ACL 2021

1,634 papers

Edit Distance Based Curriculum Learning for Paraphrase Generation

Sora Kadotani, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase, makoto onizuka

How Many Layers and Why? An Analysis of the Model Depth in Transformers

Antoine Simoulin, Benoit Crabbé

Tools Impact on the Quality of Annotations for Chat Untangling

Jhonny Cerezo, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Alexandre Henri Bergel

Improving the Robustness of QA Models to Challenge Sets with Variational Question-Answer Pair Generation

Kazutoshi Shinoda, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa

Observing the Learning Curve of NMT Systems With Regard to Linguistic Phenomena

Patrick Stadler, Vivien Macketanz, Eleftherios Avramidis

“Hold on honey, men at work”: A semi-supervised approach to detecting sexism in sitcoms

Smriti Singh, Tanvi Anand, Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Zeerak Waseem

Joint Detection and Coreference Resolution of Entities and Events with Document-level Context Aggregation

Samuel Kriman, Heng Ji

Data Augmentation with Unsupervised Machine Translation Improves the Structural Similarity of Cross-lingual Word Embeddings

Sosuke Nishikawa, Ryokan Ri, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Semantics of the Unwritten: The Effect of End of Paragraph and Sequence Tokens on Text Generation with GPT2

He Bai, Peng Shi, Jimmy Lin, Luchen Tan, Kun Xiong

Modeling Text using the Continuous Space Topic Model with Pre-Trained Word Embeddings

Seiichi Inoue, Taichi Aida, Mamoru Komachi, Manabu Asai

Situation-Based Multiparticipant Chat Summarization: a Concept, an Exploration-Annotation Tool and an Example Collection

Anna Smirnova, Evgeniy Slobodkin, George Chernishev

COVID-19 and Misinformation: A Large-Scale Lexical Analysis on Twitter

Dimosthenis Antypas, Jose Camacho-Collados, Alun Preece, David Rogers

How do different factors Impact the Inter-language Similarity? A Case Study on Indian languages

Sourav Kumar, Salil Aggarwal, Dipti Misra Sharma, Radhika Mamidi

“I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe”: Hallucinating Entities in GuessWhat?!

Alberto Testoni, Raffaella Bernardi

Stylistic approaches to predicting Reddit popularity in diglossia

Huikai Chua

Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network

Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi

Attending Self-Attention: A Case Study of Visually Grounded Supervision in Vision-and-Language Transformers

Jules Samaran, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima

Long Document Summarization in a Low Resource Setting using Pretrained Language Models

Ahsaas Bajaj, Pavitra Dangati, Kalpesh Krishna, Pradhiksha Ashok Kumar, Rheeya Uppaal

On the Relationship between Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and Interfering Noise in Emergent Languages

Ryo Ueda, Koki Washio

How Low is Too Low? A Computational Perspective on Extremely Low-Resource Languages

Rachit Bansal, Himanshu Choudhary, Ravneet Punia, Niko Schenk, Émilie Pagé-Perron

AutoRC: Improving BERT Based Relation Classification Models via Architecture Search

Wei Zhu

Transformer-Based Direct Hidden Markov Model for Machine Translation

Weiyue Wang, Zijian Yang, Yingbo Gao, Hermann Ney

Stage-wise Fine-tuning for Graph-to-Text Generation

Qingyun Wang, Semih Yavuz, Xi Victoria Lin, Heng Ji, Nazneen Rajani

Investigation on Data Adaptation Techniques for Neural Named Entity Recognition

Evgeniia Tokarchuk, David Thulke, Weiyue Wang, Christian Dugast, Hermann Ney

Don’t Rule Out Monolingual Speakers: A Method For Crowdsourcing Machine Translation Data

Rajat Bhatnagar, Ananya Ganesh, Katharina Kann

Replicating and Extending “Because Their Treebanks Leak”: Graph Isomorphism, Covariants, and Parser Performance

Mark Anderson, Anders Søgaard, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Bringing Structure into Summaries: a Faceted Summarization Dataset for Long Scientific Documents

Rui Meng, Khushboo Thaker, Lei Zhang, Yue Dong, Xingdi Yuan

SaRoCo: Detecting Satire in a Novel Romanian Corpus of News Articles

Ana-Cristina Rogoz, Mihaela Gaman, Radu Tudor Ionescu

SimCLS: A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Abstractive Summarization

Yixin Liu, Pengfei Liu

Can Transformer Models Measure Coherence In Text: Re-Thinking the Shuffle Test

Philippe Laban, Luke Dai, Lucas Bandarkar, Marti A. Hearst

Weakly-Supervised Methods for Suicide Risk Assessment: Role of Related Domains

Chenghao Yang, Yudong Zhang, Smaranda Muresan

Avoiding Overlap in Data Augmentation for AMR-to-Text Generation

Wenchao Du, Jeffrey Flanigan

VAULT: VAriable Unified Long Text Representation for Machine Reading Comprehension

