph Memory Networks for Visual Question Answering

Mahmoud Khademi

Aligned Dual Channel Graph Convolutional Network for Visual Question Answering

Qingbao Huang, Jielong Wei, Yi Cai, Changmeng Zheng, Junying Chen

Neural Data-to-Text Generation via Jointly Learning the Segmentation and Correspondence

Xiaoyu Shen, Ernie Chang, Hui Su, Cheng Niu, Dietrich Klakow

Heterogeneous Graph Transformer for Graph-to-Sequence Learning

Shaowei Yao, Tianming Wang, Xiaojun Wan