ACL 2020

1,239 papers

Pretraining with Contrastive Sentence Objectives Improves Discourse Performance of Language Models

Dan Iter, Kelvin Guu, Larry Lansing, Dan Jurafsky

Learning Constraints for Structured Prediction Using Rectifier Networks

Xingyuan Pan, Maitrey Mehta, Vivek Srikumar

Discrete Latent Variable Representations for Low-Resource Text Classification

Shuning Jin, Sam Wiseman, Karl Stratos, Karen Livescu

Shaping Visual Representations with Language for Few-Shot Classification

Jesse Mu, Percy Liang, Noah Goodman

Dense-Caption Matching and Frame-Selection Gating for Temporal Localization in VideoQA

Hyounghun Kim, Zineng Tang, Mohit Bansal

Spying on Your Neighbors: Fine-grained Probing of Contextual Embeddings for Information about Surrounding Words

Josef Klafka, Allyson Ettinger

On the Spontaneous Emergence of Discrete and Compositional Signals

Nur Geffen Lan, Emmanuel Chemla, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Learning to Deceive with Attention-Based Explanations

Danish Pruthi, Mansi Gupta, Bhuwan Dhingra, Graham Neubig, Zachary C. Lipton

Interpreting Pretrained Contextualized Representations via Reductions to Static Embeddings

Rishi Bommasani, Kelly Davis, Claire Cardie

Influence Paths for Characterizing Subject-Verb Number Agreement in LSTM Language Models

Kaiji Lu, Piotr Mardziel, Klas Leino, Matt Fredrikson, Anupam Datta

How does BERT’s attention change when you fine-tune? An analysis methodology and a case study in negation scope

Yiyun Zhao, Steven Bethard

Don’t Say That! Making Inconsistent Dialogue Unlikely with Unlikelihood Training

Margaret Li, Stephen Roller, Ilia Kulikov, Sean Welleck, Y-lan Boureau

CraftAssist Instruction Parsing: Semantic Parsing for a Voxel-World Assistant

Kavya Srinet, Yacine Jernite, Jonathan Gray, arthur szlam

Modeling Label Semantics for Predicting Emotional Reactions

Radhika Gaonkar, Heeyoung Kwon, Mohaddeseh Bastan, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Nathanael Chambers

Fatality Killed the Cat or: BabelPic, a Multimodal Dataset for Non-Concrete Concepts

Agostina Calabrese, Michele Bevilacqua, Roberto Navigli

ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Antoine Bordes, Carolina Scarton, Benoît Sagot

SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into BERT

Yoav Levine, Barak Lenz, Or Dagan, Ori Ram, Dan Padnos

John Wu, Yonatan Belinkov, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi

On the Cross-lingual Transferability of Monolingual Representations

Mikel Artetxe, Sebastian Ruder, Dani Yogatama

Information-Theoretic Probing for Linguistic Structure

Tiago Pimentel, Josef Valvoda, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Ran Zmigrod, Adina Williams

Human Attention Maps for Text Classification: Do Humans and Neural Networks Focus on the Same Words?

Cansu Sen, Thomas Hartvigsen, Biao Yin, Xiangnan Kong, Elke Rundensteiner

Toward Gender-Inclusive Coreference Resolution

Yang Trista Cao, Hal Daume III

ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora

Marta Bañón, Pinzhen Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang

Dscorer: A Fast Evaluation Metric for Discourse Representation Structure Parsing

Jiangming Liu, Shay B. Cohen, Mirella Lapata

A Corpus for Large-Scale Phonetic Typology

Elizabeth Salesky, Eleanor Chodroff, Tiago Pimentel, Matthew Wiesner, Ryan Cotterell

Unsupervised Alignment-based Iterative Evidence Retrieval for Multi-hop Question Answering

Vikas Yadav, Steven Bethard, Mihai Surdeanu

Template-Based Question Generation from Retrieved Sentences for Improved Unsupervised Question Answering

Alexander Fabbri, Patrick Ng, Zhiguo Wang, Ramesh Nallapati, Bing Xiang

Improving Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs using Knowledge Base Embeddings

Apoorv Saxena, Aditay Tripathi, Partha Talukdar

DeFormer: Decomposing Pre-trained Transformers for Faster Question Answering

Qingqing Cao, Harsh Trivedi, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian

Clinical Reading Comprehension: A Thorough Analysis of the emrQA Dataset

Xiang Yue, Bernal Jiménez Gutiérrez, Huan Sun

Learning to Faithfully Rationalize by Construction

Sarthak Jain, Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter, Byron C. Wallace

ERASER: A Benchmark to Evaluate Rationalized NLP Models

Jay DeYoung, Sarthak Jain, Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Eric Lehman, Caiming Xiong

Compositionality and Generalization In Emergent Languages

Rahma Chaabouni, Eugene Kharitonov, Diane Bouchacourt, Emmanuel Dupoux, Marco Baroni

“Who said it, and Why?” Provenance for Natural Language Claims

Yi Zhang, Zachary Ives, Dan Roth

When do Word Embeddings Accurately Reflect Surveys on our Beliefs About People?

Kenneth Joseph, Jonathan Morgan

Masking Actor Information Leads to Fairer Political Claims Detection

Erenay Dayanik, Sebastian Padó

Analyzing Political Parody in Social Media

Antonis Maronikolakis, Danae Sánchez Villegas, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, Nikolaos Aletras

Towards Emotion-aided Multi-modal Dialogue Act Classification

Tulika Saha, Aditya Patra, Sriparna Saha, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Sentiment and Emotion help Sarcasm? A Multi-task Learning Framework for Multi-Modal Sarcasm, Sentiment and Emotion Analysis

Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Dhanush S R, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Multimodal Transformer for Multimodal Machine Translation

Shaowei Yao, Xiaojun Wan

Target Inference in Argument Conclusion Generation

Milad Alshomary, Shahbaz Syed, Martin Potthast, Henning Wachsmuth

TaPas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-training

Jonathan Herzig, Pawel Krzysztof Nowak, Thomas Müller, Francesco Piccinno, Julian Eisenschlos

AMR Parsing with Latent Structural Information

Qiji Zhou, Yue Zhang, Donghong Ji, Hao Tang

Toxicity Detection: Does Context Really Matter?

John Pavlopoulos, Jeffrey Sorensen, Lucas Dixon, Nithum Thain, Ion Androutsopoulos

Programming in Natural Language with fuSE: Synthesizing Methods from Spoken Utterances Using Deep Natural Language Understanding

Sebastian Weigelt, Vanessa Steurer, Tobias Hey, Walter F. Tichy

Joint Modelling of Emotion and Abusive Language Detection

Santhosh Rajamanickam, Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, Ekaterina Shutova

Identifying Principals and Accessories in a Complex Case based on the Comprehension of Fact Description

Yakun Hu, Zhunchen Luo, Wenhan Chao

Graph Neural News Recommendation with Unsupervised Preference Disentanglement

Linmei Hu, Siyong Xu, Chen Li, Cheng Yang, Chuan Shi

Encoder-Decoder Models Can Benefit from Pre-trained Masked Language Models in Grammatical Error Correction

Masahiro Kaneko, Masato Mita, Shun Kiyono, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui

Empowering Active Learning to Jointly Optimize System and User Demands

Ji-Ung Lee, Christian M. Meyer, Iryna Gurevych

Modeling Word Formation in English–German Neural Machine Translation

Marion Weller-Di Marco, Alexander Fraser

Tchebycheff Procedure for Multi-task Text Classification

Yuren Mao, Shuang Yun, Weiwei Liu, Bo Du

Towards Transparent and Explainable Attention Models

Akash Kumar Mohankumar, Preksha Nema, Sharan Narasimhan, Mitesh M. Khapra, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Towards Faithfully Interpretable NLP Systems: How Should We Define and Evaluate Faithfulness?

Alon Jacovi, Yoav Goldberg

Quantifying Attention Flow in Transformers

Samira Abnar, Willem Zuidema

Probing for Referential Information in Language Models

Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc, Kristina Gulordava, Gemma Boleda

Perturbed Masking: Parameter-free Probing for Analyzing and Interpreting BERT

Zhiyong Wu, Yun Chen, Ben Kao, Qun Liu

Make Up Your Mind! Adversarial Generation of Inconsistent Natural Language Explanations

Oana-Maria Camburu, Brendan Shillingford, Pasquale Minervini, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Phil Blunsom

Analyzing analytical methods: The case of phonology in neural models of spoken language

Grzegorz Chrupała, Bertrand Higy, Afra Alishahi

Demographics Should Not Be the Reason of Toxicity: Mitigating Discrimination in Text Classifications with Instance Weighting

Guanhua Zhang, Bing Bai, Junqi Zhang, Kun Bai, Conghui Zhu

Neural Reranking for Dependency Parsing: An Evaluation

Bich-Ngoc Do, Ines Rehbein

Max-Margin Incremental CCG Parsing

Miloš Stanojević, Mark Steedman

Exact yet Efficient Graph Parsing, Bi-directional Locality and the Constructivist Hypothesis

Yajie Ye, Weiwei Sun

Enriched In-Order Linearization for Faster Sequence-to-Sequence Constituent Parsing

Daniel Fernández-González, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Do Neural Language Models Show Preferences for Syntactic Formalisms?

Artur Kulmizev, Vinit Ravishankar, Mostafa Abdou, Joakim Nivre

SKEP: Sentiment Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Sentiment Analysis

Hao Tian, Can Gao, Xinyan Xiao, Hao Liu, Bolei He

He said “who’s gonna take care of your children when you are at ACL?”: Reported Sexist Acts are Not Sexist

Patricia Chiril, Véronique Moriceau, Farah Benamara, Alda Mari, Gloria Origgi

GoEmotions: A Dataset of Fine-Grained Emotions

Dorottya Demszky, Dana Movshovitz-Attias, Jeongwoo Ko, Alan Cowen, Gaurav Nemade

From Arguments to Key Points: Towards Automatic Argument Summarization

Roy Bar-Haim, Lilach Eden, Roni Friedman, Yoav Kantor, Dan Lahav

Adversarial and Domain-Aware BERT for Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis

Chunning Du, Haifeng Sun, Jingyu Wang, Qi Qi, Jianxin Liao

CluBERT: A Cluster-Based Approach for Learning Sense Distributions in Multiple Languages

Tommaso Pasini, Federico Scozzafava, Bianca Scarlini

BERTRAM: Improved Word Embeddings Have Big Impact on Contextualized Model Performance

Timo Schick, Hinrich Schütze

Autoencoding Pixies: Amortised Variational Inference with Graph Convolutions for Functional Distributional Semantics

Guy Emerson

Autoencoding Keyword Correlation Graph for Document Clustering

Billy Chiu, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Derek Thomas, Neha Sengupta, Mohammady Mahdy

Analysing Lexical Semantic Change with Contextualised Word Representations

Mario Giulianelli, Marco Del Tredici, Raquel Fernández

Adaptive Compression of Word Embeddings

Yeachan Kim, Kang-Min Kim, SangKeun Lee

An Effectiveness Metric for Ordinal Classification: Formal Properties and Experimental Results

Enrique Amigo, Julio Gonzalo, Stefano Mizzaro, Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz

Graph-to-Tree Learning for Solving Math Word Problems

Jipeng Zhang, Lei Wang, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Yi Bin, Yan Wang

A Self-Training Method for Machine Reading Comprehension with Soft Evidence Extraction

Yilin Niu, Fangkai Jiao, Mantong Zhou, Ting Yao, Jingfang Xu

Successfully Applying the Stabilized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis to the Transformer Architecture

Christopher Brix, Parnia Bahar, Hermann Ney

Selecting Backtranslated Data from Multiple Sources for Improved Neural Machine Translation

Xabier Soto, Dimitar Shterionov, Alberto Poncelas, Andy Way

SEEK: Segmented Embedding of Knowledge Graphs

Wentao Xu, Shun Zheng, Liang He, Bin Shao, Jian Yin

Pre-training Is (Almost) All You Need: An Application to Commonsense Reasoning

Alexandre Tamborrino, Nicola Pellicanò, Baptiste Pannier, Pascal Voitot, Louise Naudin

Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning

Oren Barkan, Idan Rejwan, Avi Caciularu, Noam Koenigstein

Two Birds, One Stone: A Simple, Unified Model for Text Generation from Structured and Unstructured Data

Hamidreza Shahidi, Ming Li, Jimmy Lin

Learning Implicit Text Generation via Feature Matching

Inkit Padhi, Pierre Dognin, Ke Bai, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Vijil Chenthamarakshan

It Takes Two to Lie: One to Lie, and One to Listen

Denis Peskov, Benny Cheng, Ahmed Elgohary, Joe Barrow, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

Neural Temporal Opinion Modelling for Opinion Prediction on Twitter

Lixing Zhu, Yulan He, Deyu Zhou

Towards end-2-end learning for predicting behavior codes from spoken utterances in psychotherapy conversations

Karan Singla, Zhuohao Chen, David Atkins, Shrikanth Narayanan

SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation

Yi Ren, Jinglin Liu, Xu Tan, Chen Zhang, Tao Qin

Reasoning with Multimodal Sarcastic Tweets via Modeling Cross-Modality Contrast and Semantic Association

Nan Xu, Zhixiong Zeng, Wenji Mao

Meta-Transfer Learning for Code-Switched Speech Recognition

Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Zhaojiang Lin, Zihan Liu, Peng Xu

Learning Spoken Language Representations with Neural Lattice Language Modeling

Chao-Wei Huang, Yun-Nung Chen

Improving Disfluency Detection by Self-Training a Self-Attentive Model

Paria Jamshid Lou, Mark Johnson

How Accents Confound: Probing for Accent Information in End-to-End Speech Recognition Systems

Archiki Prasad, Preethi Jyothi

Curriculum Pre-training for End-to-End Speech Translation

Chengyi Wang, Yu Wu, Shujie LIU, Ming Zhou, Zhenglu Yang

CH-SIMS: A Chinese Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Dataset with Fine-grained Annotation of Modality

Wenmeng Yu, Hua Xu, Fanyang Meng, Yilin Zhu, Yixiao Ma

Transition-based Directed Graph Construction for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction

Chuang Fan, Chaofa Yuan, Jiachen Du, Lin Gui, Min Yang

SentiBERT: A Transferable Transformer-Based Architecture for Compositional Sentiment Semantics

Da Yin, Tao Meng, Kai-Wei Chang

Relation-Aware Collaborative Learning for Unified Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Zhuang Chen, Tieyun Qian