Haoyang Wen, Anthony Ferritto, Heng Ji, Radu Florian, Avi Sil

Towards a more Robust Evaluation for Conversational Question Answering

Wissam Siblini, Baris Sayil, Yacine Kessaci

MedNLI Is Not Immune: Natural Language Inference Artifacts in the Clinical Domain

Christine Herlihy, Rachel Rudinger

Attentive Multiview Text Representation for Differential Diagnosis

Hadi Amiri, Mitra Mohtarami, Isaac Kohane

Unsupervised Cross-Domain Prerequisite Chain Learning using Variational Graph Autoencoders

Irene Li, Vanessa Yan, Tianxiao Li, Rihao Qu, Dragomir Radev

Three Sentences Are All You Need: Local Path Enhanced Document Relation Extraction

Quzhe Huang, Shengqi Zhu, Yansong Feng, Yuan Ye, Yuxuan Lai

Improving Model Generalization: A Chinese Named Entity Recognition Case Study

Guanqing Liang, Cane Wing-Ki Leung

Entity Concept-enhanced Few-shot Relation Extraction

Shan Yang, Yongfei Zhang, Guanglin Niu, Qinghua Zhao, Shiliang Pu

Efficient Passage Retrieval with Hashing for Open-domain Question Answering

Ikuya Yamada, Akari Asai, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Multi-Scale Progressive Attention Network for Video Question Answering

Zhicheng Guo, Jiaxuan Zhao, Licheng Jiao, Xu Liu, Lingling Li

Sequence to General Tree: Knowledge-Guided Geometry Word Problem Solving

Shih-hung Tsai, Chao-Chun Liang, Hsin-Min Wang, Keh-Yih Su

DuReader_robust: A Chinese Dataset Towards Evaluating Robustness and Generalization of Machine Reading Comprehension in Real-World Applications

Hongxuan Tang, Hongyu Li, Jing Liu, Yu Hong, Hua Wu

Demoting the Lead Bias in News Summarization via Alternating Adversarial Learning

Linzi Xing, Wen Xiao, Giuseppe Carenini

Addressing Semantic Drift in Generative Question Answering with Auxiliary Extraction

Chenliang Li, Bin Bi, Ming Yan, Wei Wang, Songfang Huang

Unsupervised Pronoun Resolution via Masked Noun-Phrase Prediction

Ming Shen, Pratyay Banerjee, Chitta Baral

Entity Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in the Biomedical Domain

Wei Shi, Vera Demberg

BERTTune: Fine-Tuning Neural Machine Translation with BERTScore

Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Jacob Parnell, Massimo Piccardi

Exposing the limits of Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection

Debora Nozza

Constructing Multi-Modal Dialogue Dataset by Replacing Text with Semantically Relevant Images

Nyoungwoo Lee, Suwon Shin, Jaegul Choo, Ho-Jin Choi, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

On the Generation of Medical Dialogs for COVID-19

Meng Zhou, Zechen Li, Bowen Tan, Guangtao Zeng, Wenmian Yang

Preview, Attend and Review: Schema-Aware Curriculum Learning for Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking

Yinpei Dai, Hangyu Li, Yongbin Li, Jian Sun, Fei Huang

Modeling Discriminative Representations for Out-of-Domain Detection with Supervised Contrastive Learning

Zhiyuan Zeng, Keqing He, Yuanmeng Yan, Zijun Liu, Yanan Wu

Embracing Ambiguity: Shifting the Training Target of NLI Models

Johannes Mario Meissner, Napat Thumwanit, Saku Sugawara, Akiko Aizawa

Robust Transfer Learning with Pretrained Language Models through Adapters

Wenjuan Han, Bo Pang, Ying Nian Wu

Hi-Transformer: Hierarchical Interactive Transformer for Efficient and Effective Long Document Modeling

Chuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu, Tao Qi, Yongfeng Huang

Learning to Solve NLP Tasks in an Incremental Number of Languages

Giuseppe Castellucci, Simone Filice, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

Distinct Label Representations for Few-Shot Text Classification

Sora Ohashi, Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Yuki Arase

Parameter Selection: Why We Should Pay More Attention to It

Jie-Jyun Liu, Tsung-Han Yang, Si-An Chen, Chih-Jen Lin

Lightweight Adapter Tuning for Multilingual Speech Translation

Hang Le, Juan Pino, Changhan Wang, Jiatao Gu, Didier Schwab

Semantic Frame Induction using Masked Word Embeddings and Two-Step Clustering

Kosuke Yamada, Ryohei Sasano, Koichi Takeda

What Motivates You? Benchmarking Automatic Detection of Basic Needs from Short Posts

Sanja Štajner, Seren Yenikent, Bilal Ghanem, Marc Franco-Salvador

Neural-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoner with Relation Predictors

Farhad Moghimifar, Lizhen Qu, Terry Yue Zhuo, Gholamreza Haffari, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Issues with Entailment-based Zero-shot Text Classification

Tingting Ma, Jin-ge Yao, Chin-Yew Lin, Tiejun Zhao

Code Generation from Natural Language with Less Prior Knowledge and More Monolingual Data

Sajad Norouzi, Keyi Tang, Yanshuai Cao

Input Representations for Parsing Discourse Representation Structures: Comparing English with Chinese

