ACL 2020

1,239 papers

LogicalFactChecker: Leveraging Logical Operations for Fact Checking with Graph Module Network

Wanjun Zhong, Duyu Tang, Zhangyin Feng, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou

Incorporating External Knowledge through Pre-training for Natural Language to Code Generation

Frank F. Xu, Zhengbao Jiang, Pengcheng Yin, Bogdan Vasilescu, Graham Neubig

FastBERT: a Self-distilling BERT with Adaptive Inference Time

Weijie Liu, Peng Zhou, Zhiruo Wang, Zhe Zhao, Haotang Deng

Emerging Cross-lingual Structure in Pretrained Language Models

Alexis CONNEAU, Shijie Wu, Haoran Li, Luke Zettlemoyer, Veselin Stoyanov

Paraphrase Generation by Learning How to Edit from Samples

Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Mohammadreza Salehi, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Neural-DINF: A Neural Network based Framework for Measuring Document Influence

Jie Tan, Changlin Yang, Ying Li, Siliang Tang, Chen Huang

Worse WER, but Better BLEU? Leveraging Word Embedding as Intermediate in Multitask End-to-End Speech Translation

Shun-Po Chuang, Tzu-Wei Sung, Alexander H. Liu, Hung-yi Lee

Tagged Back-translation Revisited: Why Does It Really Work?

Benjamin Marie, Raphael Rubino, Atsushi Fujita

Improving Neural Machine Translation with Soft Template Prediction

Jian Yang, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Zhoujun Li, Ming Zhou

Contextual Neural Machine Translation Improves Translation of Cataphoric Pronouns

KayYen Wong, Sameen Maruf, Gholamreza Haffari

AdvAug: Robust Adversarial Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation

Yong Cheng, Lu Jiang, Wolfgang Macherey, Jacob Eisenstein

Simplify the Usage of Lexicon in Chinese NER

Ruotian Ma, Minlong Peng, Qi Zhang, zhongyu wei, Xuanjing Huang

Relabel the Noise: Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations via Cooperative Multiagents

Daoyuan Chen, Yaliang Li, Kai Lei, Ying Shen

ReInceptionE: Relation-Aware Inception Network with Joint Local-Global Structural Information for Knowledge Graph Embedding

Zhiwen Xie, Guangyou Zhou, Jin Liu, Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Pyramid: A Layered Model for Nested Named Entity Recognition

Jue Wang, Lidan Shou, Ke Chen, Gang Chen

Multi-Cell Compositional LSTM for NER Domain Adaptation

Chen Jia, Yue Zhang

Improving Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition using Joint Sentence and Token Labeling

Canasai Kruengkrai, Thien Hai Nguyen, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, Lidong Bing

Improving Event Detection via Open-domain Trigger Knowledge

Meihan Tong, Bin Xu, Shuai Wang, Yixin Cao, Lei Hou

IMoJIE: Iterative Memory-Based Joint Open Information Extraction

Keshav Kolluru, Samarth Aggarwal, Vipul Rathore, Mausam, Soumen Chakrabarti

An Effective Transition-based Model for Discontinuous NER

Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ben Hachey, Cecile Paris

A Unified MRC Framework for Named Entity Recognition

Xiaoya Li, Jingrong Feng, Yuxian Meng, Qinghong Han, Fei Wu

Video-Grounded Dialogues with Pretrained Generation Language Models

Hung Le, Steven C.H. Hoi

Learning to Customize Model Structures for Few-shot Dialogue Generation Tasks

Yiping Song, Zequn Liu, Wei Bi, Rui Yan, Ming Zhang

Generate, Delete and Rewrite: A Three-Stage Framework for Improving Persona Consistency of Dialogue Generation

Haoyu Song, Yan Wang, Wei-Nan Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, Ting Liu

Diverse and Informative Dialogue Generation with Context-Specific Commonsense Knowledge Awareness

Sixing Wu, Ying Li, Dawei Zhang, Yang Zhou, Zhonghai Wu

A Comprehensive Analysis of Preprocessing for Word Representation Learning in Affective Tasks

Nastaran Babanejad, Ameeta Agrawal, Aijun An, Manos Papagelis

OpinionDigest: A Simple Framework for Opinion Summarization

Yoshihiko Suhara, Xiaolan Wang, Stefanos Angelidis, Wang-Chiew Tan

Entity-Aware Dependency-Based Deep Graph Attention Network for Comparative Preference Classification

Nianzu Ma, Sahisnu Mazumder, Hao Wang, Bing Liu

Efficient Pairwise Annotation of Argument Quality

Lukas Gienapp, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast

Cross-Lingual Unsupervised Sentiment Classification with Multi-View Transfer Learning

Hongliang Fei, Ping Li

Agreement Prediction of Arguments in Cyber Argumentation for Detecting Stance Polarity and Intensity

Joseph Sirrianni, Xiaoqing Liu, Douglas Adams

WinoWhy: A Deep Diagnosis of Essential Commonsense Knowledge for Answering Winograd Schema Challenge

Hongming Zhang, Xinran Zhao, Yangqiu Song

STARC: Structured Annotations for Reading Comprehension

Yevgeni Berzak, Jonathan Malmaud, Roger Levy

Not All Claims are Created Equal: Choosing the Right Statistical Approach to Assess Hypotheses

Erfan Sadeqi Azer, Daniel Khashabi, Ashish Sabharwal, Dan Roth

Transformers to Learn Hierarchical Contexts in Multiparty Dialogue for Span-based Question Answering

Changmao Li, Jinho D. Choi

The Cascade Transformer: an Application for Efficient Answer Sentence Selection

Luca Soldaini, Alessandro Moschitti

Selective Question Answering under Domain Shift

Amita Kamath, Robin Jia, Percy Liang

SCDE: Sentence Cloze Dataset with High Quality Distractors From Examinations

Xiang Kong, Varun Gangal, Eduard Hovy

Probabilistic Assumptions Matter: Improved Models for Distantly-Supervised Document-Level Question Answering

Hao Cheng, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova

On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA

Md Arafat Sultan, Shubham Chandel, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Vittorio Castelli

Logic-Guided Data Augmentation and Regularization for Consistent Question Answering

Akari Asai, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Crossing Variational Autoencoders for Answer Retrieval

Wenhao Yu, Lingfei Wu, Qingkai Zeng, Shu Tao, Yu Deng

Benefits of Intermediate Annotations in Reading Comprehension

Dheeru Dua, Sameer Singh, Matt Gardner

Rationalizing Text Matching: Learning Sparse Alignments via Optimal Transport

Kyle Swanson, LILI YU, Tao Lei

Obtaining Faithful Interpretations from Compositional Neural Networks

Sanjay Subramanian, Ben Bogin, Nitish Gupta, Tomer Wolfson, Sameer Singh

Generating Hierarchical Explanations on Text Classification via Feature Interaction Detection

Hanjie Chen, Guangtao Zheng, Yangfeng Ji

Finding Universal Grammatical Relations in Multilingual BERT

Ethan A. Chi, John Hewitt, Christopher D. Manning

Explaining Black Box Predictions and Unveiling Data Artifacts through Influence Functions

Xiaochuang Han, Byron C. Wallace, Yulia Tsvetkov

Evaluating Explainable AI: Which Algorithmic Explanations Help Users Predict Model Behavior?

Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal

Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Evaluation of Word Prediction Models

Aaron Mueller, Garrett Nicolai, Panayiota Petrou-Zeniou, Natalia Talmina, Tal Linzen

A Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods

Zhiqing Sun, Shikhar Vashishth, Soumya Sanyal, Partha Talukdar, Yiming Yang

Towards Debiasing Sentence Representations

Paul Pu Liang, Irene Mengze Li, Emily Zheng, Yao Chong Lim, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities

Ben Hutchinson, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Emily Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong

Social Bias Frames: Reasoning about Social and Power Implications of Language

Maarten Sap, Saadia Gabriel, LIANHUI Qin, Dan Jurafsky, Noah A. Smith

Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP

Su Lin Blodgett, Solon Barocas, Hal Daume III, Hanna Wallach

Double-Hard Debias: Tailoring Word Embeddings for Gender Bias Mitigation

Tianlu Wang, Xi Victoria Lin, Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Bryan McCann, Vicente Ordonez

Contextualizing Hate Speech Classifiers with Post-hoc Explanation

Brendan Kennedy, Xisen Jin, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Morteza Dehghani, Xiang Ren

ZPR2: Joint Zero Pronoun Recovery and Resolution using Multi-Task Learning and BERT

Linfeng Song, Kun Xu, Yue Zhang, Jianshu Chen, Dong Yu

PeTra: A Sparsely Supervised Memory Model for People Tracking

Shubham Toshniwal, Allyson Ettinger, Kevin Gimpel, Karen Livescu

Implicit Discourse Relation Classification: We Need to Talk about Evaluation

Najoung Kim, Song Feng, Chulaka Gunasekara, Luis Lastras

Harnessing the linguistic signal to predict scalar inferences

Sebastian Schuster, Yuxing Chen, Judith Degen

Discourse as a Function of Event: Profiling Discourse Structure in News Articles around the Main Event

Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Aaron Lee, Ruihong Huang, Lu Wang

Would you Rather? A New Benchmark for Learning Machine Alignment with Cultural Values and Social Preferences

Yi Tay, Donovan Ong, Jie Fu, Alvin Chan, Nancy Chen

Understanding the Language of Political Agreement and Disagreement in Legislative Texts

Maryam Davoodi, Eric Waltenburg, Dan Goldwasser

Text-Based Ideal Points

Keyon Vafa, Suresh Naidu, David Blei

Text and Causal Inference: A Review of Using Text to Remove Confounding from Causal Estimates

Katherine Keith, David Jensen, Brendan O’Connor

Measuring Forecasting Skill from Text

Shi Zong, Alan Ritter, Eduard Hovy

Hierarchical Modeling for User Personality Prediction: The Role of Message-Level Attention

Veronica Lynn, Niranjan Balasubramanian, H. Andrew Schwartz

Detecting Perceived Emotions in Hurricane Disasters

Shrey Desai, Cornelia Caragea, Junyi Jessy Li

Balancing Objectives in Counseling Conversations: Advancing Forwards or Looking Backwards

Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

What Does BERT with Vision Look At?

Liunian Harold Li, Mark Yatskar, Da Yin, Cho-jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang

Predictive Biases in Natural Language Processing Models: A Conceptual Framework and Overview

Deven Santosh Shah, H. Andrew Schwartz, Dirk Hovy

Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning with Pretrained Language Models: When and Why Does It Work?

Yada Pruksachatkun, Jason Phang, Haokun Liu, Phu Mon Htut, Xiaoyi Zhang

How Does NLP Benefit Legal System: A Summary of Legal Artificial Intelligence

Haoxi Zhong, Chaojun Xiao, Cunchao Tu, Tianyang Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu

How Can We Accelerate Progress Towards Human-like Linguistic Generalization?

Tal Linzen

Examining Citations of Natural Language Processing Literature

Saif M. Mohammad

Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data

Emily M. Bender, Alexander Koller

(Re)construing Meaning in NLP

Sean Trott, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Nancy Chang, Nathan Schneider

Unsupervised Opinion Summarization as Copycat-Review Generation

Arthur Bražinskas, Mirella Lapata, Ivan Titov

The Summary Loop: Learning to Write Abstractive Summaries Without Examples

Philippe Laban, Andrew Hsi, John Canny, Marti A. Hearst

Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset

Revanth Rameshkumar, Peter Bailey

Optimizing the Factual Correctness of a Summary: A Study of Summarizing Radiology Reports

Yuhao Zhang, Derek Merck, Emily Tsai, Christopher D. Manning, Curtis Langlotz

Knowledge Graph-Augmented Abstractive Summarization with Semantic-Driven Cloze Reward

Luyang Huang, Lingfei Wu, Lu Wang

Hooks in the Headline: Learning to Generate Headlines with Controlled Styles

Di Jin, Zhijing Jin, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Lisa Orii, Peter Szolovits

Fact-based Content Weighting for Evaluating Abstractive Summarisation

Xinnuo Xu, Ondřej Dušek, Jingyi Li, Verena Rieser, Ioannis Konstas

FEQA: A Question Answering Evaluation Framework for Faithfulness Assessment in Abstractive Summarization

Esin Durmus, He He, Mona Diab

Exploring Content Selection in Summarization of Novel Chapters

Faisal Ladhak, Bryan Li, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kathleen McKeown

Discrete Optimization for Unsupervised Sentence Summarization with Word-Level Extraction

Raphael Schumann, Lili Mou, Yao Lu, Olga Vechtomova, Katja Markert

Discourse-Aware Neural Extractive Text Summarization

Jiacheng Xu, Zhe Gan, Yu Cheng, Jingjing Liu

Asking and Answering Questions to Evaluate the Factual Consistency of Summaries

Alex Wang, Kyunghyun Cho, Mike Lewis

A Transformer-based Approach for Source Code Summarization

Wasi Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, Kai-Wei Chang

Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics

Nitika Mathur, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn

S2ORC: The Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus

Kyle Lo, Lucy Lu Wang, Mark Neumann, Rodney Kinney, Daniel Weld

More Diverse Dialogue Datasets via Diversity-Informed Data Collection

Katherine Stasaski, Grace Hui Yang, Marti A. Hearst

Facet-Aware Evaluation for Extractive Summarization

Yuning Mao, Liyuan Liu, Qi Zhu, Xiang Ren, Jiawei Han

Dialogue-Based Relation Extraction

Dian Yu, Kai Sun, Claire Cardie, Dong Yu

Code and Named Entity Recognition in StackOverflow

Jeniya Tabassum, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList

Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Tongshuang Wu, Carlos Guestrin, Sameer Singh

Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding

Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston

A Recipe for Creating Multimodal Aligned Datasets for Sequential Tasks

Angela Lin, Sudha Rao, Asli Celikyilmaz, Elnaz Nouri, Chris Brockett