Chunliu Wang, Rik van Noord, Arianna Bisazza, Johan Bos

Pre-training is a Hot Topic: Contextualized Document Embeddings Improve Topic Coherence

Federico Bianchi, Silvia Terragni, Dirk Hovy

Quotation Recommendation and Interpretation Based on Transformation from Queries to Quotations

Lingzhi Wang, Xingshan Zeng, Kam-Fai Wong

Improving Lexically Constrained Neural Machine Translation with Source-Conditioned Masked Span Prediction

Gyubok Lee, Seongjun Yang, Edward Choi

Explicitly Capturing Relations between Entity Mentions via Graph Neural Networks for Domain-specific Named Entity Recognition

Pei Chen, Haibo Ding, Jun Araki, Ruihong Huang

mTVR: Multilingual Moment Retrieval in Videos

Jie Lei, Tamara Berg, Mohit Bansal

Efficient Text-based Reinforcement Learning by Jointly Leveraging State and Commonsense Graph Representations

Keerthiram Murugesan, Mattia Atzeni, Pavan Kapanipathi, Kartik Talamadupula, Mrinmaya Sachan

Towards Visual Question Answering on Pathology Images

Xuehai He, Zhuo Cai, Wenlan Wei, Yichen Zhang, Luntian Mou

A Simple Recipe for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction

Sascha Rothe, Jonathan Mallinson, Eric Malmi, Sebastian Krause, Aliaksei Severyn

Question Generation for Adaptive Education

Megha Srivastava, Noah Goodman

nmT5 - Is parallel data still relevant for pre-training massively multilingual language models?

Mihir Kale, Aditya Siddhant, Rami Al-Rfou, Linting Xue, Noah Constant

X-Fact: A New Benchmark Dataset for Multilingual Fact Checking

Ashim Gupta, Vivek Srikumar

Targeting the Benchmark: On Methodology in Current Natural Language Processing Research

David Schlangen

Domain-Adaptive Pretraining Methods for Dialogue Understanding

Han Wu, Kun Xu, Linfeng Song, Lifeng Jin, Haisong Zhang

QA-Driven Zero-shot Slot Filling with Weak Supervision Pretraining

Xinya Du, Luheng He, Qi Li, Dian Yu, Panupong Pasupat

Learning to Generate Task-Specific Adapters from Task Description

Qinyuan Ye, Xiang Ren

Improving Compositional Generalization in Classification Tasks via Structure Annotations

Juyong Kim, Pradeep Ravikumar, Joshua Ainslie, Santiago Ontanon

Embedding Time Differences in Context-sensitive Neural Networks for Learning Time to Event

Nazanin Dehghani, Hassan Hajipoor, Hadi Amiri

Towards more equitable question answering systems: How much more data do you need?

Arnab Debnath, Navid Rajabi, Fardina Fathmiul Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos

Cross-lingual Text Classification with Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

Ziyun Wang, Xuan Liu, Peiji Yang, Shixing Liu, Zhisheng Wang

The Curse of Dense Low-Dimensional Information Retrieval for Large Index Sizes

Nils Reimers, Iryna Gurevych

Don’t Let Discourse Confine Your Model: Sequence Perturbations for Improved Event Language Models

Mahnaz Koupaee, Greg Durrett, Nathanael Chambers, Niranjan Balasubramanian

Beyond Laurel/Yanny: An Autoencoder-Enabled Search for Polyperceivable Audio

Kartik Chandra, Chuma Kabaghe, Gregory Valiant

Unsupervised Enrichment of Persona-grounded Dialog with Background Stories

Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Julian McAuley, Harsh Jhamtani

A Cluster-based Approach for Improving Isotropy in Contextual Embedding Space

Sara Rajaee, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Learning Domain-Specialised Representations for Cross-Lingual Biomedical Entity Linking

Fangyu Liu, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen, Nigel Collier

A Mixture-of-Experts Model for Antonym-Synonym Discrimination

Zhipeng Xie, Nan Zeng

More than Text: Multi-modal Chinese Word Segmentation

Dong Zhang, Zheng Hu, Shoushan Li, Hanqian Wu, Qiaoming Zhu

When is Char Better Than Subword: A Systematic Study of Segmentation Algorithms for Neural Machine Translation

Jiahuan Li, Yutong Shen, Shujian Huang, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Chen

Improving Arabic Diacritization with Regularized Decoding and Adversarial Training

Han Qin, Guimin Chen, Yuanhe Tian, Yan Song

TIMERS: Document-level Temporal Relation Extraction

Puneet Mathur, Rajiv Jain, Franck Dernoncourt, Vlad Morariu, Quan Hung Tran

Continual Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Iterative Network Pruning, Expanding and Masking

Binzong Geng, Fajie Yuan, Qiancheng Xu, Ying Shen, Ruifeng Xu

Bilingual Mutual Information Based Adaptive Training for Neural Machine Translation

Yangyifan Xu, Yijin Liu, Fandong Meng, Jiajun Zhang, Jinan Xu

Